Lucia’s Tour of Wiggles HQ

Long and windy corridors are lined with memorabilia. Plaques, awards, photos, posters, and advertisements litter the beige walls. It feels more like a museum, harbouring over thirty years of memories. There are old sets (including the original, but worse for wear, Big Red Car), and shelves piled with awards (more than twenty of them), all reminding visitors that they are in the presence of entertainment royalty.

Between the walls sits a large television studio where The Wiggles make their programs, a recording studio where they make their albums, a hair and makeup department, a wardrobe department, and a props room packed floor to ceiling. There’s a section dedicated to oversized fruits and vegetables like coconuts and pumpkins. An old wooden puppet of OG Purple Wiggle Jeff Fatt sits on a dusty old road case; it looks ready for a cameo in a Child’s Play prequel alongside Chucky. A large stuffed horse is draped over a vintage Wiggles-branded jukebox. There’s an almost unlimited number of artificial roses bunched into milk crates — which I suspect are for Dorothy, whose diet consists solely of red petals.