Me too, Marke,
When I walk into the hobby shop, slide the box from the shelf, hold it in my grimy little hands, THEN and ONLY then will I accept the fact that the whole thing is really real!
I watched another model manufacturer (MRC) lead everyone by the nose, even producing the clay molds for the kit and giving a release date...... but at the last moment, trashing the idea in favor of the 17th version of an Apache, or UH-1B, or P-51, etc etc etc....
Panda probably will come through, but personally, I'll have to be holding it to believe it.
Frank