After 74 days and several tense hours waiting for the DHL man to arrive, I'm happy to say that my TM is here to stay!
It's stubbier and "denser" than I expected from looking at pictures, and I love the grain on mine. It has a faint "woody" smell, that reminds me of green vegetation. I taste it a little when pulling air through the mouthpiece, but it's not strong enough to bother me.
I can confirm, like the other posters here, that you can open/close the battery compartment by hand, and you do not need long fingernails to turn the temp dial.
Both of the RBT stems I got last week fit snugly in the mouthpiece hole, so I look forward to trying this through a bong. Despite the fact that the only extras I ordered were a long tube and an extra CU, my bag contained an extra short stem as well. Thanks! One CU has orange o-rings, and the other stem uses white. The extra o-rings in my package are white as well.
I will say that when cleaning out the stems, the orange o-ring left some residue on the mouthpiece it was stored in. I'm not sure what caused this, but it was easy enough to clean. Scrubbing it off with a q-tip and ISO did the job.
The corks I hollowed out on Saturday fit perfectly, so now I just need to keep my cool until the battery is charged. Then... to the moon!