I feel very hesitant about merging with R4. Even if we wait until January for production, I'm sure we'll beat R4 to the mailbox by a good stretch. I've locked horns with others about this before. I don't agree that we should be combining a year's worth of group buys into one super buy, even if it saves us a bit of money and allows us to get some obscure, low-demand sets made. There is a place for the superbuy, and I'm grateful to 7bit for doing it, but it shouldn't stop smaller more nimble buys from happening.
BO is available but I'm not crazy about it. I'll bust out the samples and take some pictures tonight. I'm currently waiting on an email from Melissa on when the keys would be ready if we go with BO.