History Trivia / NoddysToylandAdventures

* TheOtherDarrin: The ''Noddy: Playtime In Toyland'' PC game uses different voices than the North American dub of ''Toyland Adventures'', among them Creator/GreyDelisle and Gregg Berger. This is justified, as the game was recorded in the United States and the dub of the series was recorded in Canada.

** [[https://www.animatormag.com/1989-90/issue-27/issue-27-page-15/ A pilot for a second stop motion series]] ''The Further Adventures Of Noddy'' was made by Filmfair, "The Great Car Race". However funding was cut afterwards and the pilot only saw release in some kids compilation videos.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Blyton was planning on making a new Noddy book called ''Noddy Goes to The Moon'' ([[{{Novelization}} possibly based the episode]] ''Noddy And The Moon'' from ''The Adventures Of Noddy''). However, the story was never published or possibly never written for unknown reasons. The last page of the book ''Noddy and the Aeroplane'' carried a notice saying "LOOK FOR THE NEXT NODDY BOOK'' despite being the final entry of the series during her lifetime. This could be due to Blyton's declining health starting in 1957, and showing signs of dementia in 1960 which worsened as the decade went on.

** The second Noddy TV series "The Further Adventures Of Noddy" (1963-1975) only had one episode that managed to get released to home video. The rest of the series quickly faded into obscurity outside of a couple screenshots.

** The North American dub of ''Make Way For Noddy'' seems to be this, as when the series was uploaded to Creator/{{Peacock}}, the original British version was used instead. A good number of episodes of this dub can be found on DVD, but those releases are out of print.

** In 2017, ''Toyland Adventures'' began being uploaded onto the official ''Noddy'' [=YouTube=] channel starting with "Noddy Meets Some Silly Hens", which coincidentally was one of the only three episodes released in English to DVD.

* RecycledScript: While ''Toyland Adventures'' mostly has new stories or adapts novels the 70s series didn't, a few were remade. Curiously both shows and even ''Make Way For Noddy'' (which is otherwise new plot lines) have a loose adaptation of the novel story ''Noddy and Tessie Bear'' (Noddy loses Tessie Bear's farm goods on his runaway kite, which "rains" on the rest of Toyland).

* RecycledScript: While ''Toyland Adventures'' mostly adapts later stories the 70s series didn't, a few were remade. Curiously both shows and even ''Make Way For Noddy'' have a loose adaptation of the novel story ''Noddy and Tessie Bear'' (Noddy loses Tessie Bear's farm goods on his runaway kite, which "rains" on the rest of Toyland).

* RecycledScript: Both ''Toyland Adventures'' and ''Make Way For Noddy'' have a loose adaptation of the novel story ''Noddy and Tessie Bear'' (Noddy loses Tessie Bear's farm goods on his runaway kite, which "rains" on the rest of Toyland).

** Even more so the 1975 series, where Richard Briers provides all the voices.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The 1963 animated short by Arthur Humberstone doesn't credits any of the voice actors.

* TalkingToHimself: There were only two voice actors (Susan Sheridan and Jimmy Hibbert) for the stop-motion series. As a result most of the characters might end up talking to another character who's voice actor has also voiced.
** Catherine Disher provided the voices of Noddy, Sly the Goblin, and Master Tubby in the US version of ''Toyland Adventures''.
** James Rankin plays Gobbo, Mr. Jumbo, Mr. Sparks, Clockwork Clown and Clockwork Mouse in the same dub. This is in addition to voicing five puppet characters [[Series/TheNoddyShop in the series the dub was a part of]], but they never interacted with the ''Toyland Adventures'' cast except with Noddy in the second season.

* OutlivedItsCreator: Averted; while the shows have [[OvertookTheSeries overtaken the series]], Creator/EnidBlyton finished up the original Noddy novels in 1963, six years before her death in 1968 of dementia (now known as "Alzheimer's disease"). Beginning in the 1970s, brand new stories starring Noddy were created. This includes a 1974 vinyl album called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asNAIJw54TY "Noddy's Magic Holiday"]] where [[https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/author/illustrations/520wide+2208479.jpg Noddy, Big Ears, and the Skittles are going on holiday to the seaside.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Blyton was planning on making a new Noddy book called ''Noddy Goes to The Moon'' (possibly based the episode ''Noddy And The Moon'' from ''The Adventures Of Noddy''). However, the story was never published or possibly never written for unknown reasons. The last page of the book ''Noddy and the Aeroplane'' carried a notice saying "LOOK FOR THE NEXT NODDY BOOK'' despite being the final entry of the series during her lifetime. This could be due to Blyton's declining health starting in 1957, and showing signs of dementia in 1960 which worsened as the decade went on.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Sprout}} loved airing ''Make Way For Noddy'' and ''Noddy, Toyland Detective'', and would show them up to six times a day, including a few marathons for the former series. Also, when Sprout changed into a block on Universal Kids, Noddy was one of two shows to run more than two times a day (the other being ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'').

** In earlier 50s era audio adaptations of the Noddy books narrated by Enid Blyton. Noddy was voiced by an unknown child actor (mainly for the singing sections).
** In both dubs of ''Make Way For Noddy'', Noddy, Master Tubby Bear and The Skittle Children were voiced by actual children. In the US/Canadian dub, Tessie Bear was voiced by young girl named Jesse Vinet, best known as the voice of Sheegwa in ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' as well as the voice of Rosie in ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''.

* DirectToVideo: This is how ''Toyland Adventures'' itself was released in the US, as on television, the segments aired as part of ''The Noddy Shop'', which split the stories in half and put them in between a live action storyline.

* EditedForSyndication: The version that aired on Creator/PBSKids, ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', took the classic episodes, split them in half and sandwiched them between live action and puppetry segments.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While the CGI series have got some fair exposure on DVD, the only DVD release of ''Toyland Adventures'' in the UK was one including three episodes of ''The Noddy Shop'', which featured this show, but even then there were only three episodes included. However, most of the series was released on VHS, and the show did get DVD releases in France and Japan, but the [=DVDs=] only contained the audio of their native countries. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Wum7wEJC8&feature=emb_title And don't even bother looking for the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAaA6shLbi4 50s]]-70s shows or the American spin-off ''The Noddy Shop''...

** It's the same with Noddy's Canadian voice actress Catherine Disher, who is usually cast as a parent or authoriative figure. In this show, Catherine plays two child characters, as well as a villain.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The German ''Creator/DisneyChannel'' quickly replaced the episodes from later seasons with ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' reruns, running at ridiculous hours in the morning.

** Also, the US version of ''Make Way For Noddy'' has the ''Say It With Noddy'' segment which teaches various languages. This segment is absent from the version of the show aired elsewhere. Make Way For Noddy also had a segment between the animated segments shot in Live-Action hosted by Naomi Wilkinson, who tells the viewer about what the animated segments will be about and telling them what language the word in Say It With Noddy is said in. There also used to be a music video segment seen before the credits such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fqVbY7cLiw "Noddy Will Lead The Way"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-PNMziUTrM "Googleberry Pie"]] that were later removed in later airings of the show on Sprout. These segments were all kept when it was On Demand years ago but would later only contain the animated segments except the songs and Say It With Noddy. However, ''Say It With Noddy'' did air as a segment in between shows on TV Ontario up until January of 2011.

* OldShame: [[https://www.macleans.ca/culture/good-golly-noddys-back/ Both of Enid Blyton's daughters and granddaughters view]] [[ValuesDissonance The Golliwogs]] [[BlackFace as this]], despite their ''mother'' being responsible.

** ''Make Way For Noddy'' got one in 2005 that also toured Brazil, getting a soundtrack album in the latter country.

*** ''Noddy, Toyland Detective'' was represented in the show ''Milkshake Live! The Magic Storybook''.

** In the UK, the 1950's series aired on BBC and then channel-hopped to ITV partway through its' run. All adaptations would stay on there until ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'', which went back to BBC. Beginning with ''Make Way For Noddy'', the shows aired on Channel 5 during their ''Milkshake!'' block and continue to be broadcast there to this day.

* ApprovalOfGod: The early 1990s stage show ''Noddy Live'' (which gained a VHS release in 1994) was praised by Enid Blyton's daughters.