The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Keycaps

As with the first MARVODIY entry, the company offered to send along another keycap set to use here. This time, I chose what is being referred to as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" keycap set, which appears to be a primarily forest and greenery themed set in various shades of blue and white, or so you would think based on the product page and photos there. Once again, this is clearly a re-sale of another design, with the keycap set coming in a generic cardboard box that has no banderole for branding or aesthetics. A cutout provides a sneak peek at the keycaps inside, and opening the box, we see a welcome note from MARVODIY as well as a metal wire-style keycap puller.


The photos on the product page are clearly not color-graded properly, and I was surprised to see a greener set instead. Of course, this matches greenery, plant, and flower themes better, but I am now left wondering what this has to do with The Wizard of Oz! The product description on the MARVODIY website also confirms this is the correct color scheme, with the different shades of green aiming to reflect various plant leave surfaces as they are touched by sunlight. The white contrasting with the green keycaps themselves is supposed to be a "holy light of an otherworldly paradise," which just results in more questions than answers. Regardless, be aware of the color discrepancy and note that this is otherwise a 144-keycap set in the rarely seen XDA profile, which on its own is reason enough to be interested in the set if the aesthetic appeal to you. The keycaps come individually packaged in two plastic layers with compartments to house them as seen above.


The keycaps are composed of thick PBT plastic with an average wall thickness of 1.4 mm, and employ 5-sided dye-sublimation for the legends and designs on top of the base colors. This is why we end up with contrasting legends on the base colors, which works out fairly well here. The keycaps are well built, with no visible manufacturing signs when installed, but the top surfaces are rougher than on some of the higher-end PBT keycap sets we have examined before. These are opaque keycaps and thus not optimal for those who wish to have backlighting. The novelty keycaps all focus on the plants and gardening theme, so consider this as the real theme rather than whatever inspiration The Wizard of Oz seemingly provides.