Night garden how is it made

Igglepiggle is physical and energetic — a well-loved teddy, always jumping and bouncing. He's curious and adventurous, but also vulnerable.

He is often in need of reassurance and always carries his red blanket with him. Upsy Daisy is happy and optimistic. She loves to dance regardless of the occasion and has her own special bed that has a mind of its own — she is often seen chasing or being chased by her bed. The Tombliboos live inside a round bush, which has many different levels inside where they enjoy playing with their special blocks as well as their drums and piano. Makka Pakka lives in a little cave with his favourite stones.

He has a soap and sponge to make sure all of the Garden stones and all of the faces of the other characters are clean and tidy. He travels around the Garden on his Og-Pog, which carries his sponge, his Uff-uff dryer and his special trumpet. The Pontipines are a family of ten that lives in a semi-detached house at the foot of a tree.

Their next-door neighbours are the Wottingers. The Haahoos are six enormous great billowy forms that make their way through the Garden like puffy pillows, calling to each other as they meet up to go to sleep in a big pillowy pile. The Ninky Nonk is a train of many differently sized and shaped carriages and the Pinky Ponk is an airship, speckled with many fins and large landing lights and providing wonderful aerial views of all of the Garden's splendour.

Isn't it a bit weird that the main female character on the show inflates her skirt and shows us her knickers whenever she does anything? I mean I don't want to slut-shame her or anything but I'm not sure it's appropriate for children. A popular internet theory is that Iggle Piggle is really adrift on the ocean, and the Garden is his dying hallucination. Then at the end of the episode he has to wake up and go back to his horrible reality, drifting alone in a cruel merciless sea, waiting for his frail little life to be snuffed out.

Which, when you listen to him say it in his silly squeaky voice , sounds remarkably like "motherfucker". Plus he's obsessed with piling stones up and washing everything clean, including his friends' faces, which makes me think he suffers from OCD. He seems OK though. He's good people, not like the rest of them. Doesn't "Haa Hoo" sound like a childish euphemism for ladybits? Bit rude. And they're naked underneath but their skin is the same colour as their trousers and they have no genitals but this is all just how things are so no one comments on it.

Is it stealing my credit card details? Who puts out the Pinky Ponk juice? And what the hell is in it? Does it contain E numbers? Is it organic? Are they all drinking daiquiris? Sometimes Iggle Piggle has a red blanket in the boat. Upsy Daisy played by Rebecca Hyland is similar to a rag doll, with a brown complexion, a chime in her tummy, and brightly colored clothes. She likes skipping through the Garden and blowing kisses to the other characters or to the audience.

She often hugs and kisses other characters, particularly Iggle Piggle. Her catchphrases are "Upsy Daisy," and the more emphatic "Daisy Doo! Her hair stands on end when excited or surprised, and her skirt inflates to a tutu when she dances or pulls the ripcord on her waist. Upsy Daisy has an orange megaphone on a stand and enjoys singing through it, much to the annoyance of the other characters.

Makka Pakka played by Justyn Towler is a beige, small, round-bodied doll. He has three rounded protuberances on his head, ears and back to represent stones that he uses to make into piles. He lives in a cave and likes cleaning things, such as his collection of stacking stones, and sometimes the other characters. Makka Pakka often stacks freshly cleaned stones into piles resembling his head and body. He sleeps on a stone bed, often cuddling a stone.

He travels around the garden riding his trolley, the Og-Pog, which carries his sponge, soap, orange trumpet, and a bellows-like apparatus called Uff-Uff which he uses to dry items after cleaning them. His house is approached by a stone-walled ditch, as his home is half buried in the ground. He says his own name and the phrase "Mikka makka moo" when he is happy, as well as the names of the Og-Pog and the Uff-Uff, and other phrases from his song such as "agga pang" his soap and sponge , "hum dum" his trumpet , and "ing ang oo".

Like Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos, he also uses a phrase meaning "goodbye", represented in publications as "pip pip onk onk". As Makka Pakka is smaller than the other characters, he is filmed on another identical set or garden , and where he appears with other characters, two scenes are shot in parallel and he is filmed far away, whilst the other costumed characters are filmed close up. Their names reflect phonetically how a young child might count to three, and the Tombliboos always appear in this order by saying their names.

They live among the branches of a bush, on a series of platforms connected by stairs and chutes. The Tombliboos enjoy playing the drums and piano, although not with any particular musical prowess, and they also play with large blocks.

Their trousers which fall down unexpectedly are often seen hanging on the washing line outside their home, and they usually take them down from the line and put them on before going on an adventure. They are sometimes seen brushing their teeth before bed. Tombliboos enjoy kissing each other whilst cuddling and reciting their names. They also have a song about staying together, which consists of them singing "Tombliboo, Tombliboo, Unn, Ooo, Eee!

Tombliboo Eee is female and is shorter and smaller than Ooo and Unn. The Pontipines red and The Wottingers blue are two families of ten tiny creatures a mother and a father, plus four boys and four girls similar to peg dolls. They live in a semidetached house at the foot of a tree. The Pontipines appear in most episodes, while appearances by the Wottingers, are rare. The Pontipines all dress in a very similar fashion to each other, as do the Wottingers.

Each family sleeps in one room, their beds next to each other in rows. The Pontipines enter their home by flying down the chimney or going through the front door. They have no feet. The Pontipines enter the Pinky Ponk through a different door from all the other characters, and stay on a separate deck.

The Pontipines and the Wottingers are animated using stop motion. They constantly chatter, making high-pitched "mi-mi-mi" sounds and "farting" noises. The "farting" sounds they make are actually their breathing.

Mr Pontipine's moustache occasionally flies off his face and settles on Mrs Pontipine. The adult Pontipines and the adult Wottingers wear large hats. Mrs Pontipine carries a pair of binoculars around her neck at all times, which she uses to look for her children when they get lost.

The Wottingers are similar in design to the Pontipines, though not identical; they can be glimpsed in the general dance sequences, but are not seen going to bed. The Haahoos are five very large inflatable pillow-like creatures of various shapes and colours with eyes and smiling mouths. They move slowly around the garden making deep springy sounds "boing, boing".

The Haahoos appear behind the gazebo during general dance sequences, and are also seen going to sleep, closing their eyes and deflating slightly. They come in the shape of a flower, an X, a star, a circle and a figure of 8.