I would guess the latter.....

Got my order confirmation. It included a hot dog cart, which didn't show up at checkout. I haven't been charged for shipping and the tax was normal.

My sympathies to you guys experiencing problems. Hopefully it will all be sorted when you check in tomorrow morning.

So at this point in the night, the set is still available. At this point on May 4, the B-Wing was already sold out IIRC.

 

Seems to mean one of two things.

 

Either they sold less than 20k B-Wings on May 4th (seems doubtful?) or their IT structure has degraded since then. The site performance was way worse than May 4 seemingly?

 

hard to figure out what is going on here.

A few thoughts:

b-wing had a 5 limit max, while 41999 has a two limit max, so b-wing could easily go a lot quicker.

I have to believe there were significantly fewer B-Wings for sale. That was essentially a Lego clearance disguised as a promotion, so I would be shocked if there were more than 10k sitting in a Lego warehouse.

The B-Wing promotion was only in the US, so there were a large number of sets from the B-Wing production run that were allocated to other markets. If I had to guess, I would say 50% of the B-Wing's produced (at whatever quantity) went to the US - the other half of the production run wasn't even available for the eligible $100 discount.

UCS are limited edition runs, too. TLC doesn't divulge the quantities of these, but it wouldn't shock me if the B-Wing production run was 20k.

A lot of this is speculation, but I think it's based on plausible scenarios.

I would guess there are plenty more of these available at S@H.

I wonder if there's any non-investors buying this set?

I wonder if there's any non-investors buying this set?

Investors make up a small portion of the Lego fanbase so my guess is yes.

They'll be getting a lot of traffic and orders not just for the 41999 as the Delorean was released online today along with quite a few other sets as well.  Not surprised the site couldn't cope.

Now out of stock, will ship in 30 days? I bet there will be a few on here who will have orders not go through..

 

Quacs, I think you are way way low on B-Wing production. Of course I am guessing in that speculation. That was a good point about the 5 limit though, I forgot since I only ordered two at the time.

The DeLorean is still available and so is the Hayabusa it seems.

The site seems to be behaving okay right now. Bought a 4x4 even though it said out of stock and shipping in 30 days. I will keep my fingers crossed.

Out of stock, expected ship date 19th september

My order is at "Customer Service".
Is this regular?

My order is at "Customer Service".

Is this regular?

 

Same here

Yeah, mine too... I might just have to call them and ask to add a DeLorean to the order

On the way to work all I could think about was this

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVk25ZvTkU

I placed my order this morning expected ship 19th september, better late than never

I placed my order this morning expected ship 19th september, better late than never

 

Check again, ship date has just come down to 22nd August

Check again, ship date has just come down to 22nd August

I don't mind waiting i'm just glad i was able to order this, it wasn't on the uk site last night. could have got the standard crawler last week for

I don't mind waiting i'm just glad i was able to order this, it wasn't on the uk site last night. could have got the standard crawler last week for

I fell asleep on the couch at 10 so missed it lol

The few that are appearing on ebay are selling for

The few that are appearing on ebay are selling for

The few that are appearing on ebay are selling for

Ebay US?

 

Cant see any for sale on ebay UK

Theres one for sale in germany its over

My mistake its US

This one sold in Germany for