The Magic Roundabout again on an LP "Pollux" in 1983 along with an original single "C'est moi Pollux". In the United Kingdom, the "Magic Roundabout" name has been given to the ring junction – a large road traffic circulation system with unconventional layouts – in Swindon and in Hemel Hempstead for example. The popularity of the TV show coincided with the introduction of such schemes and soon became associated with any complex traffic roundabout. Although the Swindon roundabout's original name was not the Magic Roundabout, it was almost always referred to as such by Swindon residents and in the late eighties, it was
The Magic Roundabout was broadcast just after "The Magic Roundabout". This story was later republished in print from Bloomsbury's 1998 book "The Adventures of Brian". In 1998, Thompson's stories were published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc as a series of four paperbacks, "The Adventures of Dougal", "The Adventures of Brian", "The Adventures of Dylan" and "The Adventures of Ermintrude" with forewords by his daughter Emma Thompson. For years, the series had re-runs on Cartoon Network, and was later moved to its sister channel, Boomerang. These airings had almost all the episodes re-narrated by Nigel Planer, much like the Channel 4 airings, though some episodes