It looks like our member oppie is the first to get his hands on Spore:

I bought Spore at a local shop yesterday (apparently they didn’t know that the release date was still a few days away). They only had the standard edition, but I could not resist the temptation of getting it early.

Rumours are going around the Net that the same is true for other stores in both The Netherlands and Australia. For now it appears only the regular edition is released early by those retailers: the Galactic Edition has not been spotted yet. It remains a mystery whether, and if so how EA will take action against the shops that jumped the gun.

Oppie’s initial remarks about the game:

My first impressions; this game is awesome. The cell phase especially was much more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I could never suspect that being a tiny herbivore in a sea of predators could be so much fun. In the creature phase, I befriended a couple of other species and formed a ‘band of misfits’ when some of them joined my ‘pack’. So far, I can only say; you’re going to love this game.

Apparently the game wasn’t enough to keep him at home though

I wish I could post screenshots, but I can’t because I’m at work at the moment.