The Teletubbies Pop-up Shop
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Paul said the other day, “Simon; when I’m away in Rio, please put a post on my blog about the Teletubbies.
He did, really he did. You see, someone from Ragdoll Productions sent him an email about the Teletubbies 10th anniversary New York invasion, and knowing my son, Billy, is obsessed with them, he forwarded it to me. Sadly the email was corrupt and neither of us could make any sense of it. It seems if we’d been able to make it out, we could have met the actual Teletubbies with the original actors inside. I’m not sure how my son would have reacted to such a thing. He may have, a) been delighted and wet himself with glee or b) been utterly terrified by the size of the things and ran out of the room screaming.
I was so upset we’d (I’d) missed this fantastic opportunity, I wrote to the guy myself. I was hoping he could make time go backwards or perhaps tell me where the Tubbies were staying. We could have invited ourselves round for tubby custard. But no, we really had missed them; they had only been in New York for a few days and were now back in England. As a consolation though, he told us we should visit the Teletubbies pop-up shop at 350 Bleecker Street. The shop is open till April 7th at 10PM. Tonight in fact, so if you want to go you’d better get on a train sharpish.
Yesterday they were playing Teletubbies episodes all day and all night so we went and checked it out. In the end Billy did manage to get a bit closer to his heroes:
Here Billy worships at the alter of the Tubbies:
