Makka Pakka is a character in the show In The Night Garden, portrayed and voiced by Justyn Towler
Description[]
Makka Pakka is a beige, small, round-bodied doll. He has three rounded protuberances on his head, ears, and one on his bum to represent stones that he uses to make piles.
He lives in his rock cave and likes cleaning things, such as his collection of stacking stones, and sometimes the other characters.
Makka Pakka often stacks freshly cleaned stones into piles resembling his head and body. He sleeps on a stone bed, often cuddling a stone. He travels around the garden riding his scooter, the Og-Pog, which carries his sponge, soap, orange trumpet, and a bellows-like apparatus called Uff-Uff, which he uses to dry items after cleaning them.
His house is approached by a stone-walled ditch, as it is half-buried in the ground. He says his own name and the phrase "Mikka Makka Moo" when he is happy, as well as the names of the Og-Pog and the Uff-Uff, and other phrases from his song such as "agga pang" (his soap and sponge), "hum dum" (his trumpet), and "ing ang oo". Like Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos, he also uses a phrase meaning "goodbye", represented in publications as "pip pip onk onk".
Trivia[]
- This character, along with Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy, was first featured in the episode "Makka Pakka Washes Faces".
- When this character goes to sleep first, the narrator's way of saying, "Go to sleep, Pontipines!" and "Go to sleep, Tombliboos!" sounds different.
- Makka Pakka is not actually small, instead he is about the same height at the Tombliboos. In scenes where he is alongside the other larger characters, he is filmed in a different scene and is edited onto the other scene. However, in some scenes, when he is by himself or when he is alongside the Pontipines, possibly the Wottingers, the Ninky Nonk or possibly the Pinky Ponk, he is not edited. However, there are several scenes where Makka Pakka physically interacts with the other characters, in these scenes, Makka Pakka appears to be a small puppet.