Kiddy Rides Australia

Kiddy Rides Australia**,** a division of Merchandising Novelties Pty Ltd, was established in 1962. Kiddy Rides were both Manufacturers and Operators of coin operated Children’s Rides. As their manufacturing team grows in knowledge and strength, so to sales of both their Licensed Character rides that are exclusive to ‘K.R.A’ (eg: "Humphrey.B.Bear" & soon "Fat Cat"), and our very popular generic rides. Each ride has been either manufactured or converted to suit Australian regulations by their highly trained technicians and all rides conform to the AS3000, AS3002, AS3100 electrical standards and the AS3533 standard for amusement ride devices. Kiddy Rides Australia are currently operating in over 50 Shopping Centres’ throughout the state, and have recently appointed an agent for the North West region. A Public Liability Insurance policy to the value of $20,000,000 is in place and they have an unblemished safety record for over thirty years of operation. Kiddy Rides Australia were situated at 152 Francisco Street, Belmont, Western Australia. The premises are self-owned and the fully serviced block consists of buildings containing 100m2 of office space, 700m2 of fully equipped workshop and storage areas incorporating their own complete, professional spray painting booth and welding facilities. Kiddy Rides Australia currently have the capabilities to manufacture 4 new kiddy rides per week sold at an average price of $7,000/ride, whilst continually maintaining replacing and upgrading existing rides in our own operation. Machines for our own operation are not restricted to their own manufactured rides, they are also selected from 18 of the finest manufacturers in the world from 10 different countries. Kiddy rides Australia has operated other types of amusement devices such as Photo Machines; Video Machines; and Redemption Machines, and at one time had 9 Leisure Centre’s. Kiddy Rides Australia provide children’s rides to the most prominent locations in Western Australia, which are visited on a daily basis to service and clean their rides. Since 2005, Ride On! Entertainment purchases the operations of the company. Ride On will look forward to working with Barry and Jo Ann Wigley and their dedicated team to use the resources of the company to further develop this business in Western Australia. As of right now, most of their classic carousels are now converted to the small Lo-Boy to make moving and servicing the carousels much easier. This also helps the problem that if someone's trying to fit a carousel into the building, they will either take the roof off or take the ceiling apart. The Lo-Boy eliminates that issue.

## Rides

### Manufactured

#### Vehicles

Barney Fun Car (2001)Dinosaur Park 4WD4WD ExplorerHot Dog Hot RodHumphrey Bear Hot Rod (1999/2000)JeeparooKoala KlubLil' Mack TruckOzzie Bush JeepSafari Ranger 4WDStitches the Bear AmbulanceToy Town Fire Van (Fireman Dan)Toy Town Milk Van (unknown if it exists or not)Toy Town Police Van (Prisoner Pete)Toy Town Postie Van (Postman Sam)Toy Town School Bus (Silly Billy) (1999)Vintage Hot Rod
### Carousels

Kidz Karousel (1990s)Aussie-Go-Round (2001)Water World (2003)Rescue (2003)Andy Pandy (2003)Play School (2004)Thomas & Friends (2005)Hi-5 (2005)The Wiggles (2006)Jasper the Steam Engine (2007)
### Refurbished/Modified

* Hot Rod (Amutec Turbo Car)
* Humphrey Bear Car (not a hot rod) (Whittaker Bros unknown car but figure manufactured by KRA)
* The Wiggles (Amutec The Wiggles Big Red Car; despite the fact the sign on the back says manufactured and copyrighted by KRA)
* Toytown Fire Van (Possibly a Whittaker Bros Post Van)
* Toytown Police Van (Whittaker Bros Police Van)
* Toytown Postie Van (Whittaker Bros Post Van)
* Toytown School Bus (Whittaker Bros School Bus)