New 35th Anniversary Collector Ponies Spotted! Pics!

[Lucky_Ladybug]

I found Minty! Squeee. But upon deboxing, I noticed an oddity. Her back legs have some thin streaks of what looks like dark green marker. A factory defect, no doubt, and it's not super upsetting to me, but I do raise an eyebrow. Did anyone else who deboxed discover something similar?

[Taffeta]

Toy companies distribute to markets, not every single country on a continent. "European market" changes from company to company. Monster High products would often show up in Spain and England but not in Germany even though they were "European exclusive" that's why I joked about these two countries.

At least France has a similar price point to Germany, so I'll wait and see how expensive they're going to get...

I don't really understand what MH has to do with anything, as we're talking about Hasbro Traditionally Germany has a pretty priveleged position in European releases of MLP, with its own exclusives, and so on and so forth.

In any case, if you look at current Hasbro packaging for g4, there are a massive number of languages on the back label, even if not on the front. Hasbro Europe is also in London. That's not where Hasbro UK is/was, that used to be in Wales and possibly still is. But the reason I mention the UK not always being Europe is that we also have packages marked Canada, Australia etc, which implies a more "Commonwealth" association. We don't always get the stuff continental Europe gets (for example, Starswirl didn't appear here, I got her on a trip to France but I haven't ever seen her in the UK).

If we go by hasbro's logic and languages and distribution of G4, there's no reason to not assume Europe is a continent. The only unknown factor is whether it relates to the licensed company's view of Europe, rather than Hasbro's. But historically Germany is prominent in Hasbro's target market, so the chances of Germany being excluded from this are remote to none. The bigger risk I would think would be countries in Europe that didn't have G1 for various reasons, or only had them in limited quantity. As this is an anniversary release, they might not think of people there wanting this kind of release.

But realistically, it makes more sense to look at Hasbro's approach to pony distribution, both then and now, than it does to look at Mattel and MH which has nothing to do with MLP in the least.

[Zapper]

Toy companies distribute to markets, not every single country on a continent. "European market" changes from company to company. Monster High products would often show up in Spain and England but not in Germany even though they were "European exclusive" that's why I joked about these two countries.

At least France has a similar price point to Germany, so I'll wait and see how expensive they're going to get...

I don't really understand what MH has to do with anything, as we're talking about Hasbro

Because I used it as an example to illustrate that "Europe" does not have to imply all European countries.
Also Germany did not get any of the previous Anniversaries including recent collector ponies, so as a German I can joke about it all I want just like you can write about the UK 

[StrawberryScoops]

I just got an email response back from Bridge Direct confirmating the Rainbow Ponies are European exclusives. They have no current plans to release them elsewhere but said maybe someday that would change. So let’s keep letting them know we all want all sets released wherever we live!

[Taffeta]

Toy companies distribute to markets, not every single country on a continent. "European market" changes from company to company. Monster High products would often show up in Spain and England but not in Germany even though they were "European exclusive" that's why I joked about these two countries.

At least France has a similar price point to Germany, so I'll wait and see how expensive they're going to get...

I don't really understand what MH has to do with anything, as we're talking about Hasbro

Because I used it as an example to illustrate that "Europe" does not have to imply all European countries.
Also Germany did not get any of the previous Anniversaries including recent collector ponies, so as a German I can joke about it all I want just like you can write about the UK 

Well, until Glitterball put me right, I didn't think the UK got them either. :/ So maybe Germany did, but not all of it...? I don't know if your distribution is as bad as ours (probably not xD). But if there's a hierarchy of countries hasbro likes best in Europe, Germany are definitely higher up the pecking order than the UK

What StrawberryScoops said above implies that maybe there'll not be any collector ponies in the UK or Europe either...but I guess we'll see. I was told they definitely WOULD come to the UK, but that could've been a mistake.

I am happy with the Rainbows, and I'd also be happy to trade Rainbows for US release ones if and when it becomes appropriate to do it that way. I don't mind shipping overseas, though I do think that everyone should make it clear we want all the G1 ponies O.O. ALL OF THEM. O.O. AND mystery pony

[Shatyr]

I am absolutely looking for a Rainbow Pony trading partner in Europe. I am more than happy to chase down another full set of Collector Ponies for a trade.

Also, I saw that someone's working on a petition to get them to make the Celestial Ponies and there are no words to how awesome that would be.

[glitterball]

Here's a bit of fun re: Mystery Pony

if (she) were to be released, what should (she) be called?

  rainbow hair, white body, rainbow symbol with little clouds either end (shame she's not a unicorn, though!)
Hmmm... let's see....

Rainbow Cloud?
Nimbus?
Rainbow Dreamer?
Happy Hooves?

any other ideas? 

[Leave a Whisper]

How widespread is Target as a store, globally speaking?

In the UK Tesco and Argos usually pick up Target exclusive ponies, although sometimes they still have the Target logo on. It's interesting that TRU in Canada aren't going to stock these...

I'm trying to figure out some logic for when the rainbows get to the UK, and TRU would be the obvious place for me for them to appear...but it's really hard to call. It might end up being Tesco O.o.

Its one of those companies that were widespread back in the day, but is struggling a bit, with lots of stores that closed.

Ours closed years ago and the nearest one to us is in a different city.

[Taffeta]

Here's a bit of fun re: Mystery Pony

if (she) were to be released, what should (she) be called?

  rainbow hair, white body, rainbow symbol with little clouds either end (shame she's not a unicorn, though!)
Hmmm... let's see....

Rainbow Cloud?
Nimbus?
Rainbow Dreamer?
Happy Hooves?

any other ideas? 

First Born. After the ceramic that looks a bit like her. Because that's kind of what she often got called in the past, that's kind of what I think of her name being. It at least has pony provenance...

I've sent another message asking explicitly about releases of these ponies and explained the confusion/asked for clarification. I imagine they are swamped and may be getting mixed messages themselves.

If April is realistic as a date, then it might be these come out after the others stop being sold in the US. I guess we'll see how long the restock goes. If they come here I will buy some of the collector ones, but if they don't, I'd probably want to trade for Cotton Candy for my sister's CC army and maybe one of the others for my own collection - Minty or Snuzzle, probably. Minty because she's mysterious here, and Snuzzle because she pretty much seemed to come with everything she really didn't belong with.

I also asked for clarification if the parlour comes with a pony or not.

[Bebopgroove]

I just got an email response back from Bridge Direct confirmating the Rainbow Ponies are European exclusives. They have no current plans to release them elsewhere but said maybe someday that would change. So let’s keep letting them know we all want all sets released wherever we live!

Why the heck would the Rainbow Ponies be Euro-exclusives, but yet they also seemed to confirm that the collector ponies were also going to get a Euro release???

[glitterball]

Here's a bit of fun re: Mystery Pony

if (she) were to be released, what should (she) be called?

First Born. After the ceramic that looks a bit like her. Because that's kind of what she often got called in the past, that's kind of what I think of her name being. It at least has pony provenance...

Thank you for that, Taffeta! I learn something new every day! 

[svleonard]

I just got an email response back from Bridge Direct confirmating the Rainbow Ponies are European exclusives. They have no current plans to release them elsewhere but said maybe someday that would change. So let’s keep letting them know we all want all sets released wherever we live!

To be honest, I'm not that upset by this. I mean, if both Europe and the States are not each getting the releases, then it's only fair that one gets one and one gets the other. And we can always trade with each other on the forum.

This reminds me of the blind bag thing, how the States got Wave One, but then Wave Two was in Europe only.

[Taffeta]

I just got an email response back from Bridge Direct confirmating the Rainbow Ponies are European exclusives. They have no current plans to release them elsewhere but said maybe someday that would change. So let’s keep letting them know we all want all sets released wherever we live!

Why the heck would the Rainbow Ponies be Euro-exclusives, but yet they also seemed to confirm that the collector ponies were also going to get a Euro release???

That's why I have asked for clarification. It makes MOST sense for the US to get one set and Europe another set. And yeah, that's fair, six for six, we can trade, not a problem really. But I would like to know whether I'm going to need to trade here for Cotton Candy for Naynie or whether she'll be able to pick up her own one if she wants it from the store...

And we still have no clarification for Australia, NZ etc - so I have asked about that as well.

And I've asked about Peachy.

I suspect they hate me now

[Jorgito93]

Well at least i'm going to be happy to live in France if we get both sets in Europe, but that's still bad if we get both and the US gets only one.

[LadyMoondancer]

Rainbow Dream maybe?

I hope the Rainbow ponies come to the US, but if not I'll just buy a set and pay for the shipping.  It is what it is and I want them.