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They could always have premanufactured parts sent to other factories and just ship updated parts or download software  updates.  Then they could assemble with the latest parts to supply initial orders in the U.S. or Europe.   So, it is possible but, as you say, phrunt, unlikely.

Today Minelab made two posts within hours of each other on their Facebook page.  I've always seen them separate the posts by 2 to 4 days in the recent past.  The latest post are just photos about Minelab presenting the Manticore in Mexico which happened weeks ago and were basically non-events.

Maybe we need a spy in Malaysia to let us know if or when they see Manticores being shipped in mass from the factories.

Here is a little info nobody has mentioned.

In 2009 Minelab through their parent company, Codan, moved their detector manufacturing from Ireland to Malaysia with a manufacturing company named Plexus.  Plexus also has several manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and one in Mexico in addition to their Malaysian manufacturing facility.

If you have an Equinox that was purchased during the initial release of that machine check to see if it was manufactured in the U.S., Mexico or Malaysia.  That might tell us if Minelab is having some initial U.S. orders filled from U.S. or Mexico manufacturing facilities.  Or if we are looking at shipments coming from Malaysia only.

11 minutes ago, longbow62 said:

I have no idea how international shipping and time frames work. Do they fly them over or do they come in on a container ship? If it's a container ship I can see them taking a long time to get here. I wonder how many have actually been pre-ordered in the U.S. thus far?

I would assume they fly the initial batch and ship the rest.  I don't think there are as many pre-orders in the U.S. as one would expect.  One dealer said they were somewhat light on orders and my dealer said I am at or near the top of his list although I didn't order until early October.  I don't know about Europe but December for much of the U.S. means you can't  even use it until March or April.

26 minutes ago, Hunterjunk said:

Received an Email from Minelab early this week saying their Miners Den stores would be closed on the 18 - 20th of this month for staff to receive training on the Manticore .  I am hoping that this means supply might not be far away . Fingers crossed !

That's encouraging, Hunterjunk.  Maybe there will be a Nov. 30th release date and mid-December customer delivery date after all.  I think the November FCC filings were some sort of headphone ID notification and not a long drawn out approval of the technology.  We will know soon.  But the lack of release of the pdf copy of the manual is worrisome for a quick release.

The Miner's Den website says, "Anticipated release November - December 2022"

Of course, that may only pertain to you chaps near Australia.

We'll just have to see since there isn't any evidence to date to even compare the two machines.

I did own a CTX shortly after they came out.  I don't recall much about the screen but it was heavy and I couldn't find crapola with it.  I don't think I had it that long so I didn't learn its nuances.  Anyway that's when I sold the CTX and decided to give up detecting until something much better arrived on the market.  If the Manticore isn't it, I'll probably sell everything detector related and retire permanently from dirt fishing.

Well, I don't believe that the Manticore won't outshine both the Nox and the CTX.  If not, then just unload it and go to the Deus II.  Financially that would probably be a push.

phrunt, you don't think they could improve on the CTX3030 Target Trace in 10 years?  That would be a very sad state of affairs.

Worst case, they have been hiding a mediocre Manticore detector by not releasing appropriate videos or tests and we wind up selling them for a few hundred (U.S. Dollars) loss.  NEXT!!!  LOL

Not a peep from Minelab but Southern Relic Adventures has posted a video discussing the Target Trace screen just a bit as far as the information anyone has from Minelab.

Minelab, either announce the release date or get some videos out for buyers to see to keep them interested.  Radio silence is not helpful nor necessary!

59 minutes ago, UT Dave said:

 

Meh...  Fries of French origin, okay.  But, frites, now, frites - what fries wish they could be - frites are Belgian.

Put frites in a bun with merguez sausages and andalouse sauce, the French are begging for the recipe.  Downtown Salt Lake has a hole in the wall that serves exactly that and calls it the Machine Gun.  

Bruges.  Highly recommend if you're ever hungry in downtown Salt Lake.  Best Italian sandwiches in town next door at Caputos's.

- Dave

Wow!!  Now that's a fright....er... I mean a frite.

Read this about Manticores:

"Manticores wander and fly around...... roaring occasionally. Manticores will notice the player from a 12 or 16 block radius, and will sprint or fly towards the target to attack."

Watch out Deus II swingers.

11 minutes ago, scoopjohnb said:

Belgium,... the land that invented French Fries and where Manticores have been seen roaming in the wild 🙂

Look at it this way,... the sales guys from Minelab are foaming at the mouth to get this thing out the door. Only to be smacked in the face by that R&D geek with the taped up glasses who has found yet another BUG. Talk about a near death experience,... I wouldn’t want to be in geeks shoes wright now!!

Just look at the facts and the timeline. D-Day is nearly upon us,... and then we get to wait till it takes on full charge.

Not so fast, John.

"Belgian food historian Pierre Leclercq has traced the history of the french fry and asserts that "it is clear that fries are of French origin." ~ Wiki

2 hours ago, Skate said:

It would be love/hate to find something like that. Obviously it would be the most awesome thing ever(love) but then where do you go after that? The bucket will have been listed and then put away. A mere 14k men's wedding band will no longer light your candle. 

 

Like a King in his counting room, you ALWAYS want MOAR.

33 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Really, because I wouldn't have figured that from your record breaking number of posts on this new detector.  🤔

LOL  I could be dead before Minelab gets this detector in my hands, GB!!  Of course, that could be said about any of us mortal souls.

Sometimes I feel like I'm supporting the Manticore threads in this forum all by myself.  Some days HOT and some days COLD.  

On 11/17/2022 at 1:12 PM, NAGANT said:

Diggers den did a youtube teaser about manticore training at an old church.  No manticore swinging thou, just weed eaters.

I thought that video was funny.  All that about searching the old church and then they were just mowing the over gown lawn for them.  Presumably so they could detect the grounds at a later date when the Manti is finally released..  I noticed they were wearing snake gaiters while mowing.  There must be really nasty snakes in the tall grass even in the city in Australia. 

3 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:

Probably not and let's hope not.But it won't take long for the first in line buyers / users to find out.I was just being a SMART A$$!

No, I think it is a legitimate concern for some water hunters.

36 minutes ago, scoopjohnb said:

Go ahead and make my day!!

If you pull your order, that’s one up for me,... Yeeaahh.

You're in Belgium and I am in Texas, John.  I doubt you will get your detector any sooner even if I pull my order!  LOL

Since I don't need the $1600 I'll probably just let it ride.  But I will be very disappointed if we get to December 1st and haven't gotten any announcement from Minelab.

40 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:

Especially the hardcore water hunters Har Har!

Do you think the Manticore is going to leak, Doc?  I guess they ALL will leak eventually if you take them in the water repeatedly.  I'm not concerned about the control housing leaking since I'll probably never take it in water above my knees.

I don't know if the Manticore is coming at the end of November or the end of January.  But I do know Minelab is letting the Manticore story die.  There hasn't been a 'real' video on Youtube about the Manticore in action for over a month and talk of the Manticore on the MD forums is dying out.  People are starting to forget all about the Beast.

I'm not a terribly patient person and I have a Legend in hand to play with.  Maybe I should pull back my $1600 Manticore order until after it comes out and we see what people say about it.

And Minelab filed for Manticore ML-105 headphone ID approval just 3 days ago.  If I am reading this right, the FCC granted it the same day.

Well, I just heard from my Australian dealer friend.  He says nothing has changed.  Still expecting an end of November release.  I guess we'll see what happens.

That sort of blows my theory out of the water, phrunt without a breakdown of hobby detectors vs gold detectors.  I did, just now, send an email to that Australian dealer to see if he is still singing the same tune.  I assume I won't hear anything until tomorrow U.S. time since it is night there now (as you know).

I suspect the majority of Minelab customers are in Europe and North America.  If that is the case, planning an early winter release for a new outdoor product is insane.  "By Christmas" was a scam on us customers to manipulate us into not buying something else.

But, there is that dealer in Australia that told customers that he was sending in orders to Minlab and told "His" release was going to be at the end of November with shipment arriving to customers by December 15th.  I'm tempted to email him again and see if that is still his expectation.

2 hours ago, DSMITH said:

to do the factory reset = while the legend is booted up click the power button once it opens the first sub menu then move over to the little man that is user profiles once on the little man do not push the up arrow instead hold down on the pin point reject button you will see some lines start going around the screen keep holding the pin point reject until you see FD on the screen then release the pen point reject button, you have now performed a factory reset of the Legend

holding the power button down for 30 seconds has never been recommended by Delik or Nokta/macro in fact Delik has stated several times to not do that procedure to try and do a reset.

At first that wouldn't work for me.  So, I did the other, holding the power button down then when it restarted I was able to do the Profile and the Pinpoint button to get the little revolving square then the Fd. I'll try and skip the Power button reset next update.  The uploads went without a hitch.  Anyway, I'm all set now.

Thanks, everyone, for you help and support.  I appreciate it.

2 hours ago, DSMITH said:

I did mine with a gold paint pen, and I did my wife's in Orange paint pen the Orange really makes them pop, and makes the buttons even easier to see then the gold color, Initially i did mine with white and did not really care for the looks of white so I painted over the white with gold

I think that yellow really pops and looks good too.  I think orange probably works pretty good, too.

Wow what a haul!  You must have gotten your Manticore sooner than the rest of us!  

Curved or straight tool?