I’ve got some that I’d like to get an idea on. My apologies for the wonky layout; still sorting out how this editor does things. Some pix upside down, I suppose for the convenience of our members in the Southern Hemisphere.
Yomega Fireball. It’s been opened and likely thrown a few times but basically sitting in the box since about 1992.
Yomega “The Yo-yo With a Brain” given me in about 1991 by the same person who gave me the Fireball. It’s been played, but never crashed. With box and instructions. As a bonus the box has been personally autographed by Shari Barnum. (She was a woman I worked with who had a tendency to “autograph” people’s belongings.)
Duncan Mardi Gras. In original package, unopened. Not sure how old exactly but I’ve owned this (and the other Duncans below) since 1980. There is some wear on the embossed lettering, likely from the package over the years.
Looks like the yomega brain. When you throw it the little plastic peg looking things push to the outside and as it slows down they clutch the axle and it returns automatically. Sorry if my attempted explanation is incoherent.. so tired.
First edition “brain” is my best guess. Thought it was really weird back in the day. The general idea was that throwing the yo-yo caused the little round shiny weights you see to go out toward the rim of the yo-yo from centrifugal force. There are little springs providing tension on the yellow arms, which have pivots at the end opposite the weights.
As the spin slowed down, the weights would be forced back in by the springs, and the yo-yo would clutch back up and return.
Based on just seeing some others from a few years later than this one, I assume it’s really the same mechanism but it may be only in the earlier versions; I’m not sure.
General interest check on old yyf throws. I have a well loved shiny black superstar, and a b grade 888 that I bought from a YYF booth at MWR '09 or '10. It’s b grade only for anno flaws, and has a scratch from a young dumb kid (me) taking the hubstacks off wrong.
