Typically because demand for them fell to unsustainable levels to continue production.
Also many companies have a model based on scarcity of supply.
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I have great news for you king lol
The updated version of the Chief, known as the Leaf, is supposedly coming soon. Also as @UnluckyOwl53 said the Peak 3 might be a thing. Two flagships right there.
Ben said new 888s are coming (and in the OG 2007 design too)
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Oooh, did I just manifest my own destiny? Sweet, I’ll stay quiet now and just wait paitiently with a blank check, lol.
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I’m with you. I don’t need to experience how my new yoyo plays with its prior owner’s dirty, nasty worn out string. I’m very good at making strong dirty, nasty and worn out on my own.
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a big one is when a yoyo is hyped up as really good then you get it and dont like it a whole lot
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When manufacturers release a new bi-metal and don’t release it in a red + silver(SS) colorway.
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Inconsistency in 19mm pads as a standard. Between having so many different 19mm pad manufacturers, and so many different yoyo designers using them, 19mm pads feel less like a standard and more like a rough guideline.
I’m at the point where I think I just want to go all in on flowable silicone for 19mm response. I’m just over throwing a 19mm pad in a yoyo only to find out my “standard” 19mm pad is slightly too thick and juts out of the response well and makes the yoyo play terribly. Either because the yoyo was designed using 19mm pads from a company that produces them very slightly thinner, or because the pad you got was from a manufacturer that makes the pads very slightly thicker (or you just got a batch of pads that ended up being thicker.)
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it’s been said before but gatekeeping is such an upset, let people have yoyoing fun we’re a small enough community as is don’t give a bad impression
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My biggest pet peeve? Failed snap starts.
You casually snap start your dead yoyo… your finger slips over the edge, traveling full force into the opposite side of the cup…
DING!!
Confusion, pain, anger, frustration, pain, numbness, shame, pain… did I mention the pain?
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it just started getting cold where im at and it hurts so much more
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This is one of the reasons I usually don’t throw in the morning until I’ve had some coffee to warm up.
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in australia it’s coming into summer so i’m afraid of breaking skin when yoyoing
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Not knowing any throwers in my area. And not having any local yo-yo shops. But my biggest is still bad names for yo-yos and companies.
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I felt this comment.
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shielded bearings
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- Learn a new trick
- Don’t perform that trick for a long while
- Eventually have that trick completely fall off your radar
- Suddenly remember the trick, but realize you’ve forgotten how to do it
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I have another list to add:
- Fell in love with multi-/dark-collored boutique strings from hyped US-brands
- Order a ton of them because you live in europe and you have to max out the cost-per-string ratio
- Get them after ~two weeks of waiting and an unholy tax-payment
- realize that you can’t see s**t and yellow and green strings a way more practical
- Repeat
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Yea im the same way, neon yellow is all i can use unless im outside. try to use more natural light, that helps me to a degree
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I loved the idea of black strings but realized they were invisible over the carpet in my office. They do work over the lighter floors in other rooms (until I need to unpick a knot).
For a while this was my excuse for owning two of the same yoyo - one for each string/room, but I couldn’t even kid myself with that for long.
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not only is the 19mm pad ‘standard’ hugely variant in depth, its inferior to 21mm pads with C-Bearings