I think the coins are slammers for the pogs, btw!
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I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, that was absolutely fantastic, haha!
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Fantastic stuff. Officially one of the greatest yo-yo unboxings of all time. Thank you RCS for everything 
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I love the flat earth! I actually already had one but when I saw they were closing up shop I couldn’t pass up the mystery fondling add on before the opportunity was lost forever.
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The picture reveal had me, RCS until the end. Thank you for sharing with us!
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This video triggered some moderate anxiety for me because you were unboxing in your car!
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I was slightly concerned there would be glitter, shaving foam, or something else that would make a mess but then I asked myself: would it be anything worse than what my kids have already done to the van?
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I’d be more concerned about losing things. I lose an incredible number of spacers just around my attic workshop.
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I did see a croc jibit take a tumble out of the flat earth bag lol
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Oh nooo haha thank you. I’ll have to go digging for it.
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I was lucky to come back to yoyo when I did, to at least catch the tail end of this Rain City Skills run. When I found out about them I immediately liked their vibe.
Had been pacing my purchases but the closing bittersweetly enabled and sped up the schedule. Grabbed the unique/funnest ones I could. Always a surprise starting with the packaging.
I can imagine the deluge of orders. Finally got my last order. SETI is an incredibly fun oversize throw and feels fast on the string. BFD is similar fun with a fatter rim for performance and it’s relatively slower. The Flat Earth is awesome for slimline lovers, I got a second one to make responsive. The Author is a relatively light (~56g) but performative non-competitive throw and is a joy to practice and develop tricks with.
Thanks to this thread I learned what jibbitz are. I was utterly perplexed trying to separate what I assumed was a pin back but was one piece.
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Story time. When I saw RCS was closing I emailed Jeremy and begged for the CAD file for the dumpster fire. It was one of the only notable throws missing from my RCS collection and since there would never be any more made I wanted to try my hand at 3d printing a garbage copy. I was genuinely shocked when he said yes and gave me the file!
I loaded up the file, revolved it into a 3d shape and printed it.
Thus began a journey of failure worthy of the dumpster fire.
Support failures on the cup.
Regular plastic was too light for the design so I switched to a 60% stainless steel plastic composite. Still had suppport issues.
I tried water soluble supports. They worked okay until the plastic broke apart during assembly.
I loved the original dumpster fire lube video and I got bored during the failures and experimented with making my own Dumpsterlicious lube from things like honey, bike chain wax, and blue stuff.
Eventually I gave up printing in one piece and sliced it into a couple pieces so I could take advantage of the weight of the stainless steel filament but use stronger plastic where the hardware sits to avoid breakage.
Which brings me to today. More than 40 (probably more than 50 but I lost count) failed prints later I have managed to produce two Dumpster Fires in my workshop. One for me and one for a friend.
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Ohh that’s amazing so happy it came along well and blessed that we got to see some of the steps along the way
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The only thing worse than a dumpster fire is a 3D printed dumpster fire. Nice job.
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That’s dedication right there! Would it have truly been a Dumpster Fire without several dozen failures?
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