# What is Bob the Builder made of?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 27, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543 "2003-11-27T06:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543/1 "2003-11-27T06:44:54Z")

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My kids have a few Bob the Builder books and I was wondering what they use to make the models. Is it clay? Plastic? Earwax?

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543/2 "2003-11-27T17:08:23Z")

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I think it’s plasticine.

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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543/3 "2003-11-27T21:00:52Z")

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I thought it looked like foam latex on a wire frame.

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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543/4 "2003-11-27T21:07:38Z")

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:smack: Sorry, I was think… errr… of not Bob the Builder.

Yeah, I think it’s plasticine too. Can’t find a Google cite though.

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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-bob-the-builder-made-of/215543/5 "2003-11-28T19:16:30Z")

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Thanks a lot! I had to look up plasticine to find out that it is Play-Doh - and that explains “Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds” a little bit too. So I guess I learned three things today…