Chico, California is home of the National Yo-Yo Museum, The National Yo-Yo Contest, and of course, Chico Yo-Yo Company! Chico Yo-Yo Company has been producing some amazing, competition level yo-yos for a few years now and it all started with the Bull Dog.
The small yet powerful Bull Dog was their first throw, and now, after 4 years they have redesigned it to bring it up to par with the current level of play expected by yo-yo players. This is the Bull Dog 225!
The Chico team went back to their roots and updated the classic Bulldog to reflect the current trends in play style. They started with the same comfortable and organic profile that made the original so popular, the diameter was increased to 2.25 inches (hence the 225 moniker) from the original 2.00 inch design and the width also grew to maintain proportion with the increase in diameter.
Really don’t want to sound mean, but that looks like someone specifically set out to create the worst color way of all time. I mean just do a solid color or something in the future.
I love the “barn-find” styling, but there are a few aesthetic flaws in your design keeping this throw off of my wants list…
My suggestion would be to lose the green. Keep it just teal and “rust”. I feel as if the green detracts from the effect.
I would also get rid of all of the text on the yoyo. I honestly mean no offense by this… It is just my personal preference, but your font choices feel tacky to me. It would look super clean if there was just a small bulldog logo off to one side. You could also make the logo look old and chipped to add to the patina theme.
I loved my original BullDog. Same color way; which I though was really nice. The Bull Dog was one of the best all-around throws of its time. Nice weight, nimble and solid on the end of the string.
Every time I look at the profile of the 225, I can’t help but wish this had a bit more width. Just a visual preference though; I have never thrown the 225.
Can anyone comment? How does this compare with the spirit of the original?
