For those who have ordered NIB sterns in the past, is there any real benefit or disadvantages in waiting for later in the production run? The only thing I can think of is if you get an early production run is that you will have to address any service bulletins and update the code, but to me that's not a big deal. I was talking to a follow pinhead and they were firm on waiting out until games had the production bugs worked out (didn't give any specific examples). But I've talked to others who got first runs and never had any issues.

I plan to get a Premium Godzilla, it will be my first NIB, but I don't see an advantage by waiting for later production or getting in early other than getting the game as early as possible... any thoughts on this?

Just got in on a Premium, looks like Q1 2022 for me. First NIB Stern and couldn't be happier

I'm hoping that they get rid of that New York guy callouts, that is the only thing I'm not a fan of. On the bright side if they do keep it, you can always switch it to Japanese and never have to hear it.... but I do like the deadpan callouts of the main announcer.

I thought it was because of the metric system

Not sure where you got this, but it looks like it's out of production now. I would totally use this model, but it's selling around $200 USD on certain sites that have it in stock.

That's perfect! Thank you for posting the measurement... I was thinking about getting this figure to replace the stock one

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/godzilla-1989-bandai-908160

Measures 6.39" and looks like it will fit.

It looks like you have a lot of articulation when it comes to this figure, so you can manipulate the tail quite a bit. But you're right, the figure might be too long to fit in that space.

I'm on second run Premium as well. I was told Q1 by my distributor, but that was before the Pros were rolling out.

that's a nice sized hole on the box, I take it nothing was damaged?

Is there a way to disable that New York call out guy, aside from selecting Japanese audio?

Is that through Player One? I put in my order back in September 2021 and I haven't heard anything either, although Jerry did say I would be in the second run of premiums.