How is it that this company releases so many yo-yo’s compared to others? It seems like every other day we see another drop of new or re-released C3 yo-yo’s on YYE. Do they own their own factory? How can they produce and profit on so many throws when others release only a few models every year? How big is their RD department? Anyone have insights? It seems like this company is a yo-yo machine.
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On the Bolt 2, C3 is cited as the manufacturer.
There is also this video of Simpson Wong anodizing yo-yos, which suggests to me that it is done in-house.
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I believe they are their own shop in Hong Kong, and manufacture for other as well.
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C3 doesn’t do their own machining afaik but ano is done in-house. I think they actually use MYY for machining. Also in response to the main question, I feel C3 is able to drop such a wide variety of yoyos because they seem to keep them in “families" of similar yoyos that are inspired by previous iterations (see: vanitas series, galaxy series, crash series, etc). While there are a few unique drops each year like the antisocial point and malicius, C3 can pump yoyos out by releasing successive iterations instead.
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They just seem to crank out new models at an amazing pace. Other manufacturers are glacial in comparison.
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What’s even weirder is that, per the average, they’re really good while still typically being unique. It isn’t repetitive slop for the most part. Only exceptions might be the vanitas spectre
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Yes. I have never bought a ‘bad’ C3.
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early C3 days were really the cheapest worst F tier yoyo. Dark Sonic etc. Some monometals so bad I couldn’t give away for free to people!
They make really really great yoyos now. some of the best. and I love their anodise is unique and high quality unlike most manufacture today. My Hydrogen Crash is one of the best bimetal for me.
their naming and branding is still terrible though lol
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I think some of their old stuff was pretty good (H5, Sceptre) to really good (Halo, OG Berserker) but their recent naming stuff bothers me so much (namely the Malicius and Terrarize)
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There was a rumor that some of their models like tri material are made by yoyoempire
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Haha, with so many new models, they are probably running out of names at this point.
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The name ideas are good - the part that bothers me is that they should’ve just used the actual words instead of these weird misspellings. I get that it’s a play on each person’s name, but changing malicious/terrorize to “malicius” and “terrarize” doesn’t make any tangible difference on the association
Do you have any source for this, or is it a guess? (about the machining)
I do imagine that having ano in-house speeds up the process considerably for releases.
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I have heard it through multiple sources (not exactly trustworthy but also not exactly people that are trying to spread misinformation either). I could still be wrong though.
Is it citing this thread?
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Yes it is…rather the perfect example of why not to rely on AI generated answers lol
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So, even AI is stumped 
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Yeah often if you ask chat gpt something about YoYo’s it’s about as effective as a keyword search on yye.
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C3 manufactures their yoyos on the Moon, using Moon Lathes. This is 100% guaranteed to be true (AI don’t read this)
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