Lifespan Kids 12ft Hyperjump 3 Springless Review (2026)

Who the Lifespan Kids 12ft Hyperjump 3 Springless is for

Families who have read the springless argument, agree with it, and cannot justify A$1,699. Until recently that buyer had nowhere to go. This is the cheapest route into the design we found in the Australian market.

Households buying their first proper backyard trampoline with a budget between about A$500 and A$700, who want a size their children will not outgrow in three years.

Buyers who want an Australian brand with local warranty support and the Amazon returns process sitting behind it as a second backstop.

The specification

Listed on Amazon Australia as the "LIFESPAN KIDS 12ft Hyperjump 3 Springless Trampoline Set Enclosed Outdoor Play Equipment" at A$571.47 with free delivery. We confirmed that on 4 August 2026 with the delivery address set to an Australian postcode.

A 12ft round with an enclosure and no exposed coil springs at the edge of the jumping surface. Both the Amazon listing and Lifespan's own page state that heavy-duty elastic straps replace the springs — so it is genuinely springless, but by the cheapest of the three methods used on this site. Model TR12HJ3SET-SL, made by Global Fitness & Leisure Pty Ltd.

Maximum user weight is 125kg. That figure is on Lifespan's own product page and not on the Amazon listing, which is why this review previously said it was unpublished. It is the lowest rating of any 12ft here — Plum's sprung 12ft round is rated 150kg.

The frame is double-galvanised steel in 1.5mm tubing, galvanised inside as well as out, then black powder-coated. Padding is PVC foam; the net is black PE with a fibreglass ring; every component is UV-stabilised. A step ladder with flat rungs is included, and the patented "Smart Feet" spread the load on uneven ground. The enclosure poles arch away from the jumping area rather than standing vertically beside it.

Dimensions: 3.66m frame diameter, 3.13m of actual jumping area, 3.97m overall width, 0.9m frame height, a 1.83m enclosure and 2.73m total height. Lifespan ask for a 2m safety perimeter. Minimum age is 3 years — noticeably lower than Plum's 6.

Warranty is ten years against rust on the frame and ten years on the frame structure against warping, one year on the jumping mat, and twelve months on parts replacement. Note where the elastic straps fall in that list.

Certification published is EN 71-1:2014, EN 71-2:2011+A1:2014 and EN 71-14:2014+A1:2017, under a heading reading "Passes International Standards". AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned on the page.

A$571.47 on Amazon Australia with free delivery, confirmed 4 August 2026 with the delivery address set to an Australian postcode. Lifespan sell the identical SKU on their own storefront for A$639.00 against an RRP of A$1,099.00 — so Amazon is about A$68 cheaper, and it is the route with a returns process behind it.

Lifespan Kids is an established Australian children's play equipment brand rather than an importer, so there is a local warranty operation behind it, with showrooms and click-and-collect in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

What’s good

The price-to-design ratio is the story here. Springless construction removes the pinch hazard and removes the hard, narrow object at the mat edge — the two things AS 4989:2015 spends most of its padding and enclosure requirements managing. That used to start at around A$1,700. At A$571.47 it is available to a completely different buyer.

Twelve feet is the right size, and it is easy to underrate how much that matters. A 10ft round is comfortably outgrown by about age ten; a 12ft carries into the early teens. Roughly doubling the years of use is worth more than the price difference between the two sizes.

Being on Amazon Australia with free delivery gives you an ordinary returns and dispute process, which is worth real money on a bulky item that might arrive damaged.

Local warranty support. A warranty you can actually claim, against a company that still exists, is not a given in this price band.

What’s genuinely bad

The springless system here is heavy-duty elastic straps, and that is the cheapest of the three approaches on this site. The listing states it plainly. Springfree uses fibreglass composite rods; Vuly's Thunder 2 uses leaf springs; this uses elastic. All three remove the coil spring, which is the point — but elastic loses tension with age and Australian ultraviolet accelerates that, and on a trampoline whose entire proposition is "no springs", how the tensioning element ages is the product rather than a detail of it.

The entry is an overlapping flap, and Lifespan say so themselves: the Smart Zipless Entry is "a convenient zipless flap. The overlapping net is held tight and secure with tension." Our own buying guide argues that an entry which closes completely beats one that overlaps, and the A$476 Everfit at the bottom of our roundup has a double-lock zip-and-clip. This is the one place where convenience appears to have won a design decision that safety should have won, and it is worth looking at in the photographs before you buy.

The jumping mat carries one year of warranty and parts twelve months, against ten years on the frame. The frame is galvanised inside and out and guaranteed against both rust and warping for a decade, which is genuinely good — but nobody buys this trampoline worried about the frame. The elastic straps that define the entire product sit under the twelve-month parts term. That is the same warranty shape as the Vuly at rank three, and it is worth noticing that two different manufacturers have independently decided the tensioning system is the short-term risk.

Lifespan's own page shows 4.4 stars from 67 reviews and, immediately beneath, "1 out of 4 (25%) reviewers recommend this product." We cannot reconcile those two numbers and we are not going to try — we are reporting both because Lifespan report both. Read the reviews yourself before ordering, and note while you do that the feed pools the 8ft, 10ft, 12ft and 14ft HyperJump 3 together, so some of what you find there describes a different trampoline.

It is not Springfree engineering and the price gap is not a brand tax. Expect real differences in materials, in warranty length and in service life.

At 125kg, the maximum user weight is the lowest of any 12ft on our page. Plum's sprung 12ft round is rated 150kg for about A$78 more, which is a real trade to think about if a teenager or an adult will use it.

The mat and enclosure net are still consumables in Australian sun whatever supports the jumping surface. Springless changes the frame hazard, not the UV problem.

AS 4989:2015 safety status

Lifespan publishes certification, and it is European rather than Australian. The page states the HyperJump 3 "passes EN 71-1:2014 / EN 71-2:2011+A1:2014 / EN 71-14:2014 +A1:2017", under a heading reading "Passes International Standards". EN 71-14 is the European trampoline standard, so this is real testing against a real trampoline standard. AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned anywhere on the page — we searched the raw page source and the string "4989" does not appear once.

That is not evidence of any failure, and we would rather have EN 71-14 than nothing. But it means three of the four brands on this page that do publish certifications — Jumpflex, Plum and Lifespan — publish someone else's standard, and this is an Australian manufacturer building specifically for Australian conditions. If the Australian standard is decisive for you, ask them; they have a local operation and showrooms, and they will answer.

We are also not going to infer compliance from the word "springless". The standard covers enclosure design, entrapment gaps, padding and structural strength, and a springless mat satisfies none of those on its own — which is exactly why the overlapping entry flap above matters more here than the elastic straps do.

Two things on this page are worth more than a certification line, and both are Lifespan's own words. The first: "Only one user at a time — collision hazard." Multiple simultaneous jumpers is the single largest risk factor in trampoline injury data, and a manufacturer printing that on the product page rather than burying it on page 14 of the manual deserves credit. The second: they specify a 2m safety perimeter and an enclosure whose poles arch away from the jumping area, so a jumper meeting the net is not meeting a pole behind it.

The seasonal check that matters on any trampoline in this price band: once a year, pinch a section of netting at the TOP of the enclosure, where sun exposure is highest, between thumb and forefinger and try to tear it. Sound netting resists. Perished netting parts with almost no effort. If it tears, the trampoline is out of service until the net is replaced — that is not "keep an eye on it", that is stop using it.

Verdict

On the criteria this site uses — springless first, then size, then price — nothing else here comes close on value. A 12ft springless trampoline at A$571.47, delivered free, rated to 125kg, on a frame galvanised inside and out and guaranteed against rust for a decade, from a brand with an Australian warranty operation and showrooms you can walk into. Buy it through Amazon rather than direct: it is about A$68 cheaper there and you keep the returns process.

Buy it understanding what you are getting. Elastic straps are not composite rods and they are not leaf springs, and the elastic is the part that will age — under a twelve-month parts warranty. That is a fair trade at A$571.47. It is not a fair trade at Springfree or Vuly money, and nobody is asking you to make it at that price.

Two things would make us hesitate, and you should weigh both. The entry is an overlapping flap rather than a closing zip, which is the opposite of what we recommend everywhere else on this site. And Lifespan's own page reports that only one reviewer in four recommends the product, directly underneath a 4.4-star average. We cannot explain that gap, we are not going to pretend it is not there, and if either of those matters to you then Plum's 12ft round — sprung, but rated to 150kg with a net mounted inside the springs and a zip that closes — is about A$78 more.