#28

YES!! Loved them. Feel a bit irked I’m technically too old for them now.

#29

That sounds disastrous but compellingly so. Like it’d make a really weird comedy-horror film concept or something

#30

YOUVE NEVER BEEN MORE WRONG EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER

I used to go to Pirates Deep which is now the Volks
Ball pits in my childhood
K holes in my late teens

Good times

#32

Ball pit = water
Ropes = climbing mast
Rope bridges
Islands

Stuff like that I imagine

#33

Because if they were space themed kids would always be questioning why they aren’t floating.

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#35

No mans land is just a strip of land u throw balls at people trying to cross to the toilets?

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#36

A solemn moment of remembrance before play can commence

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#37

And on Christmas day an impromptu football match is played instead.

#38

don’t reckon anyone over the over of 31 will have been to one as a kid, unless they were true pioneers.

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#39

there’s a video of my fourth or fifth birthday party at one of those places, which legendarily descends into utter chaos when the guy in the massive Pirate Pete costume shows up with the cake. Organic shaky-cam and kids screaming in fear at the seafaring criminal

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#40

I’m too old to have gone as a kid - but have been in loads when my kids were little. Horrible places. They would all be 100 times better if they had better acoustics :slight_smile:

#41

Remember mine had this massive vertical slide that you’d regularly see kids badly hurt themselves on

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#42

I was just this second about to say i was petrified of the drop slide. I would be the loser having my dad go up with me and I’d sit on it at the top and then back out and be all embarrased because of the queue of braver children behind me.

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#43

yeah
wacky warehouse was alright
jimmy gs was wild and had the death slide
tc’s playbarn was shit
playdays was aimed at younger kids but had a completely dark area behind some curtains which I liked

adult ones sound like hell

#44

Not an actual soft play place, but the local leisure centre would put a load of mats down and foam squares / triangles to jump over. Seems quite dangerous looking back actually, they all used to slip around leaving you open to falling onto a bare badminton court floor. A few random carpet shops used to have a ball pit and slide too, they always smelled funny. No actual soft play warehouses, I only became aware of those when I had kids, and even then only went on a weekday as toddlers. Having seen a birthday party in a big one on a rainy weekend - fucking fuck that.

#45

No, i don’t think there was anywhere that was within walking distance of my house growing up that did this because none of my friends talked about a place like this either.
We did however have an adventure playground with a massive slide and climbing frames and stuff like that which was next to the swimming place, and one next to the Astro turf pitches near me so both of those I went to at least once a week until I started secondary school.

#46

Next time you are back in the Neighborhood check out Chobham Adventure Farm. Great slides. I can lend you a child.

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#47

Maybe once or twice for someone’s birthday (not mine). Surely going to one is the Tory option - your parents paying so you can lark around. I just fucked around in hedgerows when I was a kid, didn’t cost a penny.

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#48

Only ever went once with my pal for his birthday and we had to drive to the fucking Isle of Sheppey, a place only notable for being essentially a prison, for it. I remember my mate’s Dad (a man who supported Alloa Athletic despite not being Scottish) being exasperated about the fact I ordered tomato soup for the meal afterwards for some reason.

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#49

Reading every post in this thread with ‘28 years old, I was’ in my head after has made it very fun for me.

We had go bananas. It was jungle themed.