![]() With the initial GeekHack thread starting on December 1st of 2018, these "New Panda" Linear Switches were aimed at being the first reattempt to create Invyr Pandas since the failed Invyr Panda V2, though without the help of Invyr nor 27. In all transparency, I truly need to conduct a write-up regarding the drama surrounding SuperVan and the GSUS Pandas as there is a very solid writeup worth of drama surrounding when these switches initially went on sale. These went on sale roughly around the Christmas 2019 season and shipped around late January to early February 2020. According to conversations with Invyr, these switches feature a retooling as compared to the Invyr Panda V1s, but do not feature different material. The newest iteration of the Invyr Pandas, Invyr Panda V3s are Drop's attempt to cash in on the molds they bought from Invyr and 27 and the fame of these switches. Contrary to what is led to be believed by the Invyr V2 paragraph, not all pieces of the molds for the original Invyr Pandas were supposedly destroyed. ![]() ![]() ** Only a handful of people have these so there is near certainty that if you are reading this, you do not have these. (This knowledge has been garnered through conversations with both u/skiwithpete as well as Invyr. However, the mold was ultimately destroyed for some unknown reason during prototyping and the plan for these switches were scrapped. This does explain why 1up has so many BSUN browns to the day. In order to improve upon the Invyr V1 pieces, the tops were originally going to be opaque, BSUN brown tops with the bottoms retooled. Originally partnering with 1upkeyboards in order to do this sale, 27 and Invyr had samples sent to u/skiwithpete and 1up though they were rejected due to mold issues. Due to the realtive success of the Invyr Pandas out of the gate as well as the advent of the Holy Panda, there was a decently high demand for further Invyr Pandas in the future. The Halo Clear stemmed version, pictured left, is often referred to as a 'Clear Minded' Panda while the Halo True stemmed version, pictured right, is referred to as a 'Holy Panda'. Sometime later, though, these switches rose in popularity to near astronimcal levels with the creation of the 'Holy Panda', which is a frankenswitch that consists of taking the stem from either a Halo True or Halo Clear switch and placing it into the Invyr Panda housing. The original aim of this project, as per the original groupbuy thread on GeekHack was to "create the smoothest possible factory linear switch." However, these switches were nearly universally panned as not being nearly as good as they were advertised. These started as a collaboration between zisb and 27, also known as Invyr and Mech27, respectively. Debuting in October of 2016, these are the original Panda linear switch to hit the market.
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