I'm not really wild about them but I do love Baby Leafy and Creamsicle, and I'm fond of Oakly.  I have the first two...maybe someday I'll lay my hands on Oakly 

I just checked and Polaris is showing up as in stock on Amazon again.
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Thanks!  It seems I was just looking in the dedicated Basic Fun area of Amazon rather than...all of it

Wow that playset is something else.  I'm trying to decide if I would have liked it as a kid or not.  I'm just not sure...

Anyway, G5 valentines are out in stores around here, here's what I found:

Walmart had watercolor valentines.  They are just a card with a printed lineart scene and 4 paint pads, and a paintbrush you attach.  There is a Sunny design and a Hitch design.  I got these and they were lots of fun, I had great success mixing the colors and such.  Admittedly I did have better success on my second try using my own personal paintbrushes because as you can imagine the ones they come with aren't great   

Kroger had valentines that were a card, an envelope, and a "bag tag" - think a rubber(?) Sunny charm on a plastic clip. (Kroger is a midwest USA grocery store)  I think these had the comic-book/cartoony style art but I could be misremembering.

Target had some as well, I think they were a card, and envelope, and an Izzy and Sunny sticker.  These cards had the CGI art.

I haven't seen that Bluey collection but I have definitely seen some huge collections of other things.  Sometimes they do seem  excessive to me, but I was raised in a "moderation in all things" household.  Still, it's really kind of a culture shock to me rather than being inherently morally problematic. 

There is no way to please everyone all of the time.  You gotta think of what YOU value.  Unless you are donating every spare (insert your national currency here) to charity, then you could guilt yourself over SOMETHING, I'm sure.  Did you fly on a plane this year?  Shame on you for climate change!  Did you drive a car?  Shame on you for all those tire microplastics and danger to pedestrians!  Did you watch TV?  Shame on you for using electricity when you could have read a library book!

There are so many ways to approach MLP collecting from a moral angle: unnecessary plastic packaging, spending money you could have donated to charity or something, keeping toys from kids who would enjoy them (debatable IMHO), supporting companies with possibly bad factory conditions, encouraging the production of plastic products, etc.  I guess the key is to just keep your OWN collecting efforts within YOUR values.  If you feel like you've gone too far, then maybe you have!  If not, then do your thing 

I definitely don't feel bad about collecting vintage ponies.  They are quite possibly no longer even SAFE for children to handle, so they are better off with adult collectors.  Just thinking of some poor 2 year old teething on an old pony leaking plasticizer is gross 

For new ponies, I do really appreciate the move away from plastic and toward cardboard packaging!  Plastic waste is an important issue to me personally, so this is significant to me.  But to people who don't care about that, it would be a non-issue. But then, something else that I do without shame might be something they would find really bothersome. 

TBH, rehairing does bother me a bit bc of all the tiny plastic bits created when I trim the hair.  But I try to keep that to a minimum and make sure it all gets into the trash can. 

Overall, I feel like toy collecting by adults is such a minor thing compared to other things that have a MUCH more significant impact on the world around us 

I've looked at a couple of Cracker Barrels and Meijers in the Midwest USA, no luck.  One of the Meijers still had all of the Posey wave of Basic Funs, (if anyone still needs any of those lmk!) and a couple TEs. One Cracker Barrel had a couple of the TEs, too.  But no luck with the Celestials!  I'll be continuing to look, as I would prefer to get then in person and I avoid Amazon as well.

Oh they made a Misty!  I hope I can find one in a store, I'm really curious about how they did her mane styling.  Her hair wasn't pink in the show, though?  Is Hasbro anti-teal?  And yes that is a rhetorical question, ha.

Oh wow, I LOVE LOVE LOVE that color scheme!  She's really cute, nice job