Throwback: Pogo Ball
June 11th, 2008 by Samantha
Did anyone else have one of these growing up? I totally opted for the Pogo Ball over the Cabbage Patch Kid. My friends called me crazy. While they were off cradling their fat faced little dolls I was tearing up the streets on my Pogo Ball. I was bad ass on that thing. My Pogo Ball was black and Silver. No neon for me, I went for the space age look. I specifically remember bouncing along in front of my apartment building and busting my ass pretty bad one time. I wasn’t so cool anymore when I had to wear a huge band aid on my chin to school for the next week or so. But it was a battle wound and you don’t get those from playing Cabbage Patch mommy.
I remember these. But I totally wanted a Skip-It more.
I had one, it was neon green and purple. soooo much cooler than cabbage patch
The worst time I ever busted my ass on that thing was after a little bit of air went out of it. When that happened, it lost it’s “pogo”, and I went flying off the thing. I also tried to ride my big wheels until middle school down my dead-end street. I like to call these summer activities “dusty garage scavenger hunt” because when it was hot and I was bored I would play with anything left in the garage. That is, until my mom organized it and stole my youth from me.
I had a hot pink and neon green one. It was awesome…but I wasn’t allowed out of the house with it…so mostly I pogo balled in place in our mezzanine. And never got hurt ever. I was like bubblegirl.
My friend Jeannine had this, but the learning curve was too high. She never let me play with it enough.
Wasn’t the cabbage patch kid like 5 years before the pogo ball?
This was really hard to master.
“it was a battle wound and you don’t get those from playing Cabbage Patch mommy”…lol, i love it…we were too poor to afford all this fun crap, but i did have a generic skip-it, and a generic polly pocket and a glow-worm, plus all those other non-battery powered things like slinkies and jenga. fuuuuuun.
Wasn’t this listed in the top 10 toys that meant you were gay? Just asking.
man, i had an orange and white one, and my brother who is like 11 years older than me was screwing around on it and broke it! he was probably 18 at the time and like 6′4″.
they should re-release these as the hot new workout trend, CRUNCH are you listening?
these were called lolo balls in Ireland. Mine was blue & yellow. My brother broke mine too. Feckin’ brothers.