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A fact from Friendly Floatees spill appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/November.

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That isn't a picture of the floaties? That picture is pretty clearly a seal a fish and a pig? According to one article I read the beaver is supposed to be red... that red thing is not a mammal.

Also Floaties were written about in Harper's January 2007 "Moby Duck: The Incredible Ocean Voyage or 20,000 Bath Toys" by Donovan Hohn

Those pictured are the floatees from the 2006 range, not the ones from the range lost overboard. Yomangani ^talk 18:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone know where "Friendly" came from? I'm a collector, in possession of the original packaging, and it just says "Floatees."

Also, the map on this page is snazzy but inaccurate. The spill happened just south of the Aleutians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plecnik (talk • contribs) 13:50, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Packaging does indeed say "Floatees" not "Friendly Floatees": http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Btf4Boe-Cjo/Twx0aodx53I/AAAAAAAABXY/NXszwkybxDU/s1600/TFY2103-01.jpg . Seems to be a mistake that's continually passed on, possible originating in the media many years ago. 66.130.207.107 (talk) 18:34, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

$80.000

Is that eighty dollars or eighty thousand?199.101.56.122 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:26, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it was originally $100, and changed to $80.000 in April along with a silly year change - someone noticed the latter and took out the whole sentence as dubious, but left the reward unchanged. I've restored both. --McGeddon (talk) 15:32, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did they arrive in UK or not?

The story says that what arrived in UK in 2007 wasn't a Floatee, but the map indicates that they did arrive. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 2 July 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved Friendly Floatees (to Friendly Floatees spill) but not Hansa Carrier. (non-admin closure) Not·Really·Soroka 02:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

– These two articles are not about the toys and the ship respectively, but instead about specific spilling incidents. Since the articles are about the spills, they should be renamed to reflect that fact. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 20:18, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support move of Friendly Floatees - move request is reasonable. Mjroots (talk) 07:37, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose move of Hansa Carrier - article about the ship could be improved, e.g. by the addition of a description and a career section, which the spill should be part of. Mjroots (talk) 07:37, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 1st, Oppose 2nd per Mjroots. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Additional pop culture references

It was also mentioned, and probably reenacted, in Blue Planet II's episode "Big blue", so that should be included.2600:1700:6841:4980:95EA:1A4C:1416:B314 (talk) 18:13, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]