He later invented the vaulting box.

As more items accumulate, the katamari's power grows, allowing it to pick up "vaulting boxes, pencils, erasers, postcards, ramen, robots, cows, sheep, this girl, that boy, moms and dads, bicycles, motorbikes, homes, buildings, rainbows, clouds, islands, hopes and dreams".

For although Whitby had always insisted on complete security during his work-outs one of Moriarty's informants, a little Australian clown called Boyle, had hidden himself in a vaulting box and had witnessed a session in which Salamander had leapt to massive heights, perhaps six foot or more.