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Perhaps they aren't dealing with the right distributor?

Mine has had them.available as an ordering option for a long time now.

even my flgs which carries virtually no battletech has both boxes in the system as well

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I pre-ordered both from third party sellers on Amazon.  One estimated a March delivery for the Beginner set, and the other an April delivery for the regular set.
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Well ain't this interesting. My LGS has added Beginner Box and updated the full box's estimated release date to Jan 23rd this month. Wonder if they just slapped that date because it is the nominal street date Cubby posted a month ago, or if they're actually expecting them to be available then. Previously their date listings have been accurate so maybe....

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What you may be seeing is normal lead time updates. Fans' zeal sometimes gets in the way of "Oh, that's how it normally works". As Cubby said, he was being upfront about progress without actually committing to a date.
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It's a funny thing, y'know? There has been progress since I started keeping close tabs on the production and shipping of these in late September or October. I can see things moving, I believe the fulfillment center reps in what they tell me.

But to most people, "progress" is only defined (justifiably) as "give me a date I can for-sure buy it." And trying to pin that down has been a rub all along.

Anyway. January 23, street date and online at CGL store.
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Yeah, that's all that matters to us as customers, if you got the goods or not. My only real concern is when I can get them so that I don't see them all disappear before I get ahold of some. My second concern is how soon I can get them, paint them up, and run demos.

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Just got a notice that my Amazon pre-order of the Beginner box has shipped.  Though it’s apparently being sent via UrbanMech, with a delivery date of March 5 (est.)
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For those of you waiting for this...

I just bought the beginner box, at my flgs, in Canada. Just out of the shipping box.

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Just got a notice that my Amazon pre-order of the Beginner box has shipped.  Though it’s apparently being sent via UrbanMech, with a delivery date of March 5 (est.)

Amazon's delivery estimates always err on the safe side.  I ordered a calendar just before Christmas, it arrived last week, the estimated delivery date was Monday of next week, and stayed there until they changed the status to delivered.
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For those of you waiting for this...

I just bought the beginner box, at my flgs, in Canada. Just out of the shipping box.

I guess my question is how have you got it and your in Canada, but I am in Washington state and still cannot get it.
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I guess my question is how have you got it and your in Canada, but I am in Washington state and still cannot get it.

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I guess my question is how have you got it and your in Canada, but I am in Washington state and still cannot get it.

Well, my local game store had Good news and bad news for me (same greater metropolitan area as Roundtop), he went to his distributor in the AM on Friday AM and they had the Beginers Box set, they just couldn't release any to him yet as they had yet to be counted/inventoried etc.

So, for my store, he won;t be there for another week, and I'm not dying yet (I already picked up one of Each at genCon, so I can wait).
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Ok, so after looking at all the contents in close detail...

The molds are better than the first batch at gen con (no flashing, no misaligned molds, no excess material.) Detail is great

The griffin was perfect, and facing a hex side properly. The wolverine had been pushed a bit forward in the box, so was tipping forward. I used the hot water trick to adjust him back to normal, and all is good.
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Hot water… are these resin and not polystyrene?

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It works on a lot of plastics, too

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High quality hard plastics, similar to GW stuff.


In case people don't know what the trick is, here is what I did (You will need tweezers/pliers, paper towel, two small-medium bowls, water):

WARNING: THIS INVOLVED BOILING HOT WATER. IF YOU ARE A CHILD, PARENTAL SUPERVISION IS ADVISED. IF YOU ARE A JADE FALCON, CONSULT YOUR NEAREST GHOST BEAR.

1) Boil water in a kettle (or microwave, but I prefer kettle)
2) Pour about 1-2" of boiling water into a small bowl
3) Get a 2nd bowl and add 1-2" of cold water (optional add ice)
4) holding the figure, place the part that is bent (or you want to bend) into the hot water for about 10-15s
5) Pull out, gently move to proper position (if it is too hot, or if needed, use pliers)
6) Repeat 4-5 as needed until it looks right.
7) Place figure in cold water, to cool down the hot parts.

This will lock in the plastic again after about 20 seconds.


For my wolverine, the hips had been pushed forward, so I heated the legs and hip, then moved it back, shifted the feet/ankle a bit, and using the pliers, adjusted the left knee outwards slightly.

This requires almost no pressure, it is highly malleable when doing this.
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I think that's actually the expected result.

I was at a game store Saturday that apparently had the beginner box in last week, though they were sold out before I arrived.
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Zero surprise there... those things are going to go like hot cakes... :)

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I was just surprised to find that they'd even had them.
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So, is this stuff on the CGL store?  I can't find the boxes or the shirts on store.catalystgamelabs.com.  I don't see it on the Amazon storefront that claims to be Catalyst, either.

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My local store (CT) got the Beginner Box a couple days ago: two garunteed sold out of four (?): I've got one from GenCon :)


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So you didn’t hear it from me but if you follow the links from the product pages, you can order the boxes RIGHT NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-a-game-of-armored-combat
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-beginner-box

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Yes, my fault for not posting in this thread as well - both box sets are NOW LIVE on the CGL store.
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So you didn’t hear it from me but if you follow the links from the product pages, you can order the boxes RIGHT NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-a-game-of-armored-combat
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-beginner-box

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So you didn’t hear it from me but if you follow the links from the product pages, you can order the boxes RIGHT NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-a-game-of-armored-combat
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-beginner-box

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