Question about the SDCC exclusive(s)? FiM Zecora At Comic Con

[missbonbon]

I already knew that Ditzy Doo was going to be released as an exclusive, but I found on eBay today that someone is selling Zecora - glow in the dark SDCC exclusive. SO there are two? Has anyone heard anything about Zecora

[topic merge ~ so we can all talk about the same thing in the same place! ~ many thanks ~ hathorcat]

[Eskara1862]

Dude... You're right. A little more digging turned this up: Toys'R'Us Announces Top 10 Comic Con Exclusives

It looks like she'll be a $10 sneak peek there, but come to regular stores later this year. I want a ComicCon boxed one!

[missbonbon]

So we'll get the same one in Toys R Us later in the year?

[teresat]

I'm glad she's going to be at TRU stores this fall. The Grey One will probably sell out before she makes it to the Hasbro Toy Shop.

[StarlightGaze]

Even if Ditzy Doo does make it to the Hasbro Toy Shop, I doubt there will be many. They'll sell out super fast because she is very popular among Bronies.

[Elisto]

It doesn't sound like she's an exclusive, certainly not a Hasbro exclusive, but a TRU "first look". To me, that sounds like she's a TRU store exclusive (which I guess we already knew), but that TRU decided to release her as a sort of sneak peak/preview at SDCC? I don't know how that works, but I'd expect her to be in her regular packaging then.

[Phekzhen]

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Yup, Zecora is available at Comic Con!

TRU did a press release about this, and it'll be for sale at their booth. She'll be $10, just like her normal price at TRU this fall.

She glows in the dark, she has painted/pad printed markings and jewelry, her mane is a mohawk (no combing!) and she has string wrapped around the base of her tail to give it the "zebra" look. The marks aren't on the inside of her legs, so she isn't perfect, but she's pretty awesome still!

She's a Collector's line exclusive, which means we'll only see her at TRU. But since the set's coming out August 15 and Whitelestia is coming out in Septmeber, we should expect Zecora to come out at a similar time, though she's not up for preorder yet. These were also the only Collector's line toys announced, so at least we know what they're all going to look like in their packaging.

[ochibawolf]

Comic con, just take all my money

Another thing to get! I wonder if she'll have a SDCC exclusive box? And a different one when she's released at TRU...

[Dragonflitter]

So she'll be for sale at TRU but you can also buy her early at ComicCon! Neat! I like that idea, Hasbro. Keep it up.

I do wish I didn't have to shell out $10 for a single pony of that size. Buuuut she's awesome so I'll button up and just do it.

[BrightSide]

-swoon-

She's so gorgeous.. CC goers are ever so lucky. I just hope there will be some kind arena members to help out suffering UK folk when she's released in your stores.

[cloud_weaver]

Me me!!!  I want!!!

[fiwen30]

Too cool! Though it looks like her 'braclets' aren't printed around all of her leg?

[ochibawolf]

I wish they actually gave her jewelry.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I still want her but I'll wait for the TRU release and order her online... with that said, it's hard for me to tell but on the leg with the bangles... it looks like it's not painted all the way around her leg... might just be the photo but I don't know

[Phekzhen]

Too cool! Though it looks like her 'braclets' aren't printed around all of her leg?

I still want her but I'll wait for the TRU release and order her online... with that said, it's hard for me to tell but on the leg with the bangles... it looks like it's not painted all the way around her leg... might just be the photo but I don't know

This has to do with how eyes and such are printed on the pony.

Stealing this from my blog, when I was talking about Luna's butt

I’m going to get a bit technical here, but how they place her, and all, cutie marks is because of the limits of what they’re doing for printing. Cutie marks and eyes are printed with pad printing.

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The cutie mark is printed first onto a surface, and then a silicon “pad” presses down on the print, and then pressed down on, say, the pony’s head or flank. This is how logos are printed on golf balls, metal water bottles, and other three dimensional surfaces that you want to print on, but don’t want to use a label or a sticker.

Even though a pony flank or eye socket is three dimensional, it’s still mostly flat. In order to do a cutie mark for Luna that reaches the edges of her top and side flanks would require the pad to be warped quite a bit, especially for the fashion style size. To do so would require a lot of pressure to warp it that much, which could possibly damage her. It’s easier for Hasbro to just use the same pressure setting on everypony and just shrink Luna’s cutie mark instead, though it creates a less accurate design.

So they can't get the "pad" inbetween the legs. If her legs were separate pieces like in the shinebright ponies, this would work, but this is the best they can do with the technology.