the qx is DEFINITELY a beluga whale.
male hippos weigh in around 4k lb, so it isn't a perfect comparison, but they're bulky, weirdly agile when they want to be, and they have a pretty good, classic, christmas song
regarding letting them sit around for a couple weeks: I'm figuring alternating shipments for each primary region, but definitely sending them out in batches for each region--it just makes sense logistically.