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Article: Now it's Pokemon and pogo sticks; Eighty years on, pogo sticks have been relaunched. So have Hula Hoops, Clackers and scooters.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2001
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Byline: JONATHAN MARGOLIS
THE news that the toy sensation of the 1920s, the pogo stick, is threatening a comeback - in the form of a new variation called the Airgo - will surprise nobody who has recently seen the Hula Hoop, the Slinky, Clackers, the Space Hopper and, latterly, the scooter resurface.
There's a logic to toy reincarnation based on the defining characteristic of children. Not their much-vaunted imagination, but the ceaseless urge they share with many mental patients of alw ays wanting to be either in motion or setting inanimate objects in motion.
This explains the resurgence of the 1958 hula hoop, which was designed to help the ...