Museum of Yo-Yo History


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BC/What's Next Area 51 Yo-Yo Club

Exhibit #4808

Type	Special Release
Shape	Concave )-(
Axle	Fixed
Finish	Painted
Color	Light blue/Dark blue
Packaging	Display Boxed
Construction	Three piece wood
Response	None
Diameter	56mm
Width	35.5mm
Gap	Fixed
Weight	54.66gm
Condition	Mint
Date	2001
Owner	Rick Brough
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The Area 51 Yo-Yo Club was a virtual club hosted on the former Yahoo Groups platform during the yo-yo boom of the late 1990s. The club had several custom BC/What's Next and Tom Kuhn yo-yos made available for sale to their members, exclusively; the yo-yos were never sold by online web stores.

The fixed axle, maple yo-yo in this exhibit is an unusual bi-colored, concave model. Sides A and B each feature a different Area 51 logo. The profile suggests that it was either made using old Hummingbird-era Trickster concave body halves or new Trickster concave body halves made by BC/What's Next. Regardless, the yo-yo profile from Brad Countryman is uncommon.

Total production numbers are unknown. The yo-yo came out at an unfortunate time when players were moving completely away from wooden yo-yos. Instead, they were embracing the dead, unresponsive play that was found in newer plastic and metal yo-yos.

Today (2025), this particular BC/What's Next model is quite hard to find.

Recipe
Diameter: 56mm
Width: 35.5mm
Weight: 54.66gm
Material: Maple

Original retail price: $25 USD.

Other Views

Profile

Side A, angled, large

Side B, angled, large

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