And not
those kind of toys. I mean the ones that you can shop for openly, bring home proudly, and play with out in the open air.
When you are a kid, every toy shop is magic, and you want to pay with everything. When you're a teenager, you're too cool for toys, and you are careful not to seem interested. When you get older, and past that painful stage, you get to play again...and with a bit of luck you've got enough money to buy fancier toys.
Don't laugh.
Camera Electronic has been in business over 40 years on just that basis, as have many of the car agencies, hobby shops, and hifi stores. And I can assure you that the staff are all big kids and aren't ashamed to admit it - they play with photographic toys all day. And now the CE Staff at
Wanderlust are going to help you to do the same thing. The two biggest kids in the place are Howard and Saul Frank. They wanted to be the cool kids in the shot:
But I reckon the heading image is a better one of them because they really are smiling and welcoming - this is their third shop in Perth and they're rightfully proud of it.
The front desk on Friday was manned by Ricardo - who has a bank of computer screen in front of him all set to go blank at the critical moment. Anyone in retail or an office environment knows exactly what I mean. To his credit he can maintain a steady grin even while beating out the flames with a wet blanket.
I asked Thomas to stand in the window in front of the drone dummy display to see if I could get a little graphic excitement going.
There was a long shelf of modern drones there - and apparently even more are arriving this week - and he might have his hands full demonstrating and explaining. There's a drone cage in the centre of the floor - that big black net cube you see between Howard and Saul - and they may be able to demonstrate the stock in there.
And the last person I saw was rather intense and quiet - I'm not sure if it's one of the staff or a family member, but I nodded as I went by. It pays to be polite.