DenkoSekka review

DenkoSekka, that hit boy's toy from 2010 you never heard of. Or atleast, I never did. Wait, are those yo-yos?

Remembered I had to take a picture of the packaging after I had taken it out, sorry!

DenkoSekka is boy's toy brand which features little plastic "yo-yos", called "Denko Catchers", with magnetic tips on the bottom. The point of the game is to try to pick up little disks, called "Denko Disks", by using the Catcher like a yo-yo, and throwing it towards the ground in hopes the magnet works and catches a disk. To me, the game was kind of fun, if you don't mind scratching up the disks something fierce, but the fun was short lived. I suppose if I was a 7-8 year-old, the fun wouldn't be as short lived, but I didn't have anyone to play with. D: The Battle Set I got came with two Cathers, eight disks, two Battle Mats, a collectable poster.

The Catchers are basically what I've called them before, yo-yos with magnets on the bottom. You throw them down, catch the disk, etc. There's four different Catchers to collect, but they don't really vary that much. Also, the straps for your finger are incredibly tiny, say, if someone older that 7-8 wanted to play with them, like me? I had a had time getting it on the tip of my ring finger, let alone getting it any further down. If these are ever made again, it'd be good to see some understanding that some people aren't tiny.

Onto the disks. Just as one would think, the disks are just pieces of metal with plastic surrounding them. However, what I found surprising is that these are the actual collectables, not the yo-yos. I received a Collector's Chart in the Battle Set. (not shown) Turns out, there's three "tiers" of disks, Warrior, Duplix, Spectrus. The chart claims there's a "Challenge Level", but I didn't notice anything between the Warrior and Duplix disks, besides that the Duplix ones seemed to be a bit thicker with the plastic rim. It also came with two Battle Mats, which really don't serve much purpose.

Now that we've gotten the basics out of the way, we're onto the faults. And boy, are they gleaming...

The first thing that I noticed was that there wasn't too much to expand on. Granted, the Battle Mats are "expanding", but they don't really do anything, and they come with the set. I tried thinking of stuff, but I couldn't really come up with anything.

The second part is the collectableness. (yes, I made that up) There's not really anything to entice you to keep collecting after you get one of each "tier". From the collective point of view, it's as if I just cut pieces of paper into different sizes, put numbers on them, threw them into the wind and told you to pick them up. You can't "gain" anything, nor are they really unique. They're just kind of, there...My idea would be to make something like nine different Catchers, but make them different (the Catchers are pretty much the same) and package it a single pack, but not too expensive.

To illustrate my point

All in all, it was okay, fun to play with for an hour or so, but something I'd put back in the box and forget about after a week or so. Kind of an "eh" toy.