coca cola yoyo craze

flanree

Does anyone remember back in the 80's when Coke brought all these yoyo experts over to visit local communities and do yoyo demos? They wore red jackets like butlin staff or something and you could but Coke and Fanta yoyos, including glow in the dark ones.

il gatto

Yeah. The best ones were heavier with a clear rim. The other ones were lighter and had a red rim. Spent hours cutting off the circulation to my finger and never learnt anything apart from "rocking the cradle" and "the cable car".

stovelid

They were called Spinners iirc.

Kimbot

Yeah and then a few months later Opal Fruits (AKA Starburst) came out with the same. I have tonnes of them somewhere.

Passenger

Were they American "experts"??

Mr.Lizard

Don't remember these 'experts' but I defo remember us having those yo-yo's around the house.

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kelle

I remember those, it was around 1981. And I remember a few young experts on the Late Late Show showing off their skills using five or six of them at a time.

admiralofthefleet

anyone remember the coca cola 'get the buzz' campaign in the mid 90's? it was a little radio

Ann22

I do so remember them! Not far off the time of the Rubik's cube craze. I had a Coca Cola one, my friend had the Fanta one. Remember the ad with your man showing you what you could do with it....the walking the dog - where you kind of threw it in front of you, the one where you made a triangle out of the string and swung the spinner in and out like a pendulum:).

lord lucan

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

anyone remember the coca cola 'get the buzz' campaign in the mid 90's? it was a little radio

I remember the coca cola "moving sound" promotion in '88 iirc,i won a wedge shaped walkman that was a gawdy yellow colour!!

Poutbutton

I remember the yoyo craze the American "Experts", 3 or 4 of them arrived outside our newsagents one blistering sunny day, every shop on the street closed and every kid watched in awe of them doing their tricks. Some of us got free yoyos if we were able to do the tricks. It's been all over the world & is still popular in some countries here's a link to watch once again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKKEPXbL-E

lt_cmdr_worf

This thread reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons:

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F16.html

Passenger

Poutbutton wrote: »

I remember the yoyo craze the American "Experts", 3 or 4 of them arrived outside our newsagents one blistering sunny day, every shop on the street closed and every kid watched in awe of them doing their tricks. Some of us got free yoyos if we were able to do the tricks. It's been all over the world & is still popular in some countries here's a link to watch once again

Then they were all rammed into a small van and driven off to the next town to exhibit their immense talents.

Were they on rollerblades too btw??

dabbler2004

I remember they came to our primary school and all the pupils and teachers were out in the school yard watching them do their tricks, think we were given a yoyo each but not sure for definite.

Firetrap

Oh yeah, there's a blast from the past. I seem to remember being disappointed that the spinners had a nasty habit of changing direction and that the tricks were pretty lame (a.k.a. I couldn't do them properly) Oh well. :rolleyes:

zesman

Yes I remember the 80's yo yo's. One of them were knocking around the house for years.

Mimikyu

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ironictoaster

Yeah I remember collecting labels for them watches, what a load of ****é!

Does any remember when skittles and opal fruits are their own brand of yoyos? around mid 90s.