Most boomer yoyoer yoyo?

There were only 6 3rd run peak colorways and that’s not one
Orange on orange Acid Splash
Green on green Acid Splash
Purple on purple Acid Splash
Elliot Jackson, pink with blue drip
Adam Brewster, green with gray and red splash
Krisztian Kaluzsa, blue with orange and clear splash

That’s a second run wintergreen peak
Winter Green, light green with clear splash

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On fleek?

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Yas, you slayin’ bruh. Clockin’ me with that verbal flexin’ got me shook. You gucci.

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duncan imperial

agreed. That was my boomer yoyo.

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I think it is 888. These were great leap forward, and were everywhere for years.

Almost any yoyo that would be described by someone over 30 as “having character”, and by someone under 30 as “lacking performance”

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I gotta agree with you, THE BRAIN!

Back in the day it helped me get my sleepers on point.

Still convinced it’s the best beginner yoyo to this day. BOOM! :laughing:

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“Floaty”

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“Fingernail vibe”

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I think we have a new contender for top spot. The new G2 Jackal ticks a lot of boomer boxes.

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Yeah I think the jackal responsive will be a fun throw

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Wouldn’t the YoYo Boomerist thing to do would be to say the Jackal is not a Slimline, since it does not look like a Silver Bullet, Turbo Bumble or a Yomega Metalic Missle?

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its 30mm wide, thats super slimline. why does it have to look like other slim yoyos to be called a slimline?

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On one hand I agree but also I don’t have anything in my collection that matches the jackal so I am very interested and it’ll probably fit right in with my other slim lines in the end.

It’s got quite the catch zone.

Oh yea, still got this masterpiece! Circa 1998

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Niiiiiice!

This is an interesting topic that I believe has been spoken about in the past but in a different way because of using the term “Boomer”. Different verbatim, but still the same subject.

Now, with that said, the Yoyo world as a whole has gone through many different generations since the end of the 90s. It seems like every 4 years there comes new fresh blood and this is reflective due to most yoyoers tend to be within their teens 12 to 18 and then compete even more between 18 to 25. Just look at the age group in the World yoyo contest since 2000 and you can see the different generational differences in yoyo.

Yoyo has advanced more in 20 to 25 years than it has for the rest of the time it has existed.

Now with that all said, to your question: What is the most “Boomer” yoyo? Obviously people will look to the most older and most popular yoyo available: The Duncan Butterfly. But when the term “Yoyo-boomer” is thrown around, it seems to apply to yoyoers that are in the age bracket between 30 to 40 years old- and these yoyo folk grew up with yoyos towards the end of the 90’s with the Yomega Raider, Playmaxx Turbo Bumble Bee and the Spintastics Tiger Shark. These yoyos were heavily popular between that 1996 to 2000 era of yoyo, where Team High Performance would do world tours with Yomega product, Playmaxx had their world tours using Bumble and Bumble Bee GT yoyos and Spintastics we very well known in the United States with their product.

My personal gut feeling is to say the Turbo Bumble Bee is the perfect yoyo to call the “Boomer” yoyo but you have to specify which age group you are referring to. Yoyo technology as evolved far faster than ever before. So if you were referring to yoyos with just an axel or a wood axle, then of course we would look back further in yoyo history to determine a “Boomer” yoyo.

~Zammy

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For me it is pretty clear. The most boomer yoyo is clearly the Duncan FH1.

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