Hi folks--it's been a couple years since I last posted here! My blind bag collection has been languishing for a while now, with no new additions since 2015, a time when I was gradually transitioning into caring more about brushables instead. And then all the molds got replaced because of the movie and I lost interest altogether. I've sold a few since then, but there were always just so many blind bags to process, mostly acquired one by one individually, that putting them all on eBay always seemed like too time-consuming an endeavor and so nothing ever happened.

Today I took almost all of them to a local "free market" (like a flea market but everything is free), and happily watched for the next three hours as they all found new homes. Most were taken by adults getting presents for their daughters or granddaughters, though there was an elementary school teacher who took a lot of them to give to her students as prizes for good behavior, and a 20-something woman who seemed enchanted by each new name I told her (particularly Sassaflash), and another young woman who was actually familiar with the characters and really liked Trixie. The best, though, was a maybe 5-year-old girl who kept taking a few, asking me what they were called, giving them to her parents to hold onto, wandering off, then returning some minutes later to take a few more. At one point her father had his hands overflowing with ponies and ended up transferring a lot into his shirt pocket.

So yeah! It was a really fun time, and I hope they all go to good homes that give them more attention than I've managed to provide of late. And I kept most of the mane 6, and all my Minuette figures, and most of my prototypes and all my fakies. They may or may not be kept forever but I think I deserve a break now.

I got Quibble Pants by spending about thirty gems on rushing.

For additional context, paying $100 will get you, at most, three of those yaks, which are purely digital, useless game constructs that you will forget about soon after getting because you have so many other ponies in there already. And you can only get three because gems are on sale right now.

The number of actual pony toys you could get for that same amount, of course, is far higher.

Yeah, skipping the dialog feels like the way to go here.

Anypony else surprised that the MLP Movie story art/events are happening BEFORE the movie release?

Maybe they don't want people to see the movie? I'm confused too.

PSA for y'all, there's a bits pony and a bits shop available now. Also look around the shops for various areas, there are a couple of them requiring tasks now.

You can get most things, it just takes a long time

Yeah I was surprised to see how randomly full the shop was... picked up three ponies for 275 gems and am now nearly out again. Rationally I should probably save them for some super-important pony for some community event or something, but those are just kind of annoying and I'll take the short-term gratification instead.

The fillies need 70 items each, so they'd better stick around a long while... a few hours jumpstart isn't going to make a difference.