Talk:The Wombles
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Steeleye span were not always the band, perhaps that should be clearer. All sorts of people filled in including well known musicians from bands like 10cc. A TV history program actually revealed that the smell issue was a big one. They only had one set of womble costumes and at times they smelt so bad they had an extra hotel room booked to keep them in.
I think the Steeleye Span story probably happened in December 1975, as that seems to be the only time Steeleye Span and the Wombles would have both been appearing on TOTP (promoting "All Around My Hat" and "Let's Womble To The Party Tonight" respectively) but I'm not keen to put that in unless someone can confirm my suspicion first. Bonalaw 12:33, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Sightings
Have removed the rubbish about womble sightings in Eastbourne. Is this a wind-up, or was an actor in a suit seen? Not really relevant. Tpacw (talk) 16:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 9/8?
I hate to admit this, but I've still got my old cassettes of Wombes music from when I was a kid... and there's no way Minuetto Allegretto is 9/8. 12/8 or 6/8, maybe, but not 9/8.[[User:Grutness|Grutness talk 
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[edit] Picture?
Where is it?--Hraefen Talk 22:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Number of books
Elizabeth's personal entry says "As well as writing 20 Wombles books," yet this section only lists a few.
[edit] Dimensions (size) of a Womble
Sadly not mentioned anywhere: how tall is a Womble?
In the old TV series, the Wonles had a door made of a car door. I seem to remeber that a Wonble could comfortably use that door, indicating that a Womble should be around 1 meter tall. If the car door was a real car door, and not from a car model (toy car).
In the books it's mentioned that the Silver Womble (the Womble's car) is propelled by a clockwork. However, a typical clockwork which one might find in the junk might have a serious problem when used for automotive transport of a few Wombles (with the size of a small children).
Apart from the question of the size of the "real" Wombles, what was the size of the Womble stop motion puppets used in the TV series? Were they 1:1 scale models of real Wombles? --Klaws 09:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- In the movie they were described as "four feet tall, fat and furry". 59.167.55.160 (talk) 12:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Recycling?
The Wombles didn't recycle, they reused. This is made clear from the lyrics to the Wombles Theme ...making good use of the things that they find. Timdownie 19:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fictional?
It' a bit much to say 'The Wombles are fictional characters' in the postmodern 21st Century, isn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwlegg (talk • contribs) 16:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tomsk
I could have sworn there was a regular member of the Wimbledon Wombles called Tomsk. I think he was the handyman. Plutonium27 (talk) 20:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
The handyman womble is Tobermory, Tomsk is the athletic womble —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.176.157.69 (talk) 21:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wombles Infobox
I have recently updated The Wombles (band) and created Wombling Free and Wombling Songs. Would there be any merit in a genetic Wombles infobox for the bottom of any article related to the Wombles? McWomble (talk) 08:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Age
Would wombles really be the oldest animals? A quick search on google proves this wrong - a clam was found to be over 400 years old, and was classed as an animal according to the articles. Tpacw (talk) 16:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
