| Queensland,
Australia
Queensland Day : June 6, 1988 Agreement to participate : 20 May 1985 Commissioner : Mr Fred Maybury Pavilion : 4400 square metres |
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Street performers with the Queensland
Pavilion at World Expo '88: Image Courtesy of the Gabriel
Collection
The curved Pavilion façade featured a variety of images pertaining to the State - which revolved in tandem every few minutes. The image shown here is of the Flag of the State.
The curved Pavilion façade featured a variety of images pertaining to the State - which revolved in tandem every few minutes. The image shown here is of the Flag of the State.
The Queensland Pavilion, being the more than
equal partner with Australia of the task of 'flagship
pavilion,' wowed the crowds with it's themed-ride through
outback, urban and rainforest Queensland, and undoubtedly was
one of the most popular and most visited pavilions on the expo
site.
Visitors were asked to enter specially designed transport pods which carried people 50-a-time through the pavilion in air-conditioned comfort, and were told the story of this modern and proud state, via eight themed diorama theatrettes - most memorably including a visit to a corrugated-tin roofed verandah of a Queensland 'outback' pub, where mannequin bush narrators with 'talking' television heads humourously shared anecdotes about life in the 'sunshine state'; a journey amongst the rich green foliage of a north tropical rainforest where animatronic sulfur-crested cockatoos joined in the debate and rainforest snakes hissed at surprised passersby; and finally, a view of the globe and state from an inter-planetary space station, where Queensland's ambitions for the space race in the proposed Cape York International Space Port, in the State's deep north, were noted - then transporting one back to 1988 Expo Queensland, just in time to purchase unique Queensland souvenirs from the Pavilion's 'Sunmap' Shop.
The $AUD 16 million dollar Pavilion also looked over the River Stage, and featured a white curved exterior, featuring the "Join the Spirit" logo of the Pavilion (as noted below), and a rotating information board of images of the more familiar symbols of State - flora and fauna - as well as the State Flag (as noted above). The popular Pavilion theme song 'Come, Join the Spirit!', was composed by famous locals Frank Millward and Carol Lloyd - who also composed the official theme song of World Expo '88 - 'Together, We'll Show the World."
The Pavilion is also well remembered for it's faux multi-level tropical rainforest foyer, which hosted the Expo Monorail.
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Visitors were asked to enter specially designed transport pods which carried people 50-a-time through the pavilion in air-conditioned comfort, and were told the story of this modern and proud state, via eight themed diorama theatrettes - most memorably including a visit to a corrugated-tin roofed verandah of a Queensland 'outback' pub, where mannequin bush narrators with 'talking' television heads humourously shared anecdotes about life in the 'sunshine state'; a journey amongst the rich green foliage of a north tropical rainforest where animatronic sulfur-crested cockatoos joined in the debate and rainforest snakes hissed at surprised passersby; and finally, a view of the globe and state from an inter-planetary space station, where Queensland's ambitions for the space race in the proposed Cape York International Space Port, in the State's deep north, were noted - then transporting one back to 1988 Expo Queensland, just in time to purchase unique Queensland souvenirs from the Pavilion's 'Sunmap' Shop.
The $AUD 16 million dollar Pavilion also looked over the River Stage, and featured a white curved exterior, featuring the "Join the Spirit" logo of the Pavilion (as noted below), and a rotating information board of images of the more familiar symbols of State - flora and fauna - as well as the State Flag (as noted above). The popular Pavilion theme song 'Come, Join the Spirit!', was composed by famous locals Frank Millward and Carol Lloyd - who also composed the official theme song of World Expo '88 - 'Together, We'll Show the World."
The Pavilion is also well remembered for it's faux multi-level tropical rainforest foyer, which hosted the Expo Monorail.
.
Stamp Logo image Courtesy of the Gabriel Collection
Technical Details Fact Sheet - Official Queensland Pavilion World Expo 88 Pamphlet
Report of the Commissioner-General of Expo 88
on the Australian Government's Involvement in Expo '88 (1988),
Published by Office of the
Commissioner-General of World Expo '88
Showing Off: Queensland at World Expositions 1862-1988 (2004), Author Dr Judith McKay, Published by Central Queensland University Press and the
Queensland Museum
Queensland: Share the Spirit! Official Pavilion Pamphlet
The Gabriel CollectionCommissioner-General of World Expo '88
Showing Off: Queensland at World Expositions 1862-1988 (2004), Author Dr Judith McKay, Published by Central Queensland University Press and the
Queensland Museum
Queensland: Share the Spirit! Official Pavilion Pamphlet
World Expo '88 - The Official Souvenir Program (1988), Editor Andrew Cowell, Published by Australian Consolidated Press
Expo! an independent Review (1988), Written by Scott Jones, David Bray, Juanita Phillips, Published by Boolarong Publications
