Comments on: Reconstructing Play School online

By: victoria theodoridis

victoria theodoridis — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:21:25 +0000

I have little ted, not the real one without the head but ive had him since I was born. 37 years old now! my sister used to have big ted. little ted makes a squeek when you squeeze his tummy and big ted, groans when you rock him forward.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:09:26 +0000

Looks like they are bringing back playschool to air. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410965/465791

By: Remember Playschool?

Remember Playschool? — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:59:36 +0000

[...] Well Te Papa has been searching and found them. Go have a look for yourself at http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/07/reconstructing-play-school-online/ [...]

By: lucyhoffman

lucyhoffman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:44:54 +0000

Thanks Judy,

Have got one of my folks looking in to it!
Thanks
Lucy

By: Judy

Judy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:41:30 +0000

Hi Lucy

Can you make it easy to send links to this blog by email or to facebook etc? I can send it by email by right click, send link. But there are some clever ways of sharing blogs with other sites that would make this blog look great. And it would be easy for me to send it to the Play School fans in my family
Cheers, Judy

By: lucyhoffman

lucyhoffman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:28:34 +0000

Poor old Little Ted – i had heard a rumour about the explosion – i wonder if his head actually exploded or whether if just came off… in which case is there a dismembered Little Ted head out there? I’m crossing my fingers… Little Ted did always have a naughty cool about him.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:57:44 +0000

Apparently a few years ago while filming an episode of Serial Stuff on What Now, they needed to a teddy bear to blow up. Lil Ted was mistakenly used.

By: lucyhoffman

lucyhoffman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:49:18 +0000

A photo would be great – I could post it on the blog for you. Of course you would need to ask permission but we’d love to see both Little Ted and the prototype Humpty.

On the Jemima note there is a long story about that one. I have been talking with Kirstie Ross, a history curator here and will try to get a blog post out on it in the next day or so.

By: artandmylife

artandmylife — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:21:26 +0000

They have a toy display in one section of the Settlers Museum and the Playschool toys are in a case on their own. The sign says that some others are in Te Papa but Jemima is misssing. I keep wanting to go correct them. Maybe they’d let me take a photo

By: lucyhoffman

lucyhoffman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:14:14 +0000

Oh my – that is so exciting – I’ve been looking online to see if I can find pictures but to no avail. If know where there are images let us know.

Also how did Little Ted get separated from the other toys? And where is his head?

The mystery continues…