Hello friends

I realized that we never posted a newsletter update after the end of the Series 00 GB. If you are part of our Discord or Instagram, you will have read this part, but I will re-share it here for our email-only friends.

There’s a lot to cover in this update, so please bear with me.

📍 Series 00 Final Groupbuy Numbers

We got our final sales numbers and damn... is all I can say.

We hit 230% MOQ and sold 2900 Series 00 total.

Final numbers

Sandblast Aluminum Silver - 350 units @ 140%
Sandblast Aluminum Black - 568 units @ 227%
Sandblast Brass - 471 units @ 188%
Polished Stainless Steel - 832 units @ 333%
Polished Brass - 664 units @ 266%

We blew way past our goal and it was all thanks to each and every one of you! On behalf of Cubic, Isshin, and I — THANK YOU!

📍Series 00 Production Updates

The manufacturing for Series 00 begun last week, here's a progress shot from our manufacturer. Look at 'em shmexy shinies! I'm so stoked to see them already working on all the initial CNCing.

Once initial CNCing is completed, they will then, depending on the material, go through sandblasting, anodizing, polishing, lasering, quality control, and more.

P.S. The solid blocks of billets are how Series 00 babies are born. They can fit 14 Series 00 on one metal billet, before they machine them off the scaffolding.

So far, knock on wood, everything seems on-schedule.

Our packaging manufacturer also has the order to begin, though we are requesting a few more samples before beginning mass production. They do have more time than our Series 00 manu because they require the keycaps to be completed before they begin packaging. We'll share more updates on this as we get more information.

📍Series 00 XXXXL Production Updates

Last week, we ran our first Series 00 XXXXL bimonthly Raffle Sale. How this works is that every two months, we will offer FIVE Series 00 XXXXLs of a particular limited drop theme that we will do a raffle sale of. This raffle sale system will be used over a limited or unlimited groupbuy because we think it makes more sense as we see XXXXL as a collectible rather than an “in-stock’ item.

We found our first raffle winners last week — congrats to all winners! All five folks will get the opportunity to buy a Silver XXXXL.

Manufacturing of these XXXXLs have began, and will be finishing fairly shortly.

We've also completed the packaging design of the XXXXLs, and our packaging vendor will begin the sample + production of those in conjunction. I’m biased but I think the XXXXL packaging looks pretty dope.

Note that only bimonthly drop participants will get the packaging. Not the 401 winners. Sorry.

📍 Manufacturing Timeline

We will share an updated manufacturing timeline very shortly.

📍 Raffles & giveaways

I (loop) know that I owe a number of you your giveaway prizes — specifically the Reddit Series 00 proto giveaway. I’m so sorry for delaying this and I will aim to ship it out within the next two weeks after my vacation ends.

Also, a number of you also have won giveaways with our respective vendors. They will ship those out once manufacturing completes, when they receive the GB shipment. Those will take a few months — that is normal :).

Regarding raffles and giveaways, our lovely giveaway bot developer xTrueDoc has implemented some cool new features to the bot including extra lives/tickets for Insider and Friends & Family roles! Insiders get up to four extra “lives” (meaning if you were eliminated in the first life, you get four more chances). As a result of this update, we have also resetted the Discord leaderboard. As you may recall (or not), how active you are in our communities (Discord, Instagram, Reddit, etc) allow us to knight you with an Insiders role. There’s a ton of benefits including these extra raffle lives :)

📍 Series 00 GB R2 when??

Many of you said that you missed the Series 00 R1 GB, and wondering if we’ll run a round 2 of the GB.

No. There will not be a Series 00 GB R2 any time soon. BUT! If you want to cop a Series 00 (or a few) and didn’t get the chance to, each of our four vendors (Mechs & Co, Desk Hero, Candy Keys, and zFrontier) will have PLENTY of extras that they will be selling after they start fulfilling the Series 00 GB.

Rest assured that if you want to grab a Series 00, you have quite a big chance to do so.

Thanks again for your support, and we’ll see you in the next update.

Cubic, Isshin, loop // esc lab

📰 May 27 2021: Huge Series 00 manufacturing update!