For the uninitiated Buzzy Bumbles is a bit like Hungry Hungry Hippos only instead of collecting marbles with a mechanical mouth you have to collect multi-coloured pollen balls from a huge plastic flower using only a cute magnetic bee - which is attached to your head on a bouncy plastic pole.
We first saw the game on a episode of the League of Gentlemen where a sadistic doctor will only treat his patients if they bring him a pizza and a bottle of coke and take him on at various parlour games including a particularly frenetic session of Bizzy Buzzy Bumbles. For a while we thought that it might be something that the League invented because despite several Google searches and a few goes on e-bay, nothing ever showed up. That is until I found this peach on YouTube - and realised that we should have been looking for bizzy and not busy bees... One week later we'd won a full set on e-bay for a pound, and here she is in all her glory...
Needless to say we've already spent many happy minutes attaching the bouncy bees to our heads in pursuit of multi-coloured-pollen-collecting glory. This does make you look like a bit of a pratt so many thanks to our current house guest Mr Flange for modeling the blue bee in the picture below in a style reminiscent of nineties Sega Megadrive hero Earthworm Jim.
Anyway, if you're in the neighbourhood and fancy taking us on for the title of King or Queen Bee drop me a line and we'll set up a bee-off in a suitably dark and sinister alley. You have to bring your own pizza and coke though...
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