Merchandise and Blue Peter
A re-run of the show on BBC2 in 1992 led to a shortage of Tracy Island models in the run-up to Christmas. it became headline news and the example cited as the archetypal mistake to be avoided for the whole toy industry every Christmas since. At the time the British children's programme Blue Peter responded by demonstrating how to build a home-made version. The BBC was then, in its turn, overwhelmed by requests for copies of the instructions for making the model.
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