Talk:Moonwalk (bounce house)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncy_castle need to merge these - not to mention a factual discrepancy about the origin between the two

Merger/Rewrite
This article and the bouncy castle article describe the exact same thing (for instance, I just saw an episode of the US drama TV series, Six Feet Under in which what is called "a moon bounce" features in one scene - and this moon bounce is designed to look like a cartoon castle - very much like the one pictured in the bouncy castle article in fact), and should be merged. Also rewritten due to the fact there seem to be competing US and UK stories about when and how this entertainment was invented in the early 1960s; also more wikification and referencing needed. Suggest merging to Moonwalk (bounce house) due to the fact the 5x greater population of the US means this term is in wider usage. Bwithh 01:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Suggest merging to Bouncy castle as this article was written a good year or more before Moonwalk. &mdash; Matt Crypto 00:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I think it should ultimately depend on if we can come up with who actually invented the device first. Bwithh 20:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * These guys say it was John Scurlock in the U.S. I couldn't readily find anything to back it up, but there is a John Scurlock with several U.S. patents from around that time involving inflatable structures-- not "moonwalks" as such, but "inflatable members" (like the sides of the moonwalk) and a big inflatable cushion for catching people falling from great heights. Crypticfirefly 03:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)  A further comment-- the earliest cite for "bouncy castle" given in the OED is 1986. Crypticfirefly 03:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * When there's difference in usage of a term in various varieties of English, the normal Wikipedia solution is to use whichever term was used first; in this case, bouncy castle predates Moonwalk (bounce house). &mdash; Matt Crypto 16:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Funny, my family and I always called all of these jumping playhouses "Astro Jump"s in a generic sense (like Band-Aids for bandages). Not trying to spam, but here's the Astro Jump manufacturer's website: www.astrojump.com. --Geopgeop 09:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thesbians performing Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in a Bouncy Castle at Edinburgh Festival seem quite definite that it was invented in 1961

They have contact number if anyone would like to check the authority of their sources

I am located in the mid-west and have been keeping track of my server keyword hits over the past 3 years in my national directory at Bounce Cheap. The search term "bounce house" is now used about 3 times more frequently than "moonbounce".