In case you are unaware

Crinkley Bottom, aka Blobbyland, is an abandoned theme park in Lancashire dedicated to this beloved abomination

Originally posted by aniki-edo-style

Blobbyland, uhhhh. It isn't so much a theme park as like a themed....park? idk what you call them. like no rides to speak of it's just a collection of concrete shells of houses where Mr Blobby mascot characters are meant to walk around and interact with guests

Here are some fun and entirely true Blobbyland facts

• Blobbyland Morecambe, aka Noel Edmond's World of Crinkley Bottom, opened in July 1994 and closed. in November 1994.
• It was meant to save the area's flagging economy and be the greatest coup of the local council's careers. Instead it arguably killed Morecambe's entire economy stone dead.
• As part of a marketing stunt, a nearby train station changed its name to Bare Crinkley Bottom. this isn't part of the saga, it's just funny
• People genuinely thought this was a great idea. it was literally. Like ten concrete houses and a man in a Mr Blobby suit. that somehow cost the council £300,000 and would have needed 250,000 visitors in the first three months to break even
• They did not break even
• After a month, to prop up waning visitors, they granted Blobbyland a liquor licence. now it contained ten concrete houses, Mr Blobby, and a lot of very drunk people
• They closed it down after 17 weeks and tried to sue Noel Edmonds for its failure
• Now they owed Noel Edmonds £950,000 in damages for bringing a spurious suit
• The total cost of BlobbyGate was somewhere around £2.6 million of taxpayer money from the people of Morecambe
• They never demolished Blobbyland
• It's still out there. Waiting. Mouldering. Regularly being invaded by urban explorers.
• Is Mr Blobby also still out there in the concrete corpse of his home in the Lancaster woods? Perhaps. Who among us can truly say?
• There's also an abandoned Blobbyland in Somerset which is way more complete and therefore horrific in photos, but doesn't have the distinction of nearly destroying an entire town within 4 months.