AND FINALLY...

The next urgent task is getting games available for Origins pick up, as promised  in the last update. 

If you'd like to pick up your game at Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, send me an email with your email, backer username, and your name. Make the subject line "Origins Pickup". Jeremiah.Lee@CambridgeGames.com

If you're going to have a friend pick it up, let me know their full name, in the email you send.

People that paid for advanced shipment will get theirs before Origins. Other backers can sign up to pick it up at Origins. We'll make sure we get enough for every backer intending to go to Origins, not first-come first-served.

I expect we will have all the backer extras for people picking up their games at Origins.

Best,
Jeremiah

Some glorious news, we're excited to share.

1) Plane for advanced shipping orders leaves next week.
2) Boat for regular shipping leaves next week (though they've let us know that it's possible that it'll leave some days later, pending the boat filling up).

The games have been printed, and this is the earliest we could get the arrangements together for shipment out of China.

3) Advanced shipping orders are planned to arrive in May.
4) We will have copies to give to backers going to Origins Game Fair (May 30-June 3, 2012) will be able to pick up their copies. We'll also have a copy to demo. We will not have any available for sale.

5) Pending boat vs. ocean, and then customs, we expect games to be arriving at your doors in the summer.

Best,

Jeremiah

Things at the 'factory' have really taken off. The ship containing Barons and Pala arrived from China, went through customs, and was dropped onto the tables at the CGF headquarters, ready to be assembled. If you haven't taken the time to check out Barons, you should. There's a lot of great fun to be found in Barons, especially for you, since you like GtR so much. This game had a big impact with a limited release, and with the game landing on local game store shelves already, we know it'll find a lot of tabletops really soon.

Here's a view of the factory, getting chips ready to go into Pala.

Ed is in Shanghai checking out the final processes, and to getting ready to get the games onto the ships headed for you. It's really exciting to be at this point!

You asked for pictures of some of the bonus items, so here they are:

* The Black Box version of the Republic cards

* The GtR IV version of the Promo cards

* The GtR Badge!

The GtR Black Box T-Shirt

Plato 3000

The game is coming with your copy of GtR, fine-upstanding-GtR-Kickstarter-supporter. There have been some questions about this, and I just wanted to make it clear. We're giving you a copy of Plato 3000 (formerly Utopian Rummy on BGG), because we think you're special, we think you'll like it, and we messed up on some earlier things and we'd like to make it up to you.

Best,

Jeremiah Lee

Commercial Director, North America

Cambridge Games Factory