People in the US who order kits now (better get them soon, they're almost all gone!) have the advantage of the shipment coming from existing stock that's already manufactured, packed up, and delivered to the US from China. It's currently sitting in a warehouse somwhere in SoCal. Some have ordered and gotten them within a week! Compare that to those who pre-ordered, who had to wait for the design to be finalized, Disney Legal to sign off, China to manufacture it and ship it to the US on a slow boat, and THEN they shipped them out, a process which took nearly a year.