Not yoyo related (but my yoyo did survive), but I lost my car keys on a roller coaster last week. Had my keys hooked by a carabiner and have been on this same coaster 60+times with no issues/failure until that evening. My phone, wallet, and GenXs stayed put in my pocket while I was subject to crazy negative g-forces and my keys were launched off somewhere nowhere to be seen.
Sucks about losing an expensive, not easily available yoyo…
I lost my phone out of my pocket years ago on a ride called the Wicked Twister at Cedar Point. After looking around by the ride and not seeing it, I started to look out on the beach.
I had one of those Casio military phones that were supposed to be super rugged (and free lol). I ended up finding my phone out on the beach, with the battery partially popped out, sand in that opening, and the phone was still on.
As a side note, this same phone also survived being thrown at a brick wall. Man, I kinda miss flip phones lol.
I went last summer (I’m from relatively close, just a couple hours away) for the first time in probably 5 years. A lot of rides used to have boxes you could put your stuff in while you rode, but they had been gradually removing them all due to problems with theft apparently.