I ordered a rubberized hard plastic case for the TB to have before I got mine as well.
Ordered it Sunday on Ebay from California, according to the USPS tracking info, I should have it today.
It was a 7 dollar total investment, I'm not looking for it to help the phone make me breakfast...lol. I just wanted something to hold me over until better accessories were available (i.e. Otterbox or Body Glove case, larger batteries, etc.)

 

If you don't like cases then I would go with zagg full body but not use the screen cover. Get yourself a nice SGP Stienheil screen protector. SGP has also started making full body kits that I just got my son one for his iphone, very nice if you like naked phones.

I do not like naked phones, I don't drop them but I still like protection. Best all around cases in my opinion are the Otterbox Commuter series. Otterbox arguably makes the best cases. Alot of people like Seido cases as well, I have used both and prefer Otterbox. Otterbox is also an american company but produce their products overseas.

 

I am an employee for bestbuy and we started receiving cases for the Tbolt in our inventory. So yes there are official cases for the Tbolt! We just cant sell ours yet :/ lol

 

Will SGP screen protectors made for the Evo fit the Thunderbolt?

 

I doubt it. I'm looking at the phone speaker at the top of the evo being a part that would probably be cut around, and comparing it the Thunderbolt that would be more streamlined. My bet is you'd need to buy a different one just for the Thunderbolt

 

Have you seen one of these cases? Is there cut out for the kickstand?

 

On the paper that we have it says the 14th but also right after that says "this date is subject to change" so as of now we are still telling people the 14th because we have not been told otherwise.

Yes I put all the cases away at my store and there is a cut out for the kickstand. Currently we have only silicone cases not hard plastic ones yet...

 

So the Platinum Series cases by Seidio haven't arrived yet?
there was an article on Phandroid that showed them arriving at BestBuy's across the country, along with some from Rocketfish.

I went to the nearest BestBuy that sells Verizon (50+ miles away too) and i was standing and waiting for someone to help me answer my questions regarding the ThunderBolt pre-order, after 3 or 4 people got helped instead of me while i was there before them i ended up leaving and going to the H.H.Gregg next door only to get annoyed by the TCC rep for Verizon. The rep asked us "how about that ThunderBolt huh?" and my friend and I were asking about if they had received any info regarding the delay if it was true or not but the KID said "ooo sorry, can't say anything, we have the accessories in the back just can't sell them yet" I refuse to believe they know the real date, but i'm frustrated enough to go ask one of my Verizon friends i used to work with back when I still worked at Circuit City, they let me in on all the upcoming release info, i even got to hold a Droid X before it was even out (absolutely despise the phone's UI though)

My incredible recently started having problems and random reboots so its a sign i need to replace it with the ThunderBolt, its only destiny!

 

When I was at work on Tuesday we only had the rocketfish cases. No Platinum series ones yet. I work today so I will double check our inventory see if anything else came in!

I also see if I were emailed any information from our Verizon rep to see about a delay on the release or what, because we are all curious and deserve to know!!

 

The best buy I work at has one hard case, and some gel ones.

I sent the pictures into Phandroid, they're the ones you can see on the news page.