Student ⇒ video games ⇒ webisodes ⇒ funding = assault on mainstream television. The head was bought online from the US, and works just fine.
Cooked up during a screen production course at Flinders University in Adelaide as a bit of a joke, Wastelander Panda is the brainchild of Victoria Cocks and Marcus McKenzie, who then approached Kirsty Stark and Vivyan Madigan at Epic Films to produce their television series about a machete-wielding panda.