I just noticed the new 5238 RC Pirates Slooper (schooner to some
), scheduled for release in about a week (17th May according to the PCC, iirc), has disappeared from Geobra's German and Benelux webshops...
When searching the sites with the setnumber nothing comes up either...
Being a pirates-freak, I immediately start speculating about this
and so I'm now having these thoughts:
a) It is just a software glitch or an error within the webshop, which will be sorted out soon.
b) They've pulled the ship out of the shoplistings to have a last instance price-change, and it will be back after the weekend with a new sales-price.
(it was listed for about 55 euro in the Benelux shops, and "reduced" (
) from above 80 euro to also ca. 55 euro in the German shop.)
c) The release of this RC sloop(er)/schooner coïncides too much with the DS re-release in Germany this month of the white Navy Schooner, so the RC-one will be released much later as envisioned, for not having 2 very similar ships released almost simultaneously.
d) They've pulled the ship from the webshops, because during a last inspection they discovered a technical glitch with the RC-module. It will relisted / released once that glitch has been solved.
e) At the last moment, Geobra decided never to release this RC-ship
