Octonauts

[AlphaSchmalpha]

Anyone else's dcs love this?

ds is hooked on it but I love it too - the drawing and colours are lovely and I adore all the different accents for the creatures - French crustaceans / remipedes; Scouse walruses, Geordie lobsters, Welsh starfish. Fabulous.

[jsgirl]

DS2 loves this too. We use iPlayer via the Wii. The other day he watched the same episode about five times in a row. We've got a few saved on Sky+ too.

Agree about the colours and designs. Have to say, though, I've heard the episodes more than actually watching them!

[globalmouse]

I ds likes it too. its just a bit different to everything else on cbeebies, in a good way!

[nomorecake]

we (I) love it too

"Octonauts to your stations, Barnacles,Kwazii, Peso..."

To the GUP-A...

[Concordia]

DS loves it. we have all been given octonauts names. he is captain barnacles, in charge.
we have to press the octo alert every time we go down the stairs (or he does)
every day he asks, have we missed it?

[dinkystinky]

DS1 is OBSESSED with it - he told me he wanted an octonaut base for xmas, only issue is that nowhere sells octonaut toys yet. He's going to have to put up with the books instead I guess.

I like the animation and its been amazing how much he's remembered about marine life...

[pozzled]

DD loves it. We see the episodes over and over on i-player. DH quite enjoys it as well but I tend to blank out the children's tv in order to focus on MN

[Panzee]

The music reminds me of Numberjacks for some reason. Is it the same people, does anyone know?

[Meglet]

We are fans in this house .

[Cathpot]

Can anyone explain the turnips?

[JetSetWilly]

Another fan here who also has to press octo-alert etc DS also wears his hat over his eye like kwasii's eye patch ! Shame they haven't got the toys out in time for Xmas that would have been ideal for DS

[Bumperlicious]

We watch it on iplayer when we are having a lazy morning in bed. the stories are a little far fetched but there are only so many underwater disaster scenarios you can have.

[JuanManuelFanjo]

DS is also obsessed with this and plays endless octonaught inspired imaginary games. I like it too. :)

[Mouseface]

At the risk of having my flameproof nightie tested, I'm not a fan, nor is DS.

Bit old for him maybe? He's 18m.

[JuanManuelFanjo]

octonaut I don't use TV as a babysitter, honest guv!

[RobynLou]

DD LOVES the octonauts, I quite like it too

no merchandise in time for xmas, but there are books - they were around before the tv show -

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=octonauts&sprefix=octonauts&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Ilythia]

DD's love it. I once got them united for once by calling him captain tentacles. They were Not Happy.

[MayDayChild]

My DD loves it age 3 1/2
She calls it action naughts
She is now capable of choosing her own tv on iplayer using mouse! She always chooses this
Love the little boys pretending games lol, I've escaped this.

[AlphaSchmalpha]

ah glad we have our own fan club here. ds tries very hard to make me be Peso or whoever but I invariably get it wrong and have to be told off by Captain Barnacles.

lol Bumperlicious at stories a bit far fetched - we're watching talking marine life and a crack squad akin to the SAS comprising a squid, a penguin, a dashund, a (Scottish) otter and a kitten all led by a polar bear. belief in the plots are not the consideration here! (can you tell we've been on the Octonauts website a lot recently!)

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

DS loves this too. He has called his cuddly penguin Peso, and we constantly have to pretend to be in the GUP-A setting off on adventures.

He had become a nightmare about nappy changes, but now it is 'Octonaut DS to the changing station' and off he trots! Genius

[JetSetWilly]

I love this thread!!

We are doing exactly the same here getting told off for pressing the octo-alert incorrectly and I'm not allowed to be captain barnacles as I'm a girl! Wonder what it is that they love about it so much

Thanks for that link Robyn I'm def going to order some if those books

[Blatherskite]

DS (3.5) is obsessed too.

There is a type of fish called a guppy which is where GUP-A, GUP-B etc come from

[Blatherskite]

Maybe it's ironic that the only one that is missing is the GUP-E?

[AlphaSchmalpha]

oh no no no you have not been watching Octonauts as closely as me and ds! there is a GUP-E. It is a pedal powered frame and came out especially when all the other (diesel? hydro? petrol? hydrogen? powered) GUPs had been hijacked or something.

I wasn't watching that closely, honest, but we have probably had each episode 10+ times now. In fact my Sky+ Planner of recorded programmes reads

Octonauts
Octonauts
Octonauts
Octonauts
Any Human Heart
Octonauts
Octonauts
Mad Men
Octonauts
Octonauts
Octonauts
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