Mulherin Park Big Cartoon Characters

That accumulation is characteristic of a certain era of Australian municipal playground. Through the 1970s and 80s councils and service clubs fitted out parks with concrete and fibreglass figures chosen largely on the basis of what a supplier had available, with no particular regard for copyright, coherence or theme. Very few of those parks survive intact, because the figures wear out and modern playground standards are unforgiving of hard surfaces at height.

The crocodile at least is local. Mackay sits on the central Queensland coast among sugar country – nearly 1,300 mostly family-owned cane farms supply three local mills, producing around 800,000 tonnes of raw sugar a year – and estuarine crocodiles are present in the region's rivers.

Because the figures are spread through the park rather than grouped, this record maps the precinct rather than any single object.

The catalogue cannot supply the maker's name and the dimensions.