They charge you when the item is available.I can't remember does HLJ make you pay up front or when the item becomes available?
Had a chance to pick these up and passed. They take up way too much space. Total fail on their part for not making them 1/1 scale.
I'm not 100% certain, but just eyeballing from the "Making of holochess for Star Wars: The Force Awakens" video these look to be 1/1 scale for the new figures that were made for that. So in that sense I believe they are in fact 'studio scale'...
Dan