Election 2023: Watch Lloyd Burr quiz ACT candidates aboard 'Big Pinky'

ACT leader David Seymour has unveiled his latest campaign weapon: it's called Big Pinky.

No, it's not a new policy or candidate - it's a bus. It hit the road for the first time with a load of fresh faces who want to be MPs. 

Like a kid at Christmas, Seymour with his new campaign bus.

"Let's check out Big Pinky."

Eager to get on board and show it off to his candidates.

"We didn't realise that Big Pinky had a back door."

He was in it, outside it, taking photos with it and making jokes about it.

"Big Pinky has created, along with the Barbie movie, a worldwide shortage of magenta toner," said Seymour.

It makes Big Pinky hard to miss, along with the top 20 candidates on the side.

"We have great people, great New Zealanders from all walks of life."

They include some pretty interesting ones. Four have already dropped out. One for comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany and another who sang about Jacinda Ardern "throwing you in a gulag". 

Seymour said he was confident there were no more skeletons in his candidates' closets. 

Given the party's released them into the wild, or the bus in this case, Newshub asked some of the candidates a number of questions.

Does Mike McCook have any skeletons to declare?

"Oh, I might have punched one or two people on the rugby field," he said.

What about Jake Curran?

"No, I have had a few tough losses with some of my footy team."

Has Anna Yallop said anything in the past that might come back to bite her?

"No, no, up until recently I haven't had social media, so no haven't got anything like that," she said. 

Does Mark Cameron reckon ACT is full of gun-toting anti-vaxxers? 

"No, I don't think so. And your subsequent question, will probably be am I a firearms owner ? Yes, I am."

Does Antonia Modkova have a gun? 

She said she did.

Newshub did uncover a bit of a theme though.

"I did work on a poultry farm for seven years," said Yallop.

"I have worked on a chicken farm," said McCook.

"On our property we have about 30 to 40 chickens," said Karen Chhour. 

Seymour's face and the colour pink is everywhere. He has a car called 'Tiny Pinky'. We've been on Big Pinky, the bus. In the South Island, ACT has another bus 'Little Pinky' and they even have an aeroplane. 

"Sadly the painting of an aeroplane is much more complex than a bus so there won't be a flying pinky," said Seymour. 

Embracing the colour pink, hoping his campaign is just as successful as the other pink campaign this year, the Barbie movie.