# What was your most influential yoyo?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732 "2022-03-25T21:51:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/61 "2022-03-29T13:33:47Z")
The yoyo is the main thing. Maybe save the string in a little bag and find a new string and do a little maintenance to freshen it up. Same yoyo but you’ll have just taken it to a car wash and vacuumed it and hung a new air freshener from the rear view mirror.
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### Author:  [@Xymantix](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Xymantix)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/62 "2022-03-29T14:14:17Z")
That’s a good way to look at it. Until this morning, I had never thought about trying to clean the bearing and that could make a noticeable difference in the spin times. I would be nice to be able to do more tricks with this yoyo, especially since it’s so pocketable.
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### Author:  [@Billipo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Billipo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/63 "2022-03-29T22:49:53Z")
I hadn’t played yo-yo for at least 40 years. I was at a discount Store (Ollies) they had Duncan Limelights for $3. I took a chance and bought one. Went home, relearned a few tricks, and found a couple vintage throws in deep storage. It all rekindled my interest.
I’d have to say my most influential yo-yo is that Limelight.
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### Author:  [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/64 "2022-03-30T01:49:58Z")
Aaah!!! What vintage yoyos did you dig out? Let’s see some pics!!!
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### Author:  [@Esmagic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Esmagic)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/65 "2022-03-30T03:27:54Z")
The Duncan butterfly - 70s version. My companion from 6th grade and the first yo-yo i spent serious time on. Then in the late 80s i discovered the Tom Kuhn No-Jive. I doubt i’d be here today if not for that little piece of “flying furniture”.
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### Author:  [@Billipo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Billipo)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/66 "2022-03-30T08:41:52Z")
Unfortunately a “couple” not “several” or “many”.
The only surviver from my Elementary school days is a Gold Medal Imperial. I remember having others but they were the typical drug store variety. My yo-yo de jour was always an extremely well thought out purchase with my hard earned money and a few found pennies.
I never was the kid with the coolest toys. In any event, they are long gone.
In box, I found two Yomega Fireballs and a Wooden Blackbird which I have no clue where they came from. I opened a fireball, but the others are still in original packaging.
Wish I had a better story.
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### Author:  [@Pindrop34](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pindrop34)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/67 "2022-03-30T12:42:01Z")
The most influential for me was the Yomega Hyper Warp Heavy Wing.
I remember buying it before I knew what unresponsive play was and had trouble getting a consistent return.
Then I found the online forums, learned how to bind, and that opened up a whole new world to me.
I learned all the unresponsive basics on that yoyo. I’m still super sad I traded it away.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/68 "2022-05-12T18:42:09Z")
The “coca cola” style [Russell yo-yo](https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/Russell) is a big deal:
> An example of the promotional view, is the [Coca-Cola](https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/Coca-Cola) Russell yo-yo craze that swept across the globe in the 1980’s and gave a lot of the current generation of yo-yo players their start. In this period professional Russell demonstrators took the craze to 95 countries, with yo-yo models reflecting most of the soft drinks produced by the Coca-Cola company.
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### Author:  [@Anti\_HeRo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Anti_HeRo)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/69 "2022-05-12T19:10:54Z")
Duncan butterfly was my first… most influential as of late has to be the ti-vayder. Still eyeballing the bst for one but someday.
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### Author:  [@RyoCanCan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RyoCanCan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/70 "2022-05-12T22:15:22Z")
This will come as a surprise to no-one, but Superwide.
I love the shape, the size is just right for me, it looks like a bell.
I knew I had to have one when I saw pics of it.
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### Author:  [@RC\_yo-yo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RC_yo-yo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/71 "2022-05-13T02:28:29Z")
The TK Silver Bullet! It set the bar high for me as a kid. Nothing else at the time (1980’s) could compete. Why aren’t they still being made? Or at least others like it now?
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### Author:  [@lumanasty](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/lumanasty)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/72 "2022-05-13T02:42:29Z")
For me it would have to be the yyj hitman, being a big JD fan back in the day made this a grail purchase for me, and to this day i still love the throw even though i have gone through about 10 of them due to stress cracking.
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### Author:  [@Jayjo866](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jayjo866)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/73 "2022-05-13T03:40:26Z")
Wow good post. For me was the raider saber raider and fireball the throws that got me into the game. They were at the time big deal. Now im just bimetals hahah
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### Author:  [@Jayjo866](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jayjo866)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/74 "2022-05-13T03:41:49Z")
Oh man i had one they were awesome yomega was hot for awhile wish they can make throws like today. Imagine a raider upgrade
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### Author:  [@stephencaplanis](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stephencaplanis)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/75 "2022-05-13T03:51:07Z")
My fellow early 2010s yoyoers will know
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### Author:  [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/76 "2022-05-17T02:34:04Z")
I believe you can still get SB2s at Tom Kuhn’s website.
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### Author:  [@kretzschmar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kretzschmar)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/77 "2022-05-17T13:01:17Z")
The fact that you stuck with yoyoing after the Zombie is a testament to your will power good sir.
This is the only Zombie I can rock.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts)
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### Author:  [@adamantiumpops](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/adamantiumpops)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/78 "2022-05-17T13:16:50Z")
Got to be the Terrarian for me. Never played the eponymous videa game, but I got mine second hand from someone on the Reddit BST in… 2015 or 2016? It was my first ‘good’ unresponsive.
Honorable mention goes to the Silenus I got from Rewind a few weeks earlier. My first unresponsive and also a very good one. Nothing prestigious for sure, but important to me personally.
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### Author:  [@Theycallmecotton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Theycallmecotton)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/79 "2022-05-17T13:35:20Z")
the silenus is one of my all time favorite throws. Plays way above its price
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### Author:  [@jp\_728](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jp_728)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-was-your-most-influential-yoyo/354732/80 "2022-05-17T15:55:03Z")
Terraria also plays above the price.
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