Anyone remember WELEPHANT???
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........he was the Fire safety mascot from the 80's and 90's and was a big red elephant wearing a fireman's helmet.
I managed to track him down and bring him out of retirement for a school gala this year.:D
Anyone remember him???????
I managed to track him down and bring him out of retirement for a school gala this year.:D
Anyone remember him???????
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OHP? PMSL.
Christ, you ARE old LOL!
I wore the suit this summer and his head weighs a bloody tonne. It's made from that old-fashioned fibreglass......no wonder he tripped over the cable, he was top-heavy!
In fact, here he is on a **** break:
http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/carnival2008/parade.htm
Scandalous! :eek::eek::eek:
"Matches, matches, never touch. They can hurt you very much"
I can just imagine the book deal - "Playing With Fire: my life with a fire safety icon".
Accompanied by a picture of Welephant passed out in an alcoholic haze on the floor.
Welephant says......Never Touch Matches.
What they didn't tell the kids is that if they DID touch matches, he'd be round to trunk-whip you into submission.
And yes, he was nationwide!
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haha had that running through my head as soon as I saw the word welephant
Does the OP remember Wumpty too, considering his forum name?
Bloody Hell, now Wumpty IS a blast from the past.
He's still going strong. He's not on the buses anymore.....alas, he gave it up, hours were playing havoc with his social life and family.
Welephant was conceived by Greater Manchester Fire service and it was such a big hit that other fire services adopted him. Welephant is now officially the mascot for a national burns charity, but there are only 2 suits left in the whole of the UK.
Something tells me that you remember Wumpty too!:D
Yeah, I remember he was on the old bus tickets
He was an elephant in wellies?
and yes I remember him.
Wonder if i can find it online?
I also have a Major Molar sticker. I now know why my Mum didn't like me putting stickers on my chest of drawers - they're still there all these years later!
we used to get the welephant newsletter aswell every so often!
I also thought it was just a local thing didnt realise he was countrywide!
They have Blaze Bear now.
If you contact your local news team at ITV Studios in Manchester (formerly Granada) with some basic details, I'm sure they'll have ait in the archive somewhere.:)
See my previous post CD............the fire service as a national entity don't have a mascot, I belive that each service devises their own marketing strategy and some have adopted Blaze Bear.
A poor substitute for a fire fighting legend!:D
Poor old Wumpty was dumped when local bus services were deregulated in 1986. He was replaced with some half-arsed Bee by West Midlands Travel and it never really had the same impact.
As for the old bus tickets.......you really ARE showing your age like matherton!
I have a phobia of people dressed in animal costumes (don't ask :rolleyes:) .Whilst at a street fair in Sherringham one year, I lost my family, so I was walking backwards, trying to see them when I bumped into somebody, I turned around to apologise only to find Welliphant right behind me :eek: My family found me soon afterwards....running down the road screaming like a mad woman