Bapezilla

Company:

Type:

Yo-yo

Released:

07/2006
Diameter: 52mm
Width: 39mm
Weight: 67g
Bearing: Flat Lightly Oiled
Response: Recessed BazPads
Additional Info: Material: 6061 Aluminum Alloy, Coating: Slip Matte®, Limitation: 400

Bapezilla History

The Bapezilla was the 3rd Anti-Yo release, releasing on July 4, 2006.  The name was influenced by the Japanese clothing company, A Bathing Ape.  It was an updated eetsit.  Having a smaller gap, and new colors Grass Green and Candy Blue.  Although it’s retail price was only $80, they quickly became highly sought after with some people paying as much as $200 for one!  Someone reportedly, never verified, paid $400 for one!  In the box with the Bapezilla’s were packaged little toys and stickers.

June 29, 2006 YoYoNation post by Kiya:

Some how the number of supporters we had went from a small number to a huge chunk of the yoyo community in a matter of weeks after the release of the eetsit.  We got quite a few emails from people praising the eetsit, we got people wanting to buy multiples of it, we got some people that had issues with it, we had people wanting more of it.  In the end we realized that it
would be sad to let the eetsit live with only one release. So we tweaked the design of the yoyo a tiny bit, which decreases the gap by a millimeter or so, changed the colors, and went with a flat bearing.  The Bapezilla is about Spring, happiness, and colors so bright that it¹s hard to resist wanting to eat the yoyo.  Where the eetsit was about subtlety, the Bapezilla is about turning it all up to 11.

The pricing of the yoyo was supposed to be $90, but we reduced it by ten dollars because the yoyo is shipping with a flat bearing instead of a Konkave (I’d like to note that Anti-Yo is taking the monetary hit on this price reduction).  We love Konkave bearings; I personally put them in all the yoyos I can get them into.  Some people take them out of the yoyos they use and use flat bearings.  A Konkave will fit in the Bapezilla if that’s what you want.   Regardless, the reason the Bapezilla is not shipping with a Konkave is because we couldn’t get them fast enough because the demand for the bearing is so high at the moment.  Just in case anybody
is wondering, we plan to release our next yoyo with a Konkave bearing.

Preorders start on July 1 at most stores, the yoyo should start to ship from stores around July 7.

More info and specs will be posted on www.anti-yo.com shortly.

In the very near future we have the first skate deck from Paul Escolar, a new Anti-Yo t-shirt inspired by the 1A UK Champion Anti-Team member Simon Welch, and our next yoyo YWET.

Love and Kisses,
Kiya + Sonny

Platinum Bapezilla

The platinum Bapezilla was a 1 of 2 limited edition. One of these was sold to raise funds for the California State YoYo Championship.  The auction sold for $760.

From the Auction:

“This is One of Two Auctions. Both items are pictured below. Item specific pictures in the gallery.
First is a 1 of 2 Platinum Plated Ended Bapezilla
The Bape was:
Ended by Anti-Yo themselves Polished Nickel plated Polished Again Platinum Plated (completely) Polished Again Again (outer rim only)
These are Anti-yo
This is an ended Bape
This is ultimate swagger .
All funds go to the California State Yo-Yo Championship.
Thank you Sonny, Kiya, and Anti-Yo for sponsoring the California State Yo-Yo Championship!”