Show us your old retro Coca Cola yo yo

[GT-GTF]

My 10 yo son and his classmates are getting into yo yo's. This got me reminiscing about my old coke yo yo's in the late 70's early 80's. Has anyone here kept their old Coca cola yoyo's?

I'd love to see and show him some photos of them.

[Uncle Tone]

Originally Posted by GT-GTS

My 10 yo son and his classmates are getting into yo yo's. This got me reminiscing about my old coke yo yo's in the late 70's early 80's. Has anyone here kept their old Coca cola yoyo's?

I'd love to see and show him some photos of them.

I remember them!!

I had the Fanta one and the Leed lemonade one as well.

[GT-GTF]

I had the Leed lemonade and fanta ones too. Walk the dog, around the world, rock a bye baby.....

[neptune blue]

I have a replacement string still in the plastic sleeve but no yo yo

[GT-GTF]

Originally Posted by neptune blue

I have a replacement string still in the plastic sleeve but no yo yo

I wonder if there's a market in NOS yoyoi strings!

[neptune blue]

Originally Posted by GT-GTS

I wonder if there's a market in NOS yoyoi strings!

Ha ha I like it
Don't know why I hung on to it all these years
It has to be maybe 40 years old

I also have a money box that is a mini safe which were available from the national bank
That has to be 45 years ago

[ford71V8]

Originally Posted by neptune blue

I also have a money box that is a mini safe which were available from the national bank
That has to be 45 years ago

ha! I have one of these as well, a green one.
Its been around so long now seems wrong to ditch it

Quite sure I have my collection of yoyos still, probably at the folks place along with my drawing books from Grade 2, etc

[Bossxr8]

Mine have been sitting at the tip for at least 2 decades now.

[Benjamin Smith]

I still have my dads sprite and coke ones

[QLD-Bluey]

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[GT-GTF]

Originally Posted by QLD-Bluey

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Thanks, now I want one!

[blueoval]

you can buy them on ebay
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_t...+yoyo&_sacat=0

[2011G6E]

Of course I do!!! They're on a display shelf right in my lounge room with other odds and ends...


The only ones that weren't mine from years ago during one of the crazes (it comes around every 5 years or so) are the very good condition 1970's Fanta and the Coke Super at the bottom right...I picked them up off Ebay for the ridiculous sum of just $8 by someone who obviously didn't know how hard it is to find a Fanta yoyo, let alone an old one. I bid on the auction just to get the Fanta one. Good quality ones will have a wooden axle in the middle.

The others are pretty old, all genuine Russel yoyos. The top right and the bottom left are from the late seventies to early eighties, the well-worn Super in the middle top row is from the mid-eighties.
I still have my original Championship Coke yoyo (not pictured), but it's so worn down on the side you can hardly see the printing. I had it at my last year of high school in 1980. It's actually a well-travelled yoyo...it is now sitting outside under the seat of my GSX-1400 with other bits and pieces in the document compartment, and spent years in the Gearsack bag on the back of every other bike I've owned...before I started riding it was in the glovebox of my cars. It has been through quite a few strings over the decades since I bought it and still gets whipped out now and then just for something to do.

If you have a Leeds one, and it's in good nick, you're sitting on gold my friend...the yellow printing on them was known to be soft and wore away quickly, and usually in short order you ended up with a plain green yoyo with no printing on it. If you see a good one, snap it up.

Older ones or hard to find ones can be worth real money...
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/coca-cola...#ht_515wt_1271

Mine will be getting mounted in a case to be put on the wall of the bar in the house we're buying. But I'll still keep out my old Super and still use it.

[GT-GTF]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Of course I do!!! They're on a display shelf right in my lounge room with other odds and ends...
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I knew there had to be a market for these things! Thanks for the pic they are brilliant. Now to find a nice original 80's coca cola yo yo

[Lightning Strike GT]

Great stuff - remember in the 80's flicking it down hard to do walk-the-dog and copping back just as fast into the thumb or the inside of the wrist
The Championship ones spun faster and harder to get back up
The guy at the bottlo gave me one of the 2012 olympic coca cola yo yos and I have been having a ball with it - memories

[nuthin' fancy]

My mum and dad had a milk bar in Carlton when I was a kid, I remember the Japanese yo-yo champions performing out the front of the shop in 1971!

[EDManual]

i have some in a box somewhere! They are cool!

[2011G6E]

I just bought a full set of five London Olympic yoyo's on Ebay. Only paid $16.50 for the set.
Prices went a bit mad when they were first released...they were up to near $200 for a set, but then dropped just as sharply. I just bided my time and waited until there were plenty of sets of new ones on Ebay.
I'm not trying to make a buck out of them...I just wanted a set for my display.

[SVR73]

cool photo. I had the whole set back in the 80's. such fun times

[Jastel]

Who remembers hitting themselves in the head or "downstairs" while trying to do tricks as well?

Or doing around the world and the string snaps...

Not so good memories at the time...funny now but.

There were thinner coke yo-yos I can remember as well.

Have to clean out my cupboard and see what I have.

[XRDeeze]

Originally Posted by SVR73

cool photo. I had the whole set back in the 80's. such fun times

dont forget us 90's were cool...in a retro kinda way. I didnt and wasnt able to afford a gameboy and so we settled with a yoyo, and tried to make up tricks like as mentioned round da world, cradle, easiest tricks but had the funnest times at no cost..who needed a gameboy anyways...


fun times for sure..

[coupxb]

god really. Next are we going to have a show us your carpets thread.