# Solved! Yo-yo Identification Assistance Required

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Spartanik RoA (Rage of Achill)… Italy (Or rather, the creator is an Italian who, at least at the time, was living in Germany). The V2 (only official release) is machined by ILYY.

Review of the 2nd proto 👇

> [@Spartanik Rage of Achill: A High Speed YoYo Review](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spartanik-rage-of-achill-a-high-speed-yoyo-review/36604):
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> Spartanik Rage of Achill Reviewed by Chris Rhoads April 7, 2012 Introduction Spartanik is a new yo-yo company out of Europe. What started out as a small joke design ended up being latched on to by quite a few players in the German and Italian yo-yo communities. As the company owner, who only goes by Sparta, explains he continued on with the manufacturing for two reasons: He likes to finish what he started. He was eager to give people an alternative to the big company and Chinese …

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> [@Spartanik Rage of Achill v.2: A High Speed YoYo Review](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spartanik-rage-of-achill-v-2-a-high-speed-yoyo-review/48726):
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> When Spartanik released the first version of the Achill I thought it was a blast and was a little bummed that it would never be released in that form due to a structural design flaw. Spartanik vowed to release a corrected design but after a second failed attempt they all but disappeared. That was over 8 months ago and honestly I had almost completely forgotten about them… until the Achill v2 design surfaced on the forums over at One Drop. Spartanik explained that the second failed atte…

The first version—which suffered from a design flaw involving overly thin walls that would snap at the slightest impact, causing the cup rim to break off—was aesthetically much more extreme than Version 2; it featured points sharp enough to pierce one’s finger and a shape strongly reminiscent of the Hspin Envy. It was two-toned, with one dark grey cup and one orange cup. They were manufactured in Italy, I believe by the same machinist used by B!ST.

video ot the 1st model

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/7/8/c78f9150b06f0bec8066552b35aae3359597e71d.jpeg "SPARTANIK - Rage of Achill // feat. Lasse Nolsøe Lund") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgwmWk9VdjQ)

@crackout likely remembers, and this could be useful for better reconstructing the story—at least the final part.

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