Family member is a Toyota employee, they have a system by which you can place a direct custom order. Unfortunately, this does not get you any build priority, clearly ?
Ordered thru Toyota on July 15 (not through a dealership, so theoretically I can see a lot of the "scheduling" steps through the portal) and so far all it has given me is the first production stage, which is that production date has been "determined" but not "scheduled" (which itself is yet...