Tentative GB Date: January 26, 2018

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News!Updates below: proxies, packaging, and possible novelties, oh my!Make sure to peep the tie-ins section below!Hello and Happy New Year everyone, it's my pleasure to finally present something I've been working on for quite a while now behind the scenes: GMK Taro.Yes, this is a preview of what we're hoping the packaging will look like, big shoutout to outragedpudding for doing an amazing job and zambumon for a nice render to show off!The theme is simple enough: taro bubble tea. I was drinking some one day and thinking about how much I liked the color and it dawned on me that it might make for a pretty good looking keyset. The purple tones were nice but I thought it needed something more, so I went with cyan and yellow accents, which represent the crazy-colored straws that most boba places have.This set will be cherry profile, produced by GMK, using good old doubleshot ABS. The purple colors will be custom, hex codes of #8E71A2 and #170B19, the cyan and yellow are TU2 and CV from GMK.The group buy itself will be run by Alex of Panc.co.We've got 3 kits: Base, Spacebar, and Novelties, I've moved the fancy kit renders below, but here's our GMK renders, just so everyone knows what we've got lined up with them.Our tentative pricing is as follows:Base (at 250 moq): $155Spacebars (at 100/150/250 moq): $30/$28/$24Novelties (at 250 moq): $20Shipping will be $10 Conus. We are currently ironing out proxies, if you are interested in proxying, feel free to contact either of us.EU: Mykeyboard.euChina: zFrontierAs far as the GB itself goes, we're hoping to shoot for the end of this month if the interest is there. If you have any thoughts/feedback regarding the set/kit please feel free to offer it below, I'm by no means an expert.I'm also proud to say that we've got some very awesome people collaborating with us to offer even more Taro goodies, with hopefully more to be announced.For starters, one lucky purchaser of GMK Taro will win a Boba Burbs Garbo Puss, created by GAF. This colorway was produced using the hex codes for the set, so while it may not wind up being a 100% match to the finished product, it should be an amazing addition to any board using Taro.I'm happy to announce another tie in, this one brought to you by Keyforge. He's going to be conducting a raffle for Taro-themed caps for GB participants when we open the GB! He'll be conducting the sale in his typical format otherwise.Unfortunately we won't have pictures, but that's because he's going to be waiting to make the caps till we have samples and production colors confirmed so that the colors can be as well-matched as possible!Last but not least, a special thanks to so many people for helping me get to this point. Alexatpanc for being open to taking this project on. Livingspeedbump for offering some very helpful advice to a complete newbie. Kudos and Koala of keykollectiv for supporting this in a way I never could have anticipated. Keyforge for similarly unanticipated support. Oblotzky and Zambumon for the renders. Outragedpudding for doing amazing work with all the artwork and novelty designs. Lightningxi, jacobsmirror, thegreaticedrake, gajible, shinz0, shell058, i_need_a_bath, kelly, and countless other friends and purple lovers who encouraged me to keep at this to hopefully have it see the light of day.