Which delivery date is most likely for Robotech?

[bielmic]

Just checking to see how much confidence there is in the current crop of contradictory delivery dates amongst the variety of fans with different levels of trust and faith in Palladium. What date in the poll do you think you'll receive your wave 1 miniatures by? Feel free to post why you chose the answer you did in a post below as well. Since my last poll had a significant amount of respondents fail to understand the poll question correctly, the question is about the date you think the majority of backers will receive the miniatures in their hands.

[Jerell]

Late 2014. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. I've never had a high regard for getting stuff from China on time anyway. Would be delighted to be proven wrong however.

Otherwise it's like working with explosives, when in doubt add '+P' for plenty.

[Seto Kaiba]

I am a pessimist, so I said "even later".

Why?

Because this way I either get the satisfaction of being right, or I get to be pleasantly surprised when things don't turn out as bad as I'd thought they would. Pessimism's very liberating that way.

[bielmic]

I went with late 2014. While I think they're more likely aiming for Gencon in their characteristicly unrealistic way, I don't think anyone but a few "select" backers who are fan friends and/or freelancers chosen for their steadfast optimism when faced with the failures to date of the campaign will receive them. I don't have any faith in any significant portion of backers getting their stuff by Gencon but I do think there is still a chance that palladium will air freight over a few hundred boxes to sell at full price at the con. That way they can make some money off of ebay scalpers and those who didn't pledge while those of us who pledged over a year earlier will still be waiting. I just hope that palladium learned something from this mess but I'm not holding my breath seeing as how nothing was learned between NG1 and 2 and that is their bread and butter that they messed up as well. The only reason I didn't pick 2015 is because they've finally started showing something for their effort instead of just telling us how super duper double plus awesome it is.

[Forar]

As the optimist of the group, I suspect it'll be kind of August/Gencon.

In that they'll have them for sale at Gencon, and rely on the very thin plausible deniability that "we got as many out into the mail system as possible before we left!", even if it's one package.

Let's just say that even with that answer, I won't be shocked if I don't actually have my box in hand by September or October.

Edit: though you're right, it is pretty super double plus awesome.

[Kryptt]

I voted later because even if wave one shows up this year I don't expect PB to complete delivery of all the models till 2015 or after. It seems like no one voted for choice one. Even the fan friends know it's a fallacy to think PB will deliver when they say they will.