paying to bounce (Big Bounce America)

[@orinxtino]

something is so funny about imaging amanda just bouncing by herself, talking to a camera and accidentally bouncing into sex

[@dbagette]

unintended horror much more scary than haunted houses, esp when security staff is probably there just for safety purposes

[@kc3d777]

This came to my city last year. It was super crowded and muddy. My friend immediately got a legitimate concussion when she got kicked in the head and then we bought $15 lemonades. We had a great time and id probably go back tbh

[@magnificloud]

SAME LOL wasn't as gross, we had a good time but whew it was a little wack and kind of deflating a bit at the end

[@kc3d777]

@magnificloud it rained the day before we did ours. It would have been great if it was dry. But we had a blast especially for Kansas where there is perpetually nothing to do it was fun

[@reckonerwheel5336]

This is the most “mixed review” review I’ve ever read, I’m crackin up

[@whooopdeedo]

​@reckonerwheel5336 no forreal because legitimate concussion but still loved and would go back is wild haha

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Id rather go to a trampoline park with blowup things inside of it for a comparable price for a longer amount of time then you get with these bounce houses.

[@zeedavis5176]

Honestly I do feel like we need more fun things like this for adults and maybe more monitoring so people aren’t trying to do the devils tango in the bouncy castles. I feel like it’d also be a fun alternative to traditional gym workouts that a lot of people hate. Have fun! Be whimsy!

[@DeadlyBeast205]

Exactly! Me and my girlfriend rented one of those blow up obstacle courses and invited a few friends to play on it with us. We had so much fun acting like big kids so I don't see what's wrong with having fun in different ways

[@lacroixer]

there’s a place kind of like this that i visited recently! it’s called play playground in las vegas and is advertised as a “playground for adults” and tbh it was very fun and whimsical, but still well-moderated! they even had a bounce castle/maze

[@DeadlyBeast205]

@@lacroixer that's awesome

[@sh0wp0ny]

and on the other hand, there should be places for those people that DO want to have sex in a bouncy castle

[@cgretam1594]

Yes please

[@elphbwckd212]

Astro turf is surprisingly expensive. You wouldn't think so, but I looked it up once and it's very expensive per square foot. The scariest part is that you had to go into a bathroom with no shoes on. That is actually horrific. I work music festivals and I know how disgusting those can get. To expect people to go in with no shoes on is just appalling.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

@@elphbwckd212 thanks to everyone's socks, it was nice and dry 🤣

[@TH0KH]

It was 100k to do a small preschool yard at my job

[@pumkinpatchwork]

fair enough, I still feel like there could be foam mats and such laid out as a trail though

[@lefton4ya]

Would be fun to see horror or action movies with a fight in giant bouncy house or obstacle course. Tons have been at set at carnivals such as fun houses but none at a bouncy house.

[@ridhosamudro2199]

That's just Finding Frankie.

[@SkylightTo33]

@@ridhosamudro2199ehh

[@danielhughes6556]

In the climax of the movie, the killer slashes at the MC and hits the bouncy castle instead. This leads to a final chase through a slowly deflating bouncy maze which the MC manages to catch the killer in to make their escape.

[@sendmorerum8241]

@@danielhughes6556 I think you grossly overestimate how quickly a castle of this size would deflate That final chase would last for an hour

[@whoohw1394]

I feel like it would either be dangerous with the slipping possibility or it would pop if they had shoes on. It’s possible! Would just take a lot of planning.

[@NestorCustodio]

I was conceived in a bouncy castle when my mom was playing in a ball pit that had not been sanitized in ages and something oddly sticky brushed past her leg. Nine months later, I was delivered in that very same ball pit, as she had not yet been able to find her way out of the plastic prison. I managed to finally feel the sunlight on my skin when I eventually escaped at the age of 4. To the best of my knowledge, my mom has yet to be seen again.

[@STORMDAME]

I love this comment.

[@kev_ev]

hope they find her someday :/ sending you love

[@crimsonprincess7420]

Was this at dashcon?

[@Ozzymandius1]

She’s gone, mate. You’re an orphan.

[@rysander]

[meta: isn’t this a copypasta?]

[@allisonb8912]

I would have wanted to go to this SO BAD as a high schooler. Get a bunch of friends, drink a ton of caffeinated soda and go nuts in a bounce house? Definitely top 10 life events. As an adult, I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

[@Reverend_Salem]

Im an adult as well, it sounds exhausting, but also sounds super fun

[@MarikoYojishi4eva33]

Girl do nor rub your mic 😂 that thing is so high quality I though some one was searching at my walls

[@Khunai.]

I was spinning around in my chair like "What is that..." before I realized it was her rubbing the mic 😂 Amanda we love you please get a fidget toy that isn't your mic lmaooo

[@cabalcore2555]

I genuinely thought my cat got stuck behind my desk again. Whenever he was rubbing up against stuff it made the exact same sounds.

[@bewwybabe8045]

I thought someone was in my car hood my goodness

[@lightdarkequivalent7143]

i thought my dorm's drainage was acting up or something lmao

[@waywarded]

me too lmao

[@Oonagh72]

A horror movie in a bouncy castle you can’t leave would be good. Not just the fact that you can’t get out, but also how tiring it is. It would be like swimming but you never drown.

[@MolecularMachine]

Dave Made a Maze but with bouncy castles... I like it

[@AriannaGi]

It could be q backrooms!

[@godeelofthedeep584]

I love the new intro, it's so highspeed and intense relative to the old one, somehow catapulting me into the amandasphere. (Ideal watching conditions)

[@JuanRodriguez-tf7fh]

I always watch at 2x speed so Amanda is just flying by my phone screen at mach speed 😅

[@whatever9097]

Oh thank god someone confirmed it was a new intro, I thought I was losing

[@weeabooper]

The smell of bouncy castles is so distinctly unsexy and juvenile....fooling around in those gives I'm 16 with strict parents 😭

[@re0294]

There’s a business like this in my home town, called “Bouncing Bears”. We used to take my child siblings there regularly. There, you pay once ($13 or $15 depending on age) and you can stay all day long, and reenter so you could go for lunch and come back . PLUS ITS INDOORS so it’s air conditioned and clean. Perhaps I’m spoiled by that, but paying for a time limited slot to be outside barefoot with no lockers for your shoes seems so greedy. Idk to me this event just seems like it’s reinventing the wheel but worse.

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Yeah in my area the tickets for the bounce were like $45 for an hour and a half and I was like no way 😂 urs sounds alot betterthough im a lil jealous

[@hannemalkorf9702]

As a mom myself, thank you for being responsible and taking a slot without children present. I'd go feral if I'd found out some influencer went and put my children in their video for b-roll at an event

[@princessravendiamond4288]

In general, adults and children should be separated when it comes to bouncing (in a trampoline park or inflatables). It's very dangerous to put people of such a large variety of sizes together. Children should also be separated into groups based on age and height. In my area at least there's been issues at Sky Zone locations with rowdy adults or teens trampling kids. It's just plain a safety hazard that minimum wage workers can't properly deal with

[@Dee97]

came to comment similar.

[@LilyLewis771]

@@princessravendiamond4288yeah honestly this is way more of a concern than being filmed imo- bounce houses sound fun but I’ve avoided them since I hit my first growth spurt because there’s usually babies/toddlers in there and you can’t really control your bouncing. Honestly a ton of bounce houses/trampoline parks/foam pits are really unsafe.

[@Agmolly]

@@princessravendiamond4288Yes!!! The first thing I thought of when she said "Adult session" was "oh good she can't thwack a toddler" lol 😅

[@ggwurld]

@@princessravendiamond4288 it’s so sad that adults can’t be considerate, I go to the trampoline park with my bestie and we’re 25 and are always staying away from kids and giving them priority for bouncing lol edited to say there’s no adult only hours

[@thevillainofthisstory]

I had a bouncy castle collapse on me when I was 5 at a community 4th of July celebration and got interviewed by the local paper about it

[@skylar9284]

Lmfao I can just imagine my 5 year old nephew doing a news interview about this 😂 Only laughing because I know he would say some off the wall shit. But Im glad you made it out safe. I cant imagine how scary that would be. Makes me scared to let my 3 year old on them at all.

[@thevillainofthisstory]

@skylar9284 This was in the 90's, I'd like to think they're safer and have more oversight now

[@berylbrown5337]

this happened to me when i was about the same age and a random man had to grab all the kids that were inside it was scary and now i dont like bouncy castles lol

[@RocketboyX]

Did u die?

[@RIPmichael22]

Same thing happened to me and my little sister! I had to pull her out because she just started to become one with the walls as they were closing around us. was scary.

[@rexroy101]

Man, her going through the obstacle course with her phone flashlight gave horror movie vibes. Like found footage slasher film

[@mysticdigital5936]

Okay but Swell talking about being "solo woman" being awkward is so real even as a "solo gay guy." Like I am kind of straight passing, so whenever I go somewhere alone I just feel awkward and try to like shrink into myself a bit. Definitely doesn't help my posture and makes me go out less. I know we're saying "Do it scared," but honestly "Do it alone" is one we should talk about more. Anyway, the bouncy castle looks fun, but I would hate walking through the grass. I dont know that I'd pay that much for it instead of of a Trampoline Park or something similar. Also having sex in a bouncy castle sounds complicated and unappealing.

[@STORMDAME]

The sex in a bouncy castle ball pit thing got me too. You'd sink with the pressure and stuff. Contact would be compromised. How would you breath? So many questions. None of which I want answered.

[@ElizaGlide]

"You want to spend $70+ and drive 2+ hours on the worst day of the year to do hand stuff in a foul bouncy castle ball pit?" "Only if there's a strange woman filming inside"

[@PsRohrbaugh]

No ball pit will ever top Dash Con.

[@pedroxqui]

You get an extra 5 minutes in the ball pit for that comment!

[@heartiko2681]

I can't wait until we can move onto new jokes, it's been so long

[@x.xandria.x4081]

The poop and pee really made it great ✊😔

[@sam-ky9sj]

Hey my girlfriend saw you from across the bouncy castle and we really dig your vibe. Can we race in the obstacle course?

[@sadmermaid]

omg 😂

[@tiffany1705]

This is a small thing, but I really appreciate that you keep your ad reads to about a minute. Long form content is going back out of style and it's becoming really common to see someone selling me something for 2-3 minutes of a maaaybe 20-minute video. A quarter of my watchtime on ads feels wrong

[@kriskriskriskris263]

Just skip it

[@reese_0912]

As far as the kids under 16 go, you were most definitely seeing people too young to be there. I went to this in Canada, and for context I was 18 almost 19 and went with some family friends (16-17), my mom and sister (16), so I have a fairly good idea of what a 16+ person looks like. There were people definitely younger than 16 in our session and id’s also weren’t checked here. I will say that we definitely want to go again, as having a big group made it insanely fun, and we stayed the full 3 hours.

[@nerdisaur]

I did this last year in Ottawa, we were kind of a “tester” city. A lot of the security concerns you had didn’t apply, they were super well staffed and had events and games running in the bouncy castles

[@Im.A1ex]

I went to the Color Factory in NYC and they had a giant ball pit, and it was super relaxing just to lay in and chill. There were some children there, but mostly adults just laying in plastic balls and eating ice cream.

[@liverofsulfur]

please amanda im begging you to get a fidget toy or something when ur filming with that mic. we can hear you playing with the mic 😭

[@millicentuwu1977]

It's some fun amsr. I thought I was tripping. 😂

[@lilmisslena1386]

It was driving me nuts

[@BradHook]

There is nothing fun about it. It's like nails on a chalkboard. ​@@millicentuwu1977

[@ctsoundsy]

Part of it is the spring loaded arm she’s using - there are spring reverbs used in music that have the same effect. It hurts my earsss 😂

[@Sam_dea]

Lmao I’ve been subbed for so long and I think this is the only time you’ve ever reviewed something that I actually am considering going to

[@starsINSPACE]

Why don't moon jump / bouncy castle places supply footwear the way bowling allies do? One reason to not wear shoes in the bouncehouse is because they can fly off your feet and hit other people, or someone could not notice your shoe fell off and trip on it. I think these play places should give everyone a gripper slipper that is basically a sock with a tiny bit of tread on the bottom and also has clasps that keeps them from falling off your feet.

[@phlegathong]

like upgraded/heavy duty trampoline park socks!

[@kiricappuchin]

RIGHT... Trampoline socks are perfect for a bouncy castle

[@Trixie0026]

I worked for a place that had a large bouncy castle attraction. Our biggest challenge was to keep it clean and dry. These things are impossible to clean and kids love to pee or vomit in the worst place possible. (we tried to hire people to wash it, but apparently nobody wants to do it). Plus, when we closed after dark, I was always afraid that someone was hiding in them as I did my rounds to make sure nobody was inside so we could close them safely. This whole thing sounds like a nightmare. There is no way that these ball pits get clean enough between the adult session and the toddlers session.

[@Elizabeth-n3v2u]

My friends mom started a "rent a bouncy castle" business, and roped him into doing it with her. His only job was to clean them and store them when the event was over. The business failed because he wouldn't clean and dry them because he hated it so much. Lol

[@graces.1731]

my mom insisted this was what she wanted to do for her 59th birthday last year lol. the carpet things a great idea too, since when we went, the grass had mud/ puddles everywhere. so everything was just kinda moist.

[@DannyDaLion]

I went to Big Bounce America in May with my wife when it was in Michigan. We are both in our late 20s, so definitely felt the length of the obstacle course it really tires you out. Regarding the lighting, I think it’s just due to the time of year. When we went in late May it’s not getting dark until after 8:30 so most of the event was actually pretty well lit. We didn’t have to pay for parking so it must have just your venue that was bing sucky. I think the dirtiness was also because it was an event later in the year. My wife and I fully expected it to be gross in the bounce houses and were actually surprised how clean and well kept everything was but it was early in the year so maybe the bounce houses were just newer. Honestly I have no idea how you can even clean something that big anyway.

[@ItsLevicon]

Empty, dark, dirty, colorful bouncy castles for kids is deeply depressing and i can't fully articulate why.

[@STORMDAME]

The Germans probably have a word for it. They're good at that stuff.

[@AlecTrups]

They've got teenagers jumping back and forth and they didn't think to have security within reach?? That's a brawl just waiting to happen

[@enigmadrath1780]

Wasn't until my nieces were like 7 and I took them to this local fair where the play sets were big enough for all ages that I realized: I MISS being able to just muck about. Am plenty active in my free time with weight lifting and cycling, but a lot of these older activities are disciplined. I missed just tumbling about and crawling through tunnels and tottering across wobbly bridges. The amount of fellow grown ups I saw just having the time of theirs lives being goofs was adorable. We need more stuff like this for adults :D

[@probablynotian]

Spent so much time trying to figure out where I was getting noise from in my office only to realize it was shock mount fidgeting.

[@dooshmasta]

I DJ for a hoa in San Bernardino and they rent a soccer field twice a year and fill it with bounce houses and themed props (last one was Jurassic Park) and it’s free for the residents. Bounce houses are huge in the IE.

[@Tori_Dub]

It was probably free because they used the HOA fees the residents have to pay to fund it

[@dooshmasta]

@ yeah that’s how it’s funded.

[@HowAboutAHug]

​@@Tori_Dub "free" lol

[@Leelior]

16:05 please stop fingering the mic, the tinnie noise is awful. please and thank you. A bouncy castle would absolutely be more fun with friends since you feed off of each other's energy after all so even if everyone isn't having a blast, just seeing a friend have a blast would still make it worth it I think. I would have loved it like 15 years ago absolutely, now I am both too old and don't have any friends.

[@nancyharb3243]

Needed something to watch while getting ready for the gym before work - no idea what this subject matter is but really enjoy listening to Amanda chat (I am also one of those artists that listens to her videos while drawing that she sometimes references 😂)

[@scarletrot9983]

No WAY you were in my area. I’ve been driving past that place for weeks now and it’s a fucking wreck lmfao

[@beanmaru]

Jurupa Valley is pronounced Ha-rupa 😊 My ex lives there. My nephew took his kids to the Big Bounce. They loved it. There were group activities for the children.

[@irkalla100]

The places you go for content 😂 never a dull moment! Knew about the trampoline parks, but this is new to me. Would seem like a fun third date place to go. Also, as someone over 30, can confirm early 20s folk look like children to my old self.

[@crystalcat_3]

Anyone with a contact-allergy has even more reasons for not wanting to be forced to walk on grass. You can't predict what kinds of foods or whatever people have dropped in that park. An astroturf path would help there too

[@winterburden]

Thanks for this swell bouncy video Swell!

[@jbartlet827]

When this came to my town, they put it up on an old parking area that was half crumbling pavement and half dirt/gravel. We didn't buy tickets, but we did sit on a nearby bench watching people gripe about walking through the dirt/gravel in their socks interspersed with an occasional vomiter. I don't think they ever clean except for the stuff that shows.

[@FiatVentusCreations]

The college I live at (I attend the university that is next to it, but does not have its own dorm) did a little bouncy park think for orientation and my physiotherapist was so frustrated with it and darn near forbid me from going before I told her I hadn’t planned on it. So many neck and head injuries in these things. Haha

[@lauradoesart]

I kept taking my headphones off and pausing the video trying to figure out what the noises were at the end of the video lol I thought I was going mad until I dug through the comments

[@TrinketFairy]

Went to this before COVID with some friends it was quite fun. Then did a toddler session with my nephew maybe a year ago. Seemed clean enough. But it was during the day for toddlers. So, maybe just fresh day vibes.

[@call_me_mad1236]

Clicked on this video, havent even watched it yet. All I know is I bought adult tickets for Philadelphia (summer 2022 i think?) drove 1.5 hrs just for absolutely nothing to be set up. Me and a good handful of other people were just like wondering around rolled up inflatables confused, no signs, no staff, nothinggg. Their site said it would send an email if there was any reason the day would have to be cancelled/rescheduled but I got nothing. Had to stalk their instagram to find out a TON of people were trying figure why we all got ghosted that weekend - seems they didnt bo5er to tell anyone who bought tickets. They sent the email the following Monday basically saying “oops, we had to cancel, but well let you come in a couple weeks instead if you want”. I was so mad, we went to the aquarium nearby just so the day wasn’t a total loss but ugh..

[@parker25489]

Really needed this today. Thank you. It’s been a tough night.

[@vanirie434]

I've been watching people playing Finding Frankie, which is a horror parkour game set in a very, *very* colourful setting, which very much has the same vibes as all of your footage. So you're not wrong, it would make for a good horror game setting.

[@sketchysquiggle5602]

11:48 glad you were able to escape the backrooms

[@robertoschmerto]

We had something like this in my city a couple years back so a friend and I went... we almost immediately stopped because we thought we were gonna throw up, the obstacle course was shut down because someone did throw up, a lot of the features collapsed underneath me because they were strong enough, but we had snow cones so that was lovely

[@CamdenBloke]

I went to one near Sacramento (I'm pretty sure it's the same company travelling around), also alone, and made the mistake of wearing grippy socks. I thought they would give me increased traction on the obstacle course, but in ended up making my socks slide off. The danger/vandalism factor didn't occur to me, but as someone in his early 40s, I noticed it was mainly a younger crowd. I'm happy that I'm athletic enough to fully enjoy it, though. I wondered how I would have felt doing it at 19, though.

[@thedragodile545]

I've been once as a "volunteer." You work the event, and in return, you get tickets for a later date. I was stationed in the obstacle course to help kids and their parents through a tricky portion. I had so much fun that day, pulling up the littles and encouraging the bigger kids to make it over the hill. I love Big Bounce America, that shit was made for people like me 😅

[@mirandahonacki2952]

This was coming to a close location to me back in like end of July and husband and I considered getting tickets to go and trying to get friends to go to the adult only session. We ended up being to busy and spending to much on other events that month that we weren’t able to work it in. So I was good to see your review of it! Maybe we’ll still consider going if it comes back next year. But sounds like it wasn’t going to be 100% what I expected. It probably wouldn’t have been as dark at that time of year, but I don’t love the shoe drop being further away from the entrance, or how not super clean the bounce houses sound 😅

[@samrose7847]

I've been to this 3 times in the last maybe 8 years! It's been really fun every time. Some extra info i have in case you're interested: -my tickets were also rescheduled by a day this year. They tour the whole country and I assume it was a delay earlier in the schedule that delayed everyone's tickets over a period of time -last time i was there someone broke or sprained her ankle on the obstacle course :( she was evacuated by team members within i think 5 minutes. They deflated the section she was in and had a plan for how to get her out. Within 20ish minutes the whole obstacle course was back up and running. It was really cool to see what happens when you get injured, although obviously it sucks someone was. -If someone came in with a knife and slashed a hole they would either slap an emergency patch on it or deflate that section. I've seen some pretty knarly holes with big patches on em. obviously the threat to like, human safety is more concerning though. I actually hope you get to go back with some friends! with the right group of people it's a ridiculously good time in my experience.

[@durandus676]

2:09 my parents got their identity stolen in 2008. I remember thinking that meant we would be homeless.

[@roxacrocker9015]

Thank you Amanda for posting this Bouncy Castle video on this day of all days

[@Squadia]

Do not trust a ball pit. My friend works at a child's play museum as a janitor and she tells me the only time they clean the ball pit is if there is a liquid spill (vom, pee, etc.). Any other type of mess doesn't warrant a full cleaning so I know those pits are nasty as hell!

[@mema3258]

I went to the one in Atlanta a few years ago and had a freakin blast!!!!!!! My son, nephew, and I went to the adults session. We played dodge ball, karaoke, played volleyball, did the obstacle course, and other fun things. We wore crocs and just took them off and left them outside the houses. Easy on and off to walk between houses. Parking was free.

[@Lifelight_]

I'm scared that the day I get married, Amanda will upload a video about how terrible the reception was and how bad the party was without me knowing that she attended both.

[@cscats]

@5:49 My boyfriend and I went to the Big Bounce this year on a friday! Im pretty sure thats my boyfriend in the grey jacket bouncing around in the back of the the largest bounce house session. 😂 Hes 24 years old and has a very young face so i can see what you were saying about not knowing how young everyone is. I thought it was really unique! I'm 29 and was surprised how fast it winded me! Honestly I was happy about how empty it was because of how overwhelmed I get at super crowded events!

[@BasilGab]

Honestly I'm glad you posted this bc I see ads for it all the time and am always so tempted

[@TheKinseth]

This actually came to my city in August. It was in the parking lot of the local mall, which I guess is no worse than hard-packed dirt but all I could think about was how even slightly deflating those things would mean someone landing or jumping on asphalt.

[@LynnHermione]

0:10 You're welcome! :D

[@evknightful]

This video was the perfect distraction I needed today!

[@MoxieMcMurder]

Your new intro keeps bringing me so much satisfying joy. 😂

[@SnowshoeAviator]

My wife and I went to this event before COVID, it was a very fun date! We are both competitive so we had a great time doing the obstacle course. I would probably do it again.

[@ariesaraya1822]

The fact that she goes to so many things alone is inspirational.

[@whatever9097]

I am unfortunately a FNAF fan so I cannot think of ball pits without thinking of time traveling ball pits and agony monsters

[@evanforst7272]

“I am unfortunately a fnaf fan” is a Lowkey hilarious sentence. Live your life though I’m not judging

[@maggiedean5691]

I think its the agony memories of trapped souls, but yea i thought the same thing.

[@whatever9097]

@ well yeah that’s probably what the actual explanation is but it’s way funnier to just say it’s time travel

[@CocoabeanColette]

I went to this event pre-Covid for my 22nd birthday. It was silly goofy fun. Every piece of feedback you have for your experience aligns with the experience I had back then.

[@adventurerkate]

I went to one of these in 2019 with some friends. Had a decent time, the obstacle course was definitely the best part, but I ended up getting ringworm from it, so ya know.. she’s not kidding that these things are filthy.

[@uhoh947]

They came to my city and I distinctly remember *wanting* to go, but *also* got flashbacks to the Willie Wonka exhibit and was kind of sketched out because…. Yeah dude there’s no way you have the world’s biggest bounce castle, it’s probably just a bunch of bounce houses put together. Now I’m kinda sad I missed out 😔😔😔

[@leahdavis9434]

They tour every summer, next time!

[@cgretam1594]

Adults needs more activities to do that aren’t hiking or running or drinking every weekend

[@DaniDipp]

15:54 sorry, but the sound of you playing with the mic makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable, lol!

[@KatelinWagoner-bd7wq]

My wife and I went to one of their events back in the summer when they came to Indy. It was honestly so fun. I truly think that 1) going with someone and 2) event attendance makes a big difference in enjoyment. (And our adults only was daytime). There were so many more people at ours, we had a ton of fun interacting with others and commiserating in the exhaustion of the obstacle course lol. I 100% agree on the astroturf > there were exposed rocks in some of the field 😣 and my god, the shoe storage areas reek in the summer, so maybe if those had some air flow.

[@KatelinWagoner-bd7wq]

Oh and no, we didn’t do any smexy time. That’s disgusting for so many reasons.

[@alyshaking]

We have these giant bouncy obstacle courses in Australia and they're so well set up and manned. This... seems so dodge 😅

[@SarahTrala]

Thank you for checking this out. They were in our area and I was ready to drop money for our whole group to go…but it turns out they had a weight limit of 245lbs. That knocked out three in our group of six so we decided to go to an arcade instead.

[@sweller4674]

My husband and I went to one of the events when they came to our city. We signed up for the adult only session as well, but the entire thing was FULL of children the entire time. Not kids that could easily have been 16 or 17, but small children around age 5 or 6. And I'm talking TONS of them. We ended up being the only adults at the "adult only" session that weren't accompanying a little child. Felt kind of awkward the entire time, like we weren't really supposed to be there.

[@OneWingedDemonSlayer]

Shocked you didn’t get pink eye

[@VanessaChats]

3:30 ish ...Wait until you hit your 40s, you'll find that anyone under the age of 30 looks like a child. It amazes me as a 46yo how anyone around my age or older can possibly even consider to date someone that is half my age or under 30. They feel like they're still literal children. Now I understand why my parents (when they were my current age and I was a 'know it all teen/young adult') had similar thoughts. It seriously doesn't hit you this understanding until you're in mid life.

[@ReiYuriko]

I went to this with my partner when it was in my area and it was one of my favorite events. We had fun all 3 hours. We hung out in the ball pits and were just chillin. We never thought about doing anything in the ball pit and never saw anyone else doing anything either. The most we did was have a ball pit war with another couple in the ball pit next to us laughing like maniacs.

[@RyldsGirl]

Jurupa is a Spanish world. So the J is pronounced H. I live in the Inland Empire. I live across the river from that town.

[@bingonight1504]

hi neighbor

[@blueditto]

the noises from you touching your mic 😵‍💫

[@1barbsie]

I was thinking the same thing, please don't play with the mic...

[@jminecraftstyle752]

thank you for reviewing this! ive wanted to go for 3 years now and i was nervous it was a scam so im glad you checked it out!

[@okamco]

They were in the Dallas area earlier this spring in Grapevine, didn't get to go then so i'm glad you did!

[@brimillerxo]

my bf and i went a year or so ago and we had a lot of fun! it also showed us how devastatingly out of shape we are lmao for anyone who wants a little bit of a different experience: tldr: some locations are def better than others for this, absolutely want to go again one day - our event was held in a mall parking lot so parking was free - i actually think a parking lot lowkey does work better for this since the concern of wet socks from the grass wasn't a concern, there were also seemingly more mats on the floor in front of the entrances to the bouncy establishments - there def are some people who stay past their time, they're pretty on top of the big bounce house since it is done by time slots but other than that there aren't any checks i don't think (there were literal children, like under 10, there for some of our adult session) - we had lights, again because parking lot - we didn't have a foam one i'm jealous! space one was def the worst/most boring. we also had a four person slide thing if i remember correctly which was so fun, especially when you got paired with another couple - no, we didn't fuck in the bouncy castle, not even a thought that crossed my mind, i came to BOUNCE

[@Nenona1200]

Yeah carpet is a must, that's probably why they have dirt and stuff in the actual venue? like even just some tarps and some brushes to clean your feet off before you go in would help make sure less dirt is coming in. And lighting is huge for a nighttime venue, I guess at least it sounds like they could just get some floodlamps and be done with it.

[@amethyst_89]

I did this pre-covid with my boyfriend in St. Louis Missouri. We had fun and did the adults only session in the evening. It was pretty much the same set up then not enough lighting. It was worth it to us and was a fun date night. It was something that was fun and different.

[@tomorrowsucked4941]

Fully get going to most of the events you go to alone, but I feel like an adult bouncy house experience is gonna be better with friends. Easier to embrace your inner child with friends around

[@mayowhishes]

I rent out bounces for personal parties over the summer so targeted advertising was shoving these other bounce events down my throat loll !! Exciting that you went to one for me

[@sademorris2433]

My bestfriend and I went to this last year to kick off our summer. We picked the “adult” night to avoid kids, which definitely helped lol. BUT it rained the day before, so most of the stuff was still pretty wet, our socks were soggy and soaked😭 We jumped around for like 20mins -30mins tops and was exhausted. And because it was adult night, after an hour everyone was sitting down, hanging on to dear life cause we decided to bounce around like some children. But did i still enjoy it for the most part? Eh yea, but its one of those things you do it once, you dont really need to do it again😂 my body felt it the next day. I appreciate the free water they had too, they couldve been greedy and capitalized off the fact that ppl would get thirsty

[@cadycastle9957]

Heyyyyy new intro!! Nice, lol I only noticed because the bangs of the glasses when you drop them was slightly louder than the old.

[@fourcatsandagarden]

bet that security guard was just absolutely not being paid enough lol

[@nsta5796]

Came to my area and I loved it. Good size crowd but not a long wait for anything or awuished up on anyone since there were so many options to go on and the land was so big. I loved it we had so much fun! Especially the obstacles courses. Those were so hard. The parking thing was annoying tho I agree. 3hrs is more than enough time and eveyone kept it wholesome and clean where I was at. Huge workout and yeah so fun as a date with the hubby. All and all loved. Mine didnt have lockers wish it did. Kt only had the shoes thing which i think xould have been nice to have lottle booties or something for our feet, but ours was in a field during the day so no real worries about stepping on something unknown

[@YukeWeiss]

We have a chain of trampoline parks called Bounce and it is so good! First time I went a friend rolled their ankle within 2 minutes which was awkward but I do love going there.

[@cyberfairy06]

“That’s it, that’s my intro!” INSTANTLY CURES MY DEPRESSION EVERY TIME

[@user-hh1wd3tf6i]

The "world's biggest" bounce castle was sorta in my area recently, but we found a similar, but slightly smaller version that was closer and much cheaper. We took our young child, and they loved it. But this was at like 9 am and only a handful of other little kids there. No free water, and in a mall parking lot. Definitely fun for kids, but we didn't stay our whole 3 hours. Also can confirm, was filthy. But it's a public permanently outdoor attraction, targeted mainly at children, so...

[@Brushbell]

I had a great time at this with a bunch of friends last year! but it was the one in Pasadena so maybe that one was nicer? it’s so much fun for our group but I also love watching Surviver for the obstacle courses and enjoy rock climbing and did a tough mudder two years ago so I will say this HAS to be your thing to enjoy

[@toastglue8199]

This event rents out the field next to my neighborhood for the past like 5 years every summer and it gets so full that people start parking in our neighborhood to not pay the parking fee 😂 glad to see theyre not only on the east coast

[@sophiae.anderson4646]

I need you to be apart of Cramer games next summer

[@lesbean5545]

Ive been to this event 2 times, each with a group of 3 people including myself. I loved it and would recommend it, it is gross but worth it as a fun event with friends. It travels around and both times ive been to it i was in Minnesota and the food trucks were local. I've only done the adult time slots because from what i remember they heavily encourage only going in the time slot you apply to.