Comments on: Epic Win: Koosh Ball

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:42:14 +0000

Mine was a yellow glow in the dark koosh ball that my friends and I would play with late at night

By: ab.

ab. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:40:35 +0000

went into a toy store while passing by with friends a few days ago, all of us were between the ages of 18 – 26, upon playing with just about everything in the store we could get our hands on, i pick up the giant “koosh.” pulling back on a few of the threads against aiming at two people who had other items easily used as projectiles… snap. it flew across the store far exceeding the heads of the buddies which were aimed at. proof you’re never too old for a koosh ball… or to look really immature. never. too old. ever.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:04:09 +0000

I would also spin them around and around…and then there was that extremely unfortunate moment when I put it a little too close to my head, and it sucked up my hair. I distinctly remember the look on my mom’s face when she realized I had a Koosh Ball stuck to my head.

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:09:11 +0000

still popular after all these years.

By: Ai Nan

Ai Nan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:20:22 +0000

They do indeed smell weird. They’re fun, but do those things smell nasty or what!

By: Ai Nan

Ai Nan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:18:53 +0000

That it is. ;_; TT__TT

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:44:56 +0000

i love these. my younger cousin has a purple one with a face and light up ball on the inside. thanks koosh ball.

By: Stryde

Stryde — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:48:04 +0000

Kids were OBSESSED with these in 5th and 6th grade. We had an official classroom koosh ball, for our circle meetings. However, if you weren’t a cool kid, it wasn’t cool for you to be playing with one. Lulz.

By: Zaeriuraschi 11098 (pronounced zay-ree-ooh-ras-chee)

Zaeriuraschi 11098 (pronounced zay-ree-ooh-ras-chee) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:49:55 +0000

Black and neon green are my favorite colors!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:19:18 +0000

This is one of my all-time FAVORITE toys. I LOVE them….but it always sucks when the loops on the one end break.

By: BBmG

BBmG — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:31:13 +0000

D= I had a rainbow one just like that… I cannot recall how many times my brother and I threw it at eachother in fits of kiddie rage. Oh god, I miss being little. Imma go play with my pokemon cards now…

By: Spiderkittin

Spiderkittin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:16:36 +0000

Totally had a few of these as a kid. one was rainbow i think. one was pink, black, and lime green. and i think i had a pink one? i could be completely wrong.

but very fun toy.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:59:49 +0000

I could not stop chewing on mine (I was very young…) so mine *allways* smelled weird

By: meredith

meredith — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:43:02 +0000

OH MY GOD KOOSH!!!!!

By: C

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:00:33 +0000

My dad invented those things!! Believe it or not.

By: Gini

Gini — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:15:00 +0000

I had a Koosh ball basketball set! It was so fun! I don’t know how, but my mom manages to still have 3 or 4 of these. My 3 year old thinks they are fun to throw at the cats. He catches on fast. lol

By: Canaduck

Canaduck — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:40:45 +0000

Hey, I’d forgotten all about these. I had a red one. Just red. It was awesome.

By: Sed

Sed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:26:51 +0000

I feel old now… “Pwning”… sigh.

By: benny lava

benny lava — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:00:34 +0000

my kooshes always ended up with ridiculous amounts of hair stuck in them. and yes, remember those fine-stranded kooshes, they were much more fun…and more efficient at capturing my hair.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:23:13 +0000

Koosh balls inspired the name of my first cat. :>

By: Mijan

Mijan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:12:55 +0000

I had several koosh balls, and I kept them for years. I finally had to throw them away when the rubber oxidized and they started leaving little bits’o'koosh everywhere. Very sad.

Does anyone remember when they changed the koosh balls? The rubber strands started off very slender, and then they changed the design to these thicker strands. I liked the original design more, and they never brought them back. Very sad. But then, all koosh balls were made of epic win. And whoever voted them down… it’s because you got hit in the eye with a koosh ball and went crying to your mom and never lived it down.

By: SarcasticBastid

SarcasticBastid — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:09:30 +0000

That’s very noble of your koosh ball.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:14:59 +0000

Mine was red, white, and blue. I always thought Koosh balls smelled weird.

By: nightlyeclipse

nightlyeclipse — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:17:11 +0000

I love Koosh balls! I had quite a few over the years. My cats kept stealing them.

By: brmbug

brmbug — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:14:41 +0000

I totally forgot about those! I haven’t seen one in 15 years. Mine was red, white, and blue, and my cat ate half the fringe off of it.

By: Zipperkitteh

Zipperkitteh — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:01:18 +0000

I had like six of those for a while… don’t know where they went. My oldest one was purple with a pink stripe down the middle

By: dr. toad

dr. toad — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:32:56 +0000

My kooshball is on my keychain and is getting smaller and smaller every day. You see, I shred the bejeezus out of it when I get mad at my kids or am otherwise stressed.

My kooshball gives its hair so that my children may live.

By: donna

donna — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:16:50 +0000

They were awesome for juggling, too.

By: wakkawakka

wakkawakka — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:01:35 +0000

I always brought one of these things with me when I would babysit- it was something they could chuck around and not break anything… well, not break some things.

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:32:34 +0000

Mostly, duck.

By: Novawolf

Novawolf — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:34:24 +0000

I know. That’s when I lost it too.

-facepalm-

By: Rachel of Cyberia

Rachel of Cyberia — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:14:40 +0000

Also good for learning to juggle, and for teaching little kids how to catch. Or duck.

By: ?????????

????????? — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:43:38 +0000

1:10 “As long as it touches him, he will DIE!!! You touched it. you died” “You wish man, you wish”
also, 0:40, “ohhh i needa poo. ahrrg!” *pulls out a koosh ball from behind his butt* what is up with that? kids being goof balls i guess. at least they where having fun.

By: Yosh

Yosh — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:34:37 +0000

I had forgotten the name of those. We have one in our kids’ toybox. Then, last night I was rearranging some boxes and found a Mickey Mouse keychain that had one as part of it.

By: truthtastesbetter

truthtastesbetter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:08:59 +0000

I had MANY kooshes in grade school/jr high. Sadly most of them got stolen. You can still find them once in a while in the toy stores. I have 5 at my desk at work, including the self-same rainbow one in the picture, which is bigger than the standard size ones. The mega-Koosh. They are fun to play with and easy to catch for people with no motor skills, like me. Also fun to throw at office mates who are getting on one’s nerves.

By: Candystripe Legs

Candystripe Legs — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:24:12 +0000

My grandfather gave me one of those, never knew what they were called.

By: sgk

sgk — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:15:03 +0000

Mine was blue and green and I’m pretty sure is still somewhere in my room.

By: starry

starry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:02:39 +0000

My older brother had one of these. Then me being me at the tender age when little children learn what scissors are I decided to give the Koosh Ball a bit of a trim up. XD

By: Shalin

Shalin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:29:21 +0000

They were also great for getting stuck in ceiling tiles but you had to throw them just right so the tile would come up enough to trap it on the way back down.

By: SarcasticBastid

SarcasticBastid — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:15:49 +0000

Yeah… this is great and all, but neither of those two videos shows the koosh ball. The video with the kitten actually has the suction-cup ball, and the other one I can’t remember the name of, but the koosh ball was never inflated, and it wasn’t that huge.

Come on folks, somewhere out there must be videos of actual Koosh balls and not these wannabes.

By: jmurockstar

jmurockstar — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:48:51 +0000

i need to find mine. it was black and neon green… as all the best things from the 80s were.

By: KaBooM

KaBooM — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:46:28 +0000

The kid actually said, “I’m totally pwning you.” *sigh*