LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: How many Yo-Yo’s do
I own, I can’t begin to count them all.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: Well, my real job is I’m a physician, I’m a dermatologist and a skin
cancer surgeon. I have treated over 30,000 skin cancers since I have been here in Orlando, Florida.
COMM: In addition to saving lives, Lucky Meisenheimer
has the world’ largest collection of Yo-Yo’s.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: I bought my first Yo-Yo
and I was probably around 12 or 13 years old. There was a little bit of Yo-Yo craze going
on. I did have a natural affinity to the Yo-Yo from very beginning.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: I’m going to show you
the four most famous Yo-Yo tricks.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: First The Sleeper, it’s
when the Yo-Yo goes to the end of the string and sticks like it’s sleeping.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: My collection is very
unique. There are a lot of guys out there that have lots of Yo-Yo’s. There are mini
collections over 1000 Yo-Yo’s and probably several that have several thousand Yo-Yo’s.
But as far as the breadth and scope and the history, I don’t think anything really rivals this.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: The next one is a school
yard favourite. Round The World, and you can make it go round a few times, and then maybe
Around The Moon.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: That is called a mistake.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: The value of the collection
is considered to be worth a quarter of a million.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: This is the entrance to
my Yo-Yo collection, it’s two storeys tall.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: How many Yo-Yo’s do
I own? Well, you can start counting, one, two, three… a lot. The Guinness World Record
is over 4000 different Yo-Yo’s but I have probably close to 10,000 Yo-Yo’s here at the house.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: We have now just entered
The World’s Largest Yo-Yo Collection.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: Some of them are duplicates
and things like that. But I can’t begin to count them all, but you’re welcome to try.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: My most favourite Yo-Yo,
out of all these thousands and thousands of Yo-Yo’s, you might be surprised, is this
little plain green Yo-Yo, but this kind of the Holy Grail of Yo-Yo’s. It’s a Flores
Yo-Yo. And the reason that it’s important is that Pedro Flores was the first person
to name the Yo-Yo “Yo-Yo” in the United States, before this they say they were called “bandalores”.
Pedro Flores also ran the first Yo-Yo contest. And that started the first Yo-Yo craze, which
continues on till today. Each Yo-Yo has its own little story. I’m really a Yo-Yo historian if you will.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: And one of my favourite
ones is Rock The Baby, and then if you’re really good, you can rock the baby out the window.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: This is a Yo-Yo that actually
has a laser inside. A toy company thought it might be a good idea to put a laser in
it. It’s very cool you can see the laser beam on the floor there, it’s up on the
ceiling. But when they presented this to the Toy Council and said, ‘Hey, we have got
this great toy’, they’re saying, ‘You got to be kidding. This got a laser and a
danger warning sign. You’re not going to sell this to kids’. So this is a prototype,
very unique, I think one of a kind Yo-Yo, but very very cool.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: This Yo-Yo here in 1990
was the Guinness World Records’ largest Yo-Yo. It was six feet tall and it weighs
820 pounds. And everybody wants to know, does it actually have to Yo-Yo. It did. It required
an 80-foot crane to do it.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: And then the most famous
Yo-Yo trick of all - Walk The Dog.
LUCKY MEISENHEIMER: My wife tells me that
I can’t collect any other things so, I don’t talk about the comic book collection, the
baseball card collection, the zombie hunting weapons collection, the Nightmare Before Christmas
collection, the swimming cards collection, so no, I don’t collect anything else.