# Need help with a toy from the 80's **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572 "2005-09-20T18:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/1 "2005-09-20T18:14:58Z")
I have searched all over the net and simply cannot find a name for this toy I had. It looks like this: O O It was a hopping toy with an inflated ball on top of a plastic disc with another inflated ball underneath the disc. You would stand on the disc and smush you feet tightly around the top ball and jump up balancing and hopping on the bottom ball. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/2 "2005-09-20T18:16:35Z")
Pogo ball, right? ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/3 "2005-09-20T18:20:54Z")
That’s sure what it sounds like to me. Is it [this?](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7118721427&category=28065) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/4 "2005-09-20T18:21:37Z")
Pogo Ball is what they call it, the greatest way to have a ball. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/5 "2005-09-20T18:23:47Z")
Yeah, what **toadspittle** said. Specifically this: [http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/pogoball.shtml](http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/pogoball.shtml) Not so fun for fat kids, I tell ya. Aaaah…all the Pogo Balls I broke. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/6 "2005-09-20T18:32:50Z")
Yep, it was a Pogo Ball. I got one for my 10th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/7 "2005-09-20T18:35:27Z")
Bless you all! I can sleep now! 😉 Thanks so much!!! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/8 "2005-09-20T18:36:43Z")
God I hated that thing. Always falling over, and I could never manage more than a few hops in a row. Now, the Skip-It… \*that \* was a toy. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/9 "2005-09-20T18:40:57Z")
I did enjoy Skip-It also. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/10 "2005-09-20T19:29:28Z")
Hoppity-hops. Infinitely better. Transportation -and- a bludgeoning weapon against one’s siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/11 "2005-09-20T19:30:00Z")
My Skip-It got stuck in a tree ☹ . Actually I had a generic one, it had a nylon teather instead of the hard plastic, and I think it had a rubber ball at the end. I found that you could throw it REALLY high in the air, and mine got stuck about 40 feet up in a tree. This was probably 15 years ago and I bet it’s still up there. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/12 "2005-09-20T22:46:29Z")
_Sound of 6th grade Jngl singing_ Skiiip it, Skiiiip it, Hiiit it, stiiiick it… But the very best thing of all… There’s a contra on the ball… Break it and throw at a wall… Use to make your sister fall… _throws at sister’s legs_ ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/13 "2005-09-20T22:55:44Z")
We called it a “LULU” ball. We probably had a cheap knock-off. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-toy-from-the-80s/322572/14 "2005-09-20T22:58:21Z")
I miss [clackers.](http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/clackersindex.shtml)