I heard they might be announced this month, not released. Also heard there might be an announcement at Winter NAMM. My guess is you'll see them by the Spring. But I have no inside information, so take it for what it's worth. Hopefully BP will relieve some of the suspense for us.
It'll happen when it happens and there will be plenty for everybody. Don't worry about it.
There are probably 1500000 different little things that have kept them from being released so far...little things that were probably aggravating for the company at the time and even more so when they're quizzed about it later on. Don't sweat it
It takes more than making a coupla prototypes..there is tooling molds materials and production "buckets" We will start taking orders for these at the winter namm and should ship some late 1st quarter and they should flow by the second quarter 2008