A friend of mine showed me the same techniques from the commercial on an ordinary baseball. Its called "contact juggling" anyone can do it with some practice. Thanks to him I didn't get suckered into buying the ball.
i bought my first fushigi in like 1998. it started floating on its own, i couldnt move it, to this day its still floating in ohio, i couldnt bring it with me when i left. there is talk that it was turned into the first perpetual motion source of energy, so the house i moved out of has full handicap accessibility, a geothermal water source that could withstand the zombie apocalypse and heat the house, and now the fushigi.
Mom thought of me when she saw this on TV and ordered two. She told me how excited she was to buy it for me specifically and I could not tell her how this turned out to be nothing like expected. Can’t bring myself to throw them out even 8 years later because she was so proud to gift them to me.
I have found a use for it after I rediscovered it in a box at my parents house. Since now 10 years later my lower back muscles get really tight. This ball works perfect for pressing into my lumbar muscles and loosening those muscles to relieve pain.
my cousin got one of these for his birthday one year. he was disappointed at first, but his resolve was a lot stronger than most 9 year old children. he eventually gained some degree of skill in manipulating it but nothing like in the ads. he was probably one of the few kids who left the fushigi ball satisfied
When I was working at Starbucks we hired someone who said he was a "contact juggler", this is back when phones only had "snake"/no internet so I just took him at his world. He pretty much would take 3-4 steel balls(they were about the size of a tangerine) and would do all kinds of crazy random things. I've never had or needed a reason to bring him or that story up, but then you had to go and bring up Fushigi....the toy that isnt a toy
Good marketing on their part for making it so confusing what it was supposed to do lol It’s a nice illusion gag but didn’t really do anything special besides those few party tricks.
@@Narko_Marko what?? anyway a clear ball like this will literally turn sunlight into a pin point laser that will burn anything behind it, if it was sitting stationary. Like a magnifying glass
I was just thinking about this damn ball the other day. I spent all 20 of my 10 year old dollars on it 10 years ago and it was to this day the most disappointing thing I went through in my entire life lmao
When I was six years old all I wanted for Christmas was an inflatable Mr Man chair (Mr Bump) and a stapler. The first thing I did was have my dad inflate the chair and the second thing I did was staple the chair. Apparently I was upset with the results but I think now that I honestly had that plan all along. This was back in 1985 so I couldn't ask for a phone or games console so the chair and stapler were legit wants at that time.
@@thatthingyouseeatthecorner5249 Oh yes! I wasted thousands of staples but also became the "go to" person in the house for anything that actually needed stapling too. I have no idea why I was so fascinated by staplers when I was a child though. I still get a bit of a buzz out of using the hammer stapler at work though.
LMFAOOOOO this video was so clear and amazing. They truly finessed everyone that didn't have strict parents like I did. If I were to ask my mom for something from TV she'd slap me
Someone did the put the pencil up his nose and out his ear magic trick in class. When the teacher asked him what he did and when he said "A magician never reveals his secrets", she freaked out. She screamed at him and then told him to go to the principal office and explain it to her...
5:39 If I remember right, that's the main menu screen of the DVD. It's not supposed to be silent; it should've played the song you hear in the commercial.
My stomach hurts from laughing. I got suckered into buying one of those back in the day. Your “juggling” made me laugh so hard as it Looked just like mine after hours of practice. Great video. Thanks.
Every year I had a Christmas wish and when this product aired on TV I asked for it Greatest mistake cz I could have gotten an additional PS2 game and not some phony ball
When I first got this when I was 10, I was very disappointed when I found out it was a scam but I kept it and years later I found it again and decided to paint it into a pokeball on one side, a master ball on the back, a dragon ball on the top, and a smash ball on the bottom
I remember this being advertised all the time on TV when I was a kid, even back then I thought it was most likely baloney, so I never had any desire to get one. I forgot this thing existed after all of these years until I was watching a 2000's commercial compilation for fun and the Fushigi ball came up. As a kid watching the ad I noticed it was a shiny ball inside a clear shell, although I thought perhaps there was another smaller weighted ball inside of the shiny part, or maybe a magnetic ball inside to help do balancing tricks. Nope, it's just a regular ball. It just had a weird name and they hyped it up to be the greatest thing ever made. I think we don't have to censor that guy's review on Amazon here in the comments section, we can say it; Fushitty.
My cousin got one when we were kids and thought it was the coolest thing ever lmao. Everyone thought as seen on tv stuff was cool so at least he was happy. Anyone remember Moonshoes?!
I remember this commercial all too well from watching a ton of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network when I was younger. My mind was blown at the time. Now, after seeing it's a scam, well, I still watch it for nostalgia reasons lol
My uncle had one. I used to play with them but the tricks sucked. There was a huge crack but i still played with it. Later he threw it away. I was mad at him but now that i see this, i feel bad about it and will probably buy him a coke or something
I remember begging for one when I was a kid and eventually getting one. Although it wasn’t what I thought it was I loved my fushigi so much I brought it to school to show all my friends. I probably still have it somewhere and even as an adult I think this thing is awesome.
I’ll tell my story a (poor story). My parents never bought anything aired on tv or commercials, which was a good thing. However, I did have a somewhat interest or slight curiosity to this ‘magic levitating ball’. As a teenager, one day browsing a local Walgreens store, there was one fushigi box opened with the physical ball outside of it. Someone else has opened it inside the store & left it there. No I did not steal it, tho that may have been my initial thought, but I did pick it up & try to move it around & immediately knew it was just a glass like, heavy, metal ball, said this stupid, put it back on the shelf & bought my $1 bag of onion ring chips & Arizona drink 🤣
I don't know how but my sister got a hold of one of these back in the 00's, and I've seen that dvd lying around the house more times than I'd like to count. I'd much rather take the palm-sized UFO, or that little fuzzy, wiggly little worm thing over Fushigi. At least with those, it's just string magic, and much simpler to pull off. Great stepping stone into contact juggling.
I had never heard of this thing until I bought myself a proper stage ball and started looking up videos to teach myself contact juggling. Now suddenly videos about this weird ball are being recommended to me alongside proper contact juggling videos. I’m watching coz I’m intrigued. I feel sorry for all the kids who got conned by it. I know that I absolutely would have been one of them had I seen this advert but, thankfully for kid me, I don’t think it ever made it’s way over to the UK
I remember getting fushigi for christmas, I believe it was in 2011, I remember opening the box to start playing with it to see the "magic." But instead, it slipped out of my hand and landed on the floor just like a regular ball. I only played with it for a couple of days and completely lost interest in it after that. It was just a plastic ball, that was it. No anti-gravity, no magic, completely got fooled by the scam.
Honestly I love it. I use it as a massage roller, for pressure point relief, it’s great for massages on the plantar fascia. It works well on carpet though because it’s too slick on other surfaces.
I had one as a child and not once did I think it was a scam... I guess that's because I knew the laws of physics couldn't be broken with a cheap toy. I bought one EXPECTING it to be a trick. That's the point. It's like buying a magic kit. You buy it with the expectation that it'll allow you to perform cool tricks. Not once did I think the ball was going to levitate or anything stupid like that. How did people get scammed by this?
It scares me how I just found mine in the garage after years of forgetting it existed, and I find this video the day after. Google, am I on the watchlist?
The “illusion” of the ball never worked on me. Even the commercial was bad at convincing me it was floating. I’m still surprised people seriously thought is was more than a regular ball
Dude…. This video helped me get childhood closure that I didn’t know I needed lmaoo!! I totally feel the same way, contact juggling is fine and dandy but shame on this company misleading a generation of children lmaooo
My friend Billy had one of those when I was 10 and he was 9. He thought that the ball stayed in a place no matter what he did, but he’d shake so much while performing and it didn’t, for a second, look the way it was supposed to.
I remember being like 8 around the time these ads were running and thinking that this was stupid. Maybe I just didn't "get it" as a kid but I remember the ads making me upset. I would lean to my dad and say "they'll sell anything huh?" thinking I was so smart before going back to watching Yu-Gi-Oh. To this day I'm still not really sure what you're supposed to "get" out of this.
So hilarious. My 11 year old just bought a used one (in perfect condition - the DVD was still in its wrapper) for $1 at a school rummage sale. Watched your video before we even started playing with it. Thanks so much for putting this together. Maybe he'll be a professional contact juggler. Who knows!
Funnily enough I remembered this commercial barely and looked into it and lo and behold! Hmm a YTer I’ve watched for the last couple months has a video on it. Thanks Holden!
I remember asking my granddad for this. He looked at the commercial one time, told me it was fake, and walked out of my room. And that was that (even though I still wanted it lol)
I found one at Walmart years ago on clearance for $10 I think. Its only purpose was to get people interested in contact juggling. The commercials, of course, overhyped it.
Damn i randomly had the word fushigi pop into my head and clicked on this video after doing my obligatory search on youtube and godamn this video was great earned a new sub!
One time someone brought one to school and they were showing off to their friends how cool and mysterious was this "floating" that they acquired. I was like "can i see it?" And they were like "its not as easy as it looks". And right off the bat i was able to perfectly replicate every trick from the commercial....in the same order....because i have seen the ad a million times and already figured out on my own that its all about gripping the ball with narrow or small parts of your hands and occasionally your antecubital fossa, while moving your hand around in ways that the ball doesn't appear to move. Keep in mind, this 12 year old that i once was would eventually grow up to solve a 5x5 rubicks cube long before figuring out how to solve a 2x2, and has a 17-0 winstreak against all sorts of escape rooms. I was like "oh sure...real hard...." the kid's friend was impressed but he tried to downplay it by say "oh he probably hand his own fushigi and practiced with it already." And i responded with "actually this is the first time i have ever seen one in real life.....i'm just not stupid..." ....both of those kids beat me up that day for saying that.....to this day, i am still not sorry because they were both quite stupid.
Saw a used one in a thrift shop. I passed it by. The clearness on the borders of the ball, is what, besides precise hand movements, gives the illusion of defying gravity.
I remember I wanted this a lot as a kid and I took a shiny silver Christmas ornament and achieved the same effect. Then I got one from my aunt as a gift and it soon became forgotten lolll
I definitely remember seeing the ads for this as a kid, but I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I saw them. I thought the illusion was cool, but fortunately I was old enough to understand that the illusion was coming from the skill of the performers and not the ball (despite what the ad wanted me to believe).
Lol I remember that commercial, I was suspicious of this as a kid because I knew they were trying to make it look like it floats but Everytime it was obvious it wasn’t floating, even in the commercials
Hadn't really watched you since I moved out of Pensacola but just want to say I'm super impressed and congrats for how much you've grown since 2017 when I found you since I was moving to the panhandle. My friend had one of these when I was younger and man...such a scam! lol
A friend wanted one so bad yet even as kids we knew I was a scam. He finally got one and he brought it in to prove to us it was not a scam. So the obvious happened, we all huddled around the computer watching the DVD watching the scam unfold. Here we are, 11 years later, we still make fun of him for getting it.
So an Ashleigh Burton reaction video to Labyrinth brought me to a Fushigi Ball commercial which brought me to Holden Hardman whose reaction videos I already watch and sub to lol. RU-vid is fascinating.
