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There's a shelf tag for the baby hippogriffs at my local Meijer, but I've only seen it stocked with baby sea ponies. It makes me think that they were at least expecting to carry them, but their MLP section is still choked with old stock like the hairbow assortment so...
I bought mine from Amazon from a private seller. I haven't seen even a tiny hint of the things being released in the USA at any major retailer. I'm betting they would have shown up at TRU if it hadn't gone bankrupt. The most likely place for them to show up now are discount stores(Dollar Tree, Big Lots, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, etc). That's the usual dumping ground for anything that Hasbro's horrid distribution does this to. If they end up there, I'd expect them in the next 6 months or so, maybe up to a year.I don't know if this is still the case, but I knew someone who tried to create a small online store for the G3s back in the day. She told me some very interesting information about how Hasbro runs things that could explain why the distribution for later waves of many sets is so bad.According to her, each set got its own unique product number. However, each wave within that set did not. When she ordered from Hasbro directly as a retailer, she could choose, say as an example the Butterfly Island "Sunny Scents" ponies, but she couldn't specify which wave of them. Sometimes she got lucky, and got what she wanted. Sometimes Hasbro sent her old stock instead, and she was stuck with it. Hasbro has a fairly large minimum order for small retailers($5000), and you can't send anything back, so every time she ordered it was a risk.Again, I have no idea if they still do this, or if the rules are even the same for the big retailers. It's entirely possible that when you're ordering $300,000 worth of one set for national distribution that Hasbro lets them do whatever they want. It's also possible that Hasbro changed its policies and distribution system in the last 10 years. However, it could explain the wide distribution of the first waves of any given line, and then the shrinking distribution of all waves that come after.