CLEVELAND — An Ohio toy company known for its yo-yos is marking 90 years in operation and plans to celebrate with a yo-yoing contest and other events in Cleveland next month. Cleveland.com reports ...
If you decide to try this week’s project and your mother asks what you’re making, tell her, “It’s a yo-yo, Ma.” OK, we apologize, but the chance to make a pun like that one doesn’t come along every ...
If your old ‘convince the grandkids to sit here and crank this handle for three hours’ bucket-style ice cream maker breaks down and you don’t wanna spring for a newfangled electric model, you might be ...
HONG KONG (Jan. 26, 1:30 p.m. ET) — The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six ...
When I was in second grade, Duncan, the well-known yo-yo maker, came to my school with a cadre of talented teenagers in tow. They shot the moon, walked the dog, and cats cradled their way into my ...
BURLINGTON - The Spinning Top Museum, 533 Milwaukee Ave., is offering tours to celebrate the birthday of Donald Duncan the famous yo-yo maker. National Yo-Yo Day tours will be held at 2:30 p.m. today, ...
Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...
The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six years ago to one of the largest, with ...
Saturday was the first time that Kathleen Hankinson, 12, a member of the high-tech generation, had ever played with a toy as low-tech as a yo-yo. It took only a few minutes, however, for Kathleen and ...
In the up-and-down world of toy sales–where gadgets and gizmos live and die on kids’ constantly changing whims–perhaps nothing is spinning out of control these days quite like the popularity of the yo ...