Yeah, I sent it to him too once I got it. No big deal either way. I've got to remind myself not to get too worked up over hart-to-find star wars toys/statues.
If you believe some of the comments at RS this thing might not be such a big deal after all... things like this:
"I think it will be easy to pick up Gree and Malak at C4 itself...I heard they only sold 12,000 tickets...SDCC which gets over 100,000 was still easy enough for the Shockie... "