Gruffalo Trunki
The Limited Edition Gruffalo Trunki is no longer being made by Turnki. However, you can still pick up a great second hand one from the places listed in this guide. Also, we outline exactly what to look for when choosing a Gruffalo Trunki so you can be sure you only buy a quality product.
We also show you how to turn a simple Trunki into you own custom Gruffalo Trunki.
Plus, to help you decide if you really want a Gruffalo Trunki for your little traveller, we talk about our own experience of using one.
Key features of the Gruffalo Trunki
The following table outlines the key features and specification of the Gruffalo Trunki.
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| Name Gruffalo Trunki |
| Casing Hard Shell Plastic |
| Storage Capacity 18 litres |
| Weight 1.7 kg |
| Dimensions (HxLxW)32x44x22 cm |
| Lock TypeTwist lock with a plastic key (kept on the strap) |
| Hand HoldsWhite plastic grips representing the horns of the Gruffalo |
| Age rating 3+ (up to 50kg) |
| Carry Straps (for Parents) Multi funtion strap to pull the Trunki or go over the shoulder |
What is the price of a Gruffalo Trunki
Price for a brand New Gruffalo Trunki
A brand new Gruffalo Trunki cost about £45.
While it is nearly impossible to find a brand new Gruffalo Trunki you can use this price to help assess the price of a second hand version.
Price for a second hand Gruffalo Trunki
The price of a second hand Gruffalo can range from as little as £10 right up to £35 plus postage.
Where can you buy a Gruffalo Trunki
As we said earlier, they are no longer producing the Gruffalo Trunki.
Therefore, you can’t buy a Gruffalo Trunki at either Amazon, Argos or even Trunki and need to look at second hand retailers.
The best place to find a Gruffalo Trunki right now is eBay.
But, you can also look at Gumtree and Facebook Market Place.
Key things to consider when buying a second hand Gruffalo Trunki
There is always an element of risk when buying a second hand suitcase and the Gruffalo Trunki is no exception.
To help ensure you only buy a quality second hand Gruffalo Trunki here are the key things you should consider, look at and ask teh seller before you buy.
- Is the lock mechanism working? Look on the pictures to check it isn’t obviously broken and also ask the seller.
- Is the lock key included?
- Does the listing have pictures? if not then don’t buy it.
- Can you see any cracks or obvious signs of damage on the Gruffalo Trunki?
- Do the pictures include the interior of the Gruffalo Trunki? If so then make sure the straps look okay.
- Ask the seller if the wheels still work okay, it won’t be much fun for your little one if they can’t whizz around the airport on their Gruffalo Trunki.
How to make your own Gruffalo Trunki
Now, rather than scour the second hand retailers for a Gruffalo Trunki and risk getting a duff one.
You could opt to create your own.
This is a simple technique that we have recommended before but it works really well.
Simply purchase a single colour Pink or Blue Trunki (for around £35) and then decorate it with Gruffalo Stickers and Transfers.
The following is an example we have mocked up to give you an idea. Granted, it doesn’t have the fun Gruffalo horn hand holds but hopefully your little one would still find it fun.
Here are some example sticker packs you could use to make your own customer Gruffalo Trunki.
- *DISCLAIMER* - You may receive this order in our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary of The Gruffalo packaging. All sticker designs remain the same it is only the packaging that has been updated to celebrate this Special Anniversary of The Gruffalo.
- 🐻 OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality Mega Sticker Pack, featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters and captions. We use the best materials to ensure that our stickers are wonderfully detailed and coloured, and with a fantastic glossy or sparkly finish
- 🤩 BIG SELECTION - Three different sticker types - including a big glossy A4 sticker sheet, foiled sticker sheet, and a bag of individual die-cut stickers
- 🎨 LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers and great for improving children's dexterity, coordination, and for encouraging craft play. Stickers can be used to decorate books, pencil cases, phones, tablets, toy boxes, furniture, and anything else you can think of! Can also be used or for creating fun scenes and displays
- 🥳 GIFTS AND PRESENTS - Makes a great birthday gift, Christmas present, or stocking filler. Whether it's a special occasion, a reward for good behaviour, or just a nice little gift - children love stickers!
- 🔄 REUSABLE STICKERS - The foiled stickers are reusable, acid-free, and do not tear from non-porous surfaces. Paper stickers are removable from non-porous surfaces
- OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality stickers, featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters. We use the best materials to ensure that our stickers are wonderfully detailed and coloured, and with a bright glossy finish.
- PARTY TIME - Includes six sheets of stickers per pack These compact sticker packs are designed for party bags and are great for children's parties, but are also great for special events as you get plenty of stickers per pack.
- WONDERFUL DESIGN - Six identical sheets of paper stickers, all in fantastic colourful designs and wonderfully detailed.
- LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers, and great for improving children's dexterity, coordination, and for encouraging craft play. Stickers can be used to decorate books or party bags, or for creating fun scenes and displays.
- DECORATION - Stickers can also be used on books and tablets, pencil cases, bikes and helmets, toy boxes, and anything else you can think of
- OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality foiled stickers featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters.
- COLOURFUL FUN - Includes colourful backing card or can be used to decorate books pencil cases bikes and helmets toy boxes and anything else you can think of!
- CRAFT FUN - Perfect activity for little fingers and great for improving children's dexterity coordination and for encouraging craft play.
- WONDERFUL GIFTS - Makes a great birthday gift, Christmas present, or party bag filler.
- REUSABLE STICKERS - Stickers are reusable and do not tear from non-porous surfaces.
- OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality Assortment Pack featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters and designs.
- BIG SELECTION - Three different sticker types - including a large sticker sheet foiled sticker sheet and a bag of individual die-cut stickers.
- LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers and great for improving children's dexterity coordination and for encouraging craft play Stickers can be used to decorate books or party bags or for creating fun scenes and displays.
- GIFTS AND PRESENTS - Makes a great birthday gift Christmas present or party bag filler! Whether it's a special occasion a reward for good behaviour or just a nice little gift, children love stickers!
- REUSABLE STICKERS - The foiled stickers are reusable acid-free and do not tear from non-porous surfaces Paper stickers are removable from non-porous surfaces
- OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality foiled reward stickers, featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters. We use the best materials to ensure that our stickers are wonderfully detailed and coloured, and with a fantastic sparkly foil finish.
- REWARDS WORK - Great for rewarding good behaviour and learning, either on a chart or as an instant badge!
- LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers, and great for improving children's dexterity, coordination, and for encouraging craft play. Stickers can be used for decoration or for creating fun scenes and displays.
- WONDERFUL DESIGN - Includes colourful backing card, and can be used to fill up reward charts or used to decorate books, pencil cases, phones, tablets, toy boxes, furniture, and anything else you can think of. Stickers are also easily removable if needed!
- REUSABLE STICKERS - Stickers are reusable, acid-free, and do not tear from non-porous surfaces.
- OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality Sticker Scene pack - Includes six pages of scenes and 3 pages of re-usable stickers, all featuring The Gruffalo and his friends!
- STICKER SCENE - Can be used to recreate favourite scenes from the book, or create brand new ones!
- LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers, and great for improving children's dexterity, coordination, and for encouraging craft play. Our Sticker Scenes are perfect for creating fun scenes, with the reusable stickers being easily removed and replaced.
- TRAVEL PACK - Carry-along pack that opens up to reveal various scenes. Great for a travel activity to keep your little ones happy on the journey!
- REUSABLE STICKERS - Stickers are reusable, acid-free, and do not tear from non-porous surfaces. The stickers can either be used with the backing scenes, or used to create whole new scenes on books, tablets, or anything else you can think of!
- 🐻 OFFICIAL PRODUCT - Official high-quality stickers featuring all of your favourite Gruffalo characters. We use the best materials to ensure that our stickers are wonderfully detailed and coloured, and with a bright glossy finish
- 🎉 PARTY TIME - Includes a total of 18 sheets of stickers per pack! These compact sticker packs are designed for party bags and are great for children's parties, but are also great for special events as you get plenty of stickers per pack
- 😍 WONDERFUL DESIGN - Eighteen identical sheets of paper stickers, all in fantastic colourful designs and wonderfully detailed
- 🎨 LEARNING AND CRAFTING - Perfect activity for little fingers and great for improving children's dexterity, coordination, and for encouraging craft play. Stickers can be used to decorate books or party bags, or for creating fun scenes and displays
- 🤩 DECORATION - Stickers can also be used on books and tablets, pencil cases, bikes and helmets, toy boxes and, anything else you can think of
- *DISCLAIMER* - You may receive this order in our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary of The Gruffalo packaging. All sticker designs remain the same it is only the packaging that has been updated to celebrate this Special Anniversary of The Gruffalo.
- 🐻 THE GRUFFALO - Large bundle pack of Gruffalo stickers, perfect for the happy little Gruffalo fan! With all your children’s favourite characters, this bumper pack of stickers has got you covered.
- GREAT SELECTION - A selection of two Foil Packs, our top-selling Mega Pack, and the fun interactive Sticker Scene, giving you hundreds of stickers all in one bundle.
- 🥳 PERFECT GIFT - Makes a great birthday gift, Christmas present, or stocking filler (if the stocking is big enough!). Plenty of choice in one convenient bundle
- 🔄 REUSABLE STICKERS - Foil stickers are reusable on any non-porous surfaces
Our experience and review with a Gruffalo Trunki
The Gruffalo must be one of the most well known kids stories in the UK today.
The two Travelbetter kids have grown up loving the story, and the sequel, and now doubt your kids are loving them as well.
In fact, Travelbetter Girl liked it so much that when it came to buying her a Trunki (quite a few years ago now) it was an obvious choice to get her a Gruffalo Trunki and we would recommend it for the Gruffalo fan or fans in your life.
We first purchased a Gruffalo Trunki for Travelbetter Girl back in 2014 to come with us on a trip to Florida and she has loved it ever since.
While there are reports that the Trunki shape can be a bit awkward with overhead lockers we have not had this problem ourselves whenever we have flown.
However, it is worth pointing out we have not used our Gruffalo Trunki on a budget airline and this tends to be where the size and shape becomes more of an issue.
During the five years we used our Gruffalo Trunki it has lasted very well and still shows no sign of damage or significant wear.
Plus, this includes continuous use as a ride on toy both at home and abroad.
We have always found the storage on our Gruffalo Trunki great and it has allowed us to pack a small blanket, a few toys, change of clothes and snack or three for the journey with ease.
Overall, we have been very happy with our Gruffalo Trunki suitcase and it gets a big thumbs up from the Travelbetter kids.
So, if you can get one second hand we strongly recommend you do.
Why did Trunki stop making the Gruffalo suitcase?
The Gruffalo Trunki was always marketed as a limited edition and so production was always due to end at some point.
Some websites, and Google Gemini, have linked the end of production of the Gruffalo Trunki with the loss of a court case between Trunki and Kiddee Case but there is no obvious link here. The court case centred on whether Kiddee Case had copied their designs for animals with horn ride on suitcases and the result was that they had not. You can read more about the court case in this BBC New article.
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