Yeah, I miss the days when we used to get loads of physical pre-order items from retailers in the UK.
My favourite was the Red Faction Guerilla Walker figure. Was a nice item to give away with a game and was a good size too. My GF was working at GAME around the time when that came out and they said they must have slung about 20 of those in the skip out the back. Now it's next to impossible to get pre-order items from stores as they have usually ran out! >.<