No, vendors wouldn't tell us nothing.
Do you have any information about a vendor pulling the trigger on the RGB set?
Vendors along with the pessimists of this community have no intent of sharing what they plan to make. And that's just fine with me.
No one asked me nuttin'...I'm not sure if many newer members here are aware of it, but I'm an old geekhacker and the products that started the whole mech keyboard craze are a culmination of geekhacker feedback and EK's footwork. That formula worked out ok;) I'm always listening...
I would of course volunteer more info about what I'm doing these days were it not for everyone and their mother's dog's ski instructor wanting to open up a mech keyboard/swag shop, so I keep to myself more for the the sake of survival. Those red Esc keys were *supposed* to be a surprise, and to a greater degree; they're available now only to remind everyone that EK is still alive;)
Too bad they didn't see our Red Alert Topre interest check....
This idea was a topic in a meeting I had with Topre while in Japan earlier this year. I believe I posted the outcome of this discussion, but it was lost after GH crashed. The dye they use on the keycaps is not normally available in red; magenta is the closest they have and up close it looks rather pink. It was somewhat frustrating, as it seems far from being impossible, but I drew from the undertones of the conversation that no one wants to be responsible for a new dye formula, as we were the only customer requesting it and Topre is not the kind of company to "wing-it" one time.