The top picture has an original rooyo red/gray (120), Turning Point leviathan 1 ($100-150) right below the rooyo in the first picture, raw proyo cold fusion which is the top right of the first picture, werrd two fat ladies ($80-90) located in the first picture between the rooyo and cold fusion.
That last picture is so awesome from left to right and top to bottom with my estimated pricing.
Broken Yoyos Plugin (150-200) rooyo HF (50), x-yo Excalibur (40)
Alchemy silk (40), Any Happy Yo quicksilver 2 (150-200)
I think the original plugin and the quicksilver are the coolest things of the bunch because both use a teflon coating. I’ve never seen a black Teflon coated quicksilver 2 so I’m thinking that might have been a test colorway. The plugin is also strange because they usually coated the outside with another color as well.
The gouge shown is definitely the worst mark by far.
7/10 string vibe
5/10 fingernail vibe
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persson
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the very first Plug-ins of 2003 were raw, then Saxa (at the time the collaboration with Niubi and Speed12 and the relative brand Brokenyoyos did not yet exist), he experimented with various finishing and adjustments and given that in Italy the anodic coloring processes were always a problem and never widespread on goods that are not highly industrial and that the family owned an aluminum cookware production company, he thought it well to apply the non-stick Teflon treatment of the cookware to the yoyo cups, with the intention of giving it a better sliding ability in grinds-tricks … the treatment, however, as you know, is very delicate and easily prone to scratching. the covers were all black.
in 2004 Saxa started to collaborate with Niubi and the Plug-in 1.1 was born … with the main difference in the return system, no more embedded o-rings but fluid silicone … so I think the one in the picture is a 1.1
After a few years, thanks to the accession of Speed12, a 3D expert who, years before the cad drawings of the first model are lost, completely redesigns the new yoyo, starting from two old sawn cups, with changes affecting the hubs, the bearing which passes from C to D, the adaptation of the response system and a reduction of the weight which passes from 71gr. starting at 66 gr., the plug-in 3 and the Brokenyoyos brand are born.
As for the colors, that I remember, those with a different color cup interior from the catch-zone, were not coated in Teflon but with a shrink-wrapped plastic film, such as Sumo Arlecchino and had the VGA name … but they passed almost twenty years and now there is no more information …
They’re packaged with all of the special edition Freehand Ones. I wouldn’t pay more than a couple bucks for one. The new ones have the Duncan logo molded into one side, and the hole for the string is more narrow. I like the new design a lot more personally. I’d say maybe like 5 bucks a piece if you were trying to sell them.
