# What was your first budget metal? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [December 17, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361 "2018-12-17T04:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![photogeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/photogeek/32/41072_2.png) [@photogeek](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/photogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/21 "2018-12-17T18:46:53Z")
Like @jhb8426, I think my first “budget” metal was the Duncan Metal Zero. Which, honestly, was probably the first budget metal at all. I remember everyone was pretty excited about it when the rumors showed up about the price. That said, it was a pretty cruddy yoyo. I wasn’t impressed. Thought that has to be view in the context of my general “meh” opinion of most of the small-bearing Duncan plastic yoyos. ---
**Author:** ![zslane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zslane/32/19816_2.png) [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/22 "2018-12-17T19:01:21Z")
Gold YYF Shutter (current 2018 vintage). ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/evan_the_yoyo_boy/32/65657_2.png) [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/23 "2018-12-18T00:06:19Z")
Red horizon ---
**Author:** ![knowledgeablepixels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/knowledgeablepixels/32/38636_2.png) [@knowledgeablepixels](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/knowledgeablepixels)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/24 "2018-12-18T00:12:21Z")
myy n8 ---
**Author:** ![E2\_yoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/e2_yoyos/32/41208_2.png) [@E2\_yoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/E2_yoyos)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/25 "2018-12-18T00:12:56Z")
Myy m002 ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/26 "2018-12-18T03:02:42Z")
> [@MastarMash](#): > > They had these 100 dollar yoyos that sleep forever at that time for how yoyos were evolving. Long story short my cousins were trouble makers and both left the shop with some stolen 100 dollar throws. The oldest out of both of them out grew out the yoyo in about a week and handed it down to me. At the time I was about ten or eleven years old. I loved it, but lost it like many things to time. It was an amazing throw. Does anyone own a time machine(by that I do not mean watch/clock)? Wow LOL! If it was around 1999, the famous (and expensive) metal yoyo then was the Playmaxx Cold Fusion and similar metals from Playmaxx, that’d be my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Raysion05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Raysion05](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Raysion05)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/27 "2018-12-18T03:26:19Z")
Oh boy this is going to date me, a Yomega Metallic Missile. I believe it was $25 and I thought man that’s a lot for a yo-yo. ---
**Author:** ![RobertTheShaw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/roberttheshaw/32/41482_2.png) [@RobertTheShaw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RobertTheShaw)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/28 "2018-12-18T06:02:20Z")
So I am not sure what constitutes a budget metal. But first metal Yo-Yo was the prototype for the Silver Bullet 1. Didn’t even know it was a prototype until meeting Tom Kuhn at a club meet up and he flipped when he saw it. Pretty sure my dad had that for less than $20 in the 80’s. He got it before I got into Yo-Yoing which spawned our collecting. Then in 2000 I got a red and black anodized SB2. I forget how much those were back then. Maybe around $70 which was crazy money for a Yo-Yo back then. Of course I (my dad, I was invited High School) bought a Cold Fusion when it came out which was in no way a budget Yo-Yo at the time. This year I got a Shutter which is my first “modern” Yo-Yo as I stopped playing for 16 years. ---
**Author:** ![photogeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/photogeek/32/41072_2.png) [@photogeek](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/photogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/29 "2018-12-18T07:42:18Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Wow LOL! If it was around 1999, the famous (and expensive) metal yoyo then was the Playmaxx Cold Fusion and similar metals from Playmaxx, that’d be my guess. Let us not forget the glory that was the SuperYO Samurai. $130 would put this baby in your 1999 pocket. > **[SuperYo Samurai](https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/SuperYo_Samurai)** > > The Samurai, released in 1999, was produced by SuperYo to compete with high-end metal yo-yos such as the ProYo Cold Fusion and the Tom Kuhn SB-2 among others of the time. Its Butterfly-shaped body is CNC-machined out of aluminum to a... ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/30 "2018-12-18T07:43:26Z")
Wow cool! > It was this innovation [first ceramic bearing] that allowed Matt Owen to set a former long sleeper record of 12 minutes 2 seconds on October 23rd, 1999. Its 2.1.0 construction makes it so that there are no parts to be lost. ---
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/31 "2018-12-18T08:08:59Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Its 2.1.0 construction Umm… do you know the significance of this? I don’t have the drive to Google it. I can do it tomorrow if you don’t know what this means. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/32 "2018-12-18T08:43:09Z")
> Solid “2.1.0” design – that is, 2 halves, 1 ball bearing, and 0 parts to lose. I guess the axle was machined into one of the halves? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/e/7/6/e76b916987c490c9f64a586b5e164dd80071974d.jpeg) Looks more like it was soldered in or otherwise mechanically attached to me, that makes sense as a machined aluminum axle would be… err… bad. ---
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/33 "2018-12-18T13:59:19Z")
Thank you, sir. ---
**Author:** ![hobbygod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hobbygod/32/120997_2.png) [@hobbygod](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hobbygod)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/34 "2018-12-18T19:16:57Z")
Yoyofactory hectic. 65$ was budget back in the day ---
**Author:** ![Blieske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Blieske](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Blieske)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/35 "2018-12-18T20:25:57Z")
Shinwoo Zen 3. It had an interesting shape and played like a rock, but I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Grendel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/grendel/32/92975_2.png) [@Grendel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Grendel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/36 "2018-12-18T20:45:04Z")
Me too! Man in hindsight only slightly better than the metal drifter. ---
**Author:** ![Grendel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/grendel/32/92975_2.png) [@Grendel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Grendel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/37 "2018-12-18T20:47:08Z")
I used to own one of these and it tried to kill me. So I gave it to the neighbor and now it sits on a shelf, safely. ---
**Author:** ![Cannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/38 "2018-12-18T21:12:34Z")
Wow, some people started on some really nice yoyos. Good for you guys! I couldn’t convince myself, nor my parents, to let me spend $30 on a yoyo for nearly a year after I got into the hobby (I’m pretty cheap). ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/39 "2018-12-18T21:25:06Z")
> [@Cannon](#): > > …I couldn’t convince myself, nor my parents, to let me spend $30 on a yoyo for nearly a year after I got into the hobby (I’m pretty cheap). I operated under that rule for a few years. $30 was my absolute limit. Then Anti-yo came out with the Fluchs and I had to have one. ---
**Author:** ![photogeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/photogeek/32/41072_2.png) [@photogeek](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/photogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361/40 "2018-12-18T23:13:02Z")
Keep in mind that not every answer here is to the question: ‘What was your first yoyo?’ The conversation was just about your first ‘budget metal’. Lot’s of folks started on plastics. [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-first-budget-metal/296361.md?page=3)