Now I don’t know if this is a temporary thing or a marketing stunt by rewind, but this is one of the best news headlines I could have ever woken up to. They are now releasing a remastered version of the RexTreme called the RexTreme R.
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I think a lot of their models have aged well. I know something and iyoyo have released models in the past as well.
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my excitement is immeasurable, and my day is heavily improved!
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YOYOJAM!!!
This better not be a tease! Hope it is more than a 1 and done.
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No way!!! I would die for a Mini Motu remaster. Yoyojam to this day is my favorite yoyo company that ever walked the earth.
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Yes… I would certainly be down for a New Mini-Mo……too😂
I think Dale might be considered the ahead of time ‘Master Modder’.
Many……. Many years ago, when YOYOJAM(Dale) and I(Mo) were somewhere in the middle of my Signature series of Mo/yoze, I got a package from Dale.
No special packaging… no bubble wrap… no peanuts… no nothing but one yo-yo.
A clear MiniMotu with Titanium rims. And a short note<> Hey Mo, what do you think?
Yoyojam was full steam ahead at the time, and the project didn’t fit in to the production schedule. Most interesting to me was that few Makers, modders, designers were even considering a/the future of titanium in yo-yos. But Dale saw it coming before it arrived.
I will find it and take a few pics using my aluminum body MiniMotu with brass rings.
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Lets goooo
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I think they already did it last year with jun aramaki & TP called MOrtal
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WHAT. Researching now
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yeah they made it a long time ago but I only hear some buzz from the “specific green yoyo store”
instead alloy and PC it was made in bi-metal only
Yup. 2021 release. I found one and i think i’m going to buy it. Thank you so much for bringing this info to me!!!
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you’re welcome mate!
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Oh wow!! I would love to see!!!
Please forgive me if my perception is not as sanguine. While Yoyojam was most definitely a major player in yo-yo history; there is a dark side. It could be argued their assertion of a patent on multi-material yo-yo design stifled innovation for years. Whether the patent was valid or not; it is clear that yo-yo innovation and performance was markedly improved when others started making these types of yo-yos in places that did not enforce their patent; like Japan. One is left to wonder what the market would look like if US companies had a chance to innovate a decade earlier. Would there even be a Yoyorecreation or Turning Point?
I mean at that logic Duncan and yyf are worse and OD is just as bad.
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Please explain that.
Isn’t that the whole point of a patent though - to protect someone who has a new idea from everyone else stealing the concept and immediately profiting? I feel like your statement is more a generalization of not liking patents maybe?
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I have nothing against patents. As I have said before, the problem is that the yo-yo market is too small to attempt to challenge patent that may be over-broad. The very threat of legal action was enough to prevent American companies from making multi-material yo-yos.
In any other market that was large; this patent would have been challenged as being invalid. Because it was America and the yo-yo market is so small the patent was unable to be challenged. Japanes companies, however, could skirt this patent because of their laws,. With the advent of the internet they were able to make yo-yos that violated this patent while safely selling to American consumers that chose to purchase.
I believe the patents that yoyojam held, were for molded metal rings in plastic bodies and for o-ring response. The thing with patents is sometimes you have the option to license the patent for use from a different company and that has happened. Yoyojam licensed counterweights from Duncan to sell with one of their models. It also encourages other people to be creative to circumvent the patent. For the rings, buzzon glued metal rings in their yo-yos, Duncan(flying squirrel), yomega(hwhw) and yyf(North Star and a few others) all had their own ways for circumventing the patent. Regarding the o-rings we found other materials besides neoprene to use in the groove leading to flowable silicone and then pads. So even with their patents they were still leading the industry to where we are now more than holding it back.
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