Thanks everyone who swung by and picked one up! It means the world to us.
And thank you @cayce and @Augie for helping to clarify the shipping code – it’s a two-step process at the moment (as @cayce and @Augie outlined) but we’re working on making this free shipping thing a bit more intuitive!
@rnsy if this batch of the Snowberry does well, would you considering doing another run in more colors? I’m not sure if it is different with Delrin, but I know with plastic you can do some really crazy color mixes.
If you ordered a white snowberry you can dye it yourself. There’s also several people in the community who will do dye jobs, including elaborate masked patterns, on commission.
If you want crazy color mixes/patterns, solid white POM is what you want as a base.
Thanks so much for the information @mable, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I will do a forum search for people who do custom jobs! If you have any specific users to recommend, that will be great too.
I do still think you could get some cool designs by introducing different colors into the Delrin during production. Some neat swirls or blends maybe. I imagine surface dye will have a bit of a different appearance/effect than dye that is in the material itself.
YYE still has pages for the RCS Skater and Pop Art, both of which were dyed in various ways. Its seems that there is some risk of introducing vibe during the process, which might be even greater with a larger yoyo like the Snowberry.
This is really great info, thank you! That RCS Skater looks really neat. May have to pick one up in the future.
Hit up born2dye on instagram, he does killer stuff. Gravyoyo did all the dye jobs for RCS releases, he might be down for some custom work.
And yes dying can induce vibe, but not always. A little vibe never hurt anybody anyway, and a sweet custom colorway is forever 
New updates on our final release of 2022, some new prototypes headed out in the wild, and something exciting coming next week we think you’ll like.
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is that a non-SE Khuno/Ari? 
Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen SEs that are flush to the cap like that!
Damn you guys have a great eye for detail 
That new SE throw looks great. It looks kind of raised in the cup to allow for a flush SE. I’m guessing it will be more center weighted? I know you have been talking about a new finish moving forward. Any word on that front?
Oh man, the more I look at the Titanium one, the more I wish it is lighter than 65 gram
But at 68gram, it is quite powerful for anyone who are interested in solid throw
@yophilyo Yessir I don’t believe flush SEs have been done before, and these play really nice. Just need to turn up the fluffy comfort dial on these a bit more!
@Ed-C Thank you! Definitely more center-weighted; really nice for redirects and chill play. About a new finish - more soon!
@tylerpan It clocks 68g but it moves nice and easy on the string 
i am dummy excited about that flush SE low walled little guy. looks like a super light, floaty, bouncy, center-weighted fun machine!
Quite spot on
love the design concept!
Thank you!
Hey, everyone.
A couple of these unreleased prototypes are headed into the wild under November Market, an event we’re holding next week.
More over at:
this is so awesome! will for sure be snagging my first Atmos on Monday =]
Atmos never ceases to amaze.
This is the Aria.
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SPECS
Dia 57mm
Width 46mm
Weight 68.1g
Material Titanium
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Shortly after the release of the Ari in February 2022, we began dreaming up concepts that would be fitting for an Ari Pro. This began early with talks with Evgeniy getting his Ari – incidentally his first Atmos design – he loved the feel, the width, and the light but powerful play of the Ari, but also mentioned he desired a bit more mass. We started sketching up a few concepts, and had a few in queue while we focused our developmental attentions to other projects in our pipeline, such as the Abel and Snowberry.
We returned to the concept shortly after, armed with feedback from Ari users. The Ari is and has always been a tinkerer’s model; it has a very light base weight, and was designed to accept One Drop Side Effects, Freehand-sized caps, and even rubber o-rings, which allowed a user to construct his own build, up to north of 70g. The only drawback with adding more moving parts on a precision design was that tuning became a necessity.
In our view, tuning isn’t something to be avoided – its a useful skill in yoyoing, similar to being able to correct string tension. It’s easy, and frees one up to enjoy SE-enabled yoyos without unnecessary frustration.
But the larger point for those who had played the Ari was that there was desire for a version unencumbered by the need to customize, assemble, and calibrate. There were calls for a high performing design in the format of the Ari, but even further simplified. Players loved the Ari’s physique, the full-frame form factor, and our use of titanium; but they were requesting play-readiness, and a sharper focus on high performance. That felt aligned to the Pro designation we were thinking about for the next iteration of the Ari form factor.
This brought us back to our conversations with Evegeniy about weight, and after some back and forth, we decided to move into the realm of heavier concepts.
We’ve generally kept our designs below 65g. One design that has broken that soft rule is the Snowberry, oddly enough our heaviest design to date, which clocks in at 65.6g. We’ve mostly been able to do creative things with width and weight distribution in achieving light power without piling on the pounds – case in point, the Snowberry, which is also arguably our fluffiest design in our lineup. For our design purposes the 62-64g space mostly suits us well.
But with this overt dip into heavyweight territory, what we were hoping to achieve in playfeel was akin to the handling and feel of performance cars with low ground clearing – that of torque, gravitas, balance, and the ability to turn tight corners at speed with supreme handling and full, fine control.
68g can sound extreme to some, given there are 66g designs that play sluggishly. The playfeel that players dread is the thudding rock on the end of a string that resists all types of movement. With the Aria, the idea was to design something with considerable mass but distribute it well enough across the Ari’s large 57mm and 48mm frame, so that it would feel substantial and balanced, but not unwieldy and reluctant.
This was one of the earlier prototypes we made of the Aria, machined on aluminum stock for feasibility testing – it had a stepped hub and an even more pronounced nub. We made multiple early prototypes, but they were all condemned by vibe and never made it past testing phases; the weight distribution was too extreme.
Eventually we simplified the wall design, and reduced the overall width from 48mm to 46mm – which, interestingly, makes the Aria our narrowest design to date.
The Aria also has significantly thicker rims than the Ari, giving it a lot more power. Crucially, we graduated the mass bias from the center to the outer rims, which gives the Aria a powerful, but very smooth acceleration and handle.
The Aria is deceptively deft and nimble for a 68g yoyo; it has that low-center-of-gravity smoothness, superb control and pace, and a powerful stability. It’s difficult to throw it off kilter. It stops on a dime. Once it gets moving, it plays lighter than 68g might suggest it would, and has all the spin you need – and then some more, and then some more… and then some more.
It’s everything we were hoping to achieve in an Ari Pro.
The Aria comes equipped with premier kit in Black Stratos Pads, Atmos Type I Concave Bearings, and Zipline Strings’ Case Study #50s.
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We’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, or any reactions at all.
Love,
Team Atmos
