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For as long as I can remember I've wanted to make a plastic yoyo.
Maybe it's because I started with Yoyojams, but something about plastic always equated to fun in my mind.
So, when it came time to build my ideal plastic I wanted something that wasn’t just competitive, but also fun.
On one hand there were Yoyos like the YYF Replay/YYF Daydream, that in my opinion lacked the fun factor but had all the rim weight and stability you'd need to use it as a competition throw.
On the other, you had Yoyos like the Skyva, Premiere and First Base that were so fun you never wanted to put them down, however they lacked stability and spin time to truly be a viable competition option.
What I wanted to create was a plastic with both. A yoyo that was fun, but still had the catchability, stability and spin time fit for a competition Yoyo.
That’s when I decided to go to Shenzen China to the Magic-Yoyo factory. There I worked with their team of lathe engineers and Yoyo designers and we came up with 2 prototypes.
Despite my initial excitement I quickly realized that there still wasn’t enough stability in these yoyos for me to actively compete with them.
So once I went back to Australia, I requested a few more tweaks and reluctantly gave the go ahead to build the mold. What happened next?
It flopped.
The yoyo that came out was awful. Unplayable.
To elaborate, the Yoyo's pads seat was made too narrow that the pads would literally bulge out making the yoyo responsive. Additionally, the design produced a harmonic vibe that rendered the whole thing unplayable.
I couldn't in good conscience release this to the Yoyo community, so I requested another prototype.
However that wasn't as easy as you might think...
The reason it’s less common for Yoyo companies to make plastic yoyos is because the cost of a mold is astronomically high.
In fact, the cost of a single mold is generally enough to deter most companies from even attempting a plastic.
So you can understand the predicament I was in when I was now asking Magic Yoyo to produce not just one, but two molds before the Yoyo had sold even a single unit.
Concerned that Magic Yoyo might scrap this project all together, I was given one final design change.
This had to be the most radical yet.
The previous iterations of the Variant had remnants of the initial design which was meant to have finger spin capabilities.
While this was fun, this meant that precious weight had to be distributed to the inner body of the yoyo, while less material was left for the rims. Rim weight is usually what gives a yoyo it’s stability and spin time.
So now desperate, and on the verge of this collaboration failing before it even began, we completely redrew the design. Taking all the weight that was meant to give the yoyo fingerspin capabilities and adding all of it to the rim.
I wouldn’t be sure how this design turned out, but Magic Yoyo was getting impatient.
So we commissioned the 2nd mold, and the Yoyo was shipped out to me to be tested.
This video is the outcome of that decision.
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