Welcome back! There is a thread dedicated to YYR that you’ll be able to consult from this point on for all your Japanese-yoyo needs:
http://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,46405.3015.html
However, to save you having to dig through all the pages, I’ll sum up most of the big news here.
Basically, Yoyorecreation stopped producing all of their older models (Sleipnir, E=MC2, Fragment, Messiah, etc etc.) and instead shifted their focus onto making new yoyo designs. They sold most of the old stock left off in Mystery Boxes and haven’t made any new runs since.
So here’s the rundown of their the new yoyos (roughly in the order they were released):
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- Yoyorecreation Draupnir[/b]
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Bi-Metal. 7075 aluminium body with stainless steel rims.
Diameter - 57 mm
Width - 43 mm
Weight - 63.5 g
Price was around $250 I believe. They released new colours (red, light blue, raw w/tempered rims) as well as a blasted, black edition, as time went on.
2. Yoyorecreation Dazzler (Signature model for Tatsuya Fujisaka)
A fully Titanium Model, costing around $650, and only made in limited numbers.
Diameter – 54 mm
Width – 41.20 mm
Weight – 63.4g
3. Yoyorecreation Laser
Another bi-metal. 7075 Aluminium with a different grade 7075 aluminium weight rim/insert on the inside. It’s kind of hard to explain how the two pieces actually fit together, you can get a sort of idea of you study the pictures closely.
Diameter - 56.05 mm
Width - 39.9 mm
Weight - 66.8 grams
They have yet to make any new colours for the Laser, but I believe they may be in the works.
4. Yoyorecreation (New) Diffusion
A fully moulded plastic retailing at $35 or so. It released originally in clear, as well as the lovely yellow you see above, and has since come out in a few new colours (white, blue).
Diameter – 58 mm
Width – 43.25 mm
Weight – 65.2g
That is the current YYR Lineup. There have been a few other editions, as shown below.
1. ‘Attuned’ Draupnir
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This was a special edition Draupnir custom made for Akitoshi Tokubuchi. It was gold coloured and had a wider gap than the original (I’m afraid I don’t have the exact specs to hand), but that was the only adjustment.
2. ‘Bob’
‘Bob’ is the name originally coined by Naoki in the ‘Yoyorecreation Appreciation Thread’ used to reference the first run of Draupnir that had the larger ‘attuned’ gap as standard. It was also the first run of Draupnir to feature the new yoyorecreation logo and was black/blasted (shown above). The new Draupnirs are indistinguishable from the originals when viewed from the side without the YYR logo, so the nickname ‘Bob’ was adopted in order to easily differentiate between the runs.
It seems that from this point onwards all Draupnirs will have the larger gap. A new emerald green Draupnir has since been released as a special edition for a store I cannot name here.
3. Logo change
Finally, they recently changed their logo from the original:
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To this:
Apologies for the small image.
So that’s pretty much it! I’m sure a few of the more knowledgeable YYR enthusiasts will pop in and correct/add to what I’ve said where needed, but it’s a slow day at the office and typing this all out gave me something to do. Hope it helped. 