# Why do the Nine Dragons shells not work on the new Nine-Dragons **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [December 4, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-the-nine-dragons-shells-not-work-on-the-new-nine-dragons/389646 "2023-12-04T18:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BART1208](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@BART1208](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/BART1208)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-the-nine-dragons-shells-not-work-on-the-new-nine-dragons/389646/1 "2023-12-04T18:10:11Z")
Why do the new Nine Dragons not work with the shells on older models. Its kinda dumb, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Son-of-Morris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/son-of-morris/32/250533_2.png) [@Son-of-Morris](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Son-of-Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-the-nine-dragons-shells-not-work-on-the-new-nine-dragons/389646/2 "2023-12-04T18:20:58Z")
I found that out the hard way as well when I ordered some replacement caps to change the color and have a backup on mine and they didn’t fit, haha! Just FYI, the short/half caps won’t do the trick either. Also the hard way, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Hojo-YoYo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hojo-yoyo/32/275876_2.png) [@Hojo-YoYo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hojo-YoYo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-the-nine-dragons-shells-not-work-on-the-new-nine-dragons/389646/3 "2023-12-06T02:23:22Z")
I have one from around 2018, I ordered the full size clear yellow shells. These fit much better than the original. I did notice on the bottom of YYE page that it said they were for the older version s