Vuly Thunder 2 Review (2026)

Who the Vuly Thunder 2 is for

Buyers who have decided that exposed coil springs are not going in their backyard but cannot reach the Springfree price. The Thunder 2 removes the coil spring for roughly A$700 less, and it does it with an engineered leaf-spring system rather than the elastic straps used at the cheaper end of the springless market.

Buyers who care about AS 4989:2015 specifically. Vuly is the only manufacturer in this roundup that publishes a compliance statement for the model in a place we could find and cite. If you have been trying to work out which trampolines actually claim the standard, that is a short list and this is on it.

Households with teenagers or adults using the trampoline — 150kg on the M and L is a high rating for a springless build. Read the size trap below first, because the two largest sizes are rated lower, not higher.

Buyers who want an Australian company designing for Australian conditions, with local warranty support and a local spare-parts supply behind a product that will sit in direct sun for a decade.

The specification

Until recently this page told you we did not know what held the Thunder 2's mat up, and that you should go and find out before comparing it against a Springfree. Vuly's own specification has now answered that, so here is the real thing.

The Thunder 2 is springless. It uses Vuly's patented Leafspring system — leaf springs mounted beneath the mat with a zero-contact edge design, and no traditional spring padding, because there is no coil spring at the perimeter to pad. Steel is double-galvanised and powder-coated, the enclosure uses flexible net poles with reinforced seams and a self-closing entry, and a safety skirt is included to stop children, pets and toys getting underneath. Assembly uses no nuts or bolts.

Maximum user weight is published, and it is two numbers: 150kg on the M and L, and 140kg on the XL and XXL. Read that again, because it is backwards from what anyone expects — the larger trampolines carry the lower rating.

Four sizes, all 2.88m in total height with a 1.91m net and the mat 91cm off the ground. Overall diameter runs 3.49m (M), 4.09m (L), 4.69m (XL) and 5.34m (XXL); mat diameter runs 2.55m, 3.15m, 3.75m and 4.25m. Vuly asks for a minimum two metres of clearance on every side, which is the number people forget to allow for.

Prices are Vuly's own, captured from their Australian storefront on 5 August 2026: A$1,399, A$1,599, A$1,799 and A$1,999 respectively, with free standard delivery. Professional installation is a separate A$259. Warranty is ten years on frame tubes and joiner poles, five years on the jump mat excluding the print, and one year on the safety net, net poles and leaf springs — with a three-year extension on those last three available for A$249, and half-price replacement parts for life if you buy from Vuly or an authorised reseller.

It is not stocked on Amazon Australia. We re-checked on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set and the brand does not appear in the results at all, so this page carries no affiliate link and we earn nothing from it.

What’s good

Removing the coil spring is the single most significant structural safety decision available in this category, and this is the cheapest engineered — as opposed to elasticated — way to get it that we found in the Australian market. The pinch hazard goes, the hard narrow object at the mat edge goes, and the spring pad that would normally be your first UV consumable is not there to perish.

The published AS 4989:2015 statement matters more than it looks on a page where every other row says "not verified by us". Compliance in this category is manufacturer-stated rather than independently certified in almost all cases, so the meaningful question a buyer can actually answer is whether the manufacturer states it at all and puts it somewhere you can read. Vuly does, on the product page, alongside EN 71-14:2018.

A published weight rating on a springless trampoline is rarer than it should be. Our top-ranked Springfree is rated 80kg and the Lifespan at rank seven publishes nothing at all. 150kg on the M and L puts this in genuine teenager-and-adult territory.

Ten years on the frame and half-price parts for life is a serious long-term ownership position, and it is the part of the Vuly proposition that survives contact with an Australian decade. Double-galvanised and powder-coated steel is the right specification for anywhere within reach of the coast, which is where most Australians live.

No nuts and bolts in the build. That sounds like marketing until you compare it against the Springfree above, where owners routinely report two people losing most of a day, and where the professional installation exists because the build is genuinely hard.

What’s genuinely bad

The safety net, the net poles and the leaf springs are warranted for one year. The frame gets ten. The leaf springs are the component this entire trampoline is designed around, and they carry the shortest term on the product. Vuly sells a three-year extension on exactly those three parts for A$249 — a fifth of the price of the M — and the clearest way to read that offer is as the manufacturer's own estimate of where the risk sits. Springfree, at roughly A$700 more, warrants every component for ten years, and that gap is a real part of what their premium buys.

The XL and XXL are rated 140kg where the M and L are rated 150kg. A buyer stepping up a size for a heavier teenager is stepping *down* in rating while paying more, and nothing in the way the sizes are presented would warn them. Dynamic load during a jump is several times static weight, so this is not a margin worth being casual about.

You cannot buy it through a marketplace. Vuly sells direct, so there is no Amazon returns window, no third-party dispute process and no Prime delivery on a bulky item you may need to send back. Delivery is quoted at 1–6 business days into Queensland and New South Wales but 9–13 into Western Australia and 10–14 into the Northern Territory, which is a real consideration for a December order.

The AS 4989:2015 statement is Vuly's own. It is published and checkable, which is more than anyone else here offers, but it is not an independent test result and we have not verified it. We are giving Vuly credit for stating it, not certifying it ourselves.

Leaf springs are not fibreglass composite rods. Both are a real improvement on a conventionally sprung trampoline and neither has an exposed coil spring, but they are different mechanisms with different fatigue behaviour, and the one-year warranty is the only hard datum any manufacturer has given us about how theirs ages.

Vuly's model naming changes between generations frequently enough that a review or forum thread more than a year or two old may be describing a different trampoline. Check the generation, not just the name.

AS 4989:2015 safety status

Vuly publishes an AS 4989:2015 compliance statement for the Thunder 2. Their product page carries an "Independently Certified" section stating the trampoline is certified to AS4989:2015 and to EN 71-14:2018, the European playground trampoline standard. We captured that on 5 August 2026 and it is the only such statement we located for any model in this roundup.

Be clear about what that is and is not. It is the manufacturer's claim, published where a buyer can read it. It is not an independent test result, and it is not our verification — we have not lab-tested anything and we never will. Our comparison table renders it as "compliance statement published" rather than "compliant" for exactly that reason. What it does tell you is that Vuly is prepared to make the claim in writing against a specific standard, which is a materially different position from the silence we found everywhere else.

The springless construction addresses the standard's central concern directly rather than by padding. AS 4989:2015 spends most of its length on padding requirements, enclosure protection and entrapment gaps around the springs and frame edge. A design with no coil spring at the perimeter has removed the hazard those clauses exist to manage, rather than covering it.

The check we would still make yourself, from the photographs before you order: how the self-closing entry actually closes. Our general advice on this site is that an entry which seals completely beats one that overlaps, and "self-closing" and "closes completely" are not the same claim. Look at it.

Verdict

This is the strongest specification sheet on this site, and we make nothing from telling you so. Springless construction, a published AS 4989:2015 statement, a 150kg rating and a ten-year frame warranty, from A$1,399 with free delivery — no other trampoline here answers all four of those questions, and the two that get closest cost A$700 to A$1,000 more.

Two things decide whether it is right for you. First, buy the size against the heaviest person who will use it rather than against your lawn, because the XL and XXL drop to 140kg. Second, look hard at the A$249 three-year extension on the net, poles and leaf springs before you dismiss it — the standard one-year term on the component the trampoline is built around is the one number here that does not match the rest of the sheet.

And accept that you are buying direct. There is no marketplace safety net behind this purchase, which is a genuine trade against a specification that is otherwise better than anything else we can show you.