EE Exclusive Astromech 5-Packs

[JesseVader08]

Late breaking news from Hasbro!  EE Astromech sets.

Way to be on top of things Hasbro. 

[Rob]

I'm glad Hasbro annouced these things, despite my pre-order, I was waiting until it became official before I believed in their existence.

Exciting!

[CloneF13Y35]

does anyone know just when these little guys are actually gonna ship? I bought both sets for my son and I was just wondering  how true "expected to ship in Jan" REALLY is??
we're really looking forward to them.

[Scott]

In the latest EE news it does say this month

[Darth_Anton]

I got the same notice, it basically said they're on the way.

[Jeff]

does anyone know just when these little guys are actually gonna ship?

I sent along an e-mail to our contact at EE, and here is what they had to say.:

Hello Jeff,

Thank you for your e-mail.  Since these are being made exclusively for
us, and we ourselves just received the prototypes in December, and
because all of our dates are ESTIMATED, it may be pushed back again,
but we are still expecting to receive them sometime this month.


So, they are still on track for the end of the month (January), but you know how that goes... 

[CloneF13Y35]

thanks for the info jeff, I haven't bought anything as a pre-order before so I'm a little cautious. I'm still only sorta "comfortable" buying stuff on ebay so this buying a pre-order item online business is new to me. I can't wait for them, they look very cool! Oh and my son will like them too 

[Jeff]

I checked my pre-order this afternoon and lo and behold  -

Estimated Arrival: February 2006

So much for the info from the e-mail and newsletters...  looks like another delay. 

[Darth Broem]

Oh well at least they let you know.  I still don't have my Early Bird set yet.  Probably wont' get it either.

[Stim]

I just got notification that my Astromech sets are ready to be picked up...I'll be grabbing them tomorrow morning, I think.

[Jeff]

I just got notification that my Astromech sets are ready to be picked up...I'll be grabbing them tomorrow morning, I think.

So, first they say January.... then a week later they reset all the pre-orders to read February... then 1 day later they start shipping them?   

I guess they got the January shipment in, but maybe it's not enough to cover all the pre-orders?

[ruiner]

They probably don't have enough in stock to fill your eight case order Jeff!

 

[Jeff]

They probably don't have enough in stock to fill your eight case order Jeff!

Hey, it was only four cases that I ended up ordering... 

And, GH updated with this nifty picture today:

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Man, I can't wait to do that with all my little Astromechs when those sets finally get here (and on another note - boy will it ever be nice to swap the Saga R5-D4 for that PotF2 monstrosity ).

[Brian]

Yeah, that picture definitely tempted me to order some of these too.  I haven't so far because of funds and I wasn't sure I could justify the price...but with brick and mortar stores having a price hike and just seeing how cool they look all together like that, it is getting more tempting.

[Jim]

My sets have shipped as well