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And yet if they'd sell directly to the consumers we'd buy them all. In the age of the internet Basic Fun would do well to bypass snotty retailers. Their site lists Walmart as a retailer and yet they don't carry any of the retro ponies AT ALL. IF you order from Walmart's website, it comes from a 3rd party seller. So why Basic Fun is letting the retailers determine their line is beyond me. The retailers that say they carry them don't carry them so of course they're not selling!
Quote from: Pokeyonekenobie on November 18, 2019, 07:08:00 AMAnd yet if they'd sell directly to the consumers we'd buy them all. In the age of the internet Basic Fun would do well to bypass snotty retailers. Their site lists Walmart as a retailer and yet they don't carry any of the retro ponies AT ALL. IF you order from Walmart's website, it comes from a 3rd party seller. So why Basic Fun is letting the retailers determine their line is beyond me. The retailers that say they carry them don't carry them so of course they're not selling!I can only speak for over here but we have the opposite problem...we're playing hunt the pony because despite a list of places for the UK from a while back, turns out that it's not as straight forward as that. They're showing up in some stores in some regions and not in others...plus Entertainer wasn't on the list for the unipegs but lo and behold they had them. Smyths was, and some have had them - ours still has the CP set. It's really hit and miss like that for what sets are where. Still trying to work out the logic by which Firefly appeared in JL when none of the rest of her set did (and in more than one location, so not one accident box).BUT all the store employees I've spoken to about these have said THEY ARE selling very well and are popular. I would imagine it's the same in other places - where the distribution happens, they are selling. The problem is the same problem of getting an even coverage across places. Here, Amazon does help that a bit, but it doesn't resolve it entirely and it's not as much fun as finding them in stores.I am personally ok with them not making the LD parlour (it isn't a thing, anyway, nice as it would have been to have LD - maybe we'll get her in a different context of some kind, who knows) or the flutters. With the latter, making the wings sturdy enough to not break so easily in play is basically taking away some part of the flutters as they were for me. I like the wings in the delicate format, which is not practical for a modern toy release, even a retro. Unless they did a high powered adult collector release for that set, I'm fine with us not having them redone. The perfection in a flutter pony for me is in the fragility, but you shouldn't be selling toys that break 2 seconds into opening them.
Anyone know if they will be having any other ponies coming out in 2020?
Quote from: achab1984 on November 20, 2019, 04:13:18 PMAnyone know if they will be having any other ponies coming out in 2020?Yes! Gusty, Sparkler, Heart Throb, and Surprise, as well as baby ponies.
I hope Powder is part of a future plan. It will be sad without her as BF have done such a good job of filling the hole hasbro left in the UK line in 86ish so far...
Basic Fun hasn't left any set incomplete so far. I think we can be fairly certain Powder/Sky Flier will be added to the set later. Like Pinwheel /Starflower for the second Rainbow set. I feel like the only thing that could stop this is if the line was cancelled before the ponies can be made.