YoYo Related News From Around The World
Once again YoYoFactory delivers yet another amazing adventure video with an equally amazing player. This YoYoFactory Adventure was shot in White Sands, New Mexico featuring Paul Kerbel performing bangers after bangers.
Yoyos used are the YoYoFactory Horizon and Hubstack Afterglow (USA edition).
If this doesn’t motivate you to get up, grab a Horizon, and participate in the Team Horizon campaign then nothing will.
The World YoYo Contest has announced another event exclusive…a special YoYoFactory Hubstack! These will be available to registered competitors and attendees of the event in limited quantities.
Have you registered yet? The final price increase happens if you aren’t registered by August 1st, and the price jumps a LOT if you register on-site.
[button color=”light” link=”http://www.worldyoyocontest.com/2014worlds/contest/registration/” target=”blank”]Click Here To Register For The 2014 World YoYo Contest[/button]
YoYoFactory dropped a new promo video for the Afterglow, a light-up & glow-in-the-dark version of their new Hubstack yoyo. Featuring the always amazing Paul Han, the Hubstack Afterglow really is a stellar yoyo, and one of the best light-ups we’ve ever tried!
The Hubstack Afterglow is part of the Glow Collection 2, which is beginning to show up at retailers now.
Rounding out our advance coverage of yoyo offerings at the 2014 International Toy Fair is a peek at what YoYoFactory will be showing at their booth.
The new catalog is our first look at the upcoming release of the standard version of the Hubstack yoyo. With the Afterglow version shipping to stores at the end of the month, we know the specs and know what to expect. The Hubstack will be responsive out of the box, and is expected to retail for around $20.
The Preview page of the catalog is where we get to the good stuff! We get a first look at the Glow Collection Round 2, which features white glow-in-the-dark plastic versions of the Northstar, Loop 1080, and Hubstack. These are going to look great, and should be shipping to stores around the end of the month.
We also get a look at the next version of the signature model for Harold Owens III…the Too H.O.T., due in March. Refined weight distribution and a new profile should make this a top-notch competitive yoyo.
Jason Lee is getting a unique signature model…the Detour. We don’t have any specs, but this model appears to be based on the Supernova, with feedback from Jason. This is Jason’s first signature model that wasn’t a color way of something else…FINALLY! One of the most gifted natural yoyo players in the world, it’s about time we got a Jason Lee yoyo.
And coming this spring, looks like we have a new signature model for Patrick Borgerding, the CYBORG, and a new signature design for Paul Kerbel! As usual, I think we can expect great stuff from YoYoFactory this year in the metal yoyo department.
And finally, we have YoYoFactory doing what they do best: bringing new players into the sport. YoYoFactory seems to have refined their in-store teaching program, called PLAY, and created their own tiered learning system for retailers. Combined with constant touring by YoYoFactory demonstrators as well as local support, PLAY looks to be the big winner for 2014 in terms of a major manufacturer working to create new yoyo players.
We got some great entries into our Win A YoYoFactory Hubstack Afterglow contest on Instagram. The contest was simple…just post a creepy photo of yourself on Instagram, and tag it with #yoyonews and #hubstack. We dug through all the entries, and here are our three winners! We’ll be contacting them to get their shipping information and send them their YoYoFactory Hubstack Afterglow yoyos. Congratulations everyone!
Want to win the brand new Hubstack Afterglow yoyo by YoYoFactory? YoYoNews has THREE of them to give away!
Here’s how to win:
That’s it! We’ll pick our three favorites on Monday, February 10th at Noon EST and each winner will receive a free YoYoFactory Hubstack Afterglow and YoYoFactory stickers!
YoYoNews has your first look at the newest plastic yoyo by industry leader YoYoFactory…the Hubstack Afterglow!
The Hubstack is a new plastic yoyo from YoYoFactory featuring a new body shape that appears to be modeled slightly after their wildly popular Shutter yoyo released last year. The Hubstack features a refined version of the “zero wall” design that YoYoFactory pioneered several years ago, and the Afterglow version comes in glow in the dark plastic with an internal LED light board. The yoyo lights up when it spins, and the light from the LEDs charges the glow plastic, making for a fantastic effect in the dark that basically recharges itself.
The Hubstack Afterglow is the final release in the YoYoFactory Glow Collection and the first release of the Hubstack yoyo, which will be released in a non-glow, non-lighted version later this year. The Hubstack Afterglow is shipping to stores soon, and has a release date of January 27th, 2014. Also released at the same time will be a redesigned version of YoYoFactory’s CzechMate yoyo (signature model for European Champion Vashek Kroutil) with changes to size, weight distribution, and price.
Full specs for the Hubstack Afterglow are below!