I always feel sorry for the people who do those jingles. Once upon a time they were like, "I'm gonna start a band, and make some songs and be world famous." and the next thing you know they're in a studio singing "fun for all, play with hoverball!"
L. Wolf my great, great geat gradma thinks it would be pretty great if it could grate cheese. I don't think it could do that at any rate even on a plate, mate. Maybe if you were rubbing it against a gate, but it wouldn't be a great grate.
OMG you're reviewing my gift to you =D I'm glad this brought you some amusement. I honestly thought it would be battery operated-I feel like I gave you lies lol. Thanks for talking to me at Alcon xxx
michikodarkkitsune It did seem like it actually hovered in the infomercial like it had some kind of small motor that blew air out from the bottom to make it semi-levitate:S
I remember when my Hoverball left my floor. There were always constant arguments, and then the custody battles. But in the end I think it was for the best.
"For indoor use only." BullSHIT! The commercial clearly showed them using it outside! I just don't know what to believe anymore. As for the name, they should have just called it the "Glider Ball".
It's not for practicing football; it's for kids to let off steam indoors with something that's really hard to kick up off the ground and break something as a result.
There's a product out there with similar design, but it actually hovers by using fans and a mini motor I think, my brother and I bought it a long time ago, but it doesn't work on tall carpet so we had to do it on hard wood flooring. The problem with that, is at the time, only our small kitchen had hard wood... lol. Also it broke, somehow... I still never figured out why...
With all of those warnings about its smell and how not to submerge it in water, my guess is that this thing is either made of or filled with memory foam.
My nephew has one, and it's not bad. It's fun enough to kick about for a few minutes, but if you had a real ball, why are you inside? When I was a kid, if I was playing with a ball in the house my mother would yell at me. If you're a kid, it's better than getting yelled at if you're stuck inside because it's raining or something.
Hey Mike, can you start doing life hacks aka DIY projects? I would love to see you use your funny wits to make fun of them saying how crap and just plain stupid!! Plus want to know if some are worth trying for myself or a waste of time. If they claim to save time and they do or dont. I bet you making fun of them would be hilarious!! You are so funny and always puts me in a good mood and puts a smile on my face!! Plz do them??
Ad executive comes in the front door, and greets his wife: "Hey honey, we had such a big day today! I landed the contracts for Solar Roadways, AND the Hover-ball! Pour me a scotch, I'm going up stairs for a quick David Carridine!"
And why not just get a regular ball and play outside? I don't even get what the target demografic is supposed to be. People who don't have access to balls? In case of a nuclear fallout where you can't go outside?
Well, at first I thought this was going to be a fan driven thing to have it actually hover, a bit like an air hockey table. But this is literally just half of a foam ball with a plastic plate on one side.
When I heard the name, I assumed it was one of the ones I've seen that pushes air our of the bottom with a battery-powered fan (like a mini hovercraft). This is even lazier than that!
Honestly, my downstairs neighbour let their kid play with a soccer ball inside... I'd take this over that. Less wall-shakingly noisy, at least. I could see this being fun with kids for rainy days or -40 days.
I have kicked a bowling ball around in the house. I was 14 and someone threw it in the garbage. So of course I was gonna take it and ruin the baseboards. Then the dog started playing with it. I'm thinking someone taped a plate over the top of a bowl, turned it upside down and thought it was a marketable idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone's kid who came up with this.
"The Hoverball! Does it hover? ... No. Is it a ball? ... Also no. The Hoverball! The worst-named product in existence! For free*!" * It actually costs money. I don't know why we keep insisting on things that aren't true.
Sounds like a decent thing to have, just in case being outside is not an option and you have kids who want to be active. So instead of kicking a ball around, they can do that instead. So depending on the price, I'd say it's an OK thing? Nothing extraordinary, but something I can see worth having.
A few observations... That opening had me thinking you were still wearing the tone tee and it caused you to be stuck like that. How do you know what skunk anus smells like? The Hover Ball (tm) plays like an air hockey table without power.
FUN. FOR. ALL! With smelly sliding bowl!
PiranhaCupcake Do not mock Smelly Sliding Bowl! (For external use only)
lol
Smelly bowl, smelly bowl, why hare they kicking you?
I always feel sorry for the people who do those jingles. Once upon a time they were like, "I'm gonna start a band, and make some songs and be world famous." and the next thing you know they're in a studio singing "fun for all, play with hoverball!"
Well you never know, Brian Johnson sang a jingle for an advert for Hoover before he joined AC/DC ua-cam.com/video/uD6iRoB6bPE/v-deo.html
Taken out of context, the line at 4:25 is simply hilarious.
"It does smell quite bad. Not like badger or cocaine or anything"
So, it's half a nerf football glued onto a furniture mover pad?
yeah! just get 4 of these and kick your coffee table or refrigerator around for hours of fun!
"DON'T SUBMERGE IN WATER!!"
Well you know what you have to do as a follow-up now, right?
So, it's half a ball, on a furniture coaster thing some people use to move like sofas.
L. Wolf my great, great geat gradma thinks it would be pretty great if it could grate cheese. I don't think it could do that at any rate even on a plate, mate. Maybe if you were rubbing it against a gate, but it wouldn't be a great grate.
The odor is the mind-warping chemicals to make you belief it's actually fun.
OMG you're reviewing my gift to you =D I'm glad this brought you some amusement. I honestly thought it would be battery operated-I feel like I gave you lies lol. Thanks for talking to me at Alcon xxx
michikodarkkitsune It did seem like it actually hovered in the infomercial like it had some kind of small motor that blew air out from the bottom to make it semi-levitate:S
Mike to wall, wall to Mike! Mike holds it! Holds it!
I remember when my Hoverball left my floor. There were always constant arguments, and then the custody battles. But in the end I think it was for the best.
But Mike, does it grate cheese?
Of course. Just don't ask me how.
Didn't even check to see if it would slide on cheese, or what effect a cheese coating has on its ability to slide... :/
It certainly smells like someone tried.
Mike... how do you know what cocaine smells like?
You could always buy two, glue them together and make ...... A BALL!!!!
Addendum: this was advertised on QVC at the weekend along with an air hockey version that looked equally crap.
"For indoor use only."
BullSHIT! The commercial clearly showed them using it outside! I just don't know what to believe anymore.
As for the name, they should have just called it the "Glider Ball".
That's what I said! I was like, "They showed the kids playing outside!" . So there's another lie! Geez!
Stephendw Glider ball sounds like a sex toy though.... But so does hoverball I guess.
Are we sure this isn't a repackaged BDSM toy or something??
AstroTurf on an indoor field. They even went out of their way to light it strangely so you couldn’t see that it was the case.
The thing is, if anyone got this to practice soccer/football with, it’d end up making them kick the wrong part of an actual ball cause it’s so small.
It's not for practicing football; it's for kids to let off steam indoors with something that's really hard to kick up off the ground and break something as a result.
Do not feed hoverball after midnight.
There's a product out there with similar design, but it actually hovers by using fans and a mini motor I think, my brother and I bought it a long time ago, but it doesn't work on tall carpet so we had to do it on hard wood flooring. The problem with that, is at the time, only our small kitchen had hard wood... lol. Also it broke, somehow... I still never figured out why...
I love that his wife is more coordinated than him!😁
Oh I had one of these as a kid. Fun little kick disk, actually worked more consistently than the actual hover disk my brother got.
More of Graces socks please
Yeah an just more of Grace in the videos in general :D
Could just kick a cheese round about
Babybel would probably work pretty well.
Finally another video I've been waiting for ages I love you videos
this video is dope
Eddie Jones Damn you I was just about to respond to OP with that until I saw your comment XD
Eddie Jones Eh, great minds think alike eh?? (no I am not Canadian:))
also the informertial shown that hover ball was used on grass/fake grass ? yet it said indoor use only
I thought it would use, like, an air hockey type system.
How does it spin in one direction & then defy physics by spinning the other way in the ad!?😦
I for some reason envision the hoverball smelling like a new mattress pad and it's horrendous.
no window test?
What's so terrible that they put DO NOT SUBMERGE IN WATER in all caps on the package??
so they took those slider things you use to move your couch and put half a soccer ball on it
weren't Wham-O the guys who made Bubble Thing?
With all of those warnings about its smell and how not to submerge it in water, my guess is that this thing is either made of or filled with memory foam.
My nephew has one, and it's not bad.
It's fun enough to kick about for a few minutes, but if you had a real ball, why are you inside?
When I was a kid, if I was playing with a ball in the house my mother would yell at me.
If you're a kid, it's better than getting yelled at if you're stuck inside because it's raining or something.
I lost it at the end, grabs the ball again, tries trick shot, goes in same place haha.
Hey Mike, can you start doing life hacks aka DIY projects? I would love to see you use your funny wits to make fun of them saying how crap and just plain stupid!! Plus want to know if some are worth trying for myself or a waste of time. If they claim to save time and they do or dont. I bet you making fun of them would be hilarious!! You are so funny and always puts me in a good mood and puts a smile on my face!! Plz do them??
I think I would be stubbing more toes on furniture than scoring goals with that thing
but can it run crysis
Ad executive comes in the front door, and greets his wife:
"Hey honey, we had such a big day today! I landed the contracts for Solar Roadways, AND the Hover-ball! Pour me a scotch, I'm going up stairs for a quick David Carridine!"
Wait, wasn't the whole indoor ball thing solved with the original nerf ball.
Who has a living room that big with almost no furniture?
Then let's a troupe of kids run around with their shoes on, on such nice carpet.
And why not just get a regular ball and play outside? I don't even get what the target demografic is supposed to be. People who don't have access to balls? In case of a nuclear fallout where you can't go outside?
Rich people
@Bill Klätsch But rich people can afford to put furniture in big living rooms.
North Americans
*YAY!* New Infomercialism.
I imagine Mike's wife walking in, seeing him drop a bowl to the ground and kicking it on camera, and just shrugging before leaving the room again.
I LOVE THIS SERIES!
Lol was watching tv and in Australia they are selling this now as the woof glider
Well, at first I thought this was going to be a fan driven thing to have it actually hover, a bit like an air hockey table. But this is literally just half of a foam ball with a plastic plate on one side.
I remember having carpet skates when I was a kid that worked on the same principle. They were terrible
4:27 How do you know how cocaine smells?
Maybe get two and glue them back to back and even after that i doubt it will be ball shaped
It would be hard to use this so called hoverball especially if you are used to kicking a real soccer ball because it’s not tall enough.
When I heard the name, I assumed it was one of the ones I've seen that pushes air our of the bottom with a battery-powered fan (like a mini hovercraft). This is even lazier than that!
I wonder if this what Clark Griswald had been developing
I feel like this was thought up by a parent whose kids kept playing ball in the house.
They sold those in asda via jml
But does it slide on cheese?
Theres plentyof room in that thing to add, I dont know, A FAN!
I prefer to make cupcakes than buy a product that is based off the Mattel hover-board from Back To The Future Part II.
I’m sure someone who was making this product wasn’t an English speaking person and thought bowl and ball were the same word just spelled wrong.
Seems more like Half-A-Ball than it does a Hover-Ball
Honestly, my downstairs neighbour let their kid play with a soccer ball inside... I'd take this over that. Less wall-shakingly noisy, at least. I could see this being fun with kids for rainy days or -40 days.
Throwing a ball at a window in a residential home doesn't actually shatter it to pieces. It DOES put quite a few irreparable cracks in it, though.
I love that your go-to bad smells are badger and cocaine. I'm quite familiar with both, often at the same time. Glad I'm not the only one.
Looks like u could have almost seconds of fun with this....those seconds getting it out the packaging most likely.
I'll stick to air hockey, thanks.
That's basically the only thing this is good for: oversized air hockey.
So it's a coated plastic. Amazing.
Grace there with the old 1 2!
the smell is the lead paint used
Kids love it!
One step closer to indoor curling.
Now kids can finally compete for the Super Bowl!
Another Infomercialism. Fantastic Mike!
I want Grace’s socks!
I have kicked a bowling ball around in the house. I was 14 and someone threw it in the garbage. So of course I was gonna take it and ruin the baseboards. Then the dog started playing with it.
I'm thinking someone taped a plate over the top of a bowl, turned it upside down and thought it was a marketable idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone's kid who came up with this.
I'm so sick of opening my kid's toys out of its packaging, only for the kids to complain that it smells like crack.
I wanted you to step on top of it and see how flat it would get.
At least it's more hovery than Hoverboard(tm)
"Does not smell like cocaine" Wait how does he know that?
"The Hoverball!
Does it hover?
... No.
Is it a ball?
... Also no.
The Hoverball! The worst-named product in existence! For free*!"
* It actually costs money. I don't know why we keep insisting on things that aren't true.
Uweball.
5:54 I absolutely love those raccoon socks!
Someone said that when you first open it, it smells as though chocolate has just had a shit! 💩
"thats the end of that then" hilarious
Sounds like a decent thing to have, just in case being outside is not an option and you have kids who want to be active. So instead of kicking a ball around, they can do that instead. So depending on the price, I'd say it's an OK thing? Nothing extraordinary, but something I can see worth having.
5:52 was exactly what I expected
Mike, Dump Dinners is back at it again with the new Ramen Joy cook book with recipes all featuring Ramen noodles! Who wants a taste?
Also known as half a ball
That awkward moment when you realise your wife is better at kicking a "ball" than you...
Looks like a decent toy, I would've probably liked it when I was a kid.
Wow that prem-ear league sounds good
A few observations...
That opening had me thinking you were still wearing the tone tee and it caused you to be stuck like that.
How do you know what skunk anus smells like?
The Hover Ball (tm) plays like an air hockey table without power.
ITS UWE BOLL!!!
Now with even less imagination!
Hoverball! Because calling it a Footypuck sounds vaguely dirty.
No but really, don't submerge that thing in water. I know a guy who did it and it dissolved half his hand.
Beriorn Why?
It's more a glide ball cause it glides across the ground
Have you tried kicking around a block of cheese?
Yet again
... Another item I never heard of before....
volume normalise pls
Yessssss!
thats a good one!
The scent is the evaporating tears of chinese children.
Do not taunt the Hoverball.
Genius : yes, as long as you don't have to cook :) !!