From Motion:
“This YoYo is one of the most stunning designs to come out of the Motion laboratory. Every single angle of this YoYo has been thought out to the fullest extent.
From the gap shot, the undercut below the rims make it look like the rims are “elevated” off the YoYo body, giving a cool optical illusion effect.
The cup design features the Motion Sunken Dome, with a stepped wall going down the cup (sonic ripple design). Around the dome we implemented a dual rim design, which was used previously on our Linear monometal.
Using a 7068 alloy allows us to manipulate the wall thickness more so than a 6061 application. The extreme design of this YoYo cost us more than any of the previous models that we have done, and we fully feel like this YoYo was worth it.
It is crazy that this YoYo was literally created in one night between me and @hesperaux. The proto only needed a few very small tweaks. We think you will love this YoYo as much as we do.
One night @hesperaux and I decided to crank out a really radical H design. We talked about some of the more radical H shaped designs out there. Some really awesome H shapes that came to mind were the Pixelape from MFD, Cliff from CLYW, Fat Tire from OneDrop, just to name a few. We wanted to do something that not only played amazing but looked the part as well.
First we started with the outline; we knew we wanted it to be a bi-metal YoYo (kinda our thing), then we started to talk about the design features that we wanted. Starting with the catch zone, we wanted to have the optical illusion of the rims not being connected to the YoYo, so we had to do an extreme cutback into the YoYo body to achieve this. We wanted the stainless steel portion to look like it was just the metal floating above the YoYo – we achieved this.
Sliding down into the catch zone you see cuts and light reflections placed strategically so that it looks amazing from all angles. This should be a familiar feature for people who follow Motion designs.
Turning the YoYo to the cup – you will see a few familiar features. One item we always try to implement is the “sunken dome” which looks as if it’s sinking into the YoYo. On Elevated we used a “Sonic Ripple Design” which is essentially strategically placed steps down the YoYo cup to adjust weight distribution to the places we felt would achieve both maximum stability and unwavering performance. Lastly we wanted to pull over the Dual Rim design that we had implemented in our monometal, Linear, to round out the cup design. This achieves an awesome look and some gives us extra weight where we wanted it.
Overall we wanted a H YoYo that was radical and memorable. We nailed it.
As with all our releases don’t let the specs drive your notion on how the YoYo will play or feel.
The YoYo is stable and powerful, we used a slightly over-sized diameter to help keep the RPM’s up while you are moving through a trick set, we used a reasonably wide width to help the player never miss landing on the string.
The “Sonic Ripple Design” is essentially built in weight walls that manipulate how the weight distribution ramps up on the body, it’s light in some areas and weighted in others, this leads to a very unique play feel that will leave you wondering how this YoYo feels the way it does and it’s weight being as light as it is.
Lastly the “dual rim” does help maintain stability as well as add some mid-weight to help balance the YoYo.
We hope this YoYo exceeds your expectations as much as it exceeded ours.
This is Motion.”
125 A Grades Made in 7 colors:
- 25 Dark Side of the Moon (Blasted body/rings)
- 23 Pleiades (Blasted body/rings)
- 25 Interstellar (Blasted body/Polished rings)
- 14 Red Skies at Night (Blasted body/rings)
- 14 Red Skies at Night (Polished body/rings)
- 11 Lunar Highlands (Blasted body/rings)
- 13 Lunar Highlands (Polished body/rings)
3 B Grades:
- Pleiades (Blasted body/rings)