The Hyper Mirage is a yo-yo licensed by Yomega to Bandai for the Hyper Yo-Yo line in the late 1990s. It featured a Convex shape ideal for looping, along with a transaxle sleeve for sleep times longer than anything with a fixed axle.
The Hyper Mirage also featured starburst response like most other yo-yos during this era. However, its most distinctive design feature is the battery-powered LED light-up system, which gives a strobing effect when the yo-yo is in play.
In this way, it is essentially a heavier, light-up version of the popular Fireball. At the time of the yo-yo's release, the Strobe-Yo was not yet introduced in the U.S. yo-yo market, making the Hyper Mirage the very first light-up yo-yo to be made by Yomega, albeit as a Hyper Yo-Yo product.
Operation[]
The Hyper Mirage comes packaged with four batteries; two on each half of the yo-yo. Pressing the touch-sensitive switch on a yo-yo half will activate its LED. The LED turns off automatically after 150 seconds, or upon pressing the small reset button with the included special tool.
When the batteries are out of energy, they can be removed from the circuit boards in each yo-yo half by removing the screw and sliding the internal battery cover. The battery covers are prone to cracking if the old batteries inside inflated or exploded, and because the battery covers are not removable, there is no way of replacing them. So it is advisable not to leave old batteries inside the yo-yo.
Official Description[]
Hyper Mirage (1998)[]
Type E - Long-sleep Type (Strobe)
Its red LED lights create a beautiful streak. Diameter about 59mm. Weight about 68 grams.
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