Young Chilli and Bandit. I do not know what Bandit was up to, but I could not help but finish painting this brazen face

this should have been me

Dancing Music Dog for ThePeternators.

My favourite part of the topical gimmick blog life cycle is the part where they've clearly run out of substantive things to say, but haven't yet discarded their principles and resorted to clickbait, so they just keep spiralling deeper into micro-analysis of obscure bullshit that even hardcore aficionados don't give a shit about. Like, yes, I absolutely want to read a thousand words about the buttons on Mario's overalls.

guessing game go, you might not know the exact species but you do know the general sort of thing involved here

the culprit:

NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

Finished Bluey Comm featuring a Blueyfied Kipper the Dog.

Pedestrian crossing

Lots of little details, this is from S2E1 “Dance Mode”.

Towards the end of this episode the family crosses the street.

Note the lights, a red sitting dog for don’t walk and a walking dog for the walk indication. Note these are regular dogs, not people-dogs!

Mum is impatient, hammering on the button.

Note this is a wide multi-lane (four by my count) one-way street they’re crossing. (Mum has to dance across it, she’s been put into “dance mode”)

🎶Beauty’s where you find it🎶

Ok, so that happened, and they’ve crossed the street.

Once they’re across, note the curb, it’s made of short individual segments. This allows damaged segments to be easily replaced. (We tried that locally on a bus-only corridor with granite blocks; they didn’t stand up to winter snowplowing, but that’s not a problem in Brisbane.)

Note also the curb has built-in ramps, useful for wheelchairs or strollers. Also note that it looks like crossings lack detectable tiles for those with limited vision.

Note the push button is a fair distance away from the ramp, which isn’t ideal. It also looks like this crossing lacks painted markings.

Brisbane City Council Water Fountain BSD-7331

In S1E11 “Bike” we see some of the younger characters powering through challenges/struggles, including Bingo trying to use a drinking fountain. In the end, Bingo finds an outside-the-box solution.

That drinking fountain is a striking design.

Is it based on something real?

Yes, it looks like it was (with some artistic license taken.)

The real ones are a special design specifically for Brisbane.

One of the current manufacturers of these is Urban Fountains and Furniture, an Australian company. Their website says they fabricate the Brisbane City Council Drinking fountain following the specs in BSD Drawing set BSD-7331.

Those specs are online: here’s a link to the Brisbane specifications, BSD Drawing Set BSD-7331, in case you were considering manufacturing one?

Here’s page one of the CAD drawings.

Note that the design includes an element for filling bottles on the back and an optional dog dish feature at ground level, and it appears the push button and spout are oriented differently. e.g. the push button should be on the back rather than the front (tip) of the fountain.

The real design also looks like it’s made of sheet metal (stainless steel) with flat sides rather than a heavy casting. The heavier casting on Bingo’s drinking fountain looks cool though: very chunky, and probably looked better on-screen than if it had been drawn with sheet metal.

It was interesting researching this and actually finding the specs! Did not expect that.

180 Brisbane building

See the relatively squat building with the squiggly line by Bluey’s nose? That’s 180 Brisbane, it’s just under 500 feet tall, it’s an office building, and the squiggly line is a depiction of the Brisbane River, which runs through the city.

The park in “Seesaw”: Orleigh Park

I’d initially overlooked this episode, but I rewatched it and we’re in another distinct park!

In this one Dad gets the kids all working together to defeat him/lift him on the seesaw (so little Pompom saves the day.)

Note we’re on the waterfront with what look like a mix of midrise multifamily buildings on the other side of the river.

There’s a good collection of different equipment in this park. There are some buildings in the park (likely washrooms), some shade protectors, log barriers, benches and tables…

There’s also a very distinctive frog-themed slide integrated into a concrete structure. That frog slide structure is the key to locating this park. You can see it by the tree in this shot.

Here’s a pic of the real frog slide, the book-themed murals/art on the structure, and a seesaw. This is Orleigh Park.

The real Orleigh Park is in the West End part of Brisbane, and is accessible by transit, so theoretically Bluey’s family (and Pompom’s Mum) could have travelled here with the children using transit. The CityCat river ferry also serves this park.

Nice episode & a nice park. One last pic, here’s a real life view of across-the-river.

Ice Cream Dog

There is either one very busy dog or a number of similar-looking dogs all selling ice cream in Bluey-Brisbane.

Maybe one day there’ll be an episode at the ice cream distribution centre and we’ll see dozens of this same dog? 😉

MacArthur Central Mall in “Bob Bilby”

In S1E12 “Bob Bilby”, the family take a ride out to a shopping mall that has both a supermarket and a store selling televisions, with the televisions mesmerizing the kids and Mum for a brief moment…

The details in this brief couple of scenes make me think this mall is MacArthur Central, it’s a mall in a converted heritage building in downtown Brisbane that contains a supermarket, and an electronics store.

Note the two-bones logo on the store behind Bluey, I think this might be a reference to the Woolworth’s apple-W logo.

The details aren’t an exact match (and I didn’t do an exhaustive search of Brisbane malls) but I’m thinking the artists probably had this mall in mind for this episode.

Bluey at South Bank

After stopping at the museum gift shop (I love how you can tell this is in a museum) at the Queensland Museum Whale Mall, Dad takes Bluey and Bingo around the South Bank waterfront area and the kids deal with the chaos ensuing from trying to share ice creams.

We get to see a bit of Brisbane’s South Bank development.

This beach is probably the Brisbane Riverpool.

Note the emergency call box, the little column with the blue light on the right: in the case of an emergency, push the button, it will illuminate on the top and help will be dispatched. In Brisbane these are called “Public Safety Help Points”.

They go through this splash pad, adjacent to the beach.

They go past this food court sitting area, (which is one of the few untidy public places I’ve seen in a Bluey…)

They go through the South Bank Grand Arbor. See what looks like a gold statue? That’s actually a street performer, based on a real guy, one part of his act is a levitation trick.

You can see the Wheel of Brisbane, and that stepped building next to it is the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

They wrap up their ice cream nonsense at the Clem Jones Promenade, where Dad shares his ice cream, and they look out at the skyline across the river.

Wow, the attention to detail, and depiction of real places is so nice! Makes me want to visit.