Anyone seen the baby Hippogriffs?

[Wardah]

Just wondering if anyone has seen the baby Hippogriffs in stores yet?

[Taffeta]

They were in New Zealand and Singapore some months ago, apparently.

[Sunset]

Nope, I've seen nothing new in some time.

[Moonbreeze]

Nope I got mine from Ebay

[Ponyfan]

No Baby Hippogriffs for me either. I was sure they'd be in stores by now.


Ponyfan

[Leave a Whisper]

Nope. Maybe check Hasbro's website?

[RoseNoire]

I recently saw one in a Belgian Supermarket. I didn't pay further attention as I don't collect them, but I know I saw one. Hope that helps.

[LadyMoondancer]

Oh dear, that has me worried.  I really want these guys.  I guess I should start keeping an eye on eBay.

[Taffeta]

I have generally assumed the line discontinued and thus not being distributed. I expect if they appear in the UK it will be at Christmas when mysteriously very old stock or not yet sold stock from previous waves magically appears from stockrooms at Entertainer and Smyths...

They do come up on ebay but be careful. I saw some auctions recently and they had clearly borrowed images from another seller to list them at a slightly cheaper price.

They aren't showing up a lot though, which suggests there are still stocks somewhere.

The ones that appear on ebay (both being sold from the UK legitimately months back and more recently) appear to be from NZ or Singapore because they have dollar prices on them which are clearly not US$ and I know at least one New Zealander on here has found them in stores there some time back...the packaging looks like US packaging, which may suggest US stock has ended up there or may just be a coincidence?

I asked Hasbro UK about them and they didn't have a clue what was happening. Also I know the merbabies here come up now as discontinued.

I haven't seen any in European packaging yet.

[invaderhorizongreen]

Nope not a single one here in the states, distribution is at an all time horrible low. 

[Ponyfan]

I've never seen them listed for sale on Hasbro Toy Shop or seen them in stores and I've been looking for them since the movie baby sea ponies hit the stores. I thought they looked cute with their little cloud homes and insect pets.


Some of the Wave 1 baby sea ponies are still sitting. on the shelf at my local Target (mainly Lilly Drop and Bubble Splash) and I'm beinging to wonder if that's a factor in the US not seeing the baby hippogriffs by now. Is Hasbro  less willing to send new products to stores if the stores day there's still a lot of old toys on the shelves?



Ponyfan

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

I've never seen them listed for sale on Hasbro Toy Shop or seen them in stores and I've been looking for them since the movie baby sea ponies hit the stores. I thought they looked cute with their little cloud homes and insect pets.


Some of the Wave 1 baby sea ponies are still sitting. on the shelf at my local Target (mainly Lilly Drop and Bubble Splash) and I'm beinging to wonder if that's a factor in the US not seeing the baby hippogriffs by now. Is Hasbro  less willing to send new products to stores if the stores day there's still a lot of old toys on the shelves?



Ponyfan

It is a factor, but it's the retailer who's in control there. They're less likely to order more stock when there's still existing stock hogging the shelves. It can be a real problem, especially if there's bulky items shelfwarming (like, last year, my local Targets never got any of the later-wave Transformers: Titans Return Leader-class figures in because the Turbo Changer Dragonstorms from the movie line had not only spilled over into the shelf space for them, but weren't selling at all).

[Ponyfan]

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Here's what my Target store looked like last week. It's hard to see in the pic but the baby sea ponies are behind some of the All About ponies. The Singing Songbird has been on the shelf for ages as well as mini/blingbag pony set.

I think this might be what's happing with the  Tempest wave of the All About ponies as there are a lot of All Abouts on the shelves in my area but there are no Songbirds or Tempests.


Ponyfan

[misskindle]

I just saw the second wave of baby seaponies at my local Fred Meyer, so they do have them in brick and mortar stores in the US. Maybe there’s hope for the hippogriffs.

[nhal039]

Nz did indeed have hippogriffs last dec as I got one for my daughter, I go them from a major retailer. Just now more have popped up at a smaller store in nz but no major store has been carry any. All stores have the mermaid babies (both waves) and have done for some time. I would imagine they will keep infrequently popping up here in smaller numbers like the wave 3 pearly ponies did.

I do think hippogriffs where short packaged or something similar as from what I have seen numbers of them are always far fewer than with the baby seaponies