How did you know? But I went to the University of Florida. Go Hurri-arcanes! But I have to go now. I’m watching my favorite movie. Yeah, you know it - Citizen Arcane!
(ok, this “joke” has probably run its course. Arcane not think of any others.)
Brilliant
We all cane brehh… #ArcaneFTW
Kinda quiet In here.
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Jeffrey just posted that they shipped. Tracking #s tomorrow.
yes, I saw that as well. excited
And I was just about to post that a race is on between the YYF Dream and the Evora because I still haven’t received my Dream package. But today I got a letter from customs service informing me that I can pick up the package at their office.
Has anybody gotten theirs yet??? I know most of the US people’s are making their way through customs right now. But anybody in Canada get theirs?
GregP got his. Mine has made it to the U.S. but not to my state yet.
Just got a text from my better half… Cannot wait to go home.
Edit - Ahhh bummer, just got sent a pic of the box, it’s NOT the Evora! So bummed. 
Greg’s probably too busy playing to post pictures then, haha.
From the few people I’ve talked to who have received theirs, early reviews are that this thing is fantastic. Next level stuff. Lives up to the hype. Etc. All gushingly positive.
Cannot wait.
Here’s a few words GregP used to express his view point on it - Making me very excited to try it!!!
First impressions of the Evora:
- wow, that packaging, though!
- so elegant
- why am I gawking? Where’s the nearest string?
- Ermagerd. Feels amazing on the throw. No kickback, yay!
- What. The. Actual. $%*?? WHY SO SMOOTH?
- Oh gawd. I’m finally going to be afraid to ding a yoyo.
- Why is this so stable? I thought the less rim weight would mean less stability, but this thing pwns!
- Oh man. Still had lots of spin left when I hit that bind. Surprising!
- Wonder how my finger-grind binds will work out? Oh, oops. I think I need to be more precise on my finger grinds; that catch zone shape isn’t making it brainless
- Oh there we go. Yeah. Gotta be more precise and careful, but man, this thing actually grinds!
- This… feels… like it couldn’t reasonably be made with Aluminum. Might be placebo or confirmation bias. Not sure. Just feels… titanium-y…
- I don’t need moar yoyos. Ever.
Naturally, I will get moar yoyos. It’s inevitable. But yeah. It’s that good.
Speaking of pictures, see below a photo I took primarily to show off my Ti ano job on the Dream, but it looks lovely next to the amazing Evora. 
Sorry about the overblown highlights… it’s on the card that way; can’t recover them!
The Evora is hands-down my favourite yoyo right now. Possibly “ever”, but I’ll have to give it some time. It has everything that I like about a yoyo: fairly light weight, stable but still lively, feels great on the throw. The thing about kickback posted above (thanks, KiLbUcK!) is Jeff’s vision come to fruition. While the majority of yoyos to come out lately are rim-weighted for stability and long spin time, the price you pay is kickback. The Evora avoids that and consequently feels amazing on the throw.
Here’s the thing about spin time, though: rim-weighted yoyos are only going to have momentum for long spins on a hard throw (producing the aforementioned kickback). This is fine, and a lot of you HAVE hard throws. My throw is a bit weak in general, and moreso because I hate having to control kickback. With the Evora I can just let it rip, giving me higher initial RPMs. Less momentum to carry them, but higher at the outset. Higher RPMs translate in the gyroscopic equation to resistance to tilt (ie. stability) as well as providing a buffer for the inevitable (in all yoyos) loss of spin.
In conclusion: it spins way longer than I thought it would, and is significantly more stable than I thought it would be. I thought as a mid-weighted yoyo, it was going to suffer from spin time. But between the amazing initial throw, the quality bearing, and still being a design that doesn’t siphon spin time (it’s neutral in that regard), you get a lot of spin for your energy.
The “titanium-ness” I feel in the yoyo differs a bit from the Dream. While the Dream uses the Ti to produce fantastic rim weight for that “style” of yoyo, ultimately I still get the sensation that I’ve “been here before” with bi-metals or even just well-designed rim-weighted aluminum yoyos. It’s a fantastic yoyo and you should all get one if you can, but it didn’t leave me with the same sense that the Evora does: that this design could ONLY be executed with Titanium.
Now, I’m not saying that’s a truth. I know that it’s probably partially bias confirmation and possibly just an overall positive feeling while playing the yoyo. I’m objective enough to know that you probably COULD pull off this weight distribution with clever design in other materials. But I’m telling you the “feeling” I get, which is that the Evora is entirely unique and that the uniqueness is owed in part to the Titanium construction.
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Dadgumit Greg I’m so super jealous right now.
Gah, that people looks so amazing, can’t wait for mine. And pretty much everything you’ve written lines up with my personal predictions that I’ve had about this. So I’m super pumped.
I hope mine shows up tomorrow so I can let people try it at Ohio States.
Got mine yesterday. I only had a few minutes to give it a whirl, but I’m really happy with it. ;D
I love the shape and the ceramic bearing is whisper quiet. I hope there’s another run of these so more people get the opportunity to try one.
Easily one of the best releases of the past year. I hope Jeffrey either runs more, or runs an aluminum version so that more people can enjoy this stellar design.
this would be the best thing ever
I second this… got mine today, incredibly well done.
Kyle