I got to stick with the OG Protostar. To me it holds up strong and still goes super smooth for a plastic over a decade old. I recently swapped and cleaned the bearing areas and it’s running like new.
My gf got me a rio and it was dead smooth out of the box and amazing. But I dropped it from shoulder height and it has a surprisingly noticeable vibe.
To me, modern plastics have come a long way and perform almost as good as metal throws but the material they make them are now easier to mold and make but are more malleable to small damage.
Shout out to my personal goat plastic, the AceYo Pure 2. @SidequestMarlon included this when I bought my Pano from him, and I am still floored every time play it, it’s so good
they’re a little hard to find - but not impossible - the Peter Fish Ball Bearing Luminator Pad Return System Yo-Yo is hands down - thee best plastic yoyo ever made!
Any one of these is worth a look, especially if it otherwise fits a size/profile that you are interested in:
Dale Tubat Rival
One Drop Laguna
Dressel Designs Apollo
Doc Pop DIY
C3 Ghost IX
Japan Technolog POM Ample
Plastic skeptics looking for a modern design should definitely consider the $35 Rival.
I think there are a lot of older yo-yos that were always great, but discounted at various times because they were oversized relative to dimensions that were currently popular. Now that 57mm diameters are common, plastic in general has better chance.
That yoyo was on my radar that’s how I ended up with the Fulvia. I have a tendency to go for the translucent and I don’t think it comes in that. I bought a Skyva 2 last night despite breaking my rule for the first time just because the first one met so much to me at the time. Thank you!
I was waiting for one of YOU people. The “Delrin” people. Up until it recently, I assumed that machined polycarb was basically Delrin and now I’m finding out that’s not really accurate. So because I only buy translucent (I did cop Skyva 2 last night for nostalgia in violation) I have ZERO delrin yoyos. How do you compare them to the machined plastics like The Shooting Star YoYo etc I mean in terms of material. Thank you!
I’ve come so so so close to buying that yoyo many times. It’s just beautiful. The 50 bucks was the issue because I found cheaper options for machined plastics. I am glad to hear good feedback on it - I really have been so aware of this yoyo several times over. I told myself it was more on the organic side so a slightly inexpensive machined plastic would probably play better. Funny how our mind works to justify what we want to see in the moment.
An interesting take that I would not think is too relevant in comparison to these modern days throws. I know it was an OG for a very long time and already an older yoyo by the time I started. So is the Northstar truly as good or no?
Haha yeah I see them on ebay. I just can’t agree with this but haha yeah I almost bought one when I was buying a bunch of fireballs for Nostalgia. I know yotricks was loving these for awhile. I um…it’s not the best looking yoyo I always kind of wondered why you guys loved them so much
I think a lot of the newer ones beat the Shooting Star that’s kind of what my question was about so thank you yeah this is precisely what I want to hear. Very aware of that yoyo the orange one looks so sick. What color you got?
Of course it does. Heard this many many times over myself. We are saturated with yoyos these days and it takes much longer for the good ones to make it to the top sometimes. But they always find a way.
That blue and white one Empathy Bubble. Wow! Which color do you have? I never heard of either of these but I have heard of Empathy and they have a machined plastic I had looked into recently that was translucent I believe.
I think there are a lot of older yo-yos that were always great, but discounted at various times because they were oversized relative to dimensions that were currently popular. Now that 57mm diameters are common, plastic in general has better chance.
I never even considered this or thought about that. Hard to believe a few years ago people were telling me my TopYo Plastic Mojo feels wide. I still think some of them are too wide out there though today
I actually wrote that with my POM Mojo in mind. I also thought that it could do well with a re-release at a wider width, but I personally don’t think it needs to change.
I’m not in the wide camp either. Deviant + is wide enough for me and so is the Wildify. But even coming back to something less wide always makes me go almost like “Oh thank God.” I’ve been throwing around an Unprld Flashback too recently all happy and like the first iteration of the Speedaholic without the finger nub even. Man these wide yoyos are eating up so much space in my drawers too!
I’m not big on wide yoyos either but love my Wildify. Yeah, I saw that immediately and wanted it and would have it if it wasn’t for so many buys lately. I just don’t stop. But at the same time I truly do believe I want to be intimate with every single yoyo I have so I need to have some breathing room to do just that.
