SpongeBob SquarePants Complete Skateboard Review

Bravo Sports has come out with a SpongeBob SquarePants line of skateboards for kids. These skateboards are available at Toys R Us and other mass retailers for about $25. This is all to celebrate the 10th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants. These skateboards look neat, and the price is hard to beat, but I strongly advise against buying one.

We all want to save money, but some cheap things are cheap because they aren't well built. These skateboards from Bravo Sports are good examples. The board is made in China, it's 9 plys thick (meaning it won't be flexible), and the wheels are made of PVC instead of urethane! The bearings are even junk - if you hold the board and give one of the wheels a spin, it will rotate maybe twice around. That's it.

Please don't buy this board, or anything made by Bravo Sports. If you want your kid to have a good skateboarding experience, then get them a better board than this. At least give them a chance. Take a look at this list of the best cheap skateboards to get some ideas of ways to save money, without buying junk.

I know some of you parents out there are wondering how then do you know if the skateboard you are looking at is a good one or not? It's a good question, and can be tough - read Are Cheap Skateboards OK to Buy and Ride? for get some guidelines.

What frustrates me here is that this skateboard is packaged to sell - it looks great, and if you don't know skateboarding, you wouldn't know that some of the selling points printed on the packaging are actually evidence of how BAD it is!

If you are reading this, then hopefully that means that you haven't bought one yet. Good. Please don't. Instead, spend a little more money, and buy your kid a skateboard that they can use, and that will give them the best chance to have a good time skateboarding.