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Someone: What are you sorry for?

Me:

The bbc sherlock who lives in my head:

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

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?