since my Cougar started behaving strangely (the button-mapping is suddenly all wrong) i've been looking for all info about the Warthog i could get. which isn't much.
interesting enough: amazon germany has it for pre-order:

http://www.amazon.de/Guillemot-HOTAS-War...9454&sr=8-1

date is june 4th, price 359,99 EUR (ca. 489 USD)

they deleted the link

I can only wonder if they'll do a sign swap for the US price (US$359.99 going by that figure), or actually screw us over on the exchange rate. (Then again, a sign swap means the Europeans get screwed over instead.)

When I first saw the flash on the TM site, I figured $400-500 USD for it.
Only a guess of course. I just have a feeling it will be pretty expensive.

Even though I bought a G940, I am still very interested in the WH. It just appears to be something I would really enjoy having, as long as all the switches can be assigned easily in DX. If it is user friendly, works in most any flight sim and has no major design flaws, I could see it as a long term piece of equipment. So even if a good bit more pricey than many HOTAS systems, I would consider that acceptable.

If it is indeed in that price range, then the only chance I have of affording it is to sell off my FCC-modded Cougar and +HS-modded RCS, and I don't feel very comfortable with that just yet, if only because I got a pretty good deal on it to begin with given the force sensor mod.

This is what piggy banks are for! How many kids you guys have? My first child is still unborn but there went her college fund!

3 kids, a new house very soon and the wifes birthday....its a shame she won't get anything from me this year other than a TM Warthog....hehehehe!

Just kidding honey!

Better than a bowling ball with your name on it!

Spring 2010 means anything up to june 20th?

This waiting is frustrating. First it was exciting to see that flash ad in Thrustmaster's website, now plain annoying, because there is no real info about it. We've been "teasered" long enough(about six months).