Behold my VINDICATION! 
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I ended up with Kisses and not orbs. I was gonna contact od to switch em up, but decided to keep my original order. I just didn’t have the scratch for two pairs of Ti SE’s at the moment. All these drops?!? Gotta keep da funds up. 
Maybe we could play them, then commit to a temp swap depending on how we each feel about them respectively? Lmk
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I guess David forgot to put these on Flickr?
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If you end up not liking the kisses, lemme know. I was not fast enough and could not score them. I wanted a set
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You win
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Summit 2
(also, a new documentary of the process on this one was filmed)
In August 2025, Steve emailed One Drop with the idea of revisiting the Summit for Caribou’s 20th Anniversary. The original yoyo and documentary were a snapshot of a special moment in time; let’s create another.
85 emails later, Steve and the gang rolled into Eugene with no plan other than “let’s make a yoyo in a few days with some friends”. Monday morning over coffee we threw out our assumptions and started with “responsive or unresponsive?” We had no specific ideas and decided to just let the moment guide us. Shawn’s CAD wizardry quickly turned our excited conversation into drawings and beyond anyone’s expectations we had a yoyo in our hands that night. The machines ran overnight and on Tuesday we had enough parts to feel confident and accomplished. Wednesday morning the amazing folks at BT Anodizing invited us all to their shop to witness the full process, both a rare treat and an incredibly satisfying couple of hours. We retreated back to the shop with finished parts and had everything assembled (and only ONE bad yoyo!) in time for dinner.
Thursday we welcomed fans and friends into the One Drop machine shop for an afternoon of food and fun and gave a handful of folks a chance to get their hands on the Summit 2: First Draft. The engraving art on the Side Effects is from an early sketch by Jason Week, who did the box and engraving art for both Summits. We liked the roughness and immediacy of it, and it fit the speed at which the yoyo came to life.
Tomorrow at @pnwr.yoyo we fully release the Summit 2: First Draft. This only differs from final production in the Side Effect art and body color, neither of which will be produced again for this model. We made just over 80 yoyos from concept to finished product in three days and it was a hell of a good time. We hope you enjoy playing these as much as we enjoyed creating them together.
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If for some reason you missed this thread, there is a lot of good info here too.
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USPS said ‘screw you we’re going to sit around and do nothing for a week’ so it looks like it’s going to take a bit over 2 weeks at this rate. 
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I feel this. USPS has been moving slower than normal for me over the past few weeks. I’m waiting on a pretty big mail day from OD (had them hold some purchases to ship together) and it’s taking a very interesting, and long, route for some reason…
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It’s very nice of them to do that. Uncle Sam Postal Service (USPS)’s prices are very high these days (20–50% of the cost is shipping) and although it kills me to wait, it means that I get to spend more on new yoyos. 
Crucible just came in, it feels different than both rainiers iirc (I much prefer the DS-61 to the rainier so I sold them). Rainiers have more of the dark side feel to them (don’t feel dense), which is unlike the crucible. I swapped the JT side effects for spikes because it felt a little too heavy and dense (two different things), and enjoy my edITION and crucible more. Crucible feels lighter, but still feels dense at times. Like I thought, it does feel similar to G2’s council, thought a little lighter. With the JT side effects you can tell the crucible is a JT yoyo, like an updated Top Deck
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Wasn’t expecting side effects to make much of a difference, but wow, I see why everyone likes them!
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Just wait until you try brass ones!
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so heavy, wonder if i’d like it, i feel like some are better in some yoyos over others
I was pretty excited to get mine. I wasn’t huge on the Rainier, but I might have grown to like it. The world will never know.
Crucible, on the other hand, I clicked with pretty quickly. But I’m the same person whose answer to everything is “slap some more rim weight on it”.
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Crucible! I have been out of the buying game for a while, but couldn’t pass up what started out as Top Deck 2. Definitely agree that it’s not the TD, but you can feel the influence. Maybe it’s JT’s style? Regardless, definitely a good one. I like the Rainier a lot (both), but the shape and power of this one hit just right. Similar to the Rainier in some ways, but to me just a bit better, especially the shape. Interestingly, my anno is probably a B grade because it gets darker in spots, but it looks pretty cool, like smoke or burn marks. Wouldn’t sleep on this one.
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The profile recalls the Top Deck, and the Rev 1 might be the only other One Drop in that category(?). But the weight distribution differs significantly.
I happen to like this profile a lot.
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It’s taking me a bit to settle into the Crucible. But as the bearing breaks in it gets better, and better. However, I’d call the ano on mine a B grade as well. That didn’t help with the initial impression.
I liked the flat, but swapped it for an NSK. I also went with some spikes, and now it’s just right. I like the OG set up, but now it’s right where I want it.
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