Gonna sound real unc rn and date myself here but whatever Back in the YoYoNation days, people kept track (albeit not extraordinarily well) of who owned those very first OG Peaks. Since this hobby is notoriously terrible at keeping a record of our history, I thought it’d be cool to use this thread to change that a bit and keep track of who owns this historic release, and maybe keep slightly better track this time around.
So, if you’re the current owner or become the current owner of a Legacy Peak, comment or PM how you’d like to be credited down below and you’ll be added to the registry if you’re down.
Magenta w/ Lime Green Splash (Limited to 50 pieces)
Release @ World YoYo Contest - August 14, 2026
TBD
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Current Owner
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Masanobu Iwata (masanolife on IG)
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*NOTE: Serial numbers 89-94 of the 28 Stories run were sold as “Classic Vibe.” Essentially, these were B-grades due to having a little vibe (just like the good ol early days of CLYW - some may consider this a more “authentic experience” ). There were only 6 of these in total, and the serial # on the accompanying packaging is the only way to tell them apart.
I may sound even more like an unc and I don’t even own any of these but I know they are highly sought after; the presence of a name here doesn’t equal a for sale post haha so don’t be offended if you are ignored or left unread
Will be lowkey even MORE of a flex when the next 50 drop, since the online drop will be a bloodbath that sells out in .0001 seconds Anyone who gets in on that really, really deserves to flex their nearly impossibly quick purchasing skills
If the release had one disappointing detail, this was probably it. The numbering.
Imagine one table covered with 100 identical Legacy Peaks and another table covered with their packaging. Pick a random yo-yo from the first table, place it into a random package from the second, and write a number on the wood… with a black Sharpie marker no less. Real classy.That is essentially how the numbering worked.
As a result, Legacy Peak #37, for example, is really package #37 rather than yo-yo #37. Remove the yo-yo from its original packaging and there is nothing on the yo-yo itself that identifies which numbered set it originally belonged to.
For such a small and historically significant release, individually engraving each yo-yo would have given the numbering considerably more meaning. Instead, the handwritten numbers provided a “charming connection” to CLYW’s handmade roots, but they function more as numbered packaging than true serialization.
I definitely see what you’re saying and don’t even necessarily disagree with you, but at the end of the day, I ultimately take the stance of “This is super sick and we’re honestly lucky we even got this at all” lol, because I’m sure complaints/grumblings about the execution probably don’t exactly make Steve/CLYW want to jump at the chance of doing more special stuff like this again, and I definitely don’t want that to be the case. Would it be cooler & more like the OG Peaks to have them numbered like that? Sure. But when you have a yoyo as legendary as the Peak, you’re gonna get A LOT of opinions on it, and the nature of adding to any of that legendary history means that it’s gonna be nearly impossible by nature to please absolutely everyone… and I mostly think everyone involved in the making of this absolutely knocked it out of the park overall.
That said, REALLY looking forward to seeing what the next color that drops @ Worlds is, hopefully we know within the next day or two!
I agree, an engraving on each Peak would have been cool. However, I don’t believe CLYW has ever done numbered engraving. This project was running against the clock, so there was no way this was happening.
As a collector, I always keep the original box. The brown box with artwork is as much part of the story as the yoyo for me. In this case, the box is even more important because it determines which yoyo is which out of the 100. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but this is just my two cents.
I get where you’re coming from, and I agree that overall they knocked it out of the park. I’m glad CLYW did this, and I’d absolutely like to see more special projects like it.
At the same time, though, I don’t think appreciating something means we can’t point out one aspect that could have been done better. To me, the numbering is a pretty small criticism compared with how much I like the Legacy Peak overall (still waiting for mine to arrive). But it’s also a particularly noticeable one because numbering and provenance are such a big part of the history of the original Peaks.
If you’re going to make only 100 of something and give each one a number, I just think it would have been much more meaningful to put that number on the actual yo-yo. As it stands, the number really belongs to the packaging, not the Peak. You could swap two Peaks between boxes and neither one would be any more or less “#37” than before.
I also don’t really see constructive criticism as something that should discourage CLYW from doing projects like this again. If anything, feedback from collectors can help make the next special release even better. I’d much rather say, “This was fantastic, and here’s the one thing I wish they had done differently,” than pretend I loved every single detail because I’m afraid they might not make another one.
So I think we’re mostly in agreement. The Legacy Peak itself is wonderful, the whole project was cool, and I’m glad it exists. I just wish the numbering had been treated with the same attention to historical detail as the rest of the release.
To be honest, they did the right thing. It’s the same way we serialize our yoyos and its similar to how most limited edition items are numbered (i.e. records, action figures, etc.)
The process of engraved serialization is a lot of extra steps, unless you happen to have your high powered precision lazer engraver just sitting around in your shed
After receiving yoyos, and in CLYW’s case they then had to complete assembly and QC for this run, they would have had to then repackage them and ship them back to the shop or engraver.
The major problem here, apart from time and money, is that some WILL get damaged on the journey and in the process. So, still, you probably won’t end up with a nice set of 100 A grades. I’m still not sure how they pulled off those perfectly round numbers unless many were destroyed or discarded. Unless QC wasn’t as rigorous, but I’ll say my Legacy Peak is perfectly dead smooth.
You aren’t wrong in that it would have added an extra something, but it also would’ve been either a deep cut into a slim profit margin or an even higher retail price.
Back in the YoYoNation days, people kept track (albeit not extraordinarily well) of who owned those very first OG Peaks. Since this hobby is notoriously terrible at keeping a record of our history, I thought it’d be cool to use this thread to change that a bit and keep track of who owns this historic release, and maybe keep slightly better track this time around.
). There were only 6 of these in total, and the serial # on the accompanying packaging is the only way to tell them apart.
or happy you weren’t
