{"id":157800,"date":"2025-11-22T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/what-ever-happened-to-the-minibob-what-happened-to-the-mini-bob\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:09:00","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-the-minibob-what-happened-to-the-mini-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/what-ever-happened-to-the-minibob-what-happened-to-the-mini-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Ever Happened to the MiniBob?&#8221; What happened to the mini bob?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;this question is addressed in the article on Xefer that was written back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The author remembers his childhood in the 1970s and asks himself the questions &#8220;what happened to the mini bob?&#8221;. The mini bob was produced and distributed as a licensed product in the USA at that time &#8211; however, the shape of the mini bob &#8220;Zipfybob&#8221; proved to be very difficult in the very conversational USA. As a result, sales activities in the USA were ended very early on and licensed production was discontinued.  <\/p>\n<p>For a few years now, however, the mini bob has been copied in the USA and Canada and reproduced almost 1:1 by manufacturers and simply sold under different brand names and marketed as a great innovation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Below is a picture of perhaps the greatest winter sled ever created, the MiniBob. Anyone who was a kid in 1970s had no doubt used one of these&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xefer.com\/2008\/04\/minibob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.xefer.com\/2008\/04\/minibob<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;this question is addressed in the article on Xefer that was written back in 2008. The author remembers his childhood in the 1970s and asks himself the questions &#8220;what happened to the mini bob?&#8221;. The mini bob was produced and distributed as a licensed product in the USA at that time &#8211; however, the shape&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[485,487],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mini-bob-en","category-press-article","category-485","category-487","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157802,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157800\/revisions\/157802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mini-bob.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}