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| BC/What's Next Hip Pocket - NHRA - Kenny Bernstein |
| Exhibit #4424 |
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| Type | Special Release |
| Shape | Modified |
| Axle | Fixed |
| Finish | Painted |
| Color | Red/Black |
| Packaging | Bubble Carded |
| Construction | Three piece wood |
| Response | None |
| Gap | Fixed |
| Condition | Mint |
| Date | 2000 |
| Owner | Rick Brough |
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This modified-shaped yo-yo–in a similar vain to the BC Hip Pocket Yo-Yo–was part of BC/What's Next's Extreme Motorsports Collectors Series. Introduced in 2000, What's Next, under its BC brand, introduced a line of skill toys that had the look and feel of NHRA, including specific products for individual championship drivers. Some of the skill toy products in this series were packaged in National Hot Rod Association-approved lifestyle graphics. This series of BC yo-yos was not popular among yo-yo players and is quite hard to find now. They were released at the end of the yo-yo boom, when dead, unresponsive yo-yos were replacing fixed axle yo-yos in popularity. These yo-yos may have also been sold exclusively at drag races, too. I don't recall them ever being sold in stores.
Solid maple body with red face and a black stripe on the inside circumference and outer rim of each halve. Stock numbers 50001-50016 were individual driver yo-yos. A total of 16 driver yo-yos were supposedly available in this series, each including a replica of their autograph. The yo-yo in this exhibit is #50005, Kenny Bernstein.
Description from the BC/What's Next 2000 product catalog:
"National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Extreme Motorsports Yo-Yos and Paddle Balls
The World of Motorsports is the fastest growing audience in sports entertainment today. The fastest and most exciting segment of motorsports is side-by-side drag racing. NHRA races deliver the sights, sounds and spectacle of 330 mph! What's Next, under its BC brand, introduces a line of exciting skill toys that have the look and feel of NHRA, including specific products for individual championship drivers."
See also the BC/What's Next 2000 product catalog where this yo-yo was first introduced.
Original retail price: $5 US. | |
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