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 up and ...

June 6 marks National Yo-Yo Day, a celebration of one of the world's oldest and most enduring toys. The date honors the birthday of Donald F. Duncan Sr., the entrepreneur who helped turn the yo-yo ...

U.S. contestant Jake Elliott was crowned a world champion at the 2015 World Yo-Yo Contest. YoYoTricks.com The yo-yo is simple enough and the concept has been around since Greek antiquity. As a child, ...

Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

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 ...

Ask Jacob Cross to "walk the dog" or "rock the baby" and he'll quickly move into action. Just don't expect him to reach for a leash or cradle. We're talking yo-yo tricks here, not family tasks. The 15 ...

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 originated ...

Zach Compton, 11, of Kansas City took second place in his age division for freestyle yo-yoing at a Go Big Skills contest in December, held at the store in Shawnee. SUSAN PFANNMULLER Special to the ...

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 ...

The yo yo, *** toy with *** history stretching to ancient times, eventually taking the world by storm becoming one of the most iconic children's toys to ever exist. But what did it take to get this ...

If you measure a city by the number of its Chicago icons, this could be Windy City West. For what other town in Oklahoma–or anywhere else for that matter–can boast that it is home to a Frank Lloyd ...