Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! Backstory: I'm heading on a cruise next week, down to Ensenada (kind of a belated honeymoon). I had hopes that C3 would be shipping before now and I was hoping that it would be ready and here before I left. I called Eovia/TGS this morning and asked if it was shipping today. Just to let you know, I live in San Diego and so is Eovia/TGS, so I didn't pay the shipping (Why have the neighbor mail the cup of sugar when I can walk over and get it?). They said not quite but they only needed one more piece to start shipping: The Box. Can you believe my luck? My testament to the box? I still have the C2 box under the seat of my car. Do I need it? My wife would have you believe no, and in this case, I totally agree! I asked if I could drop by and pick it up anyway. The answer was "YES!" Pros: I drove over to the TGS building, proved my identity, and walked away with my copy of C3, sans box!!! I have it in my grubby little hands!! Cons: (and you knew that there would be some) 1) I'm still at work and I can't get home fast enough to load it up and see it, post beta. 2) Tell me how much time I'm gonna have to play with it this weekend (or next week for that matter) with packing and preparing for the trip. Wifey won't let me NEAR the computer, much less spend time on it. So while I DO have it, I won't be able to spend sleepless nights playing with it for about a week! I WILL have my gloat about being the first to have my copy, but that's about it. Happy Modelling, and I'll rejoin you guys at the end of the month! Ken

I could imagine that it would burn me even more having something like that in my hands and not being able to use for there not being enough time or some other reason.