One of the hardest toys to find this holdiay season is the X-Brain, right up there with Furby and Bouncing Tigger. That’s a Yomega X-Brain. As in yo-yo. You know, two discs and an axle that go ...

but the yo-yo’s story starts much earlier. Versions of the toy date back to ancient Greece (around 500 B.C.), and the modern iteration is believed to have originated in the Philippines ...

Gilbert went out of business in 1967. YO-YO: Although versions of this popular toy existed throughout history, the modern yo-yo was born in 1928 when the Yo-Yo Manufacturing Co. opened in Santa ...

Toy yo-yos traveled from Asia to Europe in the late 1700s. The young future king of France, Louis XVII, was painted with his yo-yo. It was called a bandalore. In 1866, two men from Ohio were ...

When you played with a yo-yo, have you ever wondered when and where this toy came from? The truth is, we don’t have an exact answer for either. While historians suggest that the toy likely ...

To most people, a yo-yo is just a toy. But to Gentry Stein, the whirling bundle of string, plastic, and precision ball-bearings can become much more in the right hands. “It is a simple toy ...

The Duncan Toys Company purchased the Flores Yo-Yo Company from Pedro Flores, who brought the yo-yo to the United States from ...

Toy yo-yos traveled from the Orient to Europe in the late 1700s. The young, future king of France, Louis XVII, was painted with his yo-yo. It was called a bandalore. In 1866, two men from Ohio ...

Yo-yo water balls, the stretchy, rubbery toys that are sold near checkout lines for as little as $1, pose a potential strangulation hazard to children but will not be recalled, according to a ...