I wonder where these are being made. Anything overseas could be slow to arrive.
I'm getting the Hachette subscription model of the
Andromeda (from Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers) through Hobby Link Japan. The most time- and cost-effective shipping solution I had found was to let five installments accumulate in my "virtual warehouse" and then have that batch surface-shipped. It took about a month. Got to be getting used to getting a box a week before having the next one shipped. I'm currently waiting on two boxes that should have arrived by now, and am about to place my third shipping order since port problems started. I also have Funko Pops on preorder that are way behind their target date. Not just finished goods, but any raw materials acquired from overseas are going to be impacting things.
And as for singing Denuo Novo's praises, look back to the past summer, when they were first announced. There was much suspicion and skepticism, followed, come late August, a chorus of surprised yet delighted posts from people who got the thing they had ordered -- from Anovos, late, or Denuo, early -- in several cases,
before the shipping estimate. Some of the people on the ground in Texas are probably former Anovos employees, who know the facility, who know the products, etc. Dana and Joe are still out in Cali, and things are still shaking down with
that whole, now-separate, house of cards. Splitting off this huge albatross of a license was the only thing Anovos could realistically have done, even though I admit I didn't anticipate this method. The Aliens license is also already going through a different subsidiary. We're just still in limbo with Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Ghostbusters.
I have been in contact with people at both ends, and trust them to continue getting things sorted out. I can't say much without getting people in trouble, but I am still a couple grand into both entities collectively. If I had lost all faith, based on what I have been told, I would've cut my losses long since.
