Newest Crystal blindbags already available for pre-order? Taobao crackdown?

[Galactica]

So it looks like you can ALREADY pre-order the newest blindbags (series 8) that appeared at ToyFair -  the only ones that I haven't seen before (or that look significantly different than the crystal blind bags of series 7 that barley just came out) are Flim and Flam (which were shown at toyfair)
http://www.tesco.com/direct/my-little-pony-crystal-blindbags/223-7480.prd

What's odd is that these and a number of other new ponies haven't appeared on Taobao at all-  that strikes me as strange (based on the last couple years where I think they hit Taobao first?)

I am thinking that Hasbro mus be cracking down on Taobao leaking prototype/test shots/quality fails and we will be seeing far fewer of these kinds of things in the future.

Or maybe I just haven't been diligent enough about checking.

 

[achab1984]

I saw some pictures of them and think they are pretty neat looking!

[hathorcat]

There is already a thread here

http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,324651.0.html

So I ll lock this one as a duplicate.