Step Inside the Stories You Love
Australia offers fans the chance to step inside the stories they love. Walk through film sets, explore iconic literary locations, and immerse yourself in the creativity that inspires our speculative worlds. This is your chance to turn fandom into a real-world experience, because in Australia, imagination lives everywhere.
Brisbane: A City of Stories
Start where imagination meets reality. Brisbane is a city of stories waiting to be lived.
- Walk the streets of the CBD that transformed into New York City for Thor: Ragnarok.
- Visit the parks that inspired Bluey, including Roma Street Parklands and New Farm Park.
- Explore Brisbane through its stories with Angela Slatter’s Verity Fassbinder series and the Death Works Trilogy set in the CBD and Boy Swallows Universe in the suburbs.
- Visit the parks that inspired Bluey, including Roma Street Parklands and New Farm Park.
- Immerse yourself in ideas at Queensland Museum, Sciencentre, and GOMA
Gold Coast: Dive into Blockbuster Magic
Just an hour away, the Gold Coast is Australia’s Hollywood, where fantasy meets the surf:
- Tour Village Roadshow Studios, filming home for Aquaman, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Elvis, and San Andreas.
- Stroll the golden sands of The Spit and Coolangatta, where The Chronicles of Narnia brought fantasy to life.
- Experience the thrill of movie magic at theme parks like Movie World.
Regional Queensland: Worlds Beyond
Queensland’s regions offer landscapes straight out of science fiction.
- Take a day trip to Tangalooma Island, filming location for Scooby-Doo and Ticket to Paradise.
- Explore Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest, where Godzilla x Kong unleashed its titanic battles.
- Discover prehistoric worlds at Winton’s Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.
The Rest of Australia: Iconic Journeys
Extend your trip to explore Australia’s legendary filming locations and literary landscapes:
- In Sydney, walk through sets from Star Wars Episodes II & III, Mission Impossible, The Great Gatsby, and Planet of the Apes, and visit the Powerhouse Museum.
- In Adelaide, explore the gothic streets featured in The Babadook.
- In Melbourne, dive into fandom history as the home of previous Aussiecons and vibrant arts culture.
- In Coober Pedy, experience the otherworldly desert that became Mad Max territory.
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