They frequently run out in front of Noddy's car so he will hit them and knock them over.

They usually steal things such as ice cream, coins or Noddy's car.

IDWs Transformers licensed comic books introduced the character of " Tappet " a robot who is based on Noddy visually and clearly transforms into Noddy's classic car.

They also introduced Noddy's new friend Whizz from Robot Village, who presses a button on his chest to play recordings of native speakers saying the new foreign words Noddy was to learn.

He and Sheridan were also voice actors of the show Noddy's Toyland Adventures which ran from 1992 to 1994.

There were numerous critical comments about Blyton: claiming that her vocabulary was too limited, that she presented too rosy a view of the world, even suggestions that little Noddy's relationship with Big Ears was " suspect ", that he was a poor role model for boys because he sometimes wept when frustrated and the laws were politically incorrect.

For example, in the first Noddy book, Noddy and Big Ears are building Noddy's house for one.

* Mrs Tubby Bear, Noddy's next door neighbour, it is clear that she, like Mr Tubby Bear are the superiors of Noddy, as if they are adults and he is a child, mainly because Noddy always refers to them as " Mr and Mrs Tubby Bear ".

* Noddy, Tom ( 1982 ) " Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic " Pioneer bubble performer's explanations created the modern performance art.

Her voice acting roles include Noddy in the Cosgrove Hall / BBC Television series Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Trillian in the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Princess Eilonwy in the animated film The Black Cauldron.

Between 1966 and 1967, the band's performance centred around the R & B and Tamla Motown styles, while Noddy's flair for showmanship began to give the band a focus.

The first book explains Noddy's origins.

Noddy's best friends are Big Ears, Tessie Bear, Bumpy Dog and the Tubby Bears.

Some are caused by Noddy's lack of understanding of how Toyland works.

* Mr Tubby Bear, Noddy's next door neighbour.

Holder also presented 31 episodes of Noddy's Electric Ladyland, a surreal television quiz show.

* Noddy's Toyland Adventures-Noddy, Tessie Bear, Dinah Doll, Sally Skittle, Mrs. Tubby Bear, Mrs. Noah, Mrs. Straw, Martha Monkey, Miss Pink Cat, Clockwork Mouse and Sly The Goblin

It used the chassis of the standard sPkw I Horch 801 ( heavy car ) with an angled armoured body and turret.

The test car was a 4-door deluxe version costing £ 801 including taxes, but the sticker price on a two-door standard Classic with the same engine was just £ 745 including taxes.

Jon Arbuckle came from a coffee commercial from the 1950s, and Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot.

The image is of a toy model of " Il Tempo Gigante ", the main race car featured in the movie.

The tide rises round a car which is stuck on the causeway ; also featured are the characteristic sheds made from local fishing boats, inverted and cut in half.

Mazinger Z featured giant robots which were " piloted by means of a small flying car and command center that docked inside the head.

Porsche's signature designs have, from the beginning, featured air-cooled rear-engine configurations ( like the Beetle ), rare for other car manufacturers, but producing automobiles that are very well balanced.

The Flying Cloud was the first car to use Lockheed's new hydraulic internal expanding brake system and featured styling by Fabio Segardi.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

Several strips were single-panel, one-off puns, such as " Daft Bugger ", which featured two bored, uninterested men engaged in the act of buggery ; the buggerer then states that he has forgotten his car keys ( thus making him " daft ").

With his health slowly recovering from a car accident whilst on holiday to France in 1958, Jack returned to the studio and made sure his name was featured in studio press releases.

In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the GP1914, which featured a four-cylinder engine, double overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder and twin ignition.

The car featured lithium polymer battery technology.

In the 1970s, Bond saw competition as gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to fuse themselves with the new " action " style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as those defined by Bullitt ( 1968 ), The French Connection ( 1971 ) and Dirty Harry ( 1971 ); all of which featured an intense car chase inspired by the popular stuntwork of the Bond films.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

The tail of the car featured massive vertical chrome taillight housings.

This car featured an elevated roof over the rear seat and cargo area and glass skylights over the rear seating area, which consisted of a transverse skylight over the second seat ( two-piece from 1964 to 1967, one-piece from 1968 to 1972 ) and small longitudinal skylights directly over the rear cargo-area windows, and also featured standard second-row sunvisors.

* Trans Am Series ( North America )- originally featured a low displacement touring car group ( 1966-1972 )

The car featured a racing-tuned engine, twin SU carburettors, a closer-ratio gearbox and front disc brakes, uncommon at the time in a small car.

The new car, launched in 1923 featured a rigid backbone tube with swinging semi-axles at the rear giving independent suspension.

The car featured a unitary steel construction, with a front mounted, aircooled two cylinder boxer engine driving the rear wheels through a centrifugal clutch and the Variomatic CVT transmission.

Well received by the press, the car featured final drive by double chain and a friction transmission.

He was briefly a minor partner in a restaurant called Aykroyd's Ghetto House Café on upper Princess Street during the 1990s which prominently featured a Blues Brothers ' car projecting out from the second story wall.

" The unsolved case of a mysterious object impacting a county sheriff's car on August 27, 1979 was featured ( see Val Johnson Incident ).

) Other slot car sets from Matchbox included a lane changer ( which allowed cars to switch lanes ) and a Race and Chase set which featured a police car and chased car which could jump and u-turn.