Timeline

This article is in a work in progress.

Timeline

1999/2001?

• Yoyo, the first ever character was created and it's following test animation also was made.

Introduction

• Hoops was also created and the first ever hoops&yoyo e-card was made to commemorate 4th of july.
• Several other ecards were made in that year. Old Glory, I Miss You All Of The Time, No Heart As Big, What Friends Say.
• Puck and Bluebird were created for the e-card, No Heart As Big, when Hoops gives both along with Yoyo, heart-shaped balloons. Bluebird was the same size of Hoops and Yoyo.
• What Friends Say was the first ever e-card to have voice acting by Mike Adair for Hoops.

2002

Misc

• 3 new E-Cards were made, Valentine's Day Forecast, No Ordinary Hi! and Six Wishes.
• A tutorial for gift wish certificates was made and features Hoops and Yoyo showing off how to send a gift wish certificates.

2003

• The first ever downloadable content was a 2003 September calendar.

Misc

• Sometime in this year, the titular characters Pink Kitty Green Bunny names were changed to Hoops and Yoyo.

2004

• Their own site, (hoopsandyoyo.com) debuted on May 24th, 2004 and quickly built a dedicated following. By 2005, 3 million visitors had come to the hoops&yoyo home page, and the numbers continued to increase since then.

More merch started to be produced in 2004-2005, such as luggage tags, T-shirts, plushies and etc.

2005

• In 2005, Mike Adair, started animating E-Cards, which the first ever E-Card animated by himself, was Just a Fly By Hi!, and designing some hoops&yoyo contents.

Also that same year, the Jingle Wiggle Wiggle! CD was produced, featuring Makuza and released in December.

2006

• Starting in 2006, hoops&yoyo started gaining more popularity because of a certain million of thanks e-card was being widespread, and it was the year when they first appeared on YouTube, and the official creation of the channel in that same year.

• In the same year, Hallmark Cards created physical cards that had speakers that spoke and sang to the recipient. Hoops & Yoyo became a popular subject for these sound cards until being discontinued in 2015. Of course, several of these cards are still sold in stores, but only a one new one was produced in April 2025, Lots Of Fun In This Easter, As of December 2025, no new ones are being produced.

• Briefly collaborating with the 2005 founded company Smilebox, Hallmark Cards made custom E-Cards where users could insert their photos into a Flash Interactive photo album in 2006. This continued until the mid 2010s. Smilebox is still active to this day, but removed hoops&yoyo E-cards, aswell their older E-cards from 2006-2011.

2007

March Madness

• Throughout March of 2007, the Hoops & Yoyo website promoted the March Madness games with mentions of basketball and even bringing back Marshy, that's where Marshy's birthday was unveiled.

2009

Ask the Builder Collab

• Started as a collaboration in May 2009. The last mentions on the Ask the Builder website are from January 2011. It was reuploaded on Bob Holt's YouTube channel in 2012 and the Hoops & Yoyo YouTube channel in 2014.

an banner used to be in askthebuilder.com's site.

~~Work In Progress~~

Hallmark’s 100 year anniversary

• To celebrate Hallmark's 100 year anniversary, events with Hoops & Yoyo were made in the headquarters, including inflatable mascots walking around and welcoming guests.

2011

• Hallmark's collaboration ended with Smilebox in December 2011.

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2015

Bob Holt being fired from Hallmark

In June 5th, 2015, Bob Holt was fired from Hallmark. No reason was given other than that hoops&yoyo did not fit into the "humor" that Hallmark wanted.