I was ready to pounce on this and the two new pre-orders. I reminded myself last night and when I woke this morning. When that 1pm ET (10am Pacific where I'm at) hit... I forgot.  But 2 hours later when I was reminded of the pre-orders after seeing related threads here, I was able to order without a problem. <relief> The world is (almost) OK again.

Hasbro needs to smooth out their real person verification setup. Like many, I had to jump back to the main page and redo the buying steps. It was a little hairy for a while, thinking an item (or all) would be snagged out of my cart before I could pay. I genuinely appreciate their attempt at purchasing fairness, though.

Not so with most of their buying steps. It was clunky at first, but after months with no improvements, I would classify it as LAME.

Got the same e-mail.  It will be interesting to see how they've been improved from the previous versions.

Just having a less bendy plastic would be enough for me.

My guess is once these are released there will be more available that people can order, including at ShopDisney.

My credit card got charged for the two sets I ordered...  guess they must be shipping soon?

Sure enough, got the 'Your order has left the building!' email from Pulse just now.

I finally placed a preorder for this.  I missed the first opportunity to order it, and had actually cleared out almost all of my old POTF2 Banthas over the past 18 months.  Glad to secure a preorder finally!