if i interpret the kanji “新海” correctly, it should be some kinda blue hue.
Very curious too when i saw it in the drop down.
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Interesting… where did you see the kanji?
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@Ed-C @wrxy Yes! It’s a very, very deep blue shade. There’s some additional details about Shinkai colorway that we won’t publish just yet, but it’s exciting 
We’ll say more when the time comes!
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Thanks!
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We’re proud to finally present the Shidō, Atmos Projects’ first ever team model.
The Shidō takes reference from the Lamina’s profile, and incorporates feedback from the Atmos team in sculpting its playfeel. Its body is crafted from 7075 aluminum, has Delrin rims and polycarbonate caps for a wide array of colorways that we’re excited to share in the coming days. It’s absurdly fun, more than capable for modern tech, and has a genuine carry-for-days quality and character to it.
SPECS
Diameter 50.2mm
Width 51.9mm
Weight 68.0g
Material 7075 AL & Delrin & Polycarbonate
Release coming this week — stay tuned.
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What is the price for Shido?
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Full release details out tonight!
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The Shidō will be released in team colorways — Coleman Edition, Yuji Edition, Vladimir Edition, and Aleks Edition — and will go for $85 each.
These will go live on Wednesday, 30th September, at 9pm EST, at our site, and also here at @YoYoExpert. We’re incredibly grateful for @AndreBoulay and the entire YoyoExpert team — if you’re hoping to pick up a Shidō, YYE’s an awesome place to do that.
Six other Shidō colorways will be made available some time after — keep an eye out for those.
If there’s anything we can help with, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Love,
Team Atmos
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Is there material differences between the 4 or all play the same?
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Only differences are colors! Same materials across the board.
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got in on the preorder for this, quite a fun yoyo
reminds me a bit of the sibyl but with less power and more chill, good pocket yoyo
i also slammed mine into concrete immediately (oops) and the POM rings didn’t shift which is always a good sign
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Panda and Infrared.
These are 2 of 6 new Shidō colorways, available this Friday, October 9th, at 9pm Eastern.
They’ll be up for grabs at the Atmos store, and also right here at @YoYoExpert!
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Dark Forest and Tripleberry.
These are the next 2 of 6 new Shidō colorways, available end of this week, here at @YoYoExpert, and at our site.
Final two colorways revealed tomorrow
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Ripple and Soda.
These round out the 6 new Shidō colorways, available this Friday, here at @YoYoExpert and at our site.
We’d love to hear any thoughts about this round of colorways! Which did you like?
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god damn i wish i had waited for infrared..
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Say hello to the Big Smoke.
The second signature model for Coleman Weimer under our Monogram Line, the Big Smoke is a jumbo plastic organic that emphasises a flow and feel-based style of play. Its design philosophy follows Coleman’s first signature in the Smoke, but this really stretches physical boundaries in pursuit of that feeling.
Safe to say this doesn’t feel like anything we’ve made before.
SPECS
Diameter 61.7mm
Width 57.1mm
Weight 70.9g
Material Polycarbonate
Coleman’s first signature model, the Smoke, is one of the most unique designs that sit in the Atmos Projects lineup. Externally, it looks simple — its facade is intentionally minimal, and is in-line with Coleman’s elegant approach to play and aesthetics, but as a design it aims towards something quite difficult to capture — “a free-flow, feeling-based style of play”. To capture a specific playfeel, or to have a round object balanced in such a way it nudges a user towards a type of movement or feel is a complicated, delicate thing — but we felt like we managed to do that successfully with the original Smoke.
The Big Smoke, the original’s sequel, was birthed out of a conversation surrounding Coleman’s artistic inspirations. Whereas Smoke was inspired by poetry by William Stafford, the Big Smoke emerged from a specific aesthetic — the Space Age design wave, where plastics were treated as a material of optimism, rather than a cheap substitute. Coleman sent me this print ad for inflatable furniture by Quasar Khanh, a Vietnamese-French designer whose work reflected a futuristic, liberating ethos.
The large, inflatable couch that Khanh designed had soft, friendly geometry, and used inflation to determine its form. The inflatable-and-puffy aesthetic was more than just about the way it looked — it was also rebellion against the the notion of permanence in the use of more “industrial” materials, which generally were materials of choice for heavy, heirloom-like furniture pieces of the time.
“Juicy, inflated, light in the hand and zippy on the string,” one of Coleman’s messages read in that conversation. “Like someone plugged a bike pump in and pumped up the Smoke.”
Inspired by Khanh’s inflatable furniture design, the idea was to create something that gave the sense of balloon-like inflation. This guided our early CAD sessions. This already meant a larger diameter and width — this specification was welcome, given that plastics tend to benefit from a bigger profile.
Simultaneously, we were conscious that jumbo-sized, plastic yoyo tend to lend to a certain playfeel — overtly light and airy, a little bit like how offstring yoyos can feel and play. We wanted it light and zippy in play, but not sparse or thin — it had to have substance that was commensurate to its size and shape.
To create the inflated, puffy effect, and also to solve the issue of needing a solid, substantial playfeel, we added a fat, curved lip that dipped into a flat plateau in the cap design, as opposed to going entirely flat in the style of the Cephas and Smoke. This created a very pillowy, and marshmallowey feel to its physical profile, and simultaneously added a degree of rigidity to the cap construction. The hope was that it would serve a direct aesthetic purpose, while adding to the specific playfeel we were aiming for — a big, fat, jolly iteration of the original Smoke.
We made a set of prototypes out of machined polycarbonate — a material we’ve come to really have affection for over the years for its flexibility and practicality in design. We decided against using Delrin for this design, given its rigidity and density characteristics on a larger frame. Polycarbonate sat in the Goldilocks zone of being rigid and relatively light, which would allow us to go big without too much complication.
As soon as prototypes were ready, we sent them to Coleman, with great anticipation for his feedback.
Hearing this was all we needed to hear.
Machined polycarbonate has this frosted, matte look. This natural texture allowed us to tap into another of Coleman’s inspirations — the grading palette of World On A Wire, a German film from the 1970s.
The heavily stylized colors included feverish pinks, warm oranges, cyans, and purple tones — very bold, retro-futuristic colors that we were excited to try replicate in through dyeing processes.
Hand-dyeing plastic is a process that is incredibly manual and human. It involves mixing dye to the right proportions and is incredibly sensitive to timing, temperature and technique. Each piece is dipped and dried manually by hand, and the practitioner’s control over this process determines shade, hue and vibrancy of a specific color.
We learnt how difficult this was in the first few days — we accidentally corroded a batch of halves during the color trial process, and it took multiple rounds to really nail the tones we wanted.
Eventually, we achieved colors that matched Coleman’s vision — retro-futuristic hues of purple, pink, blue and orange. We have a monochromatic palette of colorways that pay homage to the original batch of Smokes, but these colors have gotten us really, really excited.
We’ll reveal the full slate of colorways in the coming days. You’ll want to stay tuned for them — these turned out beautiful.
The Big Smoke feels like a genuine sequel to the original in the sense that it shares the same penchant for pacing, flow and feel. It doesn’t rush, and takes its time. At the same time, there’s a genuine confidence in the way it plays — it’s incredible stable for any yoyo, not just for a plastic, and it has a lot more power than you’d imagine.
Unlike our other organics, it feels a lot less like a cloud on a string — it feels like playing an actual balloon, engineered out of plastic.
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The Big Smoke is equipped with
Stratos Pads by Atmos
Type II Concave Bearings by Atmos
CloudWeave Micro by Atmos
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Hey, everyone.
Big Smoke drop is just round the corner.
They’ll be made available in
Frost,
Carbon,
Frost Body / Carbon Cap,
Carbon Body / Frost Cap,
Eva Orange,
Fred Stiller Blue,
and Gloria Purple.
Full drop details at our site.
These will be made available at YoyoExpert at a slightly later date. If you’re thinking of picking one up, please absolutely consider supporting the amazing crew and folks behind YYE!
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That frost body / carbon cap looks classy!
Fred Stiller blue looks so good