A Lolo Ball, also known as a POGO BAL, Springbal, Lolobal, Disc-O, Pogo ball, or Pogo-It, is a

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. It consists of a seamless figure-8

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ball locked into a structurally supported, sturdy

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platform. To play with it, one stands on the plastic platform, balancing one's weight on the bottom portion of the rubber ball, and jumps or hops around in the same manner as one would use a

pogo stick A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position, through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies, often used as a toy, exercise equipment or extreme sports instrument. It led to an extreme sport named ...

. Invented by two Belgian men Van Der Cleyen and Ribbens in 1969, the Pogo Bal became a

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in the mid-1980s when

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mass-produced it. Hasbro produced the toy until the early 1990s, and similar products have been made by other manufacturers. One of the current examples of a modern lolo ball are

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' Pogo-It, released in 2017. It has two game modes and a more colorful look complete with LED lights.

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A legal case about who owns the rights to the Lolo BallInfo on Little Tikes' Pogo-It
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