BitmapText doesn't react upon creation

[Zampano]

Hey, I'm trying to tint some of my bitmapText chars.

I do this inside of my create function:

this.intro_text = this.add.bitmapText(640, 280, 'linotte_basic_white_22', text, 20);
this.intro_text.maxWidth = 360;
this.intro_text.tint = 0xf80f6a; //Tried removing that as well
this.intro_text.align = "center";
this.intro_text.alpha = 1;
this.intro_text.anchor.setTo(0.5, 0);

for(var i = 0; i < 18; i++) 
{
	this.intro_text.children[253+i].tint = 0x000000;			
}

The text is now fully colored in 0xf80f6a.
If I put the for loop on a timer of 1 ms, it works.

That's quite an easy workaround, but I wonder why it is even necessary ?