What do you mean pre-order? You can't, you just have go on the site and order when they decide to put it up for order! The time difference thing for us in europe though its annoying because its actually 1:50 pm afternoon now and we have to wait till those guys in california or wherever mattycollectors is based to get up and go into work lol
Hopefully they are based in ny or something coz its like 9:00 am there now. With all these people waiting around for these figures it'll probably crash the server when all the people just immeadiately try and go and order at the same time lol!
The announced release is supposed to be 12:00 noon, Eastern (New York) time, so that should be in just under 3 hours. Anyway, this ought to help you with the timing calculation...
https://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc