November 13, 2108
Plans to build a Big Peanut in Kingaroy have come a tad unstuck after Chinchilla’ s “Big Watermelon” won Wotif’s competition to build Australia’s “Next Big Thing”.
“The Big Watermelon” was delivered to the town’s Botanic Gardens on Tuesday morning and the official announcement and unveiling will happen on Wednesday.
Kingaroy was one of four finalists in Wotif’s competition alongside Mittagong, Glen Innes and Chinchilla.
Each town had proposed an iconic “big” sculpture, and the winner was decided by public popular vote.
Organisers of the Kingaroy Needs A Big Peanut Facebook page arranged a location for the statue at the Kingaroy bowls club, then ran a campaign urging supporters to vote for the town’s entry.
Voting closed on September 25.
But the push for a Big Peanut isn’t over despite the Chinchilla victory.
“Big nutty congratulations to our friends across the way,” King Roy wrote on Facebook.
“Don’t worry peanut fans, we don’t have all our nuts in one shell.”
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