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Post by John Titor on Feb 23, 2019 11:59:31 GMT 10
Anyone else remember this?
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 23, 2019 22:27:07 GMT 10
Yes, definitely. I owned a couple of them. They were huge at my primary school (like most I guess!  ). There were a few different colours of the ones I owned but this red Proyo II one I know I had at one stage.  
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 24, 2019 12:23:22 GMT 10
Obviously I can't remember the Yo-yo fad of Late 1997/Early 1998 (as it was a year before I was born), but I remember Yo-yos were briefly a fad after a touring Yo-yo enthusiast gave a presentation at my primary school in Early 2011. After he gave a presentation in the school hall, suddenly almost every single kid in the school brought a Yo-yo to school the next day.
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Post by John Titor on Feb 24, 2019 13:19:06 GMT 10
This happened like a month after Tamagotchi
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Post by mwalker96 on Feb 24, 2019 14:30:30 GMT 10
Obviously I can't remember the Yo-yo fad of Late 1997/Early 1998 (as it was a year before I was born), but I remember Yo-yos were briefly a fad after a touring Yo-yo enthusiast gave a presentation at my primary school in Early 2011. After he gave a presentation in the school hall, suddenly almost every single kid in the school brought a Yo-yo to school the next day. I remember my sister having a yo-yo in the early 00s like 2002-ish. I remember them still being used by kids in the early 00s but nowhere near on the level as Pokemon cards or Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 24, 2019 15:31:26 GMT 10
Obviously I can't remember the Yo-yo fad of Late 1997/Early 1998 (as it was a year before I was born), but I remember Yo-yos were briefly a fad after a touring Yo-yo enthusiast gave a presentation at my primary school in Early 2011. After he gave a presentation in the school hall, suddenly almost every single kid in the school brought a Yo-yo to school the next day. As mwalker96 said, I vaguely remember them being somewhat popular in the very early 2000s still. I had that red one I posted above from about 1999. I was still in to my Tamagotchi so I was a little late to this particular fad myself, as when I got this the “cool kids” were using them less by then. However, I moved on to the Pokémon games and TCG pretty early on.
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Post by John Titor on Feb 24, 2019 15:32:41 GMT 10
Obviously I can't remember the Yo-yo fad of Late 1997/Early 1998 (as it was a year before I was born), but I remember Yo-yos were briefly a fad after a touring Yo-yo enthusiast gave a presentation at my primary school in Early 2011. After he gave a presentation in the school hall, suddenly almost every single kid in the school brought a Yo-yo to school the next day. I remember my sister having a yo-yo in the early 00s like 2002-ish. I remember them still being used by kids in the early 00s but nowhere near on the level as Pokemon cards or Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Yoyos fell off a few months into 98 didn't really last that long, may have been a yoyo she had in 98 and stopped using
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Post by John Titor on Feb 24, 2019 15:34:19 GMT 10
Obviously I can't remember the Yo-yo fad of Late 1997/Early 1998 (as it was a year before I was born), but I remember Yo-yos were briefly a fad after a touring Yo-yo enthusiast gave a presentation at my primary school in Early 2011. After he gave a presentation in the school hall, suddenly almost every single kid in the school brought a Yo-yo to school the next day. As mwalker96 said, I vaguely remember them being somewhat popular in the very early 2000s still. I had that red one I posted above from about 1999. I was still in to my Tamagotchi so I was a little late to this particular fad myself, as when I got this the “cool kids” were using them less by then. However, I moved on to the Pokémon games and TCG pretty early on. I never remember yoyos still being popular in the 2000s, for me in Jersey it fell off shortly before Banjo Kazooie dropped on n64
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 24, 2019 16:00:29 GMT 10
I remember my sister having a yo-yo in the early 00s like 2002-ish. I remember them still being used by kids in the early 00s but nowhere near on the level as Pokemon cards or Yu-Gi-Oh cards. As mwalker96 said, I vaguely remember them being somewhat popular in the very early 2000s still. I had that red one I posted above from about 1999. I was still in to my Tamagotchi so I was a little late to this particular fad myself, as when I got this the “cool kids” were using them less by then. However, I moved on to the Pokémon games and TCG pretty early on. That's interesting to hear about. I don't remember Yo-yos being popular during the Early 2000s, but I was only a toddler during those years and a Yo-yo isn't something that a 3 or 4 year old would generally think about. Tamagotchis remained popular with kids until as late as 2006, if i'm not mistaken. I got my one when I was 5. 
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 24, 2019 16:06:20 GMT 10
I never remember yoyos still being popular in the 2000s, for me in Jersey it fell off shortly before Banjo Kazooie dropped on n64 Perhaps it lasted that little bit longer here in Australia then?  It was definitely dead by mid-late 2000 though. Pokémon and Digimon were the must-have things by this stage.
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 24, 2019 16:45:41 GMT 10
That's interesting to hear about. I don't remember Yo-yos being popular during the Early 2000s, but I was only a toddler during those years and a Yo-yo isn't something that a 3 or 4 year old would generally think about. Tamagotchis remained popular with kids until as late as 2006, if i'm not mistaken. I got my one when I was 5. It would’ve been the very early part. I know by 2001 Pokémon and Digimon were huge so yo-yos rapidly died somewhere during the part of 2000. I had definitely left Tamagotchis behind once Pokémon and it’s collectibles and such became really big things. 
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 25, 2019 5:32:43 GMT 10
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Post by longaotian on Feb 25, 2019 5:41:18 GMT 10
Yep I remember this. Was fun.
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Post by mwalker96 on Feb 25, 2019 6:21:27 GMT 10
As mwalker96 said, I vaguely remember them being somewhat popular in the very early 2000s still. I had that red one I posted above from about 1999. I was still in to my Tamagotchi so I was a little late to this particular fad myself, as when I got this the “cool kids” were using them less by then. However, I moved on to the Pokémon games and TCG pretty early on. I never remember yoyos still being popular in the 2000s, for me in Jersey it fell off shortly before Banjo Kazooie dropped on n64 I knew quite a few kids who were doing yo-yo tricks in the early 00s and I was living in NYC at the time which not too far from you. Even some of kids shows I watched from that time period advertised kids playing with yo-yo's. I guess just like how pokemon died with your age group but people my age keep it alive similar thing happen to yo-yo's to a small degree.
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Post by Telso on Feb 25, 2019 6:44:51 GMT 10
I had a Yo-Yo when I was little
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). There were a few different colours of the ones I owned but this red Proyo II one I know I had at one stage.
It was definitely dead by mid-late 2000 though. Pokémon and Digimon were the must-have things by this stage.
