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Offline DJ Shoko

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Hello everybody, it's finally here, GMK Shoko 2nd Style or Round 2. I know a lot of people were looking forward to the set and it's finally here.

This group buy will run from August 11 to September 15, thank you for your patience and I really appreciate it!

The estimated shipping date is going to be July 2021, but given the typical delays of GMK nowadays a month or two may be added on top of it.

Colors:
Pantone 656C
Pantone 5425C
GMK's TU4

All of the kits below:
Base Kit
This kit should cover all of the basic kits in question.


Hiragana Kit
This is an alphas kit with mono hiragana legends, comes with an extra こ for Alice and an extra tab for extra versatility.


Spacebar Kit
Just some good ol' extra spacebars for accents or split spacebars. Extra B for Alice Users.


Obscure Kits
For everything 40% mainly, but may cover other weird stuff.


Prices:


Vendors:
NA: Kono
Asia: iLumkb
AU: Daily Clack
EU: proto[Typist]
CA: Deskhero

Current Sales:
Base Kit: 1136
Hiragana Kit: 85
Spacebar Kit: 472
Obscure Kit: 113

Pics or renders:
TaiChi pics from Lens of Regan





MacSurfy's Renders


M0LLY


J-02



Iron165


910


Aanzee


HB60


Doppelgänger


Candybar

From the original run:
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Render of Alice by Janglad



Pics by me (yeah not the best photographer)



Beautiful pic by Otanishock


Amazing pic from Emir

Will update more pics when they come.

Collabs?
Custom switches and I'm hoping custom mouse mat not too far after the current group buy.
Custom switch specs:
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Linear
90g Progressive Stainless Steel Springs
No factory lubing
Bottom housing, custom nylon blend
Top housing, polycarbonate
Stems, POM
Housing color: Pantone 656c
Stem color: Pantone 5425c

Why is it named Shoko?
Copypasta from R1 IC
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Why Shoko? Who in the world is Shoko?
Shoko Aoi is my Discord alias as well as a character in a Japanese rhythm game called "Pop'n Music" and she's my favorite girl, but the colors kinda strayed a bit away from the original concept sorta (honestly the original colors were really bad, soooooo yeah had to change it), but the colors are somewhat like her Pop'n Music Sunny Park's clothing colors, which I think looks nice (but she's my favorite so clear bias). Tho crazy me still wanted a bit of that teal in there, so the accents became teal since that's her hair color (I wish I had something for her green eyes though :().

Special thanks:
MacSurfy for the board renders
Kingk22 for the kit renders
Jeffcy for helping me with the custom switch
Kono for making me realize there's interest in a R2
The community for the positive feedback in the colorway
Emir for making me rethink about what mods I use and make me stick to my guts
Janglad for the R1 renders
Rensuya and Jae for kit feedback
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 02:34:00 »
Reserved for other goodies...


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 11:37:00 »
Approved, GL w GB
Very busy with studies atm.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 11:41:36 »
oh hey that is a doppelgänger!

Offline DJ Shoko

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 12:57:43 »
Day One numbers!

Current Sales:
Base Kit: 252
Hiragana Kit: 32
Spacebar Kit: 150
Obscure Kit: 45

Not the most insane numbers I've seen, but the base kit and the spacebar kit has already hit MOQ which is great news! Hopefully we can push the numbers more in the following weeks.


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 13:53:02 »
Grats to nice day 1 numbers - and as we said, 250 is reached instantly ;)

Offline piit79

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 15:19:26 »
I was really looking forward to Shoko! However, it's a bit uncool that you're quoting the EU prices without VAT. The real price of the base kit is 126 GBP, which is 140 EUR less a few pennies - that's one of the most expensive base kits I've seen in a while... Really sucks when you also need the "Obscure" kit (I'm offended :) ) for another 47 GBP or 52 EUR. Ouch.
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 15:54:20 »
Day One numbers!

Current Sales:
Base Kit: 252
Hiragana Kit: 32
Spacebar Kit: 150
Obscure Kit: 45

Not the most insane numbers I've seen, but the base kit and the spacebar kit has already hit MOQ which is great news! Hopefully we can push the numbers more in the following weeks.

Not the most insane? Maybe?
But these are great! Should've priced it at 500MQ, even 1k if you ask me!

Glad is doing so well  :thumb:

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 16:07:30 »
I was really looking forward to Shoko! However, it's a bit uncool that you're quoting the EU prices without VAT. The real price of the base kit is 126 GBP, which is 140 EUR less a few pennies - that's one of the most expensive base kits I've seen in a while... Really sucks when you also need the "Obscure" kit (I'm offended :) ) for another 47 GBP or 52 EUR. Ouch.
Some other 40's/non-standard kits have been called Obscure Kits before like 9009 R3 and 8008 did, sorry if the name is offensive to you, but I found it appropriate. And thank you for pointing out that the pricing is non-inclusive of VAT, it slipped my mind since Jae had his price listed without VAT on his website. I just included it in the pricing chart which hopefully clears things up.

Not the most insane? Maybe?
But these are great! Should've priced it at 500MQ, even 1k if you ask me!

Glad is doing so well  :thumb:
I wish I could've placed a higher MOQ, but it wasn't my decision in the end unfortunately. I wanted to try to push a 1000 MOQ for the base kit though and if it happens this round, I'm sure everyone can be on board on that.


Offline piit79

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 16:13:44 »
Some other 40's/non-standard kits have been called Obscure Kits before like 9009 R3 and 8008 did, sorry if the name is offensive to you, ...

I just included it in the pricing chart which hopefully clears things up.

Nah, that was a joke! I know I'm a weirdo with my ortho boards ;)

Thanks for updating the prices :+1:
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 16:36:12 »
Just got the base and spacebar kit. Thanks for putting together the group buy!!

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 17:20:00 »
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Day One numbers!

Current Sales:
Base Kit: 252
Hiragana Kit: 32
Spacebar Kit: 150
Obscure Kit: 45

Not the most insane numbers I've seen, but the base kit and the spacebar kit has already hit MOQ which is great news! Hopefully we can push the numbers more in the following weeks.



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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 12 August 2020, 17:57:29 »
What vendor is stocking the switch?

Ahh read the GB better disregard can't wait to hear more do you have a discord?
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 13 August 2020, 11:27:39 »
Is there any chance that it will be added? F5 ~ F8 ponint
 

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 13 August 2020, 15:23:09 »
I'm absolutely getting the base and hiragana kit! Love the blue colors in this set. Also may be getting the custom switches and deskpad, excited for those!

Offline NoChance

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #15 on: Thu, 13 August 2020, 22:46:17 »
The "Geekhack" thread link on the Kono.store page links to the R1 Interest check. 

Just FYI

Offline DJ Shoko

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #16 on: Thu, 20 August 2020, 13:13:36 »
Week One Sales Numbers:
Base Kit: 526
Hiragana Kit: 49
Spacebar Kit: 272
Obscure Kit: 66


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #17 on: Thu, 20 August 2020, 13:25:30 »
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Week One Sales Numbers:
Base Kit: 526
Hiragana Kit: 49
Spacebar Kit: 272
Obscure Kit: 66




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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #18 on: Sun, 23 August 2020, 17:08:54 »
Any plans for artisan collabs? Kits look great already picked up a base kit.

Offline DJ Shoko

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #19 on: Sun, 30 August 2020, 13:11:33 »
A bit late, but week three's sales numbers
Base Kit: 856
Hiragana Kit: 67
Spacebar Kit: 362
Obscure Kit: 86

A 1000 base kits is very much within reach right now!

Any plans for artisan collabs? Kits look great already picked up a base kit.
No sorry, I didn't really think of it at the time.


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #20 on: Sun, 30 August 2020, 16:43:37 »
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A bit late, but week three's sales numbers
Base Kit: 856
Hiragana Kit: 67
Spacebar Kit: 362
Obscure Kit: 86

A 1000 base kits is very much within reach right now!

Any plans for artisan collabs? Kits look great already picked up a base kit.
No sorry, I didn't really think of it at the time.




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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #21 on: Thu, 03 September 2020, 21:36:01 »
@RaySasQuach

Very excited to pre order this beautiful keyset. It will be my first mechanical keyboard as well. :D
Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

Thank you!


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #22 on: Thu, 10 September 2020, 01:35:21 »


Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

The name of the board is right in the image name - it's a Fjell Pro by Mekanisk (HHKB style).

Unfortunately, it seems this board has never been available, I only found it mentioned in an old GeekHack thread "Future Mekanisk Group Buys". The colour on the render is also not real, it was chosen to match Shoko perfectly.

It would be a beautiful board though, wouldn't it ;)

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #23 on: Thu, 10 September 2020, 23:09:50 »


Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

The name of the board is right in the image name - it's a Fjell Pro by Mekanisk (HHKB style).

Unfortunately, it seems this board has never been available, I only found it mentioned in an old GeekHack thread "Future Mekanisk Group Buys". The colour on the render is also not real, it was chosen to match Shoko perfectly.

It would be a beautiful board though, wouldn't it ;)
Yeah it was supposed to be a custom Fjell Pro color, but it never ran sooooo ya.

I skipped a week due to school and dentist, but we have hit over a 1000 base kits, less than five days left. Let's reach 100 in the Hiragana kit and 500 for the spacebar kit! Hope everyone who wants in gets in:
Base Kit: 1136
Hiragana Kit: 85
Spacebar Kit: 472
Obscure Kit: 113


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #24 on: Thu, 10 September 2020, 23:40:57 »


Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

The name of the board is right in the image name - it's a Fjell Pro by Mekanisk (HHKB style).

Unfortunately, it seems this board has never been available, I only found it mentioned in an old GeekHack thread "Future Mekanisk Group Buys". The colour on the render is also not real, it was chosen to match Shoko perfectly.

It would be a beautiful board though, wouldn't it ;)
Yeah it was supposed to be a custom Fjell Pro color, but it never ran sooooo ya.

I skipped a week due to school and dentist, but we have hit over a 1000 base kits, less than five days left. Let's reach 100 in the Hiragana kit and 500 for the spacebar kit! Hope everyone who wants in gets in:
Base Kit: 1136
Hiragana Kit: 85
Spacebar Kit: 472
Obscure Kit: 113
Could we get some extra keys as the base kit hits 1000?

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #25 on: Fri, 11 September 2020, 00:03:03 »


Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

The name of the board is right in the image name - it's a Fjell Pro by Mekanisk (HHKB style).

Unfortunately, it seems this board has never been available, I only found it mentioned in an old GeekHack thread "Future Mekanisk Group Buys". The colour on the render is also not real, it was chosen to match Shoko perfectly.

It would be a beautiful board though, wouldn't it ;)
Yeah it was supposed to be a custom Fjell Pro color, but it never ran sooooo ya.

I skipped a week due to school and dentist, but we have hit over a 1000 base kits, less than five days left. Let's reach 100 in the Hiragana kit and 500 for the spacebar kit! Hope everyone who wants in gets in:
Base Kit: 1136
Hiragana Kit: 85
Spacebar Kit: 472
Obscure Kit: 113
Could we get some extra keys as the base kit hits 1000?
That's actually a fantastic idea, lemme ask the vendors what they think about this. But it could be too late as well.


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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「August 11 to September 15」
« Reply #26 on: Fri, 11 September 2020, 01:04:06 »
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Can you please help me out with identifying this case? As well as the color?

The name of the board is right in the image name - it's a Fjell Pro by Mekanisk (HHKB style).

Unfortunately, it seems this board has never been available, I only found it mentioned in an old GeekHack thread "Future Mekanisk Group Buys". The colour on the render is also not real, it was chosen to match Shoko perfectly.

It would be a beautiful board though, wouldn't it ;)
Yeah it was supposed to be a custom Fjell Pro color, but it never ran sooooo ya.

I skipped a week due to school and dentist, but we have hit over a 1000 base kits, less than five days left. Let's reach 100 in the Hiragana kit and 500 for the spacebar kit! Hope everyone who wants in gets in:
Base Kit: 1136
Hiragana Kit: 85
Spacebar Kit: 472
Obscure Kit: 113




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Offline NoteMakoti

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #27 on: Sat, 19 September 2020, 22:59:11 »
Did anything ever come of the Shoko linear switches?

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #28 on: Thu, 24 September 2020, 22:10:13 »
yes please! what's the word on switches?

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #29 on: Thu, 15 October 2020, 01:56:56 »
any final numbers including extras?
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #32 on: Fri, 19 February 2021, 15:32:36 »
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Holy. is that the most amount of extras bought? proportionally speaking its like 3x the number of sets from the GB itself, damn.
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #33 on: Fri, 19 February 2021, 17:24:02 »
Crazy to think that kono didn’t want to price it at 1k or even 500 MOQ.
I bet they would’ve sold even more if priced at higher MOQ

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #34 on: Sun, 21 February 2021, 23:21:04 »
Crazy to think that kono didn’t want to price it at 1k or even 500 MOQ.
I bet they would’ve sold even more if priced at higher MOQ

Kono after meeting 4k MOQ pricing after not trusting more than 250
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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #35 on: Mon, 22 February 2021, 00:22:26 »
Looks like they were just driving up the price floor for the extra sale :p

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Any updates on the r2?
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Any updates on the r2?
Kono says October.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #38 on: Thu, 16 September 2021, 17:28:10 »

it's mid Sept now, Kono still says production will be done in Oct, any one says otherwise?
 

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #39 on: Thu, 16 September 2021, 20:44:02 »

it's mid Sept now, Kono still says production will be done in Oct, any one says otherwise?

I’m just some random but I’ll say this is Q1 2022 at the earliest

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #40 on: Fri, 17 September 2021, 04:26:30 »
big congrats and happy i could be of help! :)

Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #41 on: Fri, 15 October 2021, 23:25:22 »
From Kono:
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GMK Shoko R2
GMK now estimates a late Q4 production completion, with about a month and a half of transit. Estimated arrival Q1 2022.

I dont understand is why is it not even in production. Where is any update that they was again not going to meet the ship date and again be pushed back? This GB has been almost 2 years old now. I know we had a delay because of some production issues but to be told that they expect it to be SHIPPED in October and now be told that it might not even be produced in Q4 and if it does it might be shippeed out in Q1 of next year is just not right.

https://kono.store/pages/weekly-update

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #42 on: Sat, 16 October 2021, 00:35:55 »
1. Often what happens is that everyone knows it’s wrong but GMK has no idea when it’ll be done so they don’t give estimates. What Omnitype did that I liked was give the estimate and the date the estimate was made. If the estimate was several months old…you know it’s wrong.

2. Shoko was attempted to be rerun in April 2020. Due to communication issues it was canceled. It ran in August 2020; see link below. It ran roughly concurrently w minimal r2 (5.5k base kits), and minimal closed earlier, and minimal has been shipping in 2022 for several months now, which is why I wrote what wrote above. So it’ll be ~18 months, which isn’t exactly a shocker right now, and not the two years you’d said.

https://kono.store/products/gmk-shoko?variant=31958493593683

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #43 on: Sat, 16 October 2021, 22:07:55 »
I love how by this point, some people are still not used to gmk dealys.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #44 on: Mon, 18 October 2021, 16:39:49 »
I love how by this point, some people are still not used to gmk dealys.

I love how by this point, we've normalized year+ wait times for a manufacturer to deliver a setup of keycaps in a different color. (even for re-runs!)

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #45 on: Mon, 18 October 2021, 17:36:31 »
I love how by this point, some people are still not used to gmk dealys.

I love how by this point, we've normalized year+ wait times for a manufacturer to deliver a setup of keycaps in a different color. (even for re-runs!)
I definitely understand, but with covid and plastic shortage, the production capacity simply is not as strong as in the past.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #46 on: Fri, 26 November 2021, 17:18:11 »
New to the hobby and just discovered this set. Any news on a release date and if their well be extras? Also, how come there are no novelties. The colors are absolutely beautiful but hard to say it's based off a character.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #47 on: Fri, 26 November 2021, 17:31:30 »
New to the hobby and just discovered this set. Any news on a release date and if their well be extras? Also, how come there are no novelties. The colors are absolutely beautiful but hard to say it's based off a character.

There were 3k extra base kits purchased by vendors, so there is a good chance on picking a set up, whenever vendors decide to sell extras.

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #48 on: Fri, 26 November 2021, 20:20:18 »
New to the hobby and just discovered this set. Any news on a release date and if their well be extras? Also, how come there are no novelties. The colors are absolutely beautiful but hard to say it's based off a character.
The current estimate is q1 2022

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Re: [GB] GMK Shoko 2nd Style「Less than 5 days Left! Ends on September 15」
« Reply #49 on: Sat, 27 November 2021, 16:48:22 »
New to the hobby and just discovered this set. Any news on a release date and if their well be extras? Also, how come there are no novelties. The colors are absolutely beautiful but hard to say it's based off a character.

There were 3k extra base kits purchased by vendors, so there is a good chance on picking a set up, whenever vendors decide to sell extras.

That is a very good point. Is this how vendors are able to keep some gmk sets in stock like GMK laser, samurai, etc.?