"RoboTech tactics delivery for overseas buyers" Topic

This is RoboTech KS communication number 166 (really). I already had my full backer value in typing alone.

As I've said in the Weekly Updates, shipping overseas is an entirely different process and when we had more concrete information we'd share it. Well here it is. We need to pack up all the orders, put them on pallets, secure the pallets and ship them off to the port. We are in the process of doing that right NOW. We expect them to leave the Palladium warehouse by Friday. After they leave the warehouse, they will be trucked out and placed on a ship and sent overseas to a fulfillment center. Once they arrive at the fulfillment center, they will be shipped out to YOU across the continent.

Projected Time-Line in Europe: They leave Palladium's warehouse on Thursday afternoon. Get put on the ship around December 15 (barring delays at port). 2-3 weeks at sea. 1-2 weeks at port. Shipping at the fulfillment center should take less than a week, and then it is however long it takes to arrive via the mail system. We anticipate most of you in Europe should get your rewards in January. Of course, ALL of this is estimated. With a little luck, things will go a week or so faster, but they could also take longer. Once the packages leave the Palladium warehouse it is pretty much out of our hands. We want you to get them as fast as possible and we are doing everything we can to make that happen. We could not do this any faster than we are.

Australia and New Zealand backers are next and will follow a similar process as above.

No mention of the rest of the world. I wonder if the fulfillment companies are given whole backer packages to send or whether they have to divide up the material. That would be worrying. I once had a shipment fulfilled by "Triangle", a group who give jobs to <don't know the acceptable term now>, and the plastic kits I got were all incomplete. Just so much junk basically.

BTW, I never watched the cartoon. Is it worth going back to?

Ahh, a fulfilment center! Sounds like such a wonderful place, a place were all ones hopes and dreams come true.

Ahh, a fulfilment center! Sounds like such a wonderful place, a place were all ones hopes and dreams come true.

They suck you in and blow you out in bubbles..

It's no worse than the usual rubbish on TV these days. Some of the dialogue makes me cringe.. I've seen better episodes of "MyLittle Pony".

But the show was "Macross" and that show rocked, so yeah, it's worth it.

Also, the models are nice once assembled and the game itself is a real hoot!

It's my understanding (based on additional updates) that Palladium is responsible for packing the backer kits and labeling the individual boxes, then the fulfillment center is just breaking down the pallets and putting stuff in the mail.

And the original show that we're looking at for this particular game is called Macross. It's an oldie and has some rather painful reminders of the early 1980s (big hair and big sunglasses, not to mention a particularly idiotic peacenik pilot character), but if you watch the subtitled version you will be a lot happier. The dub is … rough, to say the least.