Huge pink rabbits need a home They've mystified and tantalised Brisbane residents for five weeks but the Bunnies' reign over Brisbane is coming to an end. The bright pink sculptures began popping up around the River City in the lead up to the Brisbane Festival and have reached what seems like plague proportions in some parts of town. "The other day one appeared down at South Bank, and a grown man just walked by, went up and hugged it," artistic director Noel Staunton said. He put his head on it and his hands around its tummy, then walked off. It's the perfect reaction for Stanton, who commissioned street artist Stormie Mills to create the four-metre high pieces for a festival-wide installation project because he liked the warmth and approachability of the bunny shape. "They've attracted a lot of dialogue, a lot of people talking and asking why and we don't explain why," he said. That's the great thing about them - they are basically what everybody sees in them. Even as the bunnies trend on social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram Staunton still won't reveal exactly how many were created, claiming not to know himself. He said thoughts had turned to the bunnies' future with the festival over after Saturday night's RiverFire event. "They will all be going to good homes," he said. We want to give some of them to the city and the state, and they may have a place where they'd like to put them. He said that Perth was also interested in having its own 'wascally wabbit.' Of course that's where Stormie Mills lives, so we'd be happy to oblige the city of Perth. Staunton said there had been some interest from private collectors and he would retain one for the Brisbane Festival office. "I've always kept bits of each festival, so we have some of the lanterns from last year, we had the milk crate men from 2010 and we'll have a bunny from this year," he said. And when the new artistic director comes along, he or she will banish everything! 2014 will be Staunton's last year as artistic director, and he's thinking big. He's already announced a partnership with Opera Queensland to stage the Australian premiere of Phillip Glass' work about Walt Disney, The Perfect American. "It'll be the operatic sensation of the year in the country," he said. We'll also have one of the world's most famous contemporary dancers here... and we're planning to have some large-scale indigenous works. The 2013 Brisbane Festival looks set to have broken attendance records, with box office sales up an average of 30 per cent on last year and the Santos GLNG City of Lights display at South Bank attracting 400,000 people over three weeks. But everybody has to have a little break before we start to get back on the horse again. Poll: Where should the Brisbane Festival's pink bunnies be permanently placed now the festival is over? Inside the Gallery of Modern Art Submerged in the water of South Bank's fake beach Next to the infamous Squash sign off Gympie Road Next to Wally outside Suncorp Stadium On the speaker's green at State Parliament On top of the old mill at Spring Hill Providing shade at King George Square On one of the Seven wheel's seats In the chairman's seat at the Brisbane Lions Somewhere else (please add in the comments below) Total votes: 44. Poll closes in 21 hours.