Seeing as it's been almost a year since this thread was last updated, and that the issue it addressed was items that were already over a year late at that time, I'm guessing nothing's going to happen with this. Kind of a bummer, I wanted to read Blackdirge's story, but it's not like there's not a whole lot of other ways to entertain myself.
Just for the record, after initiating this thread and getting the last response from Morrus in December of 2009, I personally haven't heard anything about this issue, nor seen the items that were to be part of the original 3.5 WotBS pre-order from like - was it November of 2008? The details are pretty much gone from my brain by now. It'd be nice to know why this issue just sort of vanished, though.