- Here and there, you'll find ball pits that seem to exist for the sole purpose of providing Instagram photo ops and seem to be more for adults than children (The Color Factory chain of museums is a notable example)
- There also seems to be a growing demand for private ball pit rentals in the same vein of the rental bouncy houses you'll find sometimes at children's parties
I couldn't find a ton of up-to-date information concerning ball pits outside of North America, so it's interesting to hear that they're still alive and well in Europe! I suspected they might be thriving elsewhere based on this sort of silly article about a woman getting stuck in a ball pit in Singapore
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/desperate-mum-drown...
Anyway, thanks for reading!
https://honeykidsasia.com/indoor-play-centres-in-singapore-f...
Few of these have photos.
Here's a couple of local articles about the mum drowning in the ball pit and the response from AirZone.
https://mothership.sg/2018/02/airzone-suspended-playground-s...
Come to think of it, the last time I saw a ball pit was at a party where Lipton was promoting sparkling iced tea (so there was a general bubble theme). You jumped into a ball pit and they took a video so you could post it to Instagram, or whatever.
It's all changed somewhat with Omicron, but then it has everywhere.
My own ball pit? Hell yeah!
A public ball pit for adults? Depends on the crowd.
A ball pit for children? Haha no, there's no way someone didn't pee their pants in there, or dropped some food or snot.
It's surprising just how much mess a single chocolate bar can create.
I'd say actual junk playgrounds sound more sanitary.
I'm yet another person who worked at a place with a ballpit as a teen. I loathed it. One Karen lets her brat with diarrhea in, and it's closed for 2+ hours as someone making minimum wage loads every single ball, some with shit on them, into a net bag and runs it through the commercial dishwasher. Then hand wipes every tube.
Meanwhile, a line of other Karens are taking out their rage at not having the ballpit available to them Right. This. Instant! on a bunch of minimum wage coworkers.
At least three times a month during summer, btw.
There's a special machine for cleaning them, it looks a bit like the robot from teletubbies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHvFiePokI
This is UK:
The ones in Germany were a bit more organized than just a pile of junk, but you basically went there, maybe parents paid some (nominal) fee or deposit, and you got a toolbox with basic hand tools like a saw, hammer and nails and there was plenty of wood to build with.
Larger structures were clearly built with some guidance and probably a civil engineer because there were multi-story buildings.
Saying that where I grew up there were a lot of homes being built so there were piles of scrap wood, etc all over and we'd raid them and build forts using saws and nails from our dads' workshops. So maybe we are overprotective today.
I also don't remember how exactly supervision works, but it definitely isn't just dumping a bunch of kids at some unattended construction site. Parents and/or the team managing the place are at the very least nearby.
Amusingly, the director of the school, didn’t know this.
As far as I know, Hitler never tried to take England in a blitzkrieg. It seems like the author just wanted to use a hip word, but they completely lost my interest with that mistake
