Confetti...I thinks she's just adorable!

Parasol...I usually go for the white ponies (Sundance is my fave) but there's just something about the combo of peach with rainbow hair and a shy pose that I love.

Went back to my Target and snagged them finally today!  I'm in Georgia, US, so all my Georgia pony friends keep your eyes open!  I wasn't going to get them at first, but I love the packaging.  I ALMOST want to ditch my 25th anniversary set.  And I really want to open one of these just to smell them and see if they smell like my childhood ponies.  I loved that new pony smell as a kid.

Edit to add:  I know each store is different, but my store had them next to retro Strawberry dolls and above the new retro care bears.

I'm dying right now because I'm having the exact same dilemma...I really want to open one just to smell it!
Card carrying member of Pony Sniffers Anonymous 

Here's my experience trying to buy these: 
Sunday I went to my closest Target and they were nowhere to be seen. In all fairness it looked like a tornado had hit their toy section, but a nice employee looked them up for me using the stock# posted here. Stockbyme  showed the store had them but he told me they sold all of them 3 days ago??
So then we head to the next closest Target (hubby in tow and ask an employee since we can't find them on the shelf. After lots of back and forth with a manager, we were told they're in the back, somewhere, waiting for the toy section to be re-set. They said come back tomorrow and they'll be out. I was bummed but said I understood and that we'd try to come back. But I knew I probably wouldn't the next day because it's a good 45 minute to 1 hour drive.
So the next night, Monday, my hubby surprises me by coming home with the original stock box filled with all 6!!! 

He apparently went back Monday morning before work and nothing had been put out, so he waited almost an hour for them to find the ponies in the back. They must have felt sorry for him or something. My hubby is a cowboy (hat, boots, buckle, whole deal) so picture him at Target in the middle of town asking for MLP toys 

It was very nice of the employee to even bother and greatly appreciated. I checked the stockbyme website the same day and the stock had been updated after my purchase.

I think I'm going to open one tomorrow just to smell it! Lol
If I do, I'll post an update in case there are any other curious PSA members out there 

Thanks to everyone sharing info 

I think I've seen my fair share of cereal boxes and lots of walmart bags as packing materials. Not pony, but I did have a white plastic item wrapped in newspaper (very unhappy).

I've also had so many that were packing taped around bubble wrap so much that I was worried I would cut my ponies hair off 

Me too on the packing tape around bubble wrap thing!!
I mean sure, the pony is pretty comfy during shipping but I'm always a nervous wreck cutting it all off 

That's so shady 

I'm so sorry it happened to you.
I think they're basically begging for your negative feedback with that kind of behavior!

Basically, I drive to/for everything. We live in such a rural area that driving is my only option for getting to town.
It's always so much fun for me though when we vacation in a place where we can walk to everything 

 
Nice to meet you!

That's awesome, good for you!! 

My Goodwiill doesn't even carry toys. I probably would have been so nervous until I got out of there... thinking they might change their mind and not take the money I was throwing at them!