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It’s an ongoing issue with Agora. I’ve given them until the end of the month to resolve it, so it wouldn’t be fair of me to go into details before then, apart from to say that it’s dragged on WAY too long. I’m not sure we should read too much into the free shipping offer from Fanhome. It could be as simple as they need to free up warehouse space, so are offering a small sweetener if people sub.

Opposite boat for me. It's becoming very likely that I won't be using Agora again once my current sub is complete 😞 And I'm not sure if anything should be read into this, but I received an email from Fanhome this morning offering me free shipping on my first two packages if I subscribe to the Robocop build.

Spookily enough, perhaps 5 minutes after I'd posted this, I got a notification on my phone saying Royal Mail had made a delivery at my house. Went home for lunch and sitting in my shed was the first Batmobile pack! So, look as though the delays mentioned aren't (currently) anything like as bad as feared.

I doubt they'd have taken on so many models if they felt they couldn't cope 🙂 And I'm sure they're doing everything they can to sort out the shipping issues. The last thing they're going to want is people cancelling at this stage, given that the first Batmobile pack is practically free, so they're making a loss on it at this point.

It's been a long time (I subbed to the original Deagistini R2 run) since I built this, but I do seem to remember some of the last shipments being delayayed by several weeks. Really felt like they were making it up as they went along 😛 It's a great model though, IMO, and well worth the inconvenience of a few delays.

Yeah, I received that email too. Hardly a good start to my Fanhome experience, but it's not exactly their fault. *edit* and at least they've bothered to let us know. Modelspace were utterly woefull at passing on information about delays.

That looks seriously cool! I loved Thunderbirds when I was a kid 🙂

Oh, one thing I'm not keen on with the Batmobile is the way they've built automatic binder purchases into the build. But I checked before subbing - you can email and cancel the binders if you don't want them (which I don't). So once my first set of parts arrive, I'll be cancelling the binders! If anyone else doesn't want the binders, just drop Fanhome an email and let them know.

Yeah, I'm really tempted by ET. It looks very realistic! I'm already subbed to the DB5 as well as the Batmobile though - can't afford three concurent subs, so ET will be on hold for a while.

I've just seen the E.T. model on Fanhome and I have to say, it does look very very good. I'm tempted! Despite having had a few bad experiences (see above) with Modelspace/Deagostini, I couldn't resist signing up for the Batmobile. It's long been at the top of my wishlist (along with the Bond DB5!). If the Batmobile goes well (they've just taken the first payment), I might cave and build E.T. too 🙂 *edit* reading back through the thread, I'd apparently already seen the E.T. Model. I guess my memory's going 😛 Don't remember that at all!

If this build follows the pattern of others, there won't be an option to buy the whole kit until the end (or near the end) of the current run. (I'm still waiting for pack three as well 😛 )

It actually arrived at lunchtime today. I just hadn't received any info that it had been despatched 🙂 Not that I'm in any hurry. I don't plan on starting the build until I have most, if not all of the packs.

You've received pack two? I haven't even had a notification that mine has been despatched yet... 😞

I gave up on Modelspace/Deagostini/Fanhome after the X-wing, but they certainly used to offer big price cuts on full kits. I picked up the RB7 racer (really must get round to finishing that some time!) for about 40% of the RRP a number of years ago. Of course, you then play the lottery of if/when it will arrive and how many parts will be missing...

My take is that I much prefer printed instructions. If you smear a bit of oil or glue on a printed page by accident, it doesn't really matter. Another story if it's a computer/tablet/phone screen! I don't understand why they're not included, TBH. I work in the print industry and I know how little extra it'd cost to bulk print the directions. I'm lucky though, in that we have a couple of very fast laser printers in the office, so I can easily print them off from the PDFS 🙂