Koala emblems and popular culture

Koala emblems and popular culture deals with the uses which have been made of the image of the koala, such as coins, emblems, logos, mascots and in the naming of sports teams.

Australian emblems and logos

• The koala is the official fauna emblem of Queensland, Australia.^[1][2]
• The koala is the official fauna emblem for the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland.^[3]
• Along with the graceful tree frog, the koala is the official faunal emblem of Brisbane, Queensland.^[4]
• Rugby union team Queensland Reds has the koala as its logo.

United States mascots

• The
  Columbia College, a formerly women-only college in Columbia, South Carolina
  .
• The Koala is a student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego.
• Lumpy The Koala is a mascot for
  WWE Super Show-Down

In popular culture

• Blinky Bill is the koala star of several books, TV shows, a movie and games.
• Nutsy is Blinky's friend then adopted sister in several books, TV shows, a movie and games.
• Mrs. Koala is Blinky's mother in several books, TV shows, a movie.
• Bunyip Bluegum is a koala in The Magic Pudding.
• Buster Moon in Sing and its sequel.
• Nigel an eccentric British koala in the 2006
  animated film The Wild
  .
• The Australian version of the American Disney computer-animated film Zootopia has a koala as a newscaster character.
• South Korean boyband BTS collaborated with Line Friends and released a set of characters called BT21; one of these characters, created by Namjoon, is a light blue koala named Koya.

TV and films

• Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Moist Vessel" reveals that the entire universe of the Star Trek franchise is carried in the back of a giant cosmic koala.^[5]
• Qantas airlines used a koala who continually complains about the airline's reliability in a series of television commercials.
• An Australian children's show has animated characters headed by The Koala Brothers.
• Coojee Bear was the koala friend of Australian entertainer Rolf Harris in his 1960s UK Television shows
• In the animated series American Dad!, the character Reginald is a koala who was originally a homeless man that had his mind swapped with a koala in a CIA experiment.
• In the episode "Pranksters" of the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life, the tannoy at the airport suggests the name of the airline is called Koala Airlines.
• An airline of the same name was used in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
• The Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears features a koala character named Nom Nom.

Games

• Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge is a PC game with a koala as the main character.
• The Guru from
  dreamtime
  teacher, as well as one of the new recruited members of the Cooper Gang.
• Koala Kong appears as a boss in Crash Bandicoot and as a playable character in Crash Bash
  .
• The Pokémon Komala, introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon, is based on a koala.
• The Noboru Koara, introduced in Inazuma Eleven, is based on a koala.
• A petpet named Harris from Neopets is based on a koala.