Childhood Characters That Got Rewritten

Your Childhood Returns—As a Bench: Meet Guangzhou's Teletubbies Seats

For many around the world, including millions of children in China, the British TV series Teletubbies was a defining childhood memory. Twenty years later, the brightly colored characters are back—not on TV, but as oddly-shaped public benches in a Guangzhou amusement park. In case you forget, here are the original Teletubbies characters before we dive deeper into the adapted version. Photo via Teletubbies. Yes, you read that right. In the Colorfu…

Childhood Characters That Got Rewritten

Popular characters from children’s entertainment have shifted dramatically over the decades, often transforming to mirror changing social values and educational priorities. These evolutions sometimes occur gradually through subtle tweaks, while others happen via complete overhauls that might shock adults revisiting childhood favorites. The fictional friends we grow up with serve as cultural touchstones—making their transformations particularly j…