If there ever was a store that made me feel more like a nerdy 12 year old again, it's Australian Geographic. Littered with fun odds and ends, me and my brother can easily spend an hour roaming up and down the aisles. This place is perfect for any budding scientist or explorer, and the toys on offer here manage to be both educational AND FUN. (I realize that I sound like a mom when I say that but it's true.) I love coming here for gifts and to peruse the various science kits on display. (The telescopes here are pretty boss as well.) ...This is also the store where I nearly bought a coin-sorter only to be conspiratory told by the staff ladies that the 5 and 10 cent slots don't work. (You gotta admire their honesty.) With a store handily located near the foodcourt, this place is well worth a gander when in the chermside megaplex. read more

Australian Geographic - Gift Shops Near Me - Chermside, QLD

Did you know that glow in the dark stars and planets are surprisingly a pain in the you know Yelping what? I didn't. Until I had to actually find some for decorating my 3 year olds room. Here in the Australian Geographic shop is where you can buy a pack of glow in the dark plastic planets and stars for under $30 (still a rip off if you ask me seeing their just pieces of plastic), and buy 2 packs I did. They also sell things you can buy your older kids like Create Your Own Ant Farm kits and hermit crab habitats and what they truly do excel at are the bubble machines. Great for kids parties, the toddlers and babies are drawn to bubbles for some weird reason. Another thing you can buy here which is brilliant for birthday parties is a rubberised bowling set with 10 pins and a ball. Very hardy... you're looking at just over $50 but you can get quite a lot of use out of it when the kids are bigger. What don't they sell her, my son likes the little squishy balls that feel terribly disgusting, slimy and gooey but aren't. I'm sure you can imagine, you can find a lot here, gifts, telescopes. Kids love the place and guess what... so do I. read more

There's a lot to love about the Australian Geographic. Obviously there's the magazines (probably the best subscriptions any parents can have) but the stores are also educational FUN for any ages. Probably what I love the most about this store is that you're encouraged to touch and play with almost everything. Which is handy because try and convince a kid they can't. There's so much to look at you could spend an hour in here easily. It can get pretty crazy at peak times, but that's all part of the experience. Plus, any toy you buy here is guaranteed to exercise a childs mind more than any video game in existence. read more