ABC Kids · 2018 to now · drawn in Brisbane, from Brisbane
The Heelers’ house is drawn on a Brisbane Queenslander: high-set on stumps, with a deep veranda, in front of the city skyline. The house has no address. The parks, the river and the city around it are real, and you can go to every one.
Pass the Parcel
Every place inside this parcel is a real Brisbane place drawn into the show. Queensland’s tourism site sends you to Wynnum to play the game itself.
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281 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton · Wed–Sun · closed Mon and Tue · allow 1–2 hours · season to 3 February 2028
The life-size attraction at Northshore Pavilion, where you go into the Heelers’ home to help look for Floppy. Afternoon tickets are cheaper, and a family pass bundles four.
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Ball in hand. Bowl at the wall.
The park sets the scene for Cricket. The rebound wall and basketball courts from the episode are here, now wrapped in a permanent mural, That’s What Cricket’s About, Kid!
The mural is the first in a series of murals around the world from BBC Studios’ Play The Bluey Way campaign.
Brisbane Kids says the episode copies the park down to the toilet block with the sloping roof. Queensland’s tourism site also links the park with the crocodile-dodging of Shadowlands.
A public park with the rebound wall and courts. Parking nearby is limited; the 382 bus stops right outside. Benjamina Place Park, from Turtleboy, is 1.7 km away.
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David McCormack · Bandit
Melanie Zanetti · Chilli
Bluey is animated in-house at Ludo Studio in Fortitude Valley, where about 50 people work on it. Art director Costa Kassab draws its locations from real Brisbane places, and creator Joe Brumm chooses which ones.
Bluey premiered on ABC Kids on 1 October 2018, with 26 episodes airing daily through that October.
The show’s houses are drawn on Brisbane’s typical Queenslanders: high-set suburban homes with verandas, set against Brisbane skylines. Queensland’s tourism site says no one can be sure where the Heelers live, and points to The Gap, a neighbourhood of Queensland homes similar to theirs. In Pass the Parcel, the party invitation is addressed to The Gap.
In 2019 ABC augmented-reality specialist Nathan Bazley spotted the Story Bridge in the background of an episode and used it to guess the Heelers’ suburb: Norman Park. Another fan read the bridge differently, which would put the family elsewhere; the makers confirmed neither.
There is no house to visit. Queensland’s tourism site suggests The Gap for streets of homes like it; walk them and leave the real houses to the people who live in them.
267 Grey Street, South Brisbane
143 rooms on Grey Street with a rooftop infinity pool, a short walk from Streets Beach, the Queensland Museum and the river.
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Northshore Hamilton
The council suggests catching a CityCat to Northshore to visit Bluey’s World. Bluey’s World opened at Northshore Pavilion in Hamilton on 7 November 2024: an original story with settings from the series built at life size on a 4,000-square-metre site.
Visitors go into the Heelers’ home to help Bluey and Bingo look for Bingo’s toy, Floppy.
Northshore Pavilion, Hamilton
The shop in the Neighbourhood at Bluey’s World, beside the Heelers’ home.
Plan a visit11 places you can visit. They are the real places the show’s drawings are based on, not filming locations: Bluey is animated. The Heeler house has no address, so it is not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A small suburban park with a playground and a shade sail. Free and open; bring a hat.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park with the rebound wall and courts. Parking nearby is limited; the 382 bus stops right outside.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A council library, free to walk into in opening hours, with a café and a playground close by.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A free public lookout at the top of Mount Coot-tha. The viewing telescopes take coins.
The Gap and the west · Off Benjamina Place, The Gap
Bingo and Dougie play here in Turtleboy.
A small suburban park with a playground and a shade sail. Free and open; bring a hat.
The Gap and the west · The Gap, about 20 minutes from the city
The park sets the scene for Cricket.
A public park with the rebound wall and courts. Parking nearby is limited; the 382 bus stops right outside.
The Gap and the west · 87 Amarina Avenue, Ashgrove
The library is the backdrop for Promises, with a café and a playground nearby.
A council library, free to walk into in opening hours, with a café and a playground close by.
The Gap and the west · Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mount Coot-tha
In The Sign, episode 49 of season 3, which runs 28 minutes, Bluey finds a lucky coin and puts it in a public lookout telescope.
A free public lookout at the top of Mount Coot-tha. The viewing telescopes take coins.
Stay
A hotel a short walk from Streets Beach and the river.
267 Grey Street, South Brisbane
143 rooms on Grey Street with a rooftop infinity pool, a short walk from Streets Beach, the Queensland Museum and the river.
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Bluey’s World at Northshore, plus marketplace cruises and city tours.
281 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton · Wed–Sun · closed Mon and Tue · allow 1–2 hours · season to 3 February 2028
The life-size attraction at Northshore Pavilion, where you go into the Heelers’ home to help look for Floppy. Afternoon tickets are cheaper, and a family pass bundles four.
Book ticketsBrisbane
Live marketplace results for cruises on the Brisbane River, past New Farm Park, the Story Bridge and South Bank. None is about the show; check each route.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare cruisesBrisbane
Live marketplace results for city tours, many with a stop at the Mount Coot-tha lookout. Check what each includes.
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Take it home
The gift shop at Bluey’s World.
Northshore Pavilion, Hamilton
The shop in the Neighbourhood at Bluey’s World, beside the Heelers’ home.
Plan a visitDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
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No real address: a drawn Queenslander somewhere in Brisbane
Bluey premieres on ABC Kids, made by Ludo Studio in Brisbane.
The Heeler house is drawn as a high-set Queenslander with verandas, against a Brisbane skyline.
Off Benjamina Place, The Gap
Bingo and Dougie play at Benjamina Place Park.
The Gap, about 20 minutes from the city
The backyard test match plays out at Wittonga Park, rebound wall and all.
A permanent mural wraps the rebound wall and courts from the episode.
87 Amarina Avenue, Ashgrove
Ashgrove Library is the backdrop, with a café and a playground nearby.
Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mount Coot-tha
Bluey puts a lucky coin in a lookout telescope; fans are sent to Mount Coot-tha to do the same.
Brunswick Street, New Farm, on the river
Bingo practises ballet in the New Farm Park rotunda.
Hill End Terrace, West End
The giant frog slide with the pink tongue appears.
Clem Jones Promenade, South Bank
A day out at South Bank and Streets Beach, and one ice cream each.
Queen Street, Brisbane city centre
Bingo picks a busy shopping centre to start dancing; Queensland points fans to Queen Street Mall.
Bradfield Highway, between Kangaroo Point and Fortitude Valley
A fan reads the Story Bridge in the background as a clue to where the Heelers live.
Northshore Pavilion, 281 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton
A life-size attraction opens at Northshore, with the Heelers’ home inside.
The Esplanade, Wynnum, on Moreton Bay
Queensland’s tourism site names the Whale Park at Wynnum as the place for a game of Pass the Parcel.
