What were The Wombles?

speedboatchase

So I was wombling in the snow today (no-one saw) when it struck me - what exactly are the Wombles? Rats? Voles? Some kind of rodent? Now I know that Snarf from the Thundercats is a snarf, because he's from a race of Snarfs and helpfully his name is also Snarf - but Wombles?

robbie_998

we'll tell you when you tell us whats that creature in your sig ! :pac:

speedboatchase

Werewolf - he has a basketball too. A teen wolf if you will

Senna

Men and Women in costumes.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Living off crap and surrounded by filth in Wimbledon Common? They were students!

R0ot

A kids television show.

kawaii

You're a womble! Remember?

OPENROAD

Great theme tune from what I can remember.

Thrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo

What a horrible tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm3SJ2sh1OA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKQpLA4QL-w

Run_to_da_hills

I think these were the predecessor to these fat fcukers.

Atavan-Halen

I never really like the wombles.

But to answer OP's question, I've no idea, they're just......wombles.

Jako8

They were wombles...








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They were created when the writers daughter couldn't say Wimbledon properly!

Run_to_da_hills

Jako8 wrote: »

They were wombles...








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...and they came from Wimbelton.

Run_to_da_hills

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

Before moving to Milton Keynes.

Capt'n Midnight

They were the biggest sellers in the charts in 1976 - FACT !

Some lad booked the wombles for Dublin on their tour. Sent a limo to Dublin airport to pick them up. Instead of a group there was a just set of costumes and a backing tape

opinion guy

What were The Wombles?

The result of some serious drugs methinks like most other kids shows back then....

Lia_lia

Ha! I was wondering the same thing today actually.


Anyway, they are wombles.

indough

just wombles

ashyle

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

Wimbeldon no?
They weren't any real animal.. they were Wombles.

Pdfile

they are what happens when you leave nigel thornberry alone in a room with nothing but a badger, a small thing of hand lotion and some marvin gay.

Jev/N

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

ashyle wrote: »

Wimbeldon no?

Wimbledon

Run_to_da_hills

They were also about 30 years ahead of their time. Ie brainwashing kids into Green fascism.

Wiki wrote: »

Their motto is "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish." This "green" message was a reflection of the ecology movement of the 1970s. Although Wombles live in every country in the world, the stories focus on the life of the burrow in Wimbledon Common in London, England.

brummytom

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

They were also about 30 years ahead of their time. Ie brainwashing kids into Green fascism.

Shame it didn't work too well.

I've heard plenty of stories of young kids walking down by Wimbledom Common, and throwing cans/wrappers on the floor. When asked why, they replied it was to attract the Wombles :pac:

The_Minister

Senna wrote: »

Men and Women in costumes.

I thought they were puppets?

Archeron

The bastard offspring of a Minister for health and a Taoiseach.

Beasty

The WOMBLES (White Overalls Movement Building Libertarian Effective Struggles) are a loose and nimble anti-capitalist group based in London that once dressed in white overalls with padding and helmets at protests, mimicking the Italian group Tute Bianche.

Seloth

I thought Wombles were just...well Wombles!

LiamMc

Didn't Enya use the name of one of the characters for one of her songs?

I was with some friends and one of us won a womble toy at Funderland in the late '70's. Furry body but a paper triangular shaped nose. If that's a help to anybody.

citizen_p

little boring kids tv characters....

never heard of wombling in the snow...or anyone saying womble or wombling

Beasty

LiamMc wrote: »

Didn't Enya use the name of one of the characters for one of her songs?

They are linked by the river Orinoco
Orinoco the womble was named after the river Orinoco
The song was called Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

LiamMc

Beasty wrote: »

They are linked by the river Orinoco
Orinoco the womble was named after the river Orinoco
The song was called Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

I just took for granted that was his surname.
Uncle Bulgaria or maybe the French cook will have the answer.

BluesBerry

The wombles were glorified bin men

marwelie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombles

I loved the Wombles as a kid, I'm reliably informed that my mother brought me to see them in the cinema opposite Crumlin Hospital (think it was an ice rink at one stage and then a bingo hall) about a million years ago.

bnt

opinion guy wrote: »

The result of some serious drugs methinks like most other kids shows back then....

The Wombles were fairly tame compared to some others of the time. Case in point: the Clangers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyjBUoCnKM

Voltex

They were hippies off their pallets on something....living in a field...eating rubbish.

Beasty

bnt wrote: »

The Wombles were fairly tame compared to some others of the time. Case in point: the Clangers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyjBUoCnKM

Much preferred the Clangers myself (which was an offshoot of the classic Noggin the Nog)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI