Nice, looking forward to your NUD write up.
I feel like KoAloha missed the boat a little bit with these in terms of timing. From what I could gather, they had some difficulty procuring mango for a while, which is why there was such a long wait since their last run of mango. And it seems to me mango was really popular a year or two ago. I was actually waiting/hoping for mango KoAlohas to become available, but I ended up buying a mango Rebel instead. Seemed like it would be the closest thing. I would have preferred a KoAloha to the Rebel, but having one, I don't feel the need to get the other. Although I wish I could do a direct comparison between the two. This year, I wish KoAloha had just focused on cranking out more anniversary editions. Maybe in different configurations. Even a mango anniversary run would have been cool.
Anyway, congrats on your new uke. Like I said, if I didn't have the Rebel version, I'd have grabbed one of these too. I almost wish I didn't so I could get one. I think they would've flown off the shelves faster a year or two ago, but that's just because of trends. Also, I'm probably in the minority here, but to me their mango models generally look better than their koa.
If you can, please share sound samples when your tenor comes in--there doesn't seem to be a ton of sound samples of these mango models.