I'm in England too and have ordered New Leaf from shopto. Monster Hunter arrived a day early, so hopefully New Leaf will to!!
I've already paid for my cartridge pre-order from shop to.net. But I also plan on getting Donkey Kong at the end of the month which means that with Monster Hunter and Luigi's Mansion 2, I'd be entitled to a free game. I could download New Leaf so that it'd always be on my machine and keep the cartridge for collectors purposes. However, would I be right in assuming that the digital version and the cartridge version wouldn't share save data?
Thank you. c: Wow I wish I lived on PST. I'm really bad at staying up late...EST Midnight, 9pm PST or so ^^