G3 "Retro" ponies on Target website

[Leave a Whisper]

All y'all are like "I have questions!" and I'm like:

I got into MLP G3 post-G3, so I've never actually been able to buy them new off of shelves. Perhaps it's a silly thing to be excited for. I also don't own any of the G3's listed, so they'd be new for me.

Its never silly to buy something you like new off a shelf. 

Post Merge: July 29, 2019, 06:29:36 PM

That is beyond bizarre...    G3 can't be retro!?! How old am I?     Feels like I just purchased these girls new... not sure if I need to do so again...

I kind of hope these are not BF unless they get the whole DPCI issue sorted...  If this set has the same item number as the 80s retros, I fear Target will have trouble getting everything on the shelf.

I wonder if it's Hasbro selling these? Tbh, when they said retro G3s, I thought they were talking about selling the G3 M6 singularly.

[Ragamuffin]

IM GOING TO MCFREAKIN LOSE IT

They look so good!! A walking pose Pinkie without tinsel...! For Twilight though, assuming they do her, are they going with Twilight Twinkle? I always thought Twilight Twinkle = Twilight Sparkle was a stretch...

[Leave a Whisper]

IM GOING TO MCFREAKIN LOSE IT

They look so good!! A walking pose Pinkie without tinsel...! For Twilight though, assuming they do her, are they going with Twilight Twinkle? I always thought Twilight Twinkle = Twilight Sparkle was a stretch...

I would not mind. Twilight Twinkle is very pretty, plus I love jewel ponies.

[Ragamuffin]

I'm interested to see Twilight and Rarity... these four are easy since they're in the same pose, but Rarity and Twilight Twinkle are in different poses, both from the others and from each other. Maybe they won't do them at all. Which is sort of odd, because Twilight Sparkle is Hasbro's favourite. 

[Leave a Whisper]

I'm interested to see Twilight and Rarity... these four are easy since they're in the same pose, but Rarity and Twilight Twinkle are in different poses, both from the others and from each other. Maybe they won't do them at all. Which is sort of odd, because Twilight Sparkle is Hasbro's favourite. 

I've come to appreciate G3 Rarity as of late. Though I've got my eye on the one with the 3D heart and ribbon.

[LadyMoondancer]

Interesting!  Are they by Basic Fun?

It's not a bad choice, because when I sell at toy fairs G3s are really REALLY popular with kids.  I sell way more than G1s, to be honest.  Maybe because G1s look more calm and G3s look more hyped?

I get the "but they're $3 at thrift stores!" thinking, but the fact is most parents don't shop for birthday gifts at thrift stores, they go to the toy section of Target or Walmart or wherever.  Gotta see a pony before you can buy a pony . . .

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

Interesting!  Are they by Basic Fun?

I don't think we know yet. I had found out about them from Pony Toy News reporting on them, and they seemed pretty sure it was Hasbro, but looking at the Target listings, it doesn't seem to say who is making them. I guess we'll find out for sure in the somewhat near future?

[LadyMoondancer]

I'd love it if they made a gift pack with a pony of every generation (but I don't mind if they skip G3.5, ha ha) someday, but I guess that would be tricky with Basic Fun currently holding the G1 mold license and Hasbro having the G4 mold license.

Maybe someday . . . They made a Ghostbusters / Transformers crossover car this year, that shows crazy things are possible.

[Taffeta]

This is really interesting, totally weird and I genuinely don't know how to react to it o.O.

If they came here I might actually buy AJ, just because my sister brought hers back from Australia and so I never tried to obtain her from new, but wouldn't mind if they brought a new one out. But I'm more curious to know the thought processes behind these.

If it's Hasbro, then it would explain why the mishmash M6 set of so called retro ponies look so much like G3 in their body structure.

If it's Basic Fun, it will suggest they're branching out, though I don't want G3 to be the rest of the BF line, personally. I'd rather it was Hasbro, since there's a chance Hasbro actually remember what these look like.

But all this reaching back into the past highlights a struggling current line, since up till the BF retros, Hasbro weren't interested in the older stuff. Yet here we are.

I think from a US company, G2 is unlikely though.

[banditpony]

I believe these might be by basic fun based on the UPC.

From what I read the first 6? Numbers on the UPC are indentifiers for the company.

Can anyone confirm.

I'm just sad because I'd rather basic fun focus more on g1... If I wanted g3 they are so easy to find second hand. selfish opinion.

Also it's interesting we have Applejack.. Fluttershy.. etc

[tootie_tails]

G3s are retro now? Those look nice but what I would really love is new G3s, as in new characters instead.

[Sunset]

I feel like the choice of characters strongly suggest a Hasbro release.  I find it unlikely that Hasbro would let another company use so many of their primary characters.  And it fits in with the idea of that Amazon set that’s coming out.  The mane 6 through the ages type thing.

If Basic Fun is making these then I find it surprising that they wouldn’t choose to make the first set of g3 released.  So far all of their releases have been by set not by “popular character”.

[Taffeta]

Figure from "My Little Pony" also suggests Hasbro, because that's their trademark, not Basic Fun's. On Amazon UK, at least, all the Retros have Basic Fun in the title.

But Banditpony does have a point about the UPC being similar.

Although when you google basic fun UPC it looks more like it might be the type of toy (ie MLP) than the company? BF seems to have a few very different UPC as well..

[Carrehz]

Can someone post photos/screenshots please? The pages won't load for me

[banditpony]

I was basing it off of first 8 digits
"88556135" which is on a lot of other basic fun ponies.

I'm at work so besides checking a few ponies, I can't do any more than that.