The 90s Yo-Yo Craze was Awesome! | Odd Pod

[@OddPodRetro]

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[@YOYODUDE24]

Usually people find yo-yos boring because they either don’t practice or don’t have a yo-yo that can match their handling style. The 2 yo-yos that I normally use are the Duncan Hornet and the Duncan Pro Z. Also great video!

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice, I want to get a few classic 90s yoyos for my collection sometime. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@watermelonineasterhay]

I remember it was c. late 1998 and they were everywhere! I had that video too! And the best ones had lights and a clutch

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice 😁 I need to get a cool light up one. Yeah they were everywhere suddenly ha ha. Thanks for watching 😁

[@kingblacknews604]

Came across the channel after remembering that era it was late 1998 from what I recall I was 11 and it was a exciting time as a kid here in newark nj they were $2.50 a pop at the corner store and they sold like hot cakes my favorite one was the pro spinner and the other one that lit up mabe a yo mega dont remember but alot of them were manufactured by Duncan...miss those days

[@OddPodRetro]

Glad you found the channel, lots of nostalgia on here for you to enjoy if you love that time in your life. Go buy yourself a yo-yo and relive that fun time 😁

[@StinkyBlack1]

My yoyo memory is being just on the tale end of the craze when they were peaking in price, and thinking that good yoyos were 100$+. The mall kiosks were for yoyos. And the “older cool kids” all seemed to have expensive ones. It was a very short fad, soon after replaced with cellphones and accessories, the mall kiosks becoming cellular bling, with light up keypads and antennas that flashed for alerts. Those were the days.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah, it was a very short fad. But a fun one. 100+ though for a yoyo, crazy

[@StinkyBlack1]

@@OddPodRetro its back now, with premium yoyos being up to 400$

[@laust3998]

You can get very good cheap ones now

[@MRSceneITALL]

I bought a yoyo last month! pure nostalgic, good vid!

[@OddPodRetro]

I kinda want to buy more ha ha 😂 glad you enjoyed the vid, check out the other episodes of life of a 90s kid for more nostalgia 😁

[@ThePrimo80s]

I was right into the Yo-yo crazy but never had an X-Brain, always had knockoff ones. Great video mate.

[@OddPodRetro]

Thanks, i don't think I had any of the big brand yoyos, I'm kinda in the mood to buy a brand one though ha ha 😂

[@ThePrimo80s]

Odd Pod haha I was tempted also but I’d probably knock myself out with it.

[@Kaijushorts]

Great video! My tricks were "up and down" and "forward in a slight loop". I had a Moose glow in the dark yo-yo which made it a lot easier(apparently). But then my friend invented this trick called the "window shatterer" and my friend group's parents pretty much put a stop to it and I went back to video games. First time here though, Slim sent me!

[@OddPodRetro]

Ahh window shatterer, a classic move, yeah up and down is safe ha ha 😂 tell slim I said thanks, hope you enjoy more videos on the channel

[@Brantendo64]

SO MANY AMAZING YO-YOS. I used to ask for my parents for so many different kinds of yo-yos because of how cool they were, but they wound up just sitting in my room because I never learned.

[@OddPodRetro]

Ha ha yeah a lot of kids probably did the same thing

[@Marleyfresher]

I 100% believe if they brought the Yomega line of yo yo's back especially the X Brain they would take over again just like they did the 1st time they did in the late 90's. These kids went crazy over fidget spinners so I know they would love the X Brain. They just look so damn cool to watch the bearings and clutch engage/disengage as the yo yo sleeps and returns. YOMEGA WAKE UP AND BRING BACK A 90'S CLASSIC!!!

[@OddPodRetro]

Hey, that's a good idea. Make it happen! 😁

[@asmallquest]

Another great video! I remember seeing kids with the light up yo-yos and really wanting one. Then Kellogg’s brought out the Sonic Spinner that you could get with Frostie’s cereal. Wish I still had it

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah I kinda want that sonic one for the collection now ha ha 😂

[@wilddoodlepug]

Some say the yo-yo master is still yo'ing till this day

[@OddPodRetro]

And he will yoyo forever more

[@BaddaBigBoom]

I was in my late 30s in the 90s and I got sucked into this. I still have my Turbo Bumblebee and my Yomega "Metallic Missile" plus a few later brands including a Henry's Viper. I can still do the "brain twister" "trapeze" "pyramid" "round the world" and "split the atom" (on a good day).

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice, yeah yoyos just took over for a while. Nice to see it wasnt just the kids of the 90s that were drawn in by the craze 😁

[@kylerowe666]

Great video man spent the afternoon looking for my proyo 2 it needs a new string but I’ll be up and running soon!

[@OddPodRetro]

Thanks, awesome...yeah I kinda want a few yoyos now ha ha 😂

[@Spectralhyena]

I also remember that a representative of Duncan would come into our school and do crazy tricks, that’s what really kicked them off as I remember it. Nobody really had them and as soon as the third assembly for Duncan yo yos everyone had a Duncan, a yomega(I had that red x brain and a Duncan Phoenix I believe it was called, the best yo yo I had was from a hobby shop. They had a huge wall of yo yo parts and you would build your own and you could really trick them out. The one I made had the auto sleeper pin, a similar thing to the x Brain on one side with way way heavier ball bearings in the x brain part. The other side would light up and strobe when you hit a sleeper or walk the dog or cradle. It also had a bunch of other features from small parts you could add to the yo yo and it would make certain tricks way way easier to pull off. I remember the day our school banned the steel stallions or silver bullets I cant remember what they were called they had a couple different ones that were all steel or aluminum. Kids would use them as weapons or hurt themselves. I can remember the school bully brought it to school and he would be like “hey check out this sleeper it’s way faster than yours you built, then he would snap it back up so it would hit you in the head. He got me really bad and I ended up getting nerve headaches for a very long time after that.(he was jealous because it was quite pricy to build them. Mine I made was very intricate and made it look like I was a yo yo master which I wasn’t the part just made it easier to pull off tricks with a little practice I couldn’t do any of the tricks with my yomega xbrain or Duncan. Also the one I built costed $120 back then. I worked my ass off all summer so I could go to school with it) I remember getting that one I built taken away because I would still sneak it in and play with them and I clearly remember them slowly being replaced by those fighter virtual pets, the digimon and tomigotchi, I had two of each my favorite were the digimon and the fighters. I can’t remember what the fighters were called but I had a sumo wrestler and a karate guy that would do what looked like jujitsu now that I think about it. Also the digimon too the first wave if I remember correctly was kind of like tomogotchi in that there were several different digimon you could end up with..

[@OddPodRetro]

I love 90s crazes, they just completely took over ha ha 😂 I think there is a bit of the commercial for the Digimon Tamagotchi in my Tamagotchi 90s craze video

[@Spectralhyena]

Odd Pod awesome I’m headed to eBay and I’m gonna snoop around. If we get another round of stimulus checks and you have a P.O. Box I’ll mail them to you and you can use them for a video if you would like. All I want is one fighter and one digimon and one tomogotchi back and you can keep all the rest. It’s the least I could do. I just lost my fiancé she passed away from pulmonary embolisms about a month and 10 days ago. Your content soothes my aching heart so much, just thank you for being you and doing what you do. I’m a mess right now but your videos literally give me minutes of relief.

[@pudge-nyce1851]

Facts! ‘96/‘97 were peak years

[@OddPodRetro]

Indeed they were 😁 thanks for watching

[@OddPodRetro]

yes 😁

[@laust3998]

Aggressive rollerblading was doing good then too

[@TimelessGamingUK]

I remember the Yo-Yo craze in the mid to late nineties. They ended up getting banned from schools IIRC. Pro-Yo was the one have. They had ball bearings in them I think? I remember how nice it felt when it just span for ages at the bottom of the string.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah was cool, I tried doing that with the yo-yo I was using in the video but it wouldn't do it for very long so im either terrible or it's not a good yo-yo 😅

[@Yankessfanatic]

Your not bad its nust a old yoyo

[@Pjvenom1985]

I remember a very brief YoYo trend in Dublin, i tried to wield one a few times over the years, i was genuinely terrible.☘

[@MLTharme]

OMG YES! I remember the Yo-Yo crazy, I was the same, I was happy to just get it up and down. I had a favorite too, it was nice and heavy plastic version, but sadly I lost it :-(

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice, don't think I had a favourite, only had one or two yoyos during the craze

[@Zeebo1]

I was a part of this craze and it lasted for a decent while. I couldn't do that many tricks but was fun trying to learn em and just messing around.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah reading the comments from people has really got me wanting to buy a bunch of good quality yoyos to play around with, I guess in some places the craze lasted different times, thanks for watching :) hope you check out the other episodes in the life of a 90s kid series

[@katiekelly5047]

Cool video and big thanks to your contributors. Now I really wanna buy a yo-yo.

[@OddPodRetro]

Thanks, yeah go buy a yo-yo but be careful...those things can hurt

[@katiekelly5047]

@@OddPodRetro forgot to mention that I very much enjoyed your reconstruction of getting hit in the head with a yo-yo 🤣

[@01cmoney10]

Love your videos by the way!

[@OddPodRetro]

Thank you very much, we love that you spent some of your time watching them, means a lot :)

[@01cmoney10]

Absolutely, you seem like a genuinely good person and you share the same memories and nostalgia that I do also. I dont comment as much as I should to show support but am going to try to do more :)

[@OddPodRetro]

@@01cmoney10 thank you, very passionate about nostalgia and try to entertain using it 😁 yes definitely comment more, love reading comment on what people think of the videos :)

[@Adam55572]

Yo yo Dan

[@OddPodRetro]

Yo diggity dog

[@Spectralhyena]

Also I think a video about all the different types of virtual pets would be really cool. If I had the money I would help you procure some as long as I got one of the fighters and a digimon.

[@OddPodRetro]

I did a vid on the Tamagotchi craze as part of this life of a 90s kid series but I'll definitely do more virtual pet videos..oh a few years back I also did a vid on the top Virtual pet pc games

[@Spectralhyena]

I’m headed to watch them now. My email is [e-mail]. If you’re interested in a part two to the tomogotchi with more digimon and those fighters I’ll definitely enjoy helping you to get them.

[@zamstrom]

Just to let you know, yoyos are alive and well. The National yoyo contest was held last weekend in Philly!

[@OddPodRetro]

Oh that's awesome, glad they are still going strong then :) thanks for watching

[@tea-rex8697]

0:19 regular yoyo-ing 2:02 back hit 2:35 front hit

[@OddPodRetro]

Yup

[@tea-rex8697]

@@OddPodRetro right, didn't expect a reply... this was for research purposes. I'm animating a young boy who doesn't know how to yoyo and he hits his face. This helps as reference footage, since I don't have a yoyo to record it myself

[@OddPodRetro]

@tea-rex8697 ahh yeah I didn't know what to reply with as I tend to always reply to comments ha ha. Oh cool, sounds interesting. Well I hope the video helps then :)

[@liemdrake]

I happened to have yo-yos when I was a kid that remember that Duncan commercial with the boy and the flannel shirt playing video games and also we had watched that video in PE that forward pass was the only trick that I was ever good at and by now went back to playing with yo-yos and that I am learning some of the basic tricks from KZbin and also they have a trendy trick called the DNA on Tik-Tok that using non-response yo-yos.

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice, I need to get a new yoyo and have a play with it sometime. Thanks for watching 😁

[@vincentalpiepedrozo2337]

the yoyo craze here in Philippines started in 2002-03 because of Super Yoyo japanese anime. The Yo-yo's in the anime are based on Yomega yoyo's.

[@OddPodRetro]

I've never heard of that anime, was it good? Cool to know that another yoyo craze broke out somewhere else 😁

[@vincentalpiepedrozo2337]

@@OddPodRetro It was aired in japan year 1998-1999. It was good. 7.3 rating in IMDb. The opening is so nostalgic too.

[@OddPodRetro]

@vincentalpiepedrozo2337 just checked out the intro. Looks cool, is it just about tricks and stuff or do they...battle with them somehow ha ha 😅

[@sazzledoom2732]

VHS yo-yo tricks XD

[@OddPodRetro]

😁

[@briancorliss]

One million percent was a part of this craze and recently picked up one they are insane now

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice, does your new one do anything special?

[@briancorliss]

@@OddPodRetro it came with different kinds of bearing slim and center trac that make the yo-yo either responsive(comes back with the tug the kind we had as kids) and unresponsive(can spin for minutes and requires a trick called a bind to even return the yo-yo

[@OddPodRetro]

@@briancorliss awesome

[@revivedfears]

I had a few of those light up ones as a kid but I was never any good. Was lucky if I could nail 'walk the dog' successfully 😂

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah I wasn't too great either

[@Tchernobog]

I was so bad at Yo-Yo! I could never get the hang of it! I would get super frustrated and give up lol. Only a few times did I manage to do a trick, by luck.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah I could never really do tricks, just making it go up and down was good enough ha ha

[@Shoelaces77]

The tricks was arguably very high difficulty

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah, did you have a yoyo back in the day?

[@RetroCynical]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, he's the Yo-Yo Man.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo.....yo!

[@RetroCynical]

@@OddPodRetro Dick Smothers

[@RetroCynical]

I know you review retro toys, but this one is like 500 BC. That's like my grandma's generation or something.

[@bumzilla8586]

I remember trying to do around the world move with my ball bearing yo-yo and nearly splitting my head open on the playground haha .. walk the dock and clock moves I could do

[@OddPodRetro]

Close call then ha ha 😂 doing this vid really got me in the mood to get a few more yoyos ha ha 😂

[@darrylramsey6232]

Happened again in early 2000's as well

[@OddPodRetro]

Oh really? Well there ya go then, just randomly happens every so often ha ha

[@darrylramsey6232]

@@OddPodRetro i was in jr high from 2000 until 2001 my freshman year they was very popular. Especially the one's with the brains in them, omg it was a madhouse the corner store by the school made a killing off the yo yo.

[@OddPodRetro]

@@darrylramsey6232 there were yoyos with brains in them??

[@darrylramsey6232]

@@OddPodRetro well that's what we called them. Lol the silver balls that increase the time on the ground. We called them brains, the more you had the easier it was to do walk the dog and tons of other tricks.

[@OddPodRetro]

@@darrylramsey6232 ahh okay, cool ha ha

[@TFOOS]

I loved my Coca Cola Spinner!

[@OddPodRetro]

I was just looking at the coca cola ones on eBay ha ha 😂

[@TFOOS]

@@OddPodRetro The gold ones 😍🤩

[@Bucky749]

I just had a thought I remember there was episode of darkwing duck where yo-yo’s where a big part of the plot it involved the villain Cracker Jack going back in time. To destroy the worlds first yo-yo maybe you could review that episode and talk about darkwing duck . In the future. Just a random idea .

[@OddPodRetro]

I don't quite remember that episode but it has been a while since I've seen it ha ha 😅

[@darrenmckeown990]

What about the Coca-Cola yo-yo spinners from the 80’s, that was a massive craze when I was at primary school with the fabled gold Coke spinner which you could only win through buying the drink.

[@OddPodRetro]

I remember the coke ones vaguely but I don't remember seeing them in the 90s yo-yo craze, I do want to grab one for the collection though 😁

[@dreamsreselling7215]

Yeah i had one of them the Coca Cola ones great times 😊

[@Spectralhyena]

Remember the all steel ones? Yeah yo yos got outright banned after the steel stallion came out. Saw many a kid gore themselves with those. I can’t remember the name but I pretty sure they were called steel stallions. Or sliver bullets?

[@OddPodRetro]

I never actually saw the steel ones, I only heard about them, everyone I knew had plastic ones, yeah they sound a bit deadly

[@Spectralhyena]

Odd Pod they were. Kids broke their hands after pulling up on a sleeper or walk the dog. The ones you could build were amazing. I had that yo yo so tricked out it was nuts. To do a sleeper with the auto sleeper pin you just had to pull up a bit before it hit the end of the string. I also had parts that would make it easier to do the cradle and more advanced tricks.

[@gothioso]

I remember having a yoyo and nit being able to get it to work

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah they take practice, get a new one and try again!

[@885818499]

Did you guys get yo-yo performers at your schools?

[@OddPodRetro]

Never had any at my school but I do remember some kids telling me that they got them. I'm guessing you did?

[@885818499]

@@OddPodRetro yeah, they where these cool “teen” yo-yo performers. It was the most 90s thing ever lol

[@OddPodRetro]

@@885818499 I wonder what they are doing with their lives now 😅 I hope they are still yo-yoing

[@MellowGaming]

My memory of Yo-yos in the 90s was working at Toys R Us when it all kicked off and being swarmed by people the moment we put them out. Parents shouting at us because we didn't have some specific one. Kids wanting to return ones their parents got them cos it wasn't some flashy £40 one. They got up to silly prices. I had yo-yos years ealier and I was rubbish at them. Good for hitting yourself in the head with though.

[@OddPodRetro]

£40?! That's craaaaazy!

[@MellowGaming]

@@OddPodRetro It was Toys R Us. They'd charge the moon for a bag of dust if they thought it'd be a hit with the kids.

[@jimmythebantam]

That must have hurt, how are you Dan?

[@OddPodRetro]

...I'm okay....it did hurt...the things I do for a cheap laugh 😅

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

I guess that Simpsons episode was pretty accurate

[@OddPodRetro]

Ha ha 😂 yeah

[@Bucky749]

Also I think I the anime yu yu hakusho on of the characters had an attack called serpent yo-yo he started as villain later became a hero .

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice

[@MrBlaze256]

Yomega yoyo for 2 bucks each damn I wish there was a McDonald's in my town back then. Think I gave bout 10 for my firestorm at Walmart.

[@OddPodRetro]

Ha ha yeah ☺️

[@leahwestwater5890]

Yoing

[@rexx8887]

Shopee ph actually sells coca-cola yoyos I bought kinley russel ones because I prefer drinking orange soda

[@OddPodRetro]

Nice

[@rexx8887]

It will also be my first vintage toy my mistake kinley is actually a lemon soda although the kinley yoyo that I bought was color orange and I thought it was an orange soda

[@shockz16]

"Yo dawg! I heard yo' and yo' dog like Yo-Yos. So we put yo' dog inside yo' Yo-Yo so you can Yo-Yo yo dog whilst yo' Yo-Yo! Yo! " 😂 I do remember the short lived Yo-Yo craze of the 90s but it's not one I can ever say I got into, mainly because I can't Yo-Yo to save my life. Tbh I don't think I've ever even had a Yo-Yo just attempted it a few times with someone else's.

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah I'm not very good as you saw me demonstrate but it was fun to just mess with every now and again

[@rexx8887]

A yoyo youtube channel called yotricks teaches newbs how to yoyo they even have a yoyostore in there channel I learned advanced tricks like double or nothing,trapeze barrell rolls etc. go check it out

[@FirmJigglypuff]

Furst lol

[@OddPodRetro]

No, you second

[@Jothebro2008_DaboyzCinematic]

Now a days yomega is crap

[@OddPodRetro]

Is it? That's a shame

[@lulukat1670]

:D i remember it being a big dal to _D I cant remember if u had to collet Points ? Or if it was a contest but i got a Yoyo From Coca Cola :D and i still have it :D And i was ok at it :D

[@OddPodRetro]

Yeah a few people have mentioned the coca cola ones now, I want one for the Collection ha ha 😂

[@lulukat1670]

@@OddPodRetro hihihhi OK But OMG their quit Expensive now lol i believe min looks like this one eBay Link: www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Genuine-Russell-Coca-Cola-Super-YoYo-80s-vg/174202903549?hash=item288f4d5bfd:g:fBQAAOSwv-5eVmgi