My all time favorite is the thunderbolt something about speed on a wooden coaster that sounds like it’s gonna fall apart.
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That’s so true lol
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First fixed axle - Duncan Imperial
First transaxle - Yomega Brain, Fireball
First bearing - Yomega Raider
First metal - Pocket Pros Zombie, Yomega Maverick
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I love the bumblebee GT. I still have a couple in storage.
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Mine was the YYF Flight, I started with 4A!
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Glow brain. This exact yoyo, I found it in a box in my house a couple weeks ago. I got it when I was in middle school over 20 years ago.
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Red Duncan Imperial - about 1962, age 8.
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My first yoyo was something like the Yomega Brain with lights. In 1992 I bought a Turbo Bumble Bee from Kaybe Toys. I’m not even sure why, I didn’t know anyone that had a yoyo and never learned any tricks beyond rock the baby. I found it in a box years later and thought I would get something newer so I found a Yomega Maveric on Amazon but I didn’t know how to bind and it sucked so it sat on a self and every once in awhile I would try to get it to work. I finally went looking for something else in 2019 and found some trick videos and bought a Magicyoyo Silencer. Now I have barely gotten proficient and I have around 65 yoyos lol. I went down hill quick after 28 years of just throwing it down and doing around the world.
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My first ever yoyo was a Duncan Imperial back in the late 1970s, followed quickly by a Butterfly and then a ProYo (which was the hot new throw back then). But that phase of yoyoing didn’t last long for me.
Fast forward to summer 2018 when I stumbled upon yoyoing again and tried to start back up with a MagicYoyo K1. Threw that piece of junk away and got a YT Sage instead, at which point the obsession began in earnest.
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Mine was a teal yo-yo factory velocity. Miss those days when I was young and all I wanted to do was learn new tricks lmao
Mine was two. I got myself the YYF One and the YYF Heist when I first started around 3 years ago.
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Exactly my story. Imperial, Hummingbird, ProYo. Didn’t really mess with it for a long time, then my son got a Butterfly XT for his birthday. He played with it a bunch early on, so I ordered a V3. Since then I’ve gotten about 9 more and have considered giving away the V3, but I keep thinking about the very sentiment you expressed—would I miss the nostalgia? So it’s still in my yo-yo box with the others.
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Same!
Did my first demo for my sons Boy Scouts den.
There’s at least 8 more kids that can now say their first yo-yo was a Duncan butterfly!
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A Russell Twix yoyo
Getting it to sleep was a bit of a chore with it’s wooden axle. And I went through strings so fast that I learned to make my own from cotton string. I also think I went through about 3 of these yoyos because the string would usually break when it hit the end of the string slamming in to the ground.
Which was after a while replaced by this golden boi. Which I earned at a yoyo contest at the local candy store (that I didn’t know what going to be there before I was in the centre of my town. Just happened to be there at the right moment.)
I had to do complicated tricks like the star, rock the baby and hop the fence. to earn myself a new yoyo, some skittles (on the other side of the Russell yoyo is the skittles logo). and a T-shirt that.
But what an upgrade…because this one had a steel axle.
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