I ended up registering for....
$724 - the Golden Ticket,
$295 - Loose set (to pass onto someone else),
$120 - Thursday Custom Class,
$30 - T-shirt,
$75 - and unpainted Custom Class toy
(plus $7 processing fee)

That came to US$1,251... which was AU$1,830.10 on my card. (plus exchange rate fee, which hasn't been charged yet)

When I woke up and saw that registration had started 3 hours ago, I was worried that I had missed the Thursday Custom Class (as I wasn't interested in either of the tours, so was planning to only go for the four days instead of five - so if I had missed the Thursday Class, I wouldn't have signed up for the Wednesday one)... but surprisingly, it was still available. Even last year I think the Thursday Class sold out pretty quickly, so this could be an indication of another drop in attendance for this year.

As such, I think the non-attendee allocation of boxsets might sell out this time (so get yours fast if you were planning to get one), as there was more interest in the Combiner set, but not really any increase in the interest to attend.