$1 aluminum yoyo with a bearing

[Gambit]

My nearest Dollar Tree is in Boston, Massachusetts. Might pop there during my lunch break and see if I can pick a few up.

[NathanC]

lol thread of the year.

[Totalartist]

@Gambit

My nearest Dollar Tree is in Boston, Massachusetts. Might pop there during my lunch break and see if I can pick a few up.

Oh snap…you’re coming to visit! I’ll tell you what…if I find it in the Dollar Tree here, I’m going to mail you one, after all, it’s the Christmas season. I will throw some American food snack in there…perhaps a Twinkie or a Hershey bar. I will try to find the yo-yo first though. Stay tuned.

[Gambit]

@TotalArtist

Oh snap…you’re coming to visit! I’ll tell you what…if I find it in the Dollar Tree here, I’m going to mail you one, after all, it’s the Christmas season. I will throw some American food snack in there…perhaps a Twinkie or a Hershey bar. I will try to find the yo-yo first though. Stay tuned.

Thats mighty kind ma’am, but I’m sure they’ll just get nicked and eaten by the scumbags in the UK customs office.

Speaking of which, not to derail (he said before he massively derailed), but I actually managed to try some Hersheys the other day when a collegue brought some back from New York.

Not gonna lie, it was pretty aweful. Everyone in the office hated it…

(“and that kids… thats how World War 3 began.”)

[Bcmaddog]

@yoyodoc

I gotta say, Clownboy, you cant be a complete idiot. You must be missing a few parts.

…Reading and understanding what you read, are two entirely different things.

Who? < like in ‘Who’? said ‘you’ cant enjoy modding this cheap yoyo? Your hands tied? My holding a gun on you?

My post was my opinion and based in Reality. You seem to think I cant post up anything that you ‘might not like’… Not quite sure why you somehow feel posting 5000 times in a year, somehow entitles you to dictate what I post?

And then you put words up for me and lock you cap key for effect, lol.

I got some bad news for you. I am not a ‘better modder’ than you because I have been ‘in the Community’ longer than you. ALL you guys have a good chance of eventually becoming a better Modder than I have ever been. You simply have to realize that my advantage is that I started ‘modding’ cars and Harley Choppers, 45 years ago. I have Extensive Experience Customizing all kinds of stuff. I was not some kind of natural Genius. I have been learning how to Tweak things for Decades. < Learn by Doing? < I did. Was it easy for me? Nope. I screwed up this and that along the way.

You talk about painting yoyos and kendamas and such. Good for you. I was a Car and Motorcycle painter for over 20 years. I actually got good enough to Teach people how to paint Cars. But I have never, ever, painted a yoyo… Ever. My yoyo modding is mainly Performance based. Painting yoyos may be Barrels of fun? I Love painting stuff. But I see No Performance advantage in painting a yoyo. Zero. Nothing wrong with you or anybody that wants to paint a yoyo or all their yoyos. Make em pretty. Make em different. Good. But to me, if it doesnt make the yoyo play better, I dont bother with it. Regardless, anything you do to a stock yoyo is modding it, technically. Modding means to Modify. So you can rightfully say you modded a yoyo and done nothing to improve its’ performance. But my efforts in modding are mainly performance based. That does not make my mods better, I just focus on different end results.

Nobody starts Karate as a Blackbelt. And I didnt start Customizing as an Expert. But as the years flew by, things started clicking and I got better.

And then in 1998 I got a yoyo. I knew NO tricks except how to throw the yoyo down and make it sleep. My girl laughed. She said, 'Boy got a toy and cant even do any tricks with it, lol. I told her, ‘I bet I can make it play better’. < Cuz that is what I do. I dont do things(tricks) I do things to things(mod).

…So my advantage over you is simple. I started modding stuff before your father was born. I started Customizing yoyos before you were born.

When I won the 3 consecutive World Modding Contests, you were at 3 different stages of Existence. When I won in 2001, you were prolly just being born. When I won in 2002, you prolly still crawling around in your Crib. When I won in 2003, you were most likely being potty trained and learning to eat baby cereal with your hands. When I received the National Achievement Award in 2005( For effort that improves the sport, and positively influences the Yoyo Industry), you were most likely in Kindergarten, if that.

If I fell off a 100 story building and landed directly on my head, but somehow survived. And suffered 95 percent brain damage. And of the final 5 percent, I went into a coma for 4 years and had 90 percent amnesia of the 5 remaining percent of my brain, I would still remember More about Modding yoyos than you will prolly learn in the next 10 years, if ever.

You, little mad dog, are a bitter little kid. A whiner, a baby brat. And a Junior Control freak. You dont like the way something sounds, you want people to ‘go away’ or at the very least, word stuff so it passes your guidelines for posting. Sad for you. You aint my momma and you arent my daddy.
…If you dont care for something I post, because you are just to ignorant to even understand what I say/said, contact the Mods… Contact Andre by email. Let them know about big bad Mo. That he made you cry yourself to sleep because he wont behave according to your Rules… wah wah wah.

And sending me verbally threatening PMs? what are/were you thinking? How in the World do you think that sending me PMs, telling me you arent going to put up with my posting things you dont care to read? <<<< You are some kinda Pinhead, ya think?

Mad Puppy, I have some reasonably ‘ok’ advice for you, since I know your head is thicker than Prison Steel <> Enjoy your youth as an Excuse for being Ignorant. But prepare yourself for that day when you no longer can hide your attitude behind your young mask. You keep talking smack to people and one day when you ‘are all of a sudden older’, you are going to Yap at the wrong person and they are going to Punch your timeclock.

…I NEVER meant to discourage Anybody from Modding anything. I encourage Everybody to Try and Mod Everything; I do. To me, everything I look at seems to need modding.

I simply meant just what I said. I will word it differently. You can to a whole lotta work to that 1 dollar yoyo, but dont expect to magically turn it into something amazing.

Mod away. I already had 3 of them before you guys even started talking about em. We have Dollar trees all over in Southern California.

I got 2 black ones and one of the Burgundy looking ones. They are tin and they vibe Crazy and they are light as a feather. But then again, they are FUN! My point was why bother bringing something back from the dead? Start with something more alive and improve it so you end up with something.
I would agree … like Hendy said, he will get some because they might be good projects.

I should have mentioned that I already was aware of what you ‘get for that buck’.

I just like the idea of trying to see what I can do, trickwise, on the Buck yoyo, dead stock? After playing with hundreds of yoyos that ‘fly’, it is Great to have a yoyo that is pretty much ‘all wrong’ hahahahaha. Cheap bearing, Lame response system, feather light halves with No functional rim weight, ugly cheap sticky finish, etc. < This yoyo could not be a better challenge than it is Dead Stock. (for modding or throwing for that matter). I understand that some modders may not even like throwing. They may just love or prefer to mod. Yoing is necessarily all about throwing. Could be throwing or modding or collecting or trying to make money buying and selling. Or a combination of everything. I am certainly much better at Modding than I am at throwing, haha.

Remember the first time you got a wooden yoyo and tried to do stuff on it?

Well, this is the Perfect yoyo to see throw, just the way it comes out of the package.

I got 3 because I am going to leave one in the package. I am going to play the heck out of the second one and I am going to Mod the 3rd one.

Oh No… Mo is going to actually Mod a one dollar yoyo? No doubt.

And I will say the exact thing I told my girl, 15 years ago. I bet I can make this play better.

I bet I can.

Quit being a crybaby, mad doggy.

So, one part in their should have been your whole post and I would not be typing this…

I got 2 black ones and one of the Burgundy looking ones. They are tin and they vibe Crazy and they are light as a feather. But then again, they are FUN! My point was why bother bringing something back from the dead? Start with something more alive and improve it so you end up with something.
I would agree … like Hendy said, he will get some because they might be good projects.

You could have left out all the MEAN parts. Your starting to act like me now, just a bit harsher…

[Bcmaddog]

And maybe your the “clownhead” maybe your the “Complete Idiot…”

Is moey having a bad day? Awhhh…

I NEVER meant to discourage Anybody from Modding anything. I encourage Everybody to Try and Mod Everything; I do. To me, everything I look at seems to need modding.

I see… I see…

You sure did sound like it…

And this somehow fixes the problem?

You, little mad dog, are a bitter little kid. A whiner, a baby brat. And a Junior Control freak.

Maybe your a old dog, a bitter guy, a control freak, a I’m better at modding and I know it kinda guy.

Your a Boaster your post shows it with the whole “I have been modding before your daddy was born” (False Fact XD)

When? I may have sent you one a month ago, lies…

And sending me verbally threatening PMs? what are/were you thinking? How in the World do you think that sending me PMs, telling me you arent going to put up with my posting things you dont care to read? <<<< You are some kinda Pinhead, ya think?

[Navythrow]

This is ridiculous. Everyone chill out. This is a thread about a yoyo…FROM THE DOLLAR TREE.

BC, you are acting like a child.take a step back, breathe, and let it roll off your back. You want to mod the yoyo? WHO CARES what anyone on a forum who you have probably never even met says, mod it! learn from it, have fun with it. Paint it, cut it, change stuff on it, just NO ONE try to anodize it. Its metal in only the loosest sense of the word and will contaminate your chemicals.

Mo is acting like a crotchety old man, but you know what? He is, and he has enough experience where if you take off your sensitive pants, you can learn something. When I joined the Navy I couldn’t believe the amount of people that just flat out couldn’t handle people like Mo. The old salty guys know EVERYTHING, but if you get offended and angry you will never know it because you won’t take the time to listen. Talk to him, show him some RESPECT, and you’ll get a lot farther.

[Gambit]

@Navythrow

he has enough experience where if you take off your sensitive pants, you can learn something.

I’m not sure if that’s the kind of lesson I want…

[Link45116 (LinkDawg)]

Literally can we stop with all this drama. This is a yoyo sight not a place to argue.

[turtleyo]

@Link45116

Literally can we stop with all this drama. This is a yoyo sight not a place to argue.

When you get little kids in here that think they know what they’re doing and think they’re the masters of it all, you get this. What I see is a little kid getting upset about another man’s opinion. Honestly you can’t blame the guy, a 1$ yo-yo isn’t going to play like a gem, even if you do mod it to near death.

Having said that, I dare someone to win all divisions of worlds with this yo-yo.

[NathanC]

lol breaking news, scores of young yoyoers poisoned when they cut and sanded Chinese yoyos full of lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium. Stay safe, kids. Seriously wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the particles coming off of these things.