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Tobar Giant Retro Space Hopper Outdoor Toy

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According to advertising materials, the Hoppity Hop's original targets were both adults and children. Show your kids how we used to have fun before Snapchat and get everyone outside in the sunshine too.

The Mega Skippyballs are made of extra-strong vinyl, and in the Netherlands, there are various Skippyball races and championships. Alternatively you are welcome to pay the extra using the box on the booking form, this is found in additional questions. In a season-7 episode of Friends, " The One Where They All Turn Thirty", Phoebe bounced for a mile on a Hippity Hop. The space hopper became a major craze for several years and remained widely popular through the 1980s.

Hopper balls go by many names — space hopper, hippity hop, and hoppity hop are just a few on this list. Hopper ball weight limits are usually higher the larger they are, which is another reason why you should avoid using a model that's too small for you — so, no stealing your child's hopper ball for a bit of fun!

With modern hoppers, it's much more common to have a single looped handle, which tends to be easier to keep a proper grip on than separate handles, especially for young kids. This is especially important for kids and might mean the difference between it becoming your child's favourite toy and it being discarded after a couple of uses.It will only be safe up to its weight limit — if someone heavier attempts to bounce, it could burst and cause an injury. A character named Space Hopper, which resembles a toy space hopper, appears in Ian Stewart's book Flatterland. Some of our hire items are capped at less then 6 hours on the length of hire time, these are clearly marked on the product page. In practical terms, this is a very inefficient form of locomotion, but its simplicity, ease of use, low cost, and cheerful appearance appeal to children.

Demand for truly adult-proportioned hopping balls was met with two notable items: The first was Kitt 2000 Velp, of the Netherlands Mega Skippyballs, a large hopping ball that, by virtue of its size, was intended only for adult use. When they were first designed, hopper balls were made from either natural or synthetic rubber, but today they're more commonly made from PVC.Of course, this is a rough guide and won't be accurate for everyone, especially people who are taller or shorter than average for their age. A. Hopper balls were invented in the 1960s by Aquilino Cosani, who worked for an Italian rubber ball manufacturer. The idea was patented in 1968, and the first hopper balls appeared in the United States that same year, sold under the brand name Hoppity Hop. Whether it be for racing friends around the garden, home or office; using it as a fun seat or as a novel approach to exercise, the Adult Size Space Hopper is a quirky gift idea popular with adults of any age and all fans of the 1970's. Most of us have got a bit bigger since we last bounced around the garden clutching the horns of a grinning space hopper.

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