{"id":1163,"date":"2014-02-04T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:15:42","slug":"cardiffs-travelling-teddy-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/04\/cardiffs-travelling-teddy-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff&#039;s travelling teddy bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff teddy bears have taken a leaf out of Doctor Who\u2019s book and embarked on a whirlwind tour of planet earth.<\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1166\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1166\" alt=\"Sarah Salter with one of the travelling bears\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-22-e1391521707839-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1166\" alt=\"Sarah Salter with one of the travelling bears\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-22-e1391521707839-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Sarah Salter with one of the travelling bears<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDoctor Who-inspired cuddly toys at Cardiff Bay\u2019s Tourist Information Centre are being tracked as they are bought by new owners and taken around the world.<br \/>\nThe location of the bears is charted on a large map displayed on the wall behind the tills, with pins marking out where the bear\u2019s new owners call home.<br \/>\nSome have already travelled as far afield as Vietnam and Australia.<br \/>\nAnd now the worldly little bears even have their own <a title=\"Bow tie bear twitter account\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDFBowTieBear\">twitter account<\/a>, where owners can tweet in pictures of them in their new homes around the globe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Looks like bear has been living in luxury! \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BonitaHanwright\">@BonitaHanwright<\/a>: Not long before I headed back to Australia. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/62uOngyqfL\">pic.twitter.com\/62uOngyqfL<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 CDF Bow Tie Bear (@CDFBowTieBear) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDFBowTieBear\/statuses\/429574676789342208\">February 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far pictures have come in from a beach near Ho Chi Minh City, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and a home in Australia.<br \/>\nThe Twitter account was set up at the end of December to track the bears as they embark on their new lives.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1177\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bow-tie-bear.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1177\" alt=\"Bow tie bear\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bow-tie-bear-169x300.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1177\" alt=\"Bow tie bear\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bow-tie-bear-169x300.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> A bow tie bear outside the Arc de Triomphe<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe bow-tie bears play on the catchphrase of Matt Smith\u2019s 11th incarnation of Doctor Who, famous for his eccentric style and love of flamboyant neckwear.<br \/>\nEach bear sports a T-shirt with the slogan &#8220;bow ties are cool&#8221;, said by Matt Smith when he played the Doctor.<br \/>\nDoctor Who\u2019s success has led to Cardiff Bay becoming an essential tourist destination for fans seeking out the BBC studios where the series is filmed.<br \/>\nThe travelling Whovian bears were the idea of Sarah Salter, a tourist information officer at the Cardiff Bay centre, who started the scheme in September last year.<br \/>\nShe said: \u201cWe are always looking for products that are unique to us and we have a lot of science fiction fans that are coming to visit.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of them are coming here for Doctor Who and we wanted to provide something for them.\u201d<br \/>\nShe added: \u201cMany people travel with a bear anyway. This bear is a travel companion through time and space.<br \/>\n\u201cWe were surprised how far afield people are coming from. We hadn\u2019t realised quite how many countries Doctor Who goes out to &#8211; it was quite nice to see.\u201d<br \/>\nFiona Marcenaro, a tourist information officer at the Cardiff Bay centre, said: \u201cWhen people buy one we ask them where he\u2019s going and then we have a big map on the wall which we put pins in to mark where in the world they\u2019ve gone.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have 15 across the world and quite a lot across the UK.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are ones in Chile, Texas, Michigan, Nova Scotia, Perth and Melbourne in Australia, and Indonesia and Vietnam.\u201d<br \/>\nThe bow-tie bears are on sale at Cardiff Bay Tourist Information Centre for \u00a34.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff teddy bears have taken a leaf out of Doctor Who\u2019s book and embarked on a whirlwind tour of planet earth. &nbsp; Doctor Who-inspired cuddly toys at Cardiff Bay\u2019s Tourist Information Centre are being tracked as they are bought by new owners and taken around the world. 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