Just recieved this email.
Dear customer,
Unfortunately today we received the following statement from our distributor:
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We just received the following info from Sideshow regarding item Star Wars: Ben Kenobi Mythos Statue.
Unfortunatelly Sideshow didn’t receive enough orders to do a reproduction. So they decided to not reproduce this item.
All your orders will be cancelled from your backorders.
Sorry for the trouble and thank you for you understanding
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I am hearing similar reports from other distributor throughout Europe. But those that ordered directly from the Sideshow website have not yet received any cancellations. So it seems that Sideshow is screwing one over on all retailers by only releasing reproductions in their own store.
This is still speculation as there has been no official statement, but if this is the case, the big question is why on earth did they open it up for wholesale order in the first place!?
I'm going to wait a bit longer to hopefully get some definitive answers, but more than likely we're going to have to cancel your preorder for the statue. Any done payments will be transferred to other preorders or your shop account as store credit, or they can be transferred back to you if you prefer.
We're terribly sorry about this bad news, but this is entirely due to Sideshow.