Lolo Balls?

arctic lemur

Anyone remember lolo balls? Can you still get them?
for thos that dont know, they were an oval shaped ball with a plastic disk in th middle (looked like a small planet)
you put your feet on either side of it and bounced away. They were all the go when i was in 5th and sixth class in 90/91.

Ruu_Old

Neighbours had one, think they are still around. Probably renamed them though.

MrSinn

you can get one here http://www.mailorderexpress.com/6000_Mookie_Lo_Lo_Ball.asp

i remember we had one,one day i was using it and the ball popped up thru the middle and hit me on the nose,i never liked them after that but afterwords we played football with it,it looked special and it was special

Oobie

I remember the blisters on the inside of my feet from using them non-stop!!

quickbeam

I loved them. Saved all my pocket money to get one. Great exercise too

fabcat

They were called space hoppers

deadl0ck

Space hoppers were totally different:

Lo-Lo Blall:


Space Hopper:

fabcat

I stand corrected

tk123

I still have a scar from where I split my head open on one of these :rolleyes:

arctic lemur

I has a nasty fall from a space hopper too!

r3nu4l

Why are there so many fat kids around today?...because we don't have lo-lo balls anymore

My neighbour had one and likewise when the plastic bit broke it became a football Had a tendency to bounce off in strange directions but that just made the game all the more interesting

the Shades

mine was green and black but it wasn't an official Lolo ball, it was a knock off. When the ball eventually fell out it looked like a luminous pear

LegacyUser

the ball poped out, i wasn't fat either, must have been a cheapo one.

6th

deadl0ck wrote:

Space hoppers were totally different:

Lo-Lo Blall:


Space Hopper:

Lo Lo Balls where great but fabcat is nearly right. There was a version called a fun hopper, they were a cheaper version that where done by supervalu.

Not sure of the year but on a school sports day my school had a lo lo ball section, I came 3rd, i could skip while bouncing!

They were great exercise and i know a few fat kids that could do with them today! (myself included)

Bard

Oobie wrote:

I remember the blisters on the inside of my feet from using them non-stop!!

Then perhaps wearing some sort of "pair of shoes" at the time would have been appropriate...

6th

I know if you google fun hopper you get the space hopper but supervalu did have aversion of the lo lo ball under this name.

arctic lemur

It's probably gone now