That's not what they told me. I was at the booth, handled the figure and talked to Matt & Kevin about them. What I was told was this was made by the factory but it isn't a production run figure. The color on it will be slightly tweaked. That production run hasn't started.
Technically, this is a pre-production sample...but Dave runs the board, you can believe whoever you want. But I think the fact that this is delayed lends credence to the fact that this is not a production run piece. Production runs take 3-4 weeks to complete.