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Mine is now received and started playing it last night but could not finish the first scenario and sorting in one night. Now we can dive into this game tonight.

As promised, I just got my shipping notice. Should be about a week yet. BC, Canada. Gameplay All-In.

It was to start this week from the update. We still have a few hours to hopefully see some movement this week. Otherwise, I would expect next week for sure.

Thought it would be nice to have one topic regarding the Kickstarter arriving at our doors. I live in Canada and it sounds like they should start shipping any day now. I have not been this excited for a board game in a few years. I loved 7th Continent and the few things that got annoying seem to have been addressed such as breaking away from the story to constantly worry about your food (go hunt, cook, etc). Will let you know when I get my shipping notice.

Looks like my prediction was fairly accurate for the majority of Canadians as it seems like a lot of people are posting this week they have received their copy. Mine personally came in the mail today (April 19th).

It sounds like there are but a few stragglers as S&L are saying the last of them will be going out in the next day or so. The grapevine says it is those who ordered the big lot of sleeves as there was some shipping issue with those.

Hope everyone who received the game in Wave #1 gets their copy soon and you enjoy the game. See you for Wave #2 this fall/winter. :)

One last point of interest. The game originally arrived in Vancouver on March 8th. Yes, there was customs to get through,etc but it would take exactly 42 days/6 weeks (April 18th) to arrive in the distribution centre for FedEx in Vancouver again. Just a point of how much time it takes to cross this big country twice. I really hope SP figures it out for Wave #2 and gets a distributor in Vancouver. There are several of them, the most popular being Starlit Citadel. As a consumer I've had great service from the personally and with other Kickstarters but I have no idea what they are like from SP side of the coin.

We have some updated news. Snakes & Lattes (S&L) have just received the shipment (YEAH!). Time to glean some new information and make new shipping expectations for Canada.

I still think give S&L the rest of this week to get things inventoried, organized, etc. From there, the US distributors have requested 3-4 weeks to ship around 9,300 packages they have received (it takes time). Based on the Kickstarter community page, there were just over 16,000 US backers. Of course, some of those backers are returning customers and some delayed until the Wave 2. So it sounds like roughly 60% of people are Wave 1 (9,300/16,000 rounded in favour of the shipper). So, if Canada shows 3,000 backers, if we assume similar stats to our US counterparts, S&L has around 1,800 units to ship. If the US needs 4 weeks (let's assume the worst to limit our expectations) to ship 9,300 units, that means they are shipping 2,325 per week. So, S&L should be able to get the 1,800 out in about a week. That is a lot of estimates as we are also assuming S&L has the same capacity but that also gives them 525 less units to ship in that week (about 25% less). Then give Canada Post a week to ship to our doors. That now puts my estimate to be in our Canadian hands of around the week of April 16-20th.

Serious Poulp, can you weigh in and give us an idea if this sounds reasonable to you? ;)

@Jonadee As I speak (March 20th), the information we have so far is that the shipment is to reach the distributor in Toronto via rail tomorrow (March 21st). Snakes & Lattes (the Distributor) will need a few days to organize and start getting shipments out (I normally say a week before the first order goes out, so let's estimate March 28th). From there, if their capacity allows 250-300 units to be shipped a day (I have no idea for S&L but seems to be normal for most distributors, depending on complexity of the orders) and with 3,001 Canadian backers (as per Kickstarter) that would take around 10-12 business days for the last one to go out. Give Canada Post 3-5 business days to deliver the package and I would put the estimate of arrival time at your door around April 3-19, primarily depending on where you are in the fulfillment process (10-12 business days above).

Hope that helps :)

I have been thinking the same thing. It seems SP tried to learn from their first Kickstarter and Canadian shipping but still insist on shipping across the country to Toronto. I understand wanting to use a distributor they are familiar with; however, the end result is the same with delays. It is already three weeks after the shipment was to reach Toronto (originally March 1 and now March 21). I just hope they learn the final part of the lesson and find a distributor in Vancouver as the shipment of the individual packages would arriving already instead of everyone still waiting for it to get to Toronto.

We will get our games in time, so it will work out in the end. I just hope they improve for the wave 2 shipments.

I am also surprised at the lack of comments on the Canadian side for being 3 weeks late compared to the Americans so upset because their ship is 5 days late. Maybe we are too laid back. 😉