[peggmeg]

Hi! This is the author of this piece, and since a lot of you seem to be interested in rise and fall of the ball pit, I wanted to add that there are two exceptions where the ball pit seems to live on (at least in the US):

- Here and there, you'll find ball pits that seem to exist for the sole purpose of providing Instagram photo ops and seem to be more for adults than children (The Color Factory chain of museums is a notable example)

- There also seems to be a growing demand for private ball pit rentals in the same vein of the rental bouncy houses you'll find sometimes at children's parties

I couldn't find a ton of up-to-date information concerning ball pits outside of North America, so it's interesting to hear that they're still alive and well in Europe! I suspected they might be thriving elsewhere based on this sort of silly article about a woman getting stuck in a ball pit in Singapore

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/desperate-mum-drown...

Anyway, thanks for reading!

[philliphaydon]

In Taiwan and Singapore, ball pits exist in like every single childrens in-door playground.

https://honeykidsasia.com/indoor-play-centres-in-singapore-f...

Few of these have photos.

Here's a couple of local articles about the mum drowning in the ball pit and the response from AirZone.

https://mothership.sg/2018/02/airzone-suspended-playground-s...

https://mothership.sg/2018/02/suspended-playground-net/

[Handytinge]

They're also still super common in Australia, both for kids in playcenters and restaurants, and in nightclubs for the 18-23 year old demographic.

[klyrs]

FYI, there is a big business of playplaces in Canada, and by and large, they appear to be independently run. Most of the ones I've been to have ball pits. The good ones have pneumatic "cannons" that kids can shoot the same balls out of.

[dfxm12]

Here and there, you'll find ball pits that seem to exist for the sole purpose of providing Instagram photo ops and seem to be more for adults than children

Come to think of it, the last time I saw a ball pit was at a party where Lipton was promoting sparkling iced tea (so there was a general bubble theme). You jumped into a ball pit and they took a video so you could post it to Instagram, or whatever.