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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: systemcat on October 10, 2023, 11:35:43 AM
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A while back I bought the Rescue from Midnight Castle set of ponies. On the box was a notation Spike could be bought separately. Has anyone seen this G1 I assume *quite small* remake of Spike for sale anywhere? There isn't a mention of the toy across the web from what I can see.
By the way I put quite small with the * * marks since the ponies are about two inches in size. If scale is used for the baby dragon, I can only picture Spike as big as my thumbnail.
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He's part of the g1 blind bag set. There are codes on the bags that indicate who you'll get. So perhaps someone can tell you which numbers are for Spike
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Never seen those for sale. ... US retailers anywhere?
I know at least with Basic Fun Care Bears, the company seems to enjoy making some toys regional exclusives.
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I don't know if the Blind Boxes are going to show up at in-person stores in the US. So far, it seems like a no. There are only online retailers that sell them at a mark-up.
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it's the stores themselves that decide whether or not they're going to sell products from Basic Fun. I know Basic Fun has been trying to get them into more stores. But Target and the like have limited shelf space and they have to be convinced to stock products by the manufacturers.
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We've been talking about the blind boxes in this (https://mlparena.com/index.php?topic=404613.0) thread :) I'm not sure if anyone's found Spike yet though.
IIRC from the Toy Fair photos, Spike's about the same size as the ponies.
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Here are my blind bag Spike and Ember. Their codes are 132236 and 132237 Supertiny and supercute. I love how Spike looks.
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I think it's sad they weren't included in the box. I also think they did it wrong who put Moondancer in the box and as a blind bag while there's no Glory.
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Here are my blind bag Spike and Ember. Their codes are 132236 and 132237 Supertiny and supercute. I love how Spike looks.
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I think it's sad they weren't included in the box. I also think they did it wrong who put Moondancer in the box and as a blind bag while there's no Glory.
Glory is a blind bag and the pearly variation comes with pearly Blossom and CC.
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I really don't get why they didn't put Spike into the RaMC set... To me him and Ember would've made much more sense for the boxset than Moondancer and Medley. They were main characters in the special! While Moondancer and Medley are only in one or two scenes. Bit of an odd choice.
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omg sooooo cute, I really hope they make it over here to NZ especially in stores so i can peek at the codes :D
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Leave a Whisper, she's not in the same set as these two.
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Leave a Whisper, she's not in the same set as these two.
https://youtu.be/XGjcfDr1mhQ?si=6uXePLNhMthWBv2n
Here you go Beldarna. Though perhaps Glory was excluded from that set in different countries? :shrug:
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Yeah, I've not seen that one in Sweden and the blind boxes only talk about "collect all 7", which are Starflower, Cotton Candy, Gusty, Moondancer, Bubbles, Spike and Ember. Those are also the only ones featured on the box art.
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I just bought three boxes online. Let's see who I get...
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I remember Starflower and Cotton Candy are 1 and 2 respectively. I confirmed this as I had two of each by accident and none of the others ;) But my sister loves CC so that worked out well.
I have only seen them at one in person shop even here in the Uk after going through a bunch of similar chain toyshops down south. I hope I will get down there again before Christmas so I can hunt for the other codes.
Isn't Glory only released with the Target exclusive release of the pearly ponies? Still waiting to see if these show up anywhere here but not so far. If they come up on Amazon, fair enough, but I really do hate US store exclusives - there's never a guarantee they will be available anywhere else.
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I remember Starflower and Cotton Candy are 1 and 2 respectively. I confirmed this as I had two of each by accident and none of the others ;) But my sister loves CC so that worked out well.
I have only seen them at one in person shop even here in the Uk after going through a bunch of similar chain toyshops down south. I hope I will get down there again before Christmas so I can hunt for the other codes.
Isn't Glory only released with the Target exclusive release of the pearly ponies? Still waiting to see if these show up anywhere here but not so far. If they come up on Amazon, fair enough, but I really do hate US store exclusives - there's never a guarantee they will be available anywhere else.
I am from the US and I agree with this statement.
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I've been thinking about this for a bit. Maybe Basic Fun didn't include Spike in the RaMC set even though he's featured on the box art to make people more apt to buy the blind boxes trying to get Spike.
I just realized that set includes 2 unicorns, 2 pegasus and 2 Earth ponies. Moodancer was one of the ponies transformed by Tirac so I don't mind her being in there. Maybe BF thought the set would be more balanced with 2 of each kind of pony?
Also, I just saw that Moondancer is included in the box set and the blind boxes. I agree that is a little odd to repeat a pony in a box set and a blind box especially if the idea is to get all of the characters.
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