#Bluey suburban parks

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The park in “Seesaw”: Orleigh Park

I’d initially overlooked this episode, but I rewatched it and we’re in another distinct park!

In this one Dad gets the kids all working together to defeat him/lift him on the seesaw (so little Pompom saves the day.)

Note we’re on the waterfront with what look like a mix of midrise multifamily buildings on the other side of the river.

There’s a good collection of different equipment in this park. There are some buildings in the park (likely washrooms), some shade protectors, log barriers, benches and tables…

There’s also a very distinctive frog-themed slide integrated into a concrete structure. That frog slide structure is the key to locating this park. You can see it by the tree in this shot.

Here’s a pic of the real frog slide, the book-themed murals/art on the structure, and a seesaw. This is Orleigh Park.

The real Orleigh Park is in the West End part of Brisbane, and is accessible by transit, so theoretically Bluey’s family (and Pompom’s Mum) could have travelled here with the children using transit. The CityCat river ferry also serves this park.

Nice episode & a nice park. One last pic, here’s a real life view of across-the-river.

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Three things in Pirate Park

In S1E27’s “Pirates”, Bluey and Bingo are on a playdate with a little multicoloured dog named Missy. Dad and Mum are chaperoning a visit to a park; the kids want to play “Pirates” and a large hammock swing serves as the ship; Dad shakes the swing to make waves, a storm, a whale attack, etc.

Bluey and Bingo like this, but Missy isn’t initially a fan of this game, but finds a way to be brave and power through the challenge.

The park they’re in looks like a small suburban park in a newer community with a private lake. It might be adjacent to a river (like the park in “Spy Game”) but it is hard to tell. I’ll consider it a distinct park, call it “Pirate Park”.

Note there are some large homes backing onto the water.

The playground has a low-key nautical theme and has a large structure with some rubberized blue surface to represent water underneath, it could serve/be played with as a bridge or a boat.

Using playground equipment in a way not intended

(This happens occasionally in “Bluey”. I don’t want to be a party pooper but will comment on it anyway.)

The kids put a small amount of rocks on the hammock swing to represent treasure. I remember doing things like this when I was little but generally it’s not a good idea because the kids could get hurt bouncing with these rocks on there.

Sometimes parks have posted rules.

This is typical of kids, but Mum and Dad don’t stop them.

Some other ways to misuse equipment (just sayin’)

Climb up the slide part of a slide (I don’t think I’ve seen this in an episode yet)

Twist swings to spin occupant ‘round and ‘round. (See “Daddy Putdown” where Dad does this in the backyard, I think it happens in the Turtleboy episode too.)

Overcoming something you don’t like

Missy isn’t the only one who powers through a mild thing-she-doesn’t-like in this episode.

This is a (season one) instance where Dad is kind of initially being embarrassed “committing to the bit” and being silly/embarrassing in front of strangers (because he’s involved in a play activity where he has to be silly.) Examples of this are very rare, I think this may be only one of a small handful of times where this has happened.

Contrast this to “Dance Mode” in season two. Usually Dad is “all in” when it comes to a game, be it being a robot or a claw game or being frozen, or whatever, even out in public.

Note that at the end of the episode, Mum gives him kudos for not being worried about what other people think. This must have stuck with Dad.

Kids have no mass

Various episodes of “Bluey” have demonstrated it is incredibly easy to loft the kids into the air, fling them around, hold them to the ceiling, etc. (unless they’re pretending they’re super heavy) They have practically no mass.

Dad can fling the kids up into the air very easily using the hammock swing.

In conclusion

Yay! Nice little episode. Sort of a similar-but different experience for Missy that Pom-pom had with the seesaw.

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Coco’s Family Car

Coco the poodle is part of a big family, the Bluey wiki on fandom.com says she has eight older siblings.

They get around in this SUV, which was in the background in “Explorers”, and was also in the parking lot in “TV Shop”.

Probably something like a GMC Suburban? Hard to tell, maybe we’ll get to see it again sometime.