In the canon of iconic Australian children’s television,
there’s a lot more to us than Skippy the Kangaroo; hell, I still haven’t seen an episode of that show and I’ve lived here all
my life. You’ve got the surreal and boundary-pushing morality tales of Round
The Twist, the endlessly imitated artistry of Mr. Squiggle and the latest
addition to the CGI hostile takeover Bananas In Pyjamas, just to name a few.
Amongst this collection of oddities is the hallmark animation franchise Blinky
Bill, a series of adaptations of the Dorothy Wall book series about a
mischievous koala bear and his friends; yeah, it turns some stereotypes
surrounding Australia ended up being true.
Brought to the big and small screens by the Aussie Don Bluth Yoram Gross, it made for a very environmentally-vivid part of many a childhood including my own. I still remember a competition at my primary school where I won a stuffed kangaroo because I knew one of the character’s names off-by-heart. Of course, considering the aforementioned decline of the dressed bananas, is this character capable of surviving in today’s Cartoon Network-influenced market? Time to find out with this latest cinematic iteration of the series.
Brought to the big and small screens by the Aussie Don Bluth Yoram Gross, it made for a very environmentally-vivid part of many a childhood including my own. I still remember a competition at my primary school where I won a stuffed kangaroo because I knew one of the character’s names off-by-heart. Of course, considering the aforementioned decline of the dressed bananas, is this character capable of surviving in today’s Cartoon Network-influenced market? Time to find out with this latest cinematic iteration of the series.
