I like the novelty items like brooms, It just kind of sucks that they make the hoverboards so worthless in comparison (hoverboards are slower, can only drive in 4 directions, have a hard time fitting through small spaced, etc.). The hoverboard mechanism is so cool, I liked how you had to push the "gas" to build speed, and I would use it to get around larger maps cause it was faster after practicing.
I've been using the broom now and I never feel like there's a reason I should use the hoverboard, which is a shame cause the brooms basically just makes you walk faster. If it had cool controls sort of like hoverboard or the snowmobiles I would love it.
Kind of reminds me of Flower gun, a new "novelty" item outside of Zone's theme that just happens to be better than all the old more in-character guns. I use them cause they're better but still kind of wish they weren't so much better than the others if that makes sense.