# Consensus on “gachapon” style releases
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112 "2019-06-18T18:52:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@HVizier](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HVizier)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112/1 "2019-06-18T18:52:59Z")
I see that OD did some really neat “surprise” releases that were essentially the same yoyo, but different colors with a few that were Titanium.
That’s a seriously awesome idea to me, but is there a reason only they’ve done something like that that I’m not seeing? Was it not successful?
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112/2 "2019-06-18T18:56:01Z")
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> [@Yoyos that some of you are sleeping on](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyos-that-some-of-you-are-sleeping-on/303984/32):
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> Those are fun! They are also super expensive for us to pull off. We have to buy materials(aluminum AND Ti), build, ano, bearing, pad, string, create artwork, and package ALL of them before we sell a single one. It’s a huge investment and risk for us. With a typical run you can release 200 hundred yoyos and see what people think, maybe then do a 2nd run with some custom colors, etc. if people are really interested. The $ from the first run gets passed forward to make more. We don’t own the …
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### Author:  [@HVizier](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HVizier)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112/3 "2019-06-18T18:58:27Z")
Word! Thanks
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/consensus-on-gachapon-style-releases/304112/4 "2019-06-18T18:59:10Z")
Anytime my man, anytime 🙂