Ok, if their player wins anything real contest using the Balls, I will formally apologize to Yoyofactory.
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Thanks guys just ordered me a set of gold balls. Looking forward to playing with them
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I mean, is it a good yo-yo? Novelty factor aside, how does it actually play?
Should people actually care which yoyo was used to win any competition?
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I can think of a few. The Miracle 25 is equal in level of performance of anything I have. The Starlight is one of the most fun performance yo-yos I’ve ever played and is so close to the best it’s a mute point. And I’ll say the Pneuma is amazing and easily equal to say the Liminal Autoscopy. And the level of fit finish is actually better than some I’ve received from Yoyorec. All of these have fit and finish equal to anything from Japan. Also, I got my Pneuma and Starlight and was playing them for weeks before they released in Japan.
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Ya I’m with you. I was t impressed with them over the last few years and I’m surprised they haven’t undergone a course correction and restructuring?…
It is annoying to see that they have really latched on to riding out the instagram/tick to k trends by doubling down on DNA specific products. They seemed to have lost sight of their original fan base.
I’ll also agree that yes, the quality of their products doesn’t match up with the price point. Plus they don’t retain value. Where as lots of other yo-yos do continue to hold pretty close value to retail or even increase in value if there’ is a scarcity or desire for a specific model. I can’t really see any YYF yo-yos having an increased value other than some of the original 888’s.
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There are definitely some others like USA made Genesi, Severes and 7075 Supernovas that are worth quite a bit nowadays or at least retail. They had really awesome special editions back then and they are still very sought after.
Personally I think the Jon Rob Supernova is one of the best looking yoyos of all time but I have never seen one for sale.
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tbh the Balls has a better fit/finish than the Liminal Autoscopy I just received and bought direct from Yoyorec. It was my first YYR throw, bought specifically to support Hajime Miura who I met at 2024 worlds and gave him a hug after his performance. It literally still has the machine finish, no polishing or blasting, just straight off the machine. I genuinely dont know how they get away with selling that yoyo for $180 with zero finish applied. It plays amazing, but looks and feels terrible. Balls has a really nice blasted finish, a nice blue/green/black acid wash, and its glass smooth.
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YYF still has the ability to do cool stuff (Miracle is amazing, ano and beadblast on the worlds edition balls are good), but their overall creative direction has kinda gone to the gutter imo.
They’ve always gotten a lot of hate for the reason of them being a large and “corporate” brand, but I feel like in the past they lived up to that mantle in a good way through professional branding, great competition team, doing “large corporate sponsor stuff” like filming worlds freestyles in a high quality and consistent format, and having both solid cheap beginner stuff and legitimately good and interesting premium models.
Nowadays they’ve kind of fallen behind in that regard, their designs are largely boring, their branding exclusively feels cheap and they’ve been on the wrong end of more than one controversy. As a former big fan it’s sad to see.
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Hey….look. A Novetly yo-yo….
I tried it at worlds. It’s an…ok yoyo. It plays wide and slow and ponderous. It’s not heavy in play but it is also kind of sluggish. Spin times on it are decent for a monometal.
It’s not a BAD yoyo per se. Just a mediocre novelty one.