Good news - Whisper arrived today
Bad news - broken in two places (arm & foot off)
The box was in perfect undamaged shape. Wrapped in bubble-wrap inside a BigBadToyStore shipper.
Unlike Sideshow who use DHL who take 2 - 3 days to deliver, Whisper came via USPS, Parcel Force, and took 2 weeks. It's been on quite journey, depot to depot. I'm sure this does not help.
Gentle Giant need to improve their packaging.
Sideshow, XM, Weta, HMO, Yamato, PCS, Prime 1, none arrive broken (bar one from Sideshow - Gamora, one of the blue base crystal shards).