The Gumball is the love child of the Butterball and the Pomelo. It’s our 2025 reinterpretation of an oversized, fat organic that’s just endless, big, bouncy fun.
SPECS
Diameter 57.7mm Width 48.4mm Weight 65.2g (PC Rims) or 66.2g (Delrin Rims) Material 6061 Aluminium & Polycarbonate or Delrin
The Gumball begins where the Pomelo left off.
In early 2021, we released the Pomelo, our first oversized organic — it measured a ridiculous 65.3mm in diameter, 54.9mm in width, but weighed a whimsical 61.3g in mass. We achieved this big, yet featherweight frame by using 7068 Aluminium as its base material. Given its tensile strength, we were able to machine incredibly thin walls to keep it as lightweight as possible. The result was an absurdly light oversized organic that yielded a playfeel that was unique and inimitable.
The drawbacks of pairing such a big frame with low mass, however, was that the Pomelo could feel slightly weak at the end of longer tricks. The sentiment within the team at the time was that it felt like a pillow on a string, which was its own unique charm —it excelled at low RPM-type play, given its massive diameter, but there were moments where we felt it could’ve had a bit more oomph.
The Gumball continues in the Pomelo’s lineage as a biggie organic, without any of the original drawbacks — to exist as the Butterball’s big, bouncy, hilarious brother. No compromise, no compensation from its player. Just effortlessly and endlessly a good time.
We started out with the Butterball as its base, but increased its overall frame volume by about 10%. A 57.7mm diameter is big, but still very much full and comfortable in the hand — a 48.4mm width is hardly ultrawide by today’s standards. It’s oversized, but not in the is-this-actually-a-4A-yoyo category that the Pomelo occupied.
But the real catch was how weight distribution would be allocated in the Gumball.
Our intention was to keep the walls of the Gumball nice and thick, so as to preserve midweight — which is where a lot of the magic happens for floaty organics. Simultaneously, overall diameter plays a massive part in how powerfully a model spins, and something this large with thick walls would result in the Gumball having kickback issues. To thread the needle through multiple requirements — proper weight distribution, a desirable playfeel, and a relatively low overall mass — we designed the Gumball to sport outer rims machined out of polycarbonate and Delrin.
The rims are probably the most visually capturing aspect of the Gumball, but its purpose exceeds just that of aesthetics — it allows us to virtually scale up the Butterball while retaining its floaty, bouncy playfeel. It’s 10% larger, but only about 1-3% heavier, without having to do any drastic or awkward reductions of mass anywhere. They’re perfect additions from an ergonomic perspective, too — they make the Gumball really soft on the catch.
And of course, they look great.
In terms of playfeel, the Gumball feels very similar to the Butterball… just bigger. Everything you love about the Butterball — its floaty feel, smooth play, how agile it feels on redirects — the Gumball has, and even more.
it’s the big easy.
The version with Polycarbonate rims feels lighter and softer; the Delrin has a bit more power and stability.
The Gumball is perfect for rhythmic, artistic and flow-type play, and for long hours of jamming. It’s just a ball of pure fun.
“Born from inspiration of our YoYo Centrifugal and the absolute nimbleness of Kinetic, we put together one of my favorite yo-yos I have ever played. Ya know one of those yo-yos you pick up and just say, “yeah this is it” well that’s Synaptic.
7068 aluminum alloy with SS rims and also a brass rim variant. If you have played a motion before the feel will be familiar if you have never played a Motion you are about to get hooked. Aesthetically angular profile design with a strategicly placed weight wall to keep balance and power at the forefront of this YoYo. Brining back the OG motion cup design you won’t find a double rim here – more sleek, more comfortable, more Motion.”
“Say hello to our newest edition to the Motion family – Perpendicular (Motion)
We are taking a detour from our typical YoYo offerings to venture into the undersized domain. The introduction of parallel was groundbreaking, as it made an undersized YoYo feel indistinguishable from a regular-sized YoYo on the string. The experience that parallel offered caught players off guard. We went back to the drawing board, choosing the D bearing as our preferred option. I strongly believe that designing a YoYo with a specific bearing size in mind allows for tailored optimization. We found inspiration in classic organics, incorporating a unique Motion twist. This YoYo is likely to leave a lasting impression on everyone.”
Centrifugal was one of the most popular YoYo designs we have done, and over here at Motion we do things a little backwards from most brands. We typically focus a majority of our products toward the bi-metal market, however, we have been exploring the mono metal designs much deeper.
When we release a mono metal yoyo we want the characteristics to not only reflect Motions characteristics but also perform at the highest levels of anything else available In the market.
At Motion we are enthusiasts first and sales last, when we make a product we want that product to fill a specific gap somewhere. Centripetal does just that.
So what inspired the design?
The design was inspired largely by Centrifugal.
There are some traits on this YoYo that we wanted to achieve, as always, and aesthetics can never be ignored and need to remain just as closely tied to performance.
The YoYo is designed in a way that the rim weight is not compromised by being a mono-metal design, we were able to manipulate the body to not only carry similar rim to body ratio as the bi-metal model it was designed after but also give a similar feel.
What actually transpired was a mono-metal version of the YoYo that surpassed its bi-metal counterpart. The double rim design helps balance some mid-weight while the overhanging rim allows for functional thumb grinds and extra weight on the furthest point of the YoYo but moved down closer to the center.
Wider yo-yos have become more of a trend in the last few years and Centripetal is no exception, while broadening the gap and effective trapeze width of the YoYo you will find the characteristics of much wider yo-yos while maintaining a manageable width for hand feel. The overall delivery you will find is unsurpassed in the Motion lineup to this point.
We wanted to make sure that our second monometal YoYo was as large of a hit as the first one, and we think this design is about as close to perfect for the shape as it gets.”
“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.
