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Did anyone see this today, about people selling blue peter badges on e-bay so they can get into theme parks for free.. that's just disgusting, worse than pulling horses in my view.

I'd never do that - not least as it'd mean that I would NEVER have a chance of dating Zoe Salmon!!! ahh!!!
 
Sounds good to me - if I go through my Dad's attic I've got 2 Blue Peter badges from about 15-20 years ago, I could earn some cash......
 
As I seem to remember they were quite hard to come by. What did you do to get one? Or, for that matter, two of them?
 
Yes, they were - or at least they seemed to be at the age of 7!! I loved Blue Peter and used to watch religiously. I won the 2nd on in a competition I think (they used to dish them out as runner up prizes) and it was green - to denote eco-friendly or somesuch, can't remember. I'm sure I got the first one by writing them letters, something I'm ashamed to admit I seemed to do quite a bit as I was desperate for a BP badge. One time (before I got the badge) they sent me back a fantastic book (well, I loved it at the time!!!) full of information about BP and it's animals in particular, stretching back to the early ones like Shep and Petra. My memory is truly shocking but I've got a feeling that I got the BP badge through something to do with animals.
 
Actually, some very rusty cogs are turning and I think they used to dish out different badges as runner up prizes in competitions - they were called competition badges (unsurprisingly!!!) and were normal round badges rather than the shield shaped ones. I have definitely got two BP badges at home though - one original and one green one, both shield shaped. I really can't remember what I got them for (I'm sure it was writing daft letters!!) but I seem to remember an ambition to get myself a silver one :shy:
 
Nothing to be embarrassed about, in my view, SL. I loved Blue Peter - and I'm old enough to have been watching it when Petra, Jason, Patch, Shep and so on were the pets. I never did make the advent candle thingy wotsit with the tinsel and wire coathangers .... (warning ... fire hazard, :lol: )
 
I managed to make the skiing mountains and skiiers using card, cloth, cotton wool and ice lolly sticks.

The Thunderbirds Island was another good one but for some reason mine had rhino's on it ;)
 
Q: How many Blue Peter presenters does it take to change a lightbulb ?


A: Two. One to change it, and one to turn the old one into an attractive Christmas tree decoration.
 
Blue Peter was addictive in our household. Can't remember missing an episode. I always wanted to see if their tortoise had made it through the hibernation period. Does anyone remember the gardening slots with Percy Thrower? I always half expected a garden full of plastic plants and and veggies growing up the elastic of Val's old knickers.
 
I have to admit thinking their outrage over the vandalisation of the Italian sunken garden was funny .
 
BP lost a lot of credibility with me when in the one programme they started on about people starving in Africa and within ten minutes were chucking hundreds of eggs out of an aeroplane to see how many didn't break.
 
Bjorn Borg has decided not to sell his rackets and Wimbledon replica trophies after all. Somebody managed to convince him that it would have been even worse than selling a Blue Peter badge.
 
I don't know what that was all about with Bjorn Borg - the story was that he needed the money that he'd have got from selling his trophies (estimated £300,000) but a friend of mine has just come back from Dubai where he stayed at the seven star hotel, the Burj Al Arab. Among the guests was Borg who has just bought one of the properties on Palm Island - for £2.9 million.
 
Originally posted by Songsheet@Mar 27 2006, 10:18 PM
Nah - it was always sticky-backed plastic that was the material de jour....
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Narrowly edged out by "double sided sticky tape", wasn't it??

Yeah, Blue Peter was great - I used to love seeing all the dogs have puppies! I can remember Blondie I think, and ws her daughter Bonnie? They both produced several litters, I remember that much.

As for the sunken garden - wasn't it a now pro footballer? Someone like Rio Ferdinand?
 
Getting back to the original topic, the price of entry to the theme parks may make it slightly more understandable as to why people are so desperate to get their hands on a BP badge which gets them free entry for children.

Madame Tussauds: Adult £23.99, Child £19.99. That makes it around £88 for a family of four (2 adults, 2 children).
London Zoo: Adult £14.50, child £11.50, which makes it around £52 for a family of four.

Perhaps instead of complaining, some of these tourist attractions should take a long hard look at the prices they charge, and for children in particular.
 
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