Space Hoppers
Space Hoppers :
It's easy to see why skateboards, rollerboots and BMX's were so popular among kids in the 70s, but space hoppers? For one, it seems a little odd to be bouncing up and down on a big orange rubber ball at the best of times, and considering it didn't help - but rather hinder - getting from A to B, it could be labelled a bit pointless, really... They didn't enable you to jump higher, go faster or run further than you could on foot. But you had to have one.
The space hopper (Hippity Hop in America) was invented by Italian, Aquilino Cosani in 1968, though he referred to it then as the Pon-Pon, and it was launched in Britain just as trance/rave culture was picking up speed in the summer of '71. This may help provide some explanation behind the trend, and space hoppers went on to make appearances at Glastonbury and Birmingham psychedelic trance parties well into the 90s.
Despite being marketed as 'the amazing inflatable riding ball', its design was pretty simple. The earliest space hoppers were made of red or blue rubber, inflated via an internal valve system, reaching up to around 20 inches. These days though, adult versions are available too, enabling the children of the 70s to relive their bouncing glory days - this time with fewer grazes on their knees.
Each hopper featured two handles on the top so you could keep your balance - but still many kids ended up flying right over these very handles after things got out of control! It really wasn't the safest toy around - its saving grace was its apparent inability to burst, although we had a good try at it. But it was great fun, especially when your mates lines up on theirs and you raced each other to the end of the playing field.
The majority of space hoppers had a smiley, kangaroo's face painted on the front, but kids were also treated to themed hoppers in the late 70s, which featured plastic moulds of Disney characters, including Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, on the front. Despite such efforts, though, the US Hoppity hop went out of production and the Space Hopper's popularity is sporadic. So, let's hope the people of Folkestone might spark a revival after they broke the world record for the most people hopping simultaneously, taking it to 1000 people on 4th July 2006.
Other space hopper world records of note include the fastest time for 100m on a space hopper, which was set by Ashrita Furman in 2004 when she did it in just 30.2 seconds. And Ashrita also set the fastest mile on a space hopper in January 2005. Fancy setting your own record?
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What was that face on the front meant to be?
Dogtooth 17-Mar-2004, 11:34:55 AM
I got a Space Hopper one Christmas and remember falling off it and hurting my derrier within minutes. Maybe using it in the living room wasn't the best idea!
Batman 08-Apr-2004, 05:05:15 PM
You mean Mr Hoppy is a toy?? (I never done it by the way..)
Ivan Dobsky (the meat-safe murderer) 13-Apr-2004, 11:12:27 AM
The only memory I have of Space Hoppers was calling them "Moon Bouncers" but no one else remembers calling them by that name. Is it just my memory playing tricks on me now that I'm so old (40) or should I just change the topic of conversation to something more interesting?
Lewis 30-Apr-2004, 04:03:24 PM
I remember them bing called "Hippity Hops", I had a read one, once, my father tried it, and fell off. My mother freaked, she thought he broke his back or somthing. As it turns out he was fine, but it was blamed for every pain he had for the next thirty years.
George 23-May-2004, 09:08:27 PM
I remember the space hoppers too as I had one in orange but their name at the time if I remember was a 'bouncy ball' they were also better quality then which they aren't now.
Lynn age 33 02-Jun-2004, 01:52:21 AM
I was too little for one of these, but my sisters had them. Never used to bounce on 'em .. my Da' did however used to count to 10 make all the kids run and then bowl them over with one. Think that might be called Child Abuse nowdays :D
Chykie 22-Jun-2004, 08:29:43 PM
I always used to play on my friends space hopper, never had one myself. I always seemed to fall off for some reason. I've bought my son a space hopper now and hes always on it
Jules 28-Sep-2004, 05:54:14 PM
I believe we had one of very first of these "playthings" in the UK (in that we had not seen it anywhere before)around about 1968 when it was called a "Ride-a Roo" It was red without a face.
Skip 11-Oct-2004, 05:17:40 PM
me and my mate had one of these and jumped down the road at some speed and fell off and had bruised bottoms....but what fun....there was an art to doing it you know
chris 29-Oct-2004, 10:24:20 PM
In HOLLAND we call it : SKIPPYBALL. a rond ball with a rond handle. At the moment we have the MEGA SKIPPYBALL, a adult SKIPPYBALL with ringhandle in the size 120cm,100cm,80cm. Bouncing fun for the adults. I have also played in the 70s with the origanal skippyball 60cm. MEGA SKIPPYBALL greeting from KITT,from NETHERLANDS.
kitt 2000 velp 03-Nov-2004, 10:21:24 PM
The face was meant to be a Kangeroo? You can buy brand new Adult Versions of the ornage hopper with those funny ears / horns? I watched a TV program which researched the Space Hopper and redesigned the Original Space Hopper advert. They are going to be the next big thing I think!
Colin Jackson 27-Nov-2004, 12:49:43 PM
I got one the same year my sister got her paddling pool, making us the most popular kids in the street (it was that hot summer of 76). The space hopper was far too big for me (possibly because my brother over-inflated it) so I could only bounce on its face. It burst quite quickly but I still played with it a lot because at least then it was small enough for me to sit on properly. It was also a useful weapon! It's the shape that makes it such a classic toy. The new adult version is too rounded, hasn't got such long, curved handles and just looks like a cheap imitation.
Androo 05-Dec-2004, 04:32:28 PM
didn't have the orange one - mine was yellow and had a rabbits head on top.
mike 20-Dec-2004, 09:39:15 AM
Ah yes... dam good fun these things exceptionaly hard to control the direction of your bounce tho. And this tended to lead to falling off alot, friends laughing ,grazed knees, and stingy antiseptic. oh the joy
waver3d 22-Dec-2004, 12:58:45 PM
Wearing a toy 'helmet' and getting my brother to hit me over the head with one. It near killed me.
Paul 04-Jan-2005, 02:23:14 PM
We called our Space Hopper "Hoppy Dick". We played with it even as adults until someone sadly stole it.
krista 12-Jan-2005, 02:21:30 PM
But of course i'm not a toy Ivan. Whatever made you think I was? Now I have to cleanse this strumpets soul...
Mr Hoppy. 24-Jan-2005, 10:45:09 AM
Nooooo Mr. Hoppy! Noooooooooooooo!
Ivan Dobsky 25-Jan-2005, 10:08:04 AM
I adored my space hopper, i had it permanantly attached to my behind (so my family said)for about three years. I used to pretend it was a horse, i cannot remember what happened to it, i suppose it got chucked once i was too old for it, although i now have another one so YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD.
Hayley 25-Jan-2005, 06:04:33 PM
I thought it would be fun to try and "bounce" down the stairs!!! Needless to say, i ended up having 3 stitches in my head!!! I still loved it though!
julie colman 14-Feb-2005, 05:28:23 PM
I was very disappointed not to get one for my birthday. Then I was taken into the kitchen and there it was - with a teatowel over it - some disguise huh? The skin was a bit like orange peel and the handles were ribbed! Kinky!!
Janet 19-Feb-2005, 01:55:59 PM
Ohmigosh!! I had this exact model with the exception of the handles, which would join up. I called it a Hopper Bopper, and thought the face was some type of cat. Anyway, I was always be attached to this toy whenever I'd be in the basement. I would sometimes pretend it was a pet, and sometimes would roll on it or just use it as a chair. But then one sad day, when I was 20, my parents had a garage sale, and my Dad put it out without even asking me, and it was sold. >(
MLP 24-Mar-2005, 02:06:38 PM
My cousins and I had hoppity hops, Lori and I had a red one and her brother Steve had a blue one, we loved them. We could cover a lot of ground on these. we would race on them. I remember some of the neighbor kids trying them out and falling off backwards, the trick to them was leaning a little forward with your legs in front. We had fun with pogo sticks and stilts too.
Sue 25-Mar-2005, 06:45:51 PM
I remember bouncing on the exact same orange space hopper when I was a kid. I can't really remember having more fun than I had bouncing around the garden on it! It was about as cool as you could get!
Bethan 29-Mar-2005, 06:15:58 PM
Umm i neva had a Space hopper, but at a party i saw one, sat on it, bounced once and fell off. TAKE NOTE THAT I WAS ON CONCRETE. I hurt my spine, but im all betta now. and it hasn't changed my view of space hoppers: AWSOME! but wot on earth is that face? A kangaroo with 4 leaves above its eyes?......
Nicky 01-Apr-2005, 08:26:04 PM
i remember these as being "Hippity Hops" in my neighborhood
SuperFlyTNT 21-Apr-2005, 05:35:12 PM
yup, i bounced around like a looney too in the 70s on a hopper. i found a blue one in a charity shop recently, cost me 20p!!!!!! anyone else seen or know anything about the blue ones. ive also got one boxed but it has sooth handles. possibly younger?
rosie 21-Apr-2005, 11:52:03 PM
I loved my Spacey, all the kids on the estate had them. We used to make jumps out of flowerpots and garden canes and have Spacey gymhkanas. I was really good at bouncing, but one time I fell off and cursed, and my friend's mum heard me, and washed my mouth out. I was less fond of Spacey after that. I can still remember the grubby rubbery smell my hands would have after a day's bouncing. You really had to hold on tight to the horns. One time, the Dads decided to bounce down the street, I think it might have been the jubilee holiday. Mostly they were rubbish at bouncing, or maybe they were a bit drunk.
Norty40 05-May-2005, 01:58:43 AM
I kept mine all these years and I have just (yesterday) had it reinflated so my son Aulin (three yrs 6 months!) could use it - he was thrilled and so was I. Mine has a number 15 on its face - what number was yours? Tad leakey round the valve but a bit of blue tack appears to have worked.
Lynda 06-Jun-2005, 12:41:22 PM
I'm only 20, so my memory only goes back so far, but I remember using one in kindergarden, once and thats about it. Anyway, I'm doing a project on the 80s and 90s, so if anyone can find any useful websites, please e-mail them to Kuriyami_The_Dark@hotmail.com. Thanks.
Josh 01-Aug-2005, 07:26:02 PM
I had a classic orange one, I seem to remember the number on it being 76, but I could be wrong. I also had a small kiddies hopper, called something like a 'mini hopperoo', which was small, red with straight handle and some kind of face.
Katie 17-Aug-2005, 07:07:32 PM
I was so disappointed when I got my Space Hopper! It was not orange and it did not have the classic carrot ears! It was red and half the size of the original and had a bar like handle!I was devastated and to top it all when we had Space Hopper races down the street I always lost as for every one of my competitors bounces on their Space Hopper it took mine about three to catch up!
Alison Ansell 24-Aug-2005, 06:06:36 PM
I remember my sister and i at about 4-6 yrs old getting yellow ones we called them hippity hoppity or bouncy balls. I may be mistaken but i vagly remember the face being some kind of giraffe and the little "horns" was the handles...i recently got a new one for my daughter its red but with a plain handle and no "face"
HoneyPea1978 03-Sep-2005, 07:08:15 AM
my space hopper was red and the handle was rupert the bear with his arms stretched out , sadly i put him near the gas fire on boxing day and he swelled in one spot. I still hopped on him but he went off in a wonky direction after that.
carrie 02-Oct-2005, 11:55:36 PM
I got a classic orange one, it was bloody hard work as I recall. My sister got a Ronco Sewing machine which sewed her finger and then went wrong.
Andy 16-Oct-2005, 06:26:33 AM
I had a small blue space hopper when I was little but had to share it with my brother - needless to say, I didn't get much of a look in! I've since bought a much larger pink racing hopper and have races down my hill with my neighbour. p.s. in answer to someone elses posting - the term 'hippity hop' is the American name for them.
Samantha 17-Nov-2005, 12:46:49 PM
I'm 34, and had an orange spacehopper, a classic! I used to play with it on the lawn outside our house. My main memory is bouncing high, for some reason letting go, and taking a wack on the head when i landed, lucky it was on grass. Still didn't stop me using it on concrete!
alan caine 11-Dec-2005, 07:06:26 PM
I had one many years ago. I used to hide it in my closet , and because I was a bit tall it had alot of air in it. One day my girlfriend saw it and started to ride it around the house and it exploded. BOY WAS IT LOUD.
Samy 13-Jan-2006, 01:05:49 AM
I still have my original 1970 space hopper, still fully inflated. Can still bounce around on it!
Joanne Darvell 16-Jan-2006, 11:34:45 AM
Loved my big orange Space Hopper - my kids have got one now (not and original) but it keeps deflating - very disappointing.
Sam 18-Jan-2006, 07:26:36 PM
I purchased one on eBay and didn't realise how small they were... just shows I've grown a little since I was 6 - who would have thought... After my disappointment I splashed out and brought a brand new massive 75cm space hopper which is brilliant! I'll race anyone now - first one to the end of the road!
Julie 15-Feb-2006, 10:29:59 AM
Im 43 and had a spacehopper when I was 9years old. My funniest memory is when my little brother who was aged 3 at the time and I were playing at a field near our house. I told him a bull was coming out of the field and was going to chase us. He jumped onto the spacehopper, never looked back and bounced all the way back to our house. Hysterical for me seeing a little 3 year old bouncing along away from an imaginary bull!!! Yes I know I was a wicked sister.
Helen 22-Feb-2006, 09:11:39 PM
I had an american hoppity hop ,which is the same as your space hoppers. I came accros it just the other day and was so sad that it was so small. I got out my air pump and inflated it to what I thought would be a good size. Then I thought to myself, just how big can this thing get, so I inflated it to the max, and still it did not pop. I think it was about 35 inches and realy fun to bounce on. I bounced for a realy long time and was haven the time of my life when the darn thing exploded on me. Boy did my behind sting from that one. Jenny
JENNY 14-Mar-2006, 05:43:31 AM
Actually, Space Hoppers arrived in 1968 - and were very popular by 1969. I have a newspaper advertisement for them which my sister has used on her blogspot - http://70struth.blogspot.com/ - from 1969. Anybody that would like a copy of the ad, please go to the blog and click on the ilustration. I don't know why the BBC lists it as "70s" - they do tend to hype that decade! A great source for 80s info from the blogosphere is http://80sactual.blogspot.com/ - but honestly, folks, I wouldn't rely on the BBC sites or programmes for accurate nostalgia!
Debs 18-Mar-2006, 05:07:27 PM
PS - the 1969 Space Hopper has the face on it - but I don't know where it came from! However, for those asking for a 60s section, well, the space hopper became part of UK pop culture late in that decade, so it seems you have one!!
Debs 18-Mar-2006, 05:21:43 PM
i have fond memories of me my sister and all the kids in the neighbourhood having a space hopper,and can still hear that empty thudding sound when wacked across a person you didnt particually like,oh i can remember actually using it for its purpose and craking my head on the curb!!
Donna 21-Mar-2006, 10:30:17 AM
I had a dark red/maroon hoppity hop, as did most of the kids in my neighborhood. One kid's family had an inground swimming pool and it was only a matter of time before we were bouncing from the patio into the pool with our hoppity hops. Then we took it a step further and bounced from the diving board. I'm 40 years old and I'd still do it all again--even though I'd look a prat.
MissKitty 23-Mar-2006, 06:57:02 PM
i did call mine a hippity hop. and i heard them called kangaroo hoppers too. i loved mine so much! it traveled with my from the uk, to the us and lasted for close to ten years. i was about nine when it finally busted. and i think it was from my uncle trying to be funny with it. the face is something i will never forget, it was the best toy ever! and you can't find them anymore which is sad cause there are lots of cheap imitations with silly characters on them that discgrace the origonal!
Natasha 13-May-2006, 12:53:22 AM
I have a light purple space hopper.
Andrea 20-May-2006, 01:16:52 AM
i had 1 i loved my space hopper then it popped i cried
laura 22-May-2006, 01:58:17 PM
I have a space hopper with a kangaroo like the one that was made by the 70's
Anna 23-May-2006, 11:22:49 PM
Hey Laura exactly how did your space hopper pop? Was there to much air? Did you bounce on it to hard? What happend? Samy?
Samy 24-May-2006, 06:08:14 AM
Never had one - they weren't a mode of transport in the way that bikes or even skateboards are. How did you get the bounce going on them and how bouncy were they ( compared to a trampoline or bouncy castle ?)
Aidan 24-May-2006, 01:31:26 PM
it was a cheep one
laura 25-May-2006, 03:30:34 PM
I have a space hopper but the one that was made by the 70's was the best!
Andrea Chand 02-Jun-2006, 11:12:09 PM
I had five in differerent sizes and the last one I had was a hop 66! and it popped when bounced really high
Tevin 04-Jun-2006, 09:01:47 PM
My big sister had a blue one that I think had specs on the face. A bit like the shopkeeper in Mr Benn. I had a red Rupert Bear one, the ball was Rupert's bum and you held onto his outstretched arms. Weird. I also had an orange one with the face on (I always thought it was a lion), which was my reward for being brave and having three teeth out at once. They had to give me general anaesthetic at the dentist and then I came home all groggy with wads of cotton wool in my mouth to soak up the blood, and there was this space hopper waiting for me. The handles on the orange one were weird, too - funny ridges along them. The best use for space hoppers though was clocking your brother round the head with one. The bounce back was hilarious...
J 15-Jun-2006, 11:40:48 PM
i had a space hopper and it was one of the best toys i had as i had it for years but havnt seen one until now brilliant
tony 19-Jul-2006, 07:13:46 PM
I had one just like that, orange, ugly face and all!! Didn't know they came in different colours. I remember that the face freaked me out but i still played with it cuz it was still fun to do. No problems bouncing, but eventually it popped after long usage.....
Cynthia 28-Jul-2006, 09:17:46 PM
fear not, space hopper lovers, I bought one for my big bro (27 years old) last christmas from Hawkins Bizarre in Guildford! Exactly the same as the originals, and just as much fun... even at our age! Christmas day was awesome!
Laurel 14-Aug-2006, 02:51:37 PM
we had just moved into a new house and there were lots of odd bricks and wood lying around so my big brother built a sort of obstacle course which we 'showjumped' over on our big orange spacehopper and we scaored each other on the different jumps. we also had a long hallway in the house where we set up on rainy days.it kept us happy for hours -oh for the simple pleasures of the 70s.I'm 38 now but am very tempted to get another now that I know they still exist -shouldn't have changed that face on him tho'!
Amberimpus 24-Aug-2006, 07:33:52 PM
I had a Rupert spacehopper which was ace! But one day I absent-mindedly left it in front of the gas fire and it sort of melted. Got another one with horns to replace it!!
Avengers Fan 29-Sep-2006, 03:03:16 PM
What was the face on the front? I assumed it was a lion, but then they don't really tend to have those in space. Not sure about the whole "space" reference - you'd have thought that interstellar beings would have perfected a slightly better method of transport than shuffing along on a rubber ball falling off every 2 minutes wouldn't you. Mind you, Clive Sinclair's C5 wasn't much better.
Simon, Dartford 19-Nov-2006, 05:55:27 PM
Wow Spacehoppers!! Me and my bro had a yellow one, it's still in the garage at my nan's (even though we are 26 & 24 now!) It had a funny face on the front too! GREAT NEWS... they now sell an adult version in Argos.... guess what my brother's Crimbo present is goint to be??!!**
Steph* 21-Nov-2006, 01:02:40 PM
My much younger sister Rebecca (now a respectable lady of 40) had an orange space hopper which I enjoyed using even though I was in my teens. However Rebecca was fond of using this in the house and when we were in the living room watching TV etc. so bumping into us and being generally annoying as little sisters often do. She was banned from using it in the house but of course ignored this. My mother got so mad with her disobedience one day that she stuck a bread knife into it. Despite my Father's attempts at repairing it, that was the end of the Space Hopper.
Nick Hollingworth 28-Dec-2006, 09:54:24 AM
I received one exactly as seen in the picture for Christmas one year. I can remember bouncing up and down the footpath for ages and ending up with sore stomach muscles. It was probably one of the most used toys I've ever had. It was marketted as a "Space Hopper" in Australia, and a number of inferior copies came out afterwards in various colours. None were as good as my "Space Hopper" which stood up to some fierce punishment.
Gary, Melb. Australia 02-Jan-2007, 04:04:47 AM
Ahh, the beloved space hoppers. My brother and i had them and, yes we did indeed race them...until the fatal night hopper met open fire place during a ten lap rumpus room derby...The last thing i remember was a bang..no, it was more like a huge "WOOF" and the entire contents of said fireplace being evenly spread all over the room...starting numerous small fires..not to mention scaring the life out of the pets and getting us and the remaining hopper banished to the yard....Poor old hopper.....
Martin C. 31-Jan-2007, 04:45:47 AM
I remember being in a Space hopper race at a Bultins holiday camp, when I was 5 or 6,I was winning,turnred to look round to see by how much and another kid over took me,leaving me with second place and no prize!
Heather 31-Jan-2007, 01:07:57 PM
I have a very traumatic memory of my Space Hopper: one afternoon my dad was backing in to the garage with the car, my SH was there, in the way, and.... you can imagine the rest! That screwed me up for years! After hearing the BANG!! I came outb of the house and found it all in bits: I kept the part where the handles were as a reminder...
Jason, Ibiza 14-Feb-2007, 12:56:03 PM
we all had a space hopper in the garden, many years after leaving home my dad had a clear out and tip every thing,lucky 4 me coz there was my original 1970's bright orange much hopped on space hopper so now i have it in my garden 4 my kids 2 play on,the new ones are nothing like the real ones.....
kj 15-May-2007, 03:34:14 AM
I had the large orange space hopper. I think it came from my cousin who was born in the 70's. I was born at the end of 1982. I had great fun with my space hopper and i loved his unusual face!
Carly Sargeant 15-May-2007, 09:56:47 PM
We had a bright orange one back in the 70s. And yes, I too fell off a lot! :)
ik 23-May-2007, 06:29:01 AM
My best friend had a blue one with Superman on the front, which he got after the first or second Christopher Reeve movie. i LOVED it and was desperate to have my own! Alas, my parents didn't seem to find it appropriate for a little girl. Yeesh!
Kathryn 28-May-2007, 10:11:14 PM
OMG...! I had the blue Superman one too, and I was a girl, (although somewhat of a tomboy). My parents obviously thought it suited me...!
Yvonne 04-Jun-2007, 09:46:26 PM
My twin sister and I both had one, but we called them "Hoppity Hops"
Terry Lee 15-Jun-2007, 12:22:01 AM
I never had one, but as far as I can remember everyone else seemed to. The thing is I can't remember anyone actually using them. To me, the space hopper (and it was always the orange one) was always lurking about in the long grass at the bottom of every friend's garden, grubby, weather beaten and ever present but ignored like some discarded family pet. It only ever saw any action if someone's big brother decided to be a nuisance and knocked people over with it, but even that was once in a blue moon.
vic 07-Jul-2007, 11:15:55 AM
i must be old i had a blue one. i went everywhere on it, and was banned from the shop with it.
alibags 16-Jul-2007, 09:53:16 PM
Trust you alibags.... just dont even consider bringing one into work!
MommaMystique 19-Jul-2007, 11:06:27 AM
Space hopper means High Wycombe 1968 to me. If you have read Aqua Manda comments, High Wycombe was my youth. In 1968 my landlady E´s children Nicola and Ian had an orange space hopper, I think it had a face but no number.I bounced around the living room on it. I didn´t try it outside. I was 18 and they were about 8 and 10.
Eve 29-Jul-2007, 12:42:00 PM
We used to call ours Mr Quarange! or Ride a roo! We weren't allowed on concrete, only grass, suppose so we didnt get hurt when we inevitably fell off, and also to reduce wear on the surface of the ball!
Niguel 10-Sep-2007, 10:55:48 AM
I loved my space hopper,mine was blue and it too had that strange face on the front.I loved it,and if you've noticed,UK gold have got gold ones on their channel.I wish they'd bring them back.A novel way to get to work,you would have to set off 6 hours before you were due to start but imagine how much you'd save on petrol!!
redgirl88 01-Jun-2008, 02:33:48 PM
i had a space hopper back in the seventies. i'll always remember the day i got it. my dad put it in the back of the car, and took it to the petrol station to pump it up. only problem was he did'nt realise how big they were once they were up full. how he got it back into the car i'll never know. GREAT FUN!
adrian dark 05-Jun-2008, 07:18:29 PM
I had a kermit the frog one
many many happy hours bouncing on it
and the falling off was all part of the fun...
PJ 05-Aug-2008, 08:10:02 PM
Got one for my 10th Birthday in 1971, was so chuffed, not got it now, but very fond memories, bright orange, which is also strangely, my favourite colour.
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