this just makes me fuming mad. a couple of weeks ago our local minor league baseball team had a yoyo night where they advertised that the first 500 kids would get a yoyo with the team logo on it. my buddy went and brought his kids and when he texted me about the yoyo he said “it’s crap”. i assumed it was a fairly cheap duncan knockoff or something. last night i was at his house hanging out and i asked to see it. it was SO much worse than i could have imagined! this is the kind of junk crap that you would get for 10 tickets at chuck e cheese and it doesn’t get played with for more that 5 minutes. you literally can’t even play catch with it. to call this a yoyo is straight up blasphemy and someone needs to get punched in the face. what an incredible missed opportunity. i can’t imagine one single kid receiving this and giving yoyo even one additional thought 
Will it sleep?
no, the string is fixed between the halves
Can it unscrew?
Maybe you can modify it. The string is probably glued on. Get the string off and see if you can put a decent string on.
That’s really a shame, that may be the worst YoYo I’ve ever seen
it does not. if you try itll prob just be permanently in 2 halves
@ChrisFrancz theres not even any response if i unattached the string. if you zoom in on the gap pic you can kinda see it’s just empty space in there. its not even worth the plastic they used to make it. it also prob only weights about 20 grams
Not uncommon with souvenir / “swag” merch unfortunately I’ve found. Most disappointing one for me was this one I got at the SFMOMA last year. The “string” is closer to a shoe lace, doesn’t have a slip knot, and is glued to the axle.
Didn’t stop me from buying it though 
That’s a weird dingo lol
i will say at least yours looks easily 100x cooler
Oh wow, that is incredibly bad. I didn’t think they came much worse than the yoyo that get me restarted (was a giveaway at a HR conference my MIL went to)
Yikes. Reminds me of those party favor “yoyos” that came in a bag with 10 other random pieces of junk. Honestly, I’d rather have a coaster with my team logo on it than that. They’re absolutely useless and a waste of the .5¢ of plastic used to make them.
that’s much more what i was expecting!
@SlacKing yes! thats my impression. like i can’t imagine they payed more than $50 for the whole lot of 500
Feel like most of the general public who have never properly played with a yoyo are unaware of them being able to sleep, many think that they’re supposed to be this way. For giggles, was reading reviews for a Butterfly XT on a non yoyo store and most of the complaints and bad reviews were “couldn’t get it to wind, ended up throwing it out”…
Even when I was a kid prior to getting my first real yoyo, I had no idea about this sleeping mechanic and assumed they would just wind back up after dropping them.
These are super common swag at IT conventions