Possibly the best news yet... replication has already begun and a estimated finishing date has been set! Even better, it's sooner than I expected!
"I have received your approval, and your project will now begin production.
Your job is scheduled to finish production at the end of the day on Aug. 21st. This estimated date is based on your master disc(s) passing integrity testing and copyright checks. Any delay in these areas will result in a delay of the completion of your project. Should your job finish prior to this date we will ship it."
It should take about 2 days for shipping. So if everything continues to go smoothly, we could see an official relate date as soon as this Thursday. However we still to wait for a couple materials for the pre-order bonuses to arrive, so that might cause some extra delay. I'll start filling out everyone's names and addresses on envelopes so I can begin shipping copies out as soon as the game arrives.