Quoted from dgpinball:

So many seem to get there knickers in a twist about how long the preorder has been, but in some cases it saves money, a lot actually! When I sent in my first $1K us on The Hobbit it cost me less than $1K cdn, and the next couple of payments were similar. My worst payment was only a 10% or so exchange penalty, so compared to friends of mine who have had to come up with major payments in the last few months with our $ in the tank, I've saved several hundred dollars by being in early. Of course if I knew then what I know now, I would have prepaid the whole thing, saved a ton plus free shipping!!

I contacted Jen this morning to find out approx where I was in the order queue, looks like I'm in the first 250 or so, so she said I need to let her know about the RAD-CALS by mid March. Let's hope that's accurate!!