1-4 Morrinsville Painted Cows (30) Stratford Glockenspiel Clock Tower (29) Clapham Clock Museum, Whangarei Fred & Myrtle's Paua Shell House
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5-8 Mrs Chippy Monument, Karori Opossum World, Napier (9) Carterton Stonehenge The Tiakitahuna Rocket (18)
aug 19, 2025, 12:11 am • 22 1 • view
I’m surprised to learn that Opossum world is still a thing and that anyone regards the Tiakitahuna Rocket as anything other than a large signpost of a major T-Junction.
aug 20, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
I dunno. The Stonehenge looks pretty exciting. Maybe if they'd employed some artists rather than the local concreter for design would have been better.
aug 19, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
It didn't place in the top 32 which meant it had too much whelm
aug 19, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
That's a relief. There's hope for the place. Australian tourism hasn't recovered from Pissweak World. youtu.be/75O1ctUfR0I
aug 19, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
Actual Stonehenge is excitement underwhelming so a fake one had no chance
aug 20, 2025, 6:53 am • 3 0 • view
Damn.
aug 20, 2025, 8:00 am • 0 0 • view
9-12 Red Post, Culverden (2) Moeraki Boulders (32) The Wairoa Lighthouse Square Kauri Tree
aug 19, 2025, 1:21 am • 18 1 • view
13-16 Slope Point, the Catlins Dargaville Stump (14) Castle Pamela, Tirau Civic House Nelson (23)
aug 19, 2025, 1:21 am • 13 1 • view
There's a similarly attractive monument in the Upper Hunter Valley, where a poorly made wooden Coal Truck is mounted atop a significant stump. I'd share an image, but geolocators make this inadvisable.
aug 19, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
17-20 Fantasy Cave, Dannevirke Dunedin Teeth Sculpture Deka Sign, Huntly (5) LOVETAUPO sign (24)
aug 19, 2025, 1:21 am • 13 1 • view
21-24 Dollyworld, Balclutha (25) New Plymouth Wind Wand L & P Bottle, Paeroa Tawa Bucket Tree (6)
aug 19, 2025, 2:42 am • 15 1 • view
25-28 Toothbrush Fence, Te Pahu (4) Tree Church, Ohaupo Museum of Natural Mystery, Dunedin Statue of Mary, Paraparaumu (21)
aug 19, 2025, 2:42 am • 14 1 • view
29-32 (half-way through) Lake Wanaka Tree (31) Tui Brewery Mangatainoka Mosgiel Hollywood Sign (3) Longest place name sign
aug 19, 2025, 2:42 am • 15 1 • view
Some very large questions for me. Dunedin giant teeth: why? Is this the best we’ve got? And the face on the Mary statue?!
aug 19, 2025, 8:11 am • 3 0 • view
"Underwhelming"
aug 19, 2025, 8:12 am • 2 0 • view
I hate those teeth so much.
aug 19, 2025, 8:22 am • 2 0 • view
they are pretty rough
aug 19, 2025, 8:43 am • 2 0 • view
33-36 Beetle Mania, Cromwell (22) The Whale Fossil & Lookout at Milburn Corrugated shepherd, Tirau (27) Sheepworld, Warkworth
aug 19, 2025, 9:30 pm • 10 1 • view
37-40 Woodville Organ Museum (12) Chocolate museum in Napier Wellington Cable Car Teapot Land, Owaka (20)
aug 19, 2025, 9:30 pm • 11 1 • view
Harsh on the Moeraki Boulders, I found them fascinating. The rest I have no recollection of so must have been good!
aug 20, 2025, 7:34 am • 3 0 • view
41-44 Ohakune Parsnip (and other veg figures) (10) Te Awamatu Space Centre Hawera Water Tower Kumara Box, Dargaville (17)
aug 20, 2025, 12:17 am • 8 1 • view
It's worth noting that the first iteration of the Wind Wand was *too* exciting: the first storm that hit made the wand vibrate at a frequency that blew off the top half of the globe. It looked like a martini glass on a stick.
aug 19, 2025, 3:17 am • 4 0 • view
I vaguely remember something about that. Anyway it wasn't nearly underwhelming enough to feature high in the poll!
aug 19, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I reckon that underwhelming Big Things is very much a Kiwi trait - can't be seen bragging about something too stupendous, after all. Wouldn't be proper. 🫢
aug 19, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I love some of these so much - the parsnip is definitely my favourite creepy big thing - he is still to appear on the threa
aug 19, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Ooh, the Bucket Tree! Went to a very fancy restaurant beside that imaginatively called the Bucket Tree Restaurant. Well, it seemed fancy to me in 1986.
aug 19, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I can find the Bucket Tree Restaurant mentioned in council archives but it doesn't look like it has been active for a while. Where else did you go in NZ?
aug 19, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I lived there for the first 23 years of my life, so a lot of places! Went to the Bucket Tree Restaurant while attending the regional final of a one-act play festival with the New Plymouth Little Theatre team, who were performing Pinter's A Touch of Alaska.
aug 20, 2025, 5:50 am • 2 0 • view
Right! I spent the first 33 years of my life in England so sort of reverse lives going on!
aug 20, 2025, 8:14 am • 1 0 • view
Swapsies!
aug 20, 2025, 8:25 am • 0 0 • view
Yay for Huntly!
aug 19, 2025, 3:09 am • 2 0 • view
Yes indeed, quite worth the day trip!
aug 19, 2025, 7:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Awww, I love the Moeraki boulders.
aug 19, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
They did have a bit too much whelm to compete for the big prize
aug 19, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
If you’ve got the Moeraki Boulders then you’ve got to also include the Punakaiki Pancakes, surely?
aug 20, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
But in big seas there are salt-water spumes and underground rumblings that you can feel through your feet! Much whelm, very wow.
aug 20, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
(I know. I think they’re amazing!) 🤩
aug 20, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I STOPPED TO PHOTO THE RED POST AFTER I NOMINATED IT. BUT LOST THE PHOTO. And haven't since, because Culverden.
aug 19, 2025, 10:10 am • 3 0 • view
I'm sure it's still there if you want to plan your holidays around it!
aug 19, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Unbelievable TripAdvisor has only three things and The Red Post is not mentioned. This isa travesty!
aug 19, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
And scanning other search results, well I'm not in the market for a new car and if I were, maybe a more modern car than the Escorts advertised
aug 19, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
If it is returning escorts, maybe you need to check your search history
aug 19, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve always wondered wtf about opossum world - we have possums, not opossums, in NZ
aug 20, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I loved the Paua Shell house. So glad I got to see the real place before they removed it.
aug 20, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view