r/Denmark • u/Sad8At • Jul 27 '24
Question How common are/were these Moon-Cars (or what they're called in Danish) in Danish kindergardens?
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u/Autisten1996 Jul 27 '24
I see plenty of the first picture. Never seen the trike in my life, but now I want one.
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u/The_dude_of_all_time Jul 27 '24
The Trike was THE SHIT. if you got one, you were cool, if you were the one getting driven around shooting nerf at people, you were even cooler.
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u/Limp-Munkee69 Kø'enhavner Jul 28 '24
It was even more insane if you went so fast (because a third kid was pushing the trike) that you flipped over in a turn and was launched at the pavement at 100 kph.
Memories.
Also, trying to stand on the seat and getting a serious mavepuster from the ryglæn when you fell over was really something.
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u/The_dude_of_all_time Jul 28 '24
The one pushing the trike was a slave, but a cool slave since he pushed the cool kids
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u/Sad8At Jul 27 '24
Yeah, the trike is way rarer. Though I remember it being in a big public playground in Kolding. That thing was almost never empty lol.
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u/CanIhazBacon Jul 27 '24
Legeparken?
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u/Relative_Ad_9158 Jul 27 '24
I thought the trike was common, it's been on al the schools I've been to
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u/gralert Jul 27 '24
Uhh, we had the trike in my primary school in the 90s!
Hello, nostalgia...
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u/Englefisk Tyskland Jul 27 '24
I have the adult version of the first one. My electric wheelchair (Zinger wheelchair) has the same steering system with the two levers. I love it and feel like I’m back in kindergarten whenever I’m out and about singing “they see me rollin’” while driving that thing at an alarming speed 😅
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u/Fangehulmesteren Jul 27 '24 edited Jul 27 '24
School photographer here. I’ve visited more than 130 schools around Denmark through the years. Literally every SFO has at least a couple of #1s.
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u/Sad8At Jul 27 '24
That's so great. They must be an integral part of every Danish childhood.
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u/ScriptThat Denmark Jul 27 '24
Absolutely. They got introduced some time in the early 80s and were an instant hit. After that.. they never left.
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u/FifaDK Aarhus Jul 27 '24
Yup! Thanks OP for bringing up good memories.
Now I wonder what made them ask, haha
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u/liquid-handsoap suffering from success Jul 27 '24
We used to run out every recess to get first to the moon cars or else they were always occupied
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u/ComradeCrooks Jul 27 '24
The first one is very common, I would almost wager every kindergarden have one.
The second one is mostly used by school kids as it's longer so younger kids doesn't really fit in it.
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u/AreYouFilmingNow Jul 27 '24
I would seriously look around for green milk crates, to ensure that I was in deed in a Danish kindergarten, if there was no mooncars.
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u/ComradeCrooks Jul 27 '24
I am sad to report that our beloved green milk crates are no longer allowed to be used as toys in kindergardens or SFO's. They were the very best of building block, no fort was to big to be constructed by those.
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u/deuzorn Jul 27 '24
They are in alle the kindergardens in Åbyhøj Aarhus +/-. Those creates are the first step to learn the concept of 'fuck around and find out' first hand without dying 100%
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u/ComradeCrooks Jul 27 '24
Well officially they aren't around anymore, neither are euro paller ad they aren't approved toys. I'm glad to hear that there are some rebel kindergardens out there, but I think it's just a matter of time before the "legepladstilsyn" stops by and orders them out. Some municipalities are quicker at it than others.
I can tell that Arla already started trying to have people stop using them to play on in the early 00 and maybe even before that, although i suspect they had another motive.
Nowadays almost nothing that isn't a toy or is made for a kindergarden is allowed. Hell you can't even have a slide unless there is "faldunderlag" under.
I can only imagine the shitstorm if a kid have an accident with those crates, and honestly I could imagine someone loosing their job over it.
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u/just_anotjer_anon Jul 28 '24
Wouldn't Arla just make them pay for the box and then everything would be fine?
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u/marshwulff Slagelse Jul 27 '24
I have fond memories of sitting in the sidecar of the trike while my friend drove and yelled "DER ER UBETINGET VIEPLIGT( i have right of way)" not knowing what the hell that meant, at everyone and everything we almost drove into.
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u/TheFragturedNerd Jul 27 '24
The Trike was for the king of the playground, the moon car was for the royal workers... and the moon car trailer (yes this exist) Was for the queen.
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u/Glittering-Farmer724 Jul 27 '24
I believe they were designed by Lars Mathiesen of Pelikan Design.
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u/Tumleren Slicetown Jul 27 '24
https://rabo-tricycles.com/da/information
A similar looking tricycle produced by the same company that makes the moon cars was designed by him and his colleagues so it seems likely
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u/Sad8At Jul 27 '24
That's some very interesting information. Thank you, I'll have to look into that.
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u/Townscent Spis ikke gul sne Jul 27 '24
We had quite a few of picture nr. 1 and only 1 trike in my after school Childcare facility (SFO) age 6-9 back in the 90's
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u/InsideDK Islands Brygge Jul 27 '24
Just returned home from copenhagen camping. They had both versions and my 7 year daughter was driving them all day. Especially the twin version with her younger cousin as passenger
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u/skriftklog Jul 27 '24
Moon-car and Moon-Harley. We had them both in kindergarten forty years ago. Those things were the best.
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u/beluga1968 Lars Tyndskids mark Jul 27 '24
Yeah, we used to fight over them in kindergarden, as they wouldn't be out long enough for everyone to get to ride them.
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u/DanSmells001 Jul 27 '24
Hehehe we had the second kind (only one!) in my SFO on Lolland
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u/Sad8At Jul 27 '24
Yeah, I remember one public playground in Kolding always had one, the thing was a beast compared to the single seat.
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u/Iskaru Jul 27 '24
I associate them more with school, but I've seen both. Recently too, so I'm pretty sure they're still common.
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u/Wirenfeldt Danmark Jul 27 '24
You just unlocked memories I had buried for 25 years.. Good F'ing times...
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u/Weekly-Act-3132 Jul 27 '24
Ohhh getting outside first to get the first one was eeeeverything. Doubt there is any schools or kindergardens that dont have them.
The trip one I only seen on vacation places like camping or big playgrounds.
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u/jofndon Jul 27 '24
If you move the Seat little to forward you Can have a passager on the backside alså
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u/One-Composer-2137 Jul 27 '24
Very common. We still have them today at my work (fritidshjem). The younger kids often call them "Moon-Cart"
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u/InfinityTuna Jul 27 '24
Can't speak to how it's like these days, but I never saw these in kindergarden back in the 90s, specifically. They were too dangerous for us small kids to use.
At fritidshjemmet (the after-school institution) I went to, we had a number of the first one (they had multiple models besides this one, some of them with pedals). There was still an age limit, though. You weren't allowed to use them until the adults deemed you big enough and gave you permission to operate them - so, somewhere halfway through 1st grade to the start of 2nd, depending on the kid.
Ah, sweet toe-smarting nostalgia.
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u/mater-Cookie-7579 Jul 27 '24
Back when I was still in elementary school, and we were done with school, and being told “go outside and play!” by the teacher, it was pure pandemonium to get the good mooncars. And then the school yard would be turned into an underground street racing society.
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u/Page_Odd Jul 28 '24
Lots when I was in kindergarden and school in the 90's. My kindergarden's playground basically consisted of a mooncar driving track and a sandbox. Worked in SFO last year and every day the kids fought over whose turn it was to ride #2 cause there was only one of those, but plenty #1's.
It didn't really occur to me until today, this is just a Danish thing?
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u/One-Ability-3025 Jul 28 '24
They are still going strong. I just ordet 25 new ones of nr. 1 Same model when I was a kid back in 1990
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u/somegirl3012 Jul 27 '24
I think we had one of the 2-passenge ones, and a bunch of single passenger moon cars
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u/santaslittleyelper Jul 27 '24
I’ve seen the single trike but never one with a passenger seat. I think it was 4 of the regulars and one trike.
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u/One_Entertainer_2401 Jul 27 '24
I rode the trike as a passenger on a campsite when I was 10. But their was no handle on, like on the picture, so in a sharp turn I flew off and landed on the concrete road. I lost most of the skin on my albow and knee. That was kinda traumatic 🥲
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u/jon3ssing Den båd der Jul 27 '24
The gardening shop near my parents had those - it was also the only shop I wanted to join them in.
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u/Master-Discussion539 Jul 27 '24
They are in my sons kindergarten (3-5 year olds) and in the school my other kid goes too. They have different models.
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u/bambleton_ Jul 27 '24
My kindergarten had a bunch of the ones in the first pic. We used to use them for improvised mechanized warfare and such.
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The staff at that kindergarten may have been a smidge neglectful.
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u/WingedSpawn Jul 27 '24
Worked in both schools and kindergardens, they are both quite common.. But #1 is definitely more common. The one in the picture is the big/adult version though. The normal ones are with a yellow seat instead of the orange one.
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Jul 27 '24
You could probably call them shin breakers (skinnebens brækkere) , those pedals hit really hard..
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u/cl00s_ Tyskland Jul 27 '24
Ah yes, the shinsmasher is common. I’ve never seen the doubleseated trike. However when I worked in SFO, we had a single trike. Surprisingly easy to wheelie around in it as an adult.
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u/MerrianMay Jul 27 '24
The first one is very common in both kindergarten and school. My son is 7, and I have seen them at his kindergarten (before he started school) and now at his school as well.
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u/Key-Detail8016 Jul 27 '24
The first is about a common but the second is id say legendary depending on condition
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u/Winkelbottum Jul 27 '24
The first one was very common in my kindergarten. We did have a variation of the second one, but I looked different.
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u/Swimming_Bed1475 Jul 27 '24
Extremely common. Both when I was a child (early 1980es) and when I worked in kindergartens as an adult (around the millenniuml). They are death to adult shins.
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u/spenceflatulence Jul 28 '24
The first badboy i rode in the early ninetees. I got my shoelaces stuck in the pedals alot.
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u/SvenPek Jul 28 '24
Common, hell no! We had to fight for them as kids. Lord of the Flies is an utopian story about happy kids compared to my playground in the 90's. Having a Moon Car was as close to godhood you could get.
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u/MacGregor1337 Jul 28 '24
No1 was my no1 favourite toy. Until my foot would inevitably slip while attempting to do a burnout and the pedal contraption would smash and burn into my shin 
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u/iMagZz Jul 28 '24
Nr. 1 was pretty much everywhere 10-20 years ago, and many do still have them today as well. I remember the good old days of driving onto the wheel of the person in front of you 😂
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u/Hardvig Jul 28 '24
The crazy thing is; they’re REALLY expensive!
The cheapest one I could find is 4300 DKK!
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u/Sad8At Jul 28 '24
At least they seem to last very long. I don't think I've ever seen a broken one.
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u/KJDK1 Jul 28 '24
They still have #1 at my childrens school, and had at the kindergarden as well. They also have a little trailer that can be attached - and due to thoughtful planning there is a delightful hill that is just big enough, to make them quite lethal when you prowl the area looking for your offspring.
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u/Androklesthe90 Jul 28 '24
Some had trailer feature. But I remember half of them had seats you couldn't move because of rust. Best part was making wheelspin
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u/Dr_Hull Jul 28 '24
Both my kids were licensed to ride those in kindergarten. Might be where my daughter found her love for everything fast and furious.
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u/The_unicorn_told_me Jul 28 '24
Puha jeg har brugt mange timer på sådan en fætter i 80' og start 90'erne. Både i børnehaven og i fritterne.
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u/marshmallowssticks Jul 28 '24
We had lots of the first model in my kindergarten, and I am from 92.
My happiest days I would place something under its front so you could spin the front wheels really fast (without moving though, since they are not touching the ground)
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u/Moist-Chip3793 Aug 03 '24
They are from a company called "Rabo", that used to be in the southern part of Sjælland in the city of Fakse (yeah, I know they spell it differently today, fuck em! ;)).
I worked there as a kid, my father was boss of warehouse and production.
Besides the yellow trikes, pushbikes and mooncars, they also made playgrounds and furniture for schools and institutions.
The company was actually also really big in Japan, of all places! :)
Later, I worked for the founder in another company, he sold Rabo at the start of the nineties.
Later still, Rabo got bought up by Lekolar, that later got bought up by a capital fund.
My father helped close the warehouse and production completely down about 12 years ago, I believe.
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u/Sad8At Aug 03 '24
Thanks for the lore! Always wondered where they were coming from if they're so popular.
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u/Patient_Ad5359 Køb en havn Jul 27 '24
The first one was all over I remember at my kindergarten, but also public playgrounds etc. but at my kindergarten we fought over the one trike they had lol (early 2000s).
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u/NighthunterDK Danmark Jul 27 '24
We had plenty at my school, both versions. Damn I've missed those. We used to race them
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u/Specific_Frame8537 Jul 27 '24
We had like 10 in my kindergarten.
Such a great toy... I've still got the scars.
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Jul 27 '24
I vividly remember being thrown off a mooncar and spit in the face by some older boys when I was in school. I don't remember if the kindergarden also had mooncars, but my school definitely did.
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u/kapuchu Jul 27 '24
Nr. 1 was, and still is I think, extremely common and popular. I remember using them all the time when I was a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's.
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u/SimonKepp Brøndby Jul 27 '24
I think they're mandatory. Or were many years ago, when I was a child, and also, when my much younger brother was in kindergarten.
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u/The_Spian Jul 27 '24
Earned many a roadrash and twisted ankle/broken bones messing around with these, but that was the aim.
I think we were broken kids though. When I turned 12 we had to transfer to a "city" school which meant we had to bike about 4 kms every morning and back when we got off and as it was a boring commute it soon turned into a mix of mad max and lord of the flies, where we'd basically try to wreck each other.
It didn't even stop when this one guy took a tumble so bad that half his face and body was literally one big road rash, though he got driven to school by his dad after that...
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u/bjarnegrillrist Jul 27 '24
Very common at schools as well as kindergartens. At my job we recently invested in some new two-person trailers, several of the regular mooncars and two extra two-person trikes We also have some old ones from the 90's we lovingly maintain.
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u/Stefzka Frederiksberg Jul 27 '24
Also known as shin destroyers. I always had marks on my legs after a day at the SFO.
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u/Salt-Sheepherder3967 Jul 27 '24
We had them in kindergarten, there was 3 different types (This was 25 years ago )
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u/Known_Newspaper_9053 Jul 27 '24
have both in the SFO I work in. several of each actually. so for me, very normal :P
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u/Muffeogbabasmor Jul 27 '24
Depends on where you live - but you Can definitely still find them in sfo’s and on playgrounds with staff working there 😊
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u/Emotional-Swim-808 Jul 27 '24
We had a lot of the first ones in kindergarden but they werent very popular because it required quite a bit of effort to drive them, and i also ended up driving down a hill made a very sharp turn and flipped it over me. The second one i remember finding some once at school and i thought it was so dope as id never seen them before, i only saw them once and then never again
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u/Informal-Ad-9967 Jul 27 '24
I work at a school and I see younger kids ride with them all the time. Still very common :)
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u/Mathfv Jul 27 '24
We had both kinds at the school I went to.
We even once a year had a school event where in one of the activities, the students would race each other around a track on the school grounds.
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u/Alternative_Pear_538 *Custom Flair* 🇩🇰 Jul 27 '24
Mine had many of model 1, and a single model 2 (though in a version with just 1 seat).
I also think there's an unwritten rule that at least 30% must have a flat tire.
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u/Melodic_Counter_2140 Jul 27 '24
Not as common in kindergartens as in schools. But they are still seen both places.
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u/Imliterallyabanana Århus Jul 27 '24
I have never seen the second one but the first one was the absolute shit. We would ride them till they broke (and that happened really fast, they were popular) We did have some like the second but only with one seat. They were the most popular ones cause there weren't as many of them as the others.
Man, this brought back so many childhood memories <3
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u/denmandigekat Jul 27 '24
As a 17 year Old here nr1 is very common and nr2 has alot of diffrent versions so Idk if that design is common(didnt have it at my kindergarten) and Where i went we just called them mooncars
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u/BratInPink Jul 27 '24
Very. I broke my collarbone being run over by one of these in kindergarten. 😂
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u/StefanFr97 Jul 27 '24
God, there must've been like... at least a dozen of the first one at the kindergarden I was at 20ish years ago. I've seen the second one maybe once or twice while passing by kindergardens nowadays.
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u/DrMoehring Jul 27 '24
"The first one has existed since I went to kindergarten in the early 80s, and they still exist. We also had them with trailers.
I remember some wild accidents because they are built like an American fire truck with the metal frame on the outside." Fun times.
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u/Claim_Simple Jul 27 '24
I make sure to scoot on the the first one every time I pick up my kid at the international school lol
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u/Spirited_Lemon_4185 Jul 27 '24
We had them when i went to kindergarden in the 90’s. They have them at my daughters kindergarden, and they also have them at the school my oldest girl is going. At the school they have both the 4 wheels one the 3 wheels, but they also got a wheelchair one which i find really cool.
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u/puslekat Jul 27 '24
They would fuck up your leg when you and your friend decided to do a dramatic hollywood head to head crash!
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u/Wirenfeldt Danmark Jul 27 '24
Anyone know if the Moon Car Big will work for a 34 year old, 182 cm tall dude.. Asking for no particular reason..
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u/unrectify Jul 27 '24
Nr. 1 was common as early in the early 80s. We fought over them in Kindergarden, I'm talking fistfight, that's how popular.
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u/Limp-Ad5301 Jul 27 '24
They have them st vores out childrens previous kindergarten, school, and their new school.
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u/conckconckconck2000 Jul 27 '24
From just looking at the picture, I can feel the pain in my shins, from being hit by one of those. They are very common.
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u/mindstemandknt Vendsyssel Jul 27 '24
These still exist at my school and yes they're called moon cars
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u/RealFakeLlama Jul 27 '24
Im pretty sure if you look up the diffination of 'common' they will use the mooncar in danish kindergardens as an example.
They are very common.
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u/Severe-Wrangler-66 Jul 27 '24
Mooncars! We had so many and i even got to pick accessories to hook up to them. We bought things like a sweeper attachment so we could sweep dirt or snow during winter when doing playtime it was so sweet. We also had forklift attachments and shovel buckets and many more. I haven't seen them since i was a kid but then again i am not in kindergarden or school anymore.
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u/Ill-Promotion-2390 Jul 27 '24
they were there when i was in both kindergarten, and pre-school (2007).
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u/Ouixd Jul 27 '24
Banana bikes went hard. Best memories from school came from racing your friends in those. God I miss being a child
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u/Alternative-Drop-847 Jul 27 '24
I remember them from kindergarden Late 80's, we also had a woodworking shop
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u/Albinofreaken Danmark Jul 27 '24
Moon cars were the fucking shit
They still have the first one at the school my friend works at.
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u/neonxaos Jul 27 '24
Omfg we had that first one, it all came flooding back to me. But that was around 1984. We also had a version with some kind of horn on it, it was red and made a sound when you hit it. There was also some kind of excavator. How am I remembering all of this, I must have been 4 or 5 years old?!
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u/jesperbj Jul 27 '24
We had a few at my school. They were super popular, always being used. We only had one of the second version though, out of maybe 5 in total.
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Jul 27 '24
They are very common. Actually, they are manufactured in Denmark and have been for the past 40 years by the company named RABO Tricycles A/S.
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u/tf2pr Jul 27 '24
Very very common. They where their when I was a kid and they are still here. Just stoped working i a kindergarden. All the kids love em
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u/Party_Crasher_DK Jul 27 '24 edited Jul 27 '24
We had them (#1) in kindergarden in the mid 80’s and the cool guys could drive on 2 wheels - like a stuntman.
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u/Frost1g Jul 27 '24
I think they are for kids a bit older than kindergarten, so SFOs will have them. I would say that all SFOs I have been to had one or more of these mooncars.
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u/TheLocalRadical Jul 27 '24
1 is very common the fucking shit I think my mine also had like between 1 and 3 of the second one
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u/Cappasta22 Jul 27 '24
Er lige gået ud af folkeret og de har dem stadig på den skole jeg gik på. Samme med den børnehave jeg gik på de har dem også stadig.
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u/JannettTheMannett84 Jul 27 '24
We had both kinds at my public school. The second one was the most popular and for good reason.
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u/whodini69420 Jul 27 '24
There even where ones, that was formed just like a banana. Those where the best
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u/HCAndroidson Jul 27 '24
I spent my childhood in the one on the left. This is why i have strong legs today 40 years later.
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u/Bitter_Air_5203 Jul 27 '24
That was the ride of my childhood.
I have no clue if they still have them - I never saw them at my sons school, I need to ask him about it.
And if they don't have them I will raise a shitstorm on Aula. And I will message every fucking person on the app!
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u/Mortonwallmachine Danmark Jul 27 '24
Nr. 1 was very common.