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I’m not sure, but they are still available.
Space hoppers? Those big orange creatures with two ‘horns’ as handles and a weird face on them?
We called them Hippity-Hops when we were kids. I don’t know if that’s a brand name, or a generic regionalism.
http://www.firebox.com/cat.php?id=retro
They call 'em Space Hoppers here. Always knew them as that as a kid.
Bertman
I agree with delphica. They were called Hippity Hops when I was a kid.
Hoppity Hop. Not shown is the most common version, brick red like the ones we used to play dodge-ball with a simple rubber ring for the handle.
Oh, they’re definitely called “Hippity Hops.” They were, and still are, made by Matell. In fact, check out hippity-hop.com http://www.hippity-hop.com/editorial/. They’ve been delivered a cease and desist by Matell for using the name.
The last time I saw a Hippity Hop, we were painting it black and hanging it from a chain to use as a wrecking ball on a the set of a television show we were producing. Cheap prop!
Hoppity Hop for the ball only, and Hoppity Horse with the horse head.
We just call them the “bouncy balls” then kick them out of the way hoping that they will roll into the road and get run over…boy are they in the way!!!
When I was little I had one I called it a Hippity Hop.
It was a memorable toy since I had one kicked out from under me on the play ground and I broke my collar bone !
Osip
I had a Hippity Hop. So did my sister. One was orangey-red and the other was blue - I forget which was which; mine was the smaller and I think it was blue. We had a yellow one, too, at one point. This was in the mid to late 80s, for reference.
I don’t know who first made them, but I had one in the mid-late 60’s. An absolute blast!
One of my favorite toys of my entire childhood!
I do know this: The ones me and my sibilings had said Hopity Hop on the back, in small letters.
Mine was a red Hippity-Hop, with a plain ring. Done in by a broken "stubby’ beer-bottle.
D’ya think you could get an adult-sized one these days? 'Cause I know I’d buy one. Just the thing after a day’s work.
PS: You could get blue ones??!
I never knew. (And I’m not sayin’ nuthin’.)
I’d run someone over on my way to the store to buy one if they made them for adults.
Someone out there in toyland is missing a huge market!
I liked the bit on the Tonight Show a while ago where Jay mentioned that Pamela Anderson had her implants removed… and that she took 'em home and the kids were playing with them; then they showed a bit of footage with two kids bouncing on hippity-hops:D!
Oops. That last post was suppose to have a wbsite on it:
http://www.robinsweb.com/interesting/I_S_O.html
This site clearly shows a Hopity Hop with the name Hopity Hop on it. Where are you guys getting the name “hippity hop”?
Sigh!:rolleyes".
That’s supposed to be “Hoppity hop” with 2 p’s.
I remember it distinctly as Hoppity-Hop. I also remember that if you got your trajectory right, you could make a mighty fine impression upside your pesky little brother.
I also recall it as Hoppity Hop (because the corresponding product would otherwise be “Hippety Horse”, which doesn’t make much sense). I had a red Hoppity Horse, but I remember that Hoppity Hop was definitely better for high performance hopping, because the horse’s handles were just rubber sticks that stuck out the sides of the horse head, so when you pulled upwards on them, they bent. The ring was much sturdier.