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Drop + Bees.Keys DCD Hundred Acres Keycap Set

Name: Drop + Bees.Keys DCD Hundred Acres Keycap Set
Brand: Drop + Bees.Keys
SKU: drop-bees-keys-dcd-hundred-acres-keycap-set
Price: 79 USD
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Rating: 5 (7 reviews)

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poopedmypants

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Oct 13, 2024

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Pooh so good

pooh themed caps. whats not to like. Good quality and good price for a nice themed set.

Recommends this product? Yes

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Aherrerau

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Oct 12, 2024

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Throwback to my younger years

Glad Disney lost its copyright that allows these keysets to drop. Can’t wait for further collabs like this. very thocky from the thick construction, I honestly prefer dcd for deep sound than the dcx.

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DillPickle19

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Oct 7, 2024

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Adorable. Great quality. Enjoying my first DCD caps.

Winnie the Pooh has always been near and dear to my heart, so when this keycap set was announced, I knew I had to get my hands on it. Then I saw the Rainy75 in "Red Velvet" and I knew I had to pair the two. Unbelievably happy with this build. Currently sitting at my (seldom used) home office desk paired with one of the Hundred Acres desk mats. This board may entice me to do more work at home.

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Mivey

Oct 3, 2024

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Great keycaps, with great support for ISO layouts

My first "DCD" keycaps from Drop and I hope the product run (in particular of the international kit) is a great success. The quality of the keycaps and the dye sub is sublime. In particular impressed of the reverse dye sub on the "Oh Bother" novelty ESC keycap. Really happy about these keycaps from Drop.

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SurgeGeorgee

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Oct 2, 2024

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Looks great and feels high quality.

No problems with any of these caps. Overall a great product.

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spookeycaps

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Aug 18, 2024

The Magic of the Hundred Acre Wood on Your Desk

I was fortunate enough to get a set pre-production set of the DCD Hundred Acres keycaps that I have been looking forward to for a long time! Beesley and Cthalupa really hit it out of the park designing this set because they really give that cozy nostalgic vibe. When i finally received my off-white Rainy75, these keycaps were the perfect match.

The font choice on this sets really stands out because it's so perfect for the theme and truly unique compared to nearly every other set. Even with the cute custom font, the dye sub legends are still sharp and crisp. The novelties really make the set, and the watercolor-style mods turned out phenomenal on the beige keycaps. The nov keycaps tell a little two-part story for each of the characters.

This is my first time trying Drop DCD keycaps and, as a thick PBT enjoyer, I have been looking forward to it. The keycaps themselves feel great, very solid and as thick as any other Shenpo or XMI sets that I own. The texture is comparable to XMI or Shenpo, which is typically much smoother than more granular ABS sets. I also always appreciate the little extra detail of the row-markers engraved on the inside of the keycaps. The sound is deep and full like you might expect from high quality dye-sub PBT. The kitting in the original base kit is fantastic, and because it's DCD they were also able to offer up an international kit as well which I'm sure a lot of people are happy about!

For the price, you really can't do much better for thick, high-quality, dye-sub PBT, so they're an absolute steal at the preorder price. I am also a Drop Keyboard Club member, so when paired with a DKC coupon, the price is even cheaper than most XMI/Shenpo/JCS sets, making it a must-buy for me when it has such a perfect design choice. Looking forward to trying out more DCD keycaps and picking up more Bees.Keys designs!

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Numad1

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Aug 20, 2024

spookeycapsThank you for the butt pics. :Peepogil:

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Numad1

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Jul 29, 2024

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Childhood Nostalgia Reborn

TL;DR: If you can buy the keycaps at a discount (whether it be pre-order pricing or some other deal), or use a Drop Keyboard Club coupon on the retail price (or even on the pre-order pricing), this is an easy recommendation for someone that likes Winnie-the-Pooh, PBT dye-sub, and compares favorably to JCStudio, XMI, and similarly-priced PBT dye-sub keycaps. Disclaimer: I am part of a Drop program where I occasionally receive items to keep and review for free. However, I turn around and buy the same items with my own money to give away. For DCD Hundred Acres, I was sent one base, one novelty, and one international kit. Keep in mind that these were samples/pre-production units. I bought two more sets of the base, novelty, and international kit AND two of each variant (3) of the desk mats (did not receive the desk mats for free/for review). I will continue to purchase things with my own money when I get them for free for review to give away regardless of whether I like the item(s) or not. I was also given zero input on this review. This means that all my thoughts are my own. I didn't have to forward this review to someone to read prior, I wasn't given an agenda or a checklist of things to cover, or anything even remotely close to being told to say this or that (or to avoid saying anything negative about the keycap sets themselves). And remember, these kits that I reviewed are pre-production samples. While the design itself probably won’t change, keep in mind that there may be small changes if some issue is caught prior to the release of the production units. However, the fact that the quality of the keycaps themselves are already this good gives me zero pause in recommending these, and I’m looking forward to getting my production units in a few months to give away! I caught one issue with the sublegend of one of the international kit keycaps and have forwarded that info to Drop, but nothing else that I saw as a QC issue.

Preface: I will be writing this review and looking at DCD Hundred Acres (abbreviated to DCD HA going forward) from two viewpoints. The first is from someone who may not consider themselves as part of the keyboard hobby, or someone that doesn’t necessarily know/care about specific details regarding the keycaps other than how they look, the price, and overall quality. The second viewpoint will be from someone that considers themselves a keyboard enthusiast, or someone who wants to know more about the keycaps, whether they be how they compare to other similarly-priced and specced dye-sub keycaps, sound, feel, legending, and so on. No matter what though, remember… DON’T put yourself in a bad financial situation in order to purchase these keycaps, or anything keyboard-related in general! Please do not have FOMO, and remember that this hobby is largely luxury-based. Yes, some keycaps and/or keyboards may be a necessity due to cognitive or visual impairments, or due to ergonomic reasons, but the majority of us buy and enjoy keyboards and keycaps not because we need them, but because it’s a fun hobby! It’s a want and not a need. Also, please remember that this hobby is extremely subjective. What I may like may not be what you like, and that’s just fine! Enjoy the hobby as you see fit, and don’t feel bad if you like something that someone else does not, or if you don’t like something that someone else does. With all that being said, let’s get on with the review!

Review: “I want to watch Winnie-the-Pooh!” These are words that regularly came out of my mouth growing up at the end of the 80s. Pooh hanging out with Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and the gang always appealed to me as a kid, because it was similar to my childhood! Coming home from school, excitedly running around my neighborhood to meet up and play with the other kids my age, and spending the afternoon just having fun until the sun started to set was basically what Pooh and his friends did on most of the episodes of the WInnie-the-Pooh TV series that my parents had VHS tapes of. From the show itself, to being read bedtime stories from the different books, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood were synonymous to some of the best days of my life, which is why I was hit with a wave of nostalgia when I found out that Beesley and Cthalupa (the designers behind DCD HA) were working with Drop to realize the project. While they originally planned on running the project through a different vendor (see the Geekhack post by Beesley that gives an overall summary of both the project and the reason that Drop stepped in below), the keyboard community and I are very grateful that the sets and desk mats would be sold by Drop. https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=119267.0

Drop Keyboard Club (DKC) and Pricing: A huge benefit of keyboard-related items being sold on Drop is the ability to use a Drop Keyboard Club Coupon on said items. Especially during the times where the pricing of the items are discounted due to various reasons, using a DKC coupon on top of that pricing is like the icing on a cake.

Of course, it’s never required, but it definitely pays for itself as long as you use it a minimum of two times per year. I’ve paid for it in the past and continue to pay for it, but please know this is never a requirement. I only bring it up, because it’s a fantastic way to lower the price of DCD HA, be it the pre-order price or the retail price. As of writing this review on July 29th, 2024, the pre-order price is $49 for the base kit, $29 for the international kit, and $25 for the novelties kit. Those prices without a DKC coupon are fantastic and comparable to keycap sets like XMI and JCS, but with a DKC coupon? It’s a great deal in my opinion.

Would I buy these kits at retail pricing, either as someone who’s a keyboard enthusiast or someone that isn’t necessarily as addicted to the hobby? Not necessarily, because of the fact that we still are in the pre-order pricing window of the sets as well as due to being a DKC member, I'll always be able to take 30% off of the kits at minimum. The relative ease of being able to get the price down with a DKC, and the fact that the sets are currently discounted makes them a great option for PBT dye-sub that isn’t CRP, and makes retail pricing not that much of an issue if you have a DKC membership. It's just that, personally, without any sort of discounts or sales, I wouldn't buy PBT dye-sub for retail pricing (base kit specifically, I definitely would for the novelties since I love them, and the international kit if those were keycaps that I required). But that's because $79 for a base kit of PBT dye-sub is a tad too high for me. Regardless of it being DCD, XMI, JCS, or anything short of CRP nowadays. Again, just my personal opinion. Nothing against DCD in general. And, again, it's relatively easy to take advantage of cheaper pricing with sales and/or DKC coupons. Feel: For both viewpoints (enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts), this category is pretty easy to cover. Simply put, the keycaps feel smooth. Compared to CRP, JCS, and XMI, the feel is basically indistinguishable underneath your fingers. They aren’t slippery by any imagination (or at least, when typing, my fingers never slipped), and feel great to the touch. Sound: I remember at the beginning of my custom keyboard journey back in 2016, I didn’t really know much about keycaps and sound. Since there are so many other factors to sound itself (switches, keyboard plate, keyboard case, desk setup), buying keycaps to achieve a specific sound was not something I considered. Nowadays? I understand that the material, profile, and thickness of keycaps do affect sound, and in terms of other PBT dye-sub cherry profile keycaps, DCD HA sounds similar. I’d encourage anyone that's interested to click on the KBCompare link below to try and see if you can differentiate which keycaps are XMI, JCS, CRP, and DCD! You can scramble and hide the titles of each audio snippet to make it even more difficult.To me, DCD sounds a tad higher pitched than JCS and XMI, but it’s nothing that I’d honestly pick up on if I wasn’t focusing. https://kbcompare.com/test/W6q6M7

Aesthetics/Appearance/Look: I left this category for the end, as it’s the one with the most amount of information. For someone that isn’t as deep down the rabbit hole as a keyboard enthusiast, you probably will either like the look of DCD HA, or, you don’t! And that’s totally fine. I remember back in 2016, all I cared about was price, and aesthetics when it came to keycaps. If it was a reasonable price, and I liked how they looked, that was good enough for me. Of course, granted that the keycaps weren’t brittle or aren’t prone to breaking off, but I’ve rarely experienced that in the last 8 years of being in this hobby. For someone that cares about consistency when it comes to legend (and sublegend) placement and the thickness of the font (the Q key being the same boldness as the M key for example), the following may be interesting to read. Before I get to that part of the review, however, just know that DCD HA’s font was specifically chosen to be whimsical and fun. The font may not be as bold as CRP, XMI, or JCS, but that was a design choice and not indicative of DCD having anemic legending at all. I have a set of DCD Bird Jungle, and the boldness of the legends and sublegends are excellent. I took caliper measurements as well as pictures under a digital microscope just to see if I could tell the difference between DCD HA, CRP round 6, XMI, and JCS. Instead of flooding this page with 50 pictures, I’ve included an imgur link with the caliper measurements and the keycaps under a digital microscope. https://imgur.com/gallery/dcd-hundred-acres-geekhack-review-pictures-AxXYzS0

From left To right, DCD HA, JCS Arabic, CRP R6, XMI Vintage. For the controls on the right, going from top to bottom, DCD HA, JCS Arabic, CRP R6, XMI Vintage. Again, when it comes to keycap thickness, DCD compares favorably to XMI and JCS, which are its competitors in that price range. In terms of boldness, because the font is different from the standard font of XMI, JCS, and XMI, DCD HA isn’t as bold, but again, it’s a design choice. I saw no inaccuracies when it came to legend (or sublegend) placement, nothing out of the ordinary when it came to dye bleeding, or anything that would’ve made me say that DCD HA looks worse than the other three, specifically when compared to its competitors in the same price range (JCS and XMI keycaps).

Miscellaneous/Closing: I may sound like a broken record here, but DCD Hundred Acres at pre-order pricing, or retail with a DKC coupon (or even pre-order pricing with a DKC coupon) is an easy recommendation, especially if someone likes the world of Winnie-the-Pooh and Hundred acres. The novelties are cute, the keycaps overall are well-designed, and the layout compatibility with all three kits is on point. When compared to a JCS or XMI keycap set, I have zero issues recommending DCD. This keycap set brought me back to when I was a kid, and I relived many happy memories of watching Winnie-the-Pooh as I installed these keycaps on the Muramasa (the long keyboard that you’ve seen in the pictures). I think Beesley, Cthalupa, and Drop are a fantastic partnership, and I’m very thankful to HoffmanMyster for the opportunity to review this keycap set and Drop in general for salvaging the project! I appreciate you all, much love, and I’ll leave you with something that I’ve always said in all my YouTube videos and longform reviews - This hobby is preference based. If it fits your budget, won’t put you in a bad financial situation, and you like the item, that’s all that matters! It’s your opinion that counts, and never feel like you should pretend to like or dislike something if those aren’t your true feelings. If you’re a fan of Winnie-the-Pooh, PBT dye-sub, are able to grab the sets (and desk mats) at pre-order pricing (or retail with a DKC coupon, or pre-order with a DKC coupon), and come in expecting something similar to JCS or XMI, DCD Hundred Acres is a fantastic option. But, remember, don’t have FOMO, and always remember to stay financially healthy! Pre-Production Samples Base Kit (part 1):