^Gaming Heads most likely doesn't have a Canadian warehouse, so the more expensive shipping is expected but $140 is kind of excessive. It was only $35 for those within the US.
Honestly, I'd pay a premium if these statues were of better quality but Gaming Heads has never delivered on that front. For some reason they always show prototypes with detailed paint that isn't anywhere near as good when it actually goes into production. It's ridiculously misleading. Only difference with Tali is they went from mediocre to sloppy.
We all remember the Lara Croft mediocre paint:
http://www.statueforum.com/showpost....&postcount=124
This is the Kratos on Throne statue that seems to be the pinnacle for Gaming Heads paint jobs (it lacks the ash look of the prototype, among other things):
This is my own personal Garrus (actually, the replacement Garrus body I got was sloppy paint, so this is the better of the two). Notice they pretty much gave up giving the armor the damage the prototype has, which was already void of much of the detail from the game:
They even got the scope backwards on his rifle. I know I'm going on a rant but I just want people to understand why I cancelled all my pre-orders and hope they show some caution before ordering anything from them assuming it'll look like the pictures.
As a reminder, this was my Tali:
http://www.statueforum.com/showpost....&postcount=189