I bought a YoyoFriends Rio and it slaps. When did plastic yoyos get good? I’ve been away a while and was shocked how well it played for a plastic.
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The Rally haha
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I wanna say around 2020/21 with yoyos like the iYoyo shooting star, topyo mojo, and C3 speedaholic xx, I noticed a big increase in quality/playability in plastic throws.
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Was the Speedaholic XX one of the first machined full polycarbonate yoyos?
There were machined hybrids before it, as well as machined POM, but I’m drawing a blank on specifically any machined full polycarbonate yoyos.
YYR Diffusion 2 and Gargantua and Yeti 2 were all great in terms of playability, but machined plastic yo-yos really upped how “premium” they felt. Everything just kinda got smoother and a lot more consistent with machining over injection molding.
I think designers also kinda started realizing in the past few years how much extra performance you can get out of just going a bit bigger with diameter. So that’s why you’re also seeing so many plastics now gravitating towards bigger dimensions.
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There were fully machined PC yoyos before this.
I’m not at all surprised, what were they?
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If memory serves me correctly, Mowl had a machined PC release before the Speedaholic XX.
Speedaholic XX, Rio, Shooting star, Dirty Dunk, plastics have been great over the past few years. Them getting bigger has really helped, and theyre especially nice for 5a in public so a counterweight ding doesn’t deafen the world around you, it just kinda clacks
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Okay yeah the MRL-01 fits the bill and came out on April 2019 for the first round.