I've been wanting to send parts there as well for about a year, but never got around to doing so. There's a couple pieces I wanted to have chromed and gold plated. Now that you state his price quotes, forms of accepted payment and having to send out payment twice via MO or certified cheque, it makes it a little less attractive.
Raps what makes you think he's not fond of canadians?
As for Mortal, my opinion is that it's a cool fig for the collection and display, but serves no other purpose in the joe verse. Plus he's got hard plastic for the lower arms, which means watch out or else broken thumbs. For the price you're going to pay, you want to be really careful. It's really screaming display piece. I've got mixed feelings for this one.
I know you guys had this discussion of whether he's a robot/cyborg or not based on his FC, but I look at him, he screams robot to me. What person would be running around in that sort of costume/outfit? armor? I'm not so sure about that.
The effort was there for MC, but the execution is off. To me, just rehashing the SE mold with the roadblock waist that's been released I don't know how many times in the past 5 years is lame. I know some of you will say, it's great that we will get a mortal and otherwise would never had a chance to own one. I do agree with this argument.
However, some will argue that MC was trying to get it as close to the original as possible, that's just weak and lazy on their part. If they really wanted to do that they would have grabbed comic pack short fuse's waist and arms or anybody else's waist. The body, waist and legs just don't mesh together. MC could have used some better parts (post 85) to recreate Mortal and it would have looked a lot cooler while all of us would still have a chance to own one. I would have preferred this route and in grey instead of chrome. This way it would fit the characters filecard. If he's a sniper and an assassin, you shouldn't be able to spot him.