See the new 2012 YYF Ones?

General Yo-Yo
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man I loved orange ones, any chance there are still some available somewhere ? (the old ones that is)

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ditto :smiley:

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YYE is out of them, but ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– .com still has some

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I recently bought the starter set and the yoyo I got looks more like this One compared to the old One.

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So I got my 2012 ONE todayā€¦ good news/bad newsā€¦

Good: I think the shape is great, feels good (not so slick feeling, like the original) - all around great tweaks. Itā€™s different, from both the original and even the Whip, enough you could have given it a whole new nameā€¦

Bad: maybe it was just mine - BUT - I went to pop the caps off to replace the cardboard circles (more on that below) and getting the cap to go back in was a huge pain! The clear cap got all sorts of tweaked. My original One could pop in and out easily. This doesnā€™t really have anything to do with the actual yo yo, but it is a bummerā€¦

What I found with the original One is you can pop those caps and replace the inserts - for the fun of it I put a picture of my sonā€™s face in it - printing it out and using a 1.5" paper punch (wife is a scrapbooker) - I picked up a new blue one with intentions of putting some Chicago Cubs logos in itā€¦ I also got a white one for my daughter, and was going to let her personalize it - but now Iā€™m a but more apprehensive- I almost broke the caps on the blue one (you can see plastic stress marks in the clear plastic for the cap).

I realize that itā€™s not marketed as a ā€˜modingā€™ feature, so it really isnā€™t a flaw - but I wish they hadnā€™t messed with that partā€¦ Ben, do you know if it should have been easier? Or was it designed to be that much tighter?

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designed to fit tight.
If they are loose they rattle and this is something many people perceive as a flaw so we designed against it.

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I figured as much - personally, I think itā€™s too tight (never had a rattle problem with 2011 model) - if you would ever need to swap out the axle, you risk breaking (or putting a crease/stress in) the plastic the cap when putting it back on.

I realize itā€™s only a $10 throw, just my thoughts on itā€¦ other than the cap issue, its a great little throw.