Not sure if anyone here still cares, but the speculation and reporting is that Gentle Giant has been shuttered as part of Diamond being closed.  I don't think there's official word, but they seem to have gone silent and there are a few articles on collecting sites saying that's the expectation.

The endcap had a start/set date of 4/27, which coincides with the original expected date for this set.

Like Nick said, I know my local Targets have had the endcap, with an empty shelf meant for this set, since then -

Fair enough, I hadn't seen that at the small Targets at all... they haven't had any SW stuff in 6 months, maybe a year.  I thought this end cap was new at this store, but now I have to admit I'm not 100% sure on that.

In Chicago we have a bunch of the little half sized targets and I pop into them at lunch sometimes… the one I went into today has a whole back end cap they’re settings up for Star Wars and it had a whole shelf for this set.  They don’t have any, but I take this to mean they’re expecting them. 

So I’m not going to panic buy one of these…

Today's email says HAS LEFT THE BUILDING.

Which is at least clear messaging. 

Thanks Jeff.

Ordered.

I looked because I was curious… $200 to $250 on eBay right now.  What a little disaster Target has created. 

Ah okay.  I’m in Chicago so you’d think I have roughly the same regional situation… if it’s all for shipping I suppose it’s all the same. 

I haven’t had any luck.  I check it whenever it crosses my mind and haven’t seen any options to buy yet.  I’m not chasing this to that level.  I’m assuming that they produced them in numbers that will make them available… hopefully.