Tidy Bag

Wombles cuddly toys

There have been several ranges of Wombles soft toys over the past five decades. The classic BBC TV series spawned a wide selection of merchandise including cuddly toys - from Pedigree in the 1970s through to Rainbow Toys in 1990.

Then the Wombles were relaunched in 1998 for the new ITV series, with slightly different outfits and some additional characters, leading to a vast new range of spinoff products.

More recent toys continued to use these designs - for example, Orinoco now has a black band around his hat, Bungo and Wellington wear shirts, and Madame Cholet’s apron and hat are yellow instead of plain white.

This is my collection of Wombles cuddly toys. The older items are second-hand, while many from 1998 onwards were bought brand new.

Pedigree Orinoco

Orinoco glove puppet

Giant Orinoco

Talking Orinoco

Talking Orinoco box

Orinoco pyjama case

Wellington

Wellington

Orinoco

Orinoco

Talking Orinoco

Talking Uncle Bulgaria

Uncle Bulgaria

Tomsk, Tobermory, Orinoco and Wellington

Singing Orinoco

Orinoco

Bungo

Tomsk

Alderney

Stepney

Uncle Bulgaria

Beanies

Beanies

Beanies

Orinoco finger puppet

Orinoco and Bungo backpacks

Orinoco slippers

Orinoco hot water bottle

Orinoco mobile phone cover

McDonald's Orinoco

Knitted Orinoco

Uncle Bulgaria slippers

Stepney lookalike

Bungo, Orinoco and Wellington

Tobermory, Uncle Bulgaria and MacWomble

Steiff Orinoco Womble

Orinoco, Tobermory, Madame Cholet and Uncle Bulgaria

Orinoco, Uncle Bulgaria and Madame Cholet

Bungo, Alderney and Tobermory

Talking Orinoco (Rainbow Toys) says: “Is it teatime yet, Madame Cholet?” / “I’m not fast asleep!” / “Oh I am glad I worked so hard to tidy this up!” / “Do you know, I don’t feel very hungry any more.” / “Oh, Wellington, oh thank you!” / “Daisy buns, my favourites!”

Talking Uncle Bulgaria (Rainbow Toys) says: “Tidy up this dreadful rubbish!” / “We Wombles do so much to keep everything clean.” / “I intend to take drastic action.” / “Jump to it, young Wombles!” / “Why don’t you lend us a paw?”