Hamley's Australia: The Worlds Finest Toy Shop

Overview
Hamleys is a British multinational toy retailer one of the oldest and largest in the world,  owned by the Indian company Reliance retail. The Australia brand would be the first to introduce a top floor of their biggest stores called the "Hamley's Big Toy Room:. it features bigger handcrafted versions of vehicle toys, blocks and features the characters in costume such as Leap frog, the Laugh N Learn Puppy, the Teletubbies and even Humphrey Bear. Hamley's Australia has over 44 stores, with 8 of them having a Hamley's Toy Play Room.

With Hamley's Toy Play Room

 * Westfield Chermside, Chermside, Queensland Australia
 * 150,000 Square Feet (2 floors)
 * 30,000 Square feet (Toy Store)
 * 30,000 Square Feet (Hamley's Toy Playroom)
 * Westfield Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales Australia
 * 105,000 square feet (2 floors)
 * 52,500 sqaure feet
 * Pacific fair Shopping Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
 * 98,000 Square Feet


 * Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 * Eastlands Shopping Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
 * Westfield Marion, Oaklands Park, Adelaide Australia
 * Westfield Carousel, Cannington, Western Australia, Australia
 * Casuarina Square, Casuarina Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Hamley's Toy Play Room
Hamley's Toy Play Room is an area of the top floor of Hamley's Toy Shops in Australia. It expands at the exact same area as their Hamley's Toy Shop on the bottom floor. Hamley's Toy Play Room consists of 12 bigger versions of the most popular toys and brands in Australian history. Some of the ride on toys will not be abaliable in some locations with the Hamley's Toy Play Room

Hamley's Vroom-vroom race cars.
Boys and girls, start your engines and get ready to race your friends. There are seven different cars in total. Kids and their families can race each other in this fun toy. This race track features obstacles, and speedways to always challenge you to go faster, and think harder.

Giddy Up Horses
Based off of the UFREE Horse Action Pony, Ride on Toy, these custom made bigger toys are free for your little one to ride. Your child doesn't need to bounce up and down or rock his or her legs back and forth. On the horse's mane are five different modes of riding, walk, sitting trot, trot, Canter Gallop. To activate either one, first your child must lightly tap both sides of the horse and than push the mode of their choice. Your child can only choose one of five modes to choose from. Your child can stop the horse by gently pulling the reigns and releasing them. They can simply restart their horse lightly taping on the horse to make it walk, or trot, or perform the sitting trot. These horses can really walk, make clip clop noises and whinny due to a system that allows toys to walk automatically, and a noise box that activates whenever a child rides it.. There are real reigns to hold, and real helmets for your child to wear. also has an adjuster just so you can adjust how high or low your horse is, and along with how big are the hooves and legs. There are four levels of adjustment. The first level is small height, and thin legs. The second level is slightly high, or their legs are la little thicker. In level three, the horse body is higher, or their legs and hooves are even thicker. Finally in level four, it reaches the maximum height of a normal horse, or their legs are the thickness of a Clydesdale horse. Also you don;t have to worry about your child getting lost, there is a 80’ wide x 200’ long and 60’ wide by 120’ long riding arena built just for this special toy. There is no time limit, but only four horses can be on at the same time.

Drive Along Bus.
The Drive Along Bus, a derivable giant toy bus. You don't need a license to drive it. There is a push throttle to push the bus forward, and pull throttle to stop the bus or to make it go backwards. This bus can fit up the 10 passengers. Once your in the bus, your given a schedule to pick a select number of passengers who have got their Hamley's Beep, Beep Bus tickets in an area called "Hamley's Neighbourhood". You are also given your own bus drivers cap. You have a time limit of 45 minutes to complete all your tasks. If you can do so on time, than you'll get rewarded with the official Hamley's Bus Badge. If you manage to complete all your tasks but late, you don't get the badge, but you do get another chance to try again after waiting for 15 minutes.

The Hamley's Express
Chuff-chuff, choo choo! Grab your tickets and all aboard this real life working steam train. In the far corner of the playroom you'll find a working steam train that takes you are your child around the play room and through the history of Australia, from 1901 all the way up until current history/. this train is made up of Pendennis Castle steam engine, and three  passenger carriages. During certain times of year, Humphrey Bear will take a ride on this train in the passenger carriages or in the steam engine driving the train. The train ride will take about 35 minutes from start to finish. if you have a special platinum Hamley's Chuffer ticket, you can ride in the cab of the steam train. You'll be given your own train drivers cap, gloves, and scarf.