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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: InkyMilk on August 30, 2012, 11:43:49 PM
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Okay, maybe this is more of a rant than anything, but I consider myself a *somewhat* patient person, but I'm tired of feeling like everyone has all the new ponies but me! :( I knew I'd have to search a bit for the TRU set ponies as I only wanted a few from the set, but what about the brushables being sold everywhere, like Lyra and Sunny Rays? It honestly feels like everywhere else has them but my area (and I've searched neighboring towns and cities as well whenever I travel), practically all our pony merchandise has been wiped out-apparently our Wal-Marts don't even sell MLP at ALL anymore. Should I just give up the hopes in finding them in stores and resort to online buying? I would have really liked to purchase them in person, but it seriously feels like ages. Blah.
/rant.
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My local TRU only has the main 6 with the luggage or...whatever that set was. They had new blind bags but I didn't get to them in time, they sold out fast.
I'm still not going to buy stuff online though, but I'm completely aloof when it comes to G4 stuff. :P If I miss it, oh well! Now if Hasbro releases an anniversary set or something I'll definitely buy it online.
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My local TRU only has the main 6 with the luggage or...whatever that set was. They had new blind bags but I didn't get to them in time, they sold out fast.
I'm still not going to buy stuff online though, but I'm completely aloof when it comes to G4 stuff. :P If I miss it, oh well! Now if Hasbro releases an anniversary set or something I'll definitely buy it online.
The UK is more lame ;) I've only just found talking Cadence, there's no ponies anywhere else and if there is its those luggage ponies.
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Yeah, All I can find are old story packs and the mane six... It's so boring!
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I'm hoping to boost my G4s at Ponycon in October because I've only found ONE regular brushable sized pony that isn't the Mane 6. Grrrr.. Got Cheerilee and Star Dreams as sets and two out of three of the CMC but I want some of the others like Trixie, Lyra, Diamond Rose, Dewdrop Dazzle etc. And I want Nightmare Moon!! :allmycries:
Carrie
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I feel your pain, InkyMilk. My country always takes AGES to get the latest release ponies. There was a Bratz vampire boy doll released in the US that I really wanted and he never even came to New Zealand at all. *pouts*
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I feel you! There is only Pinkie Pies at my stores and it's getting frustrating! I am going out shopping tomorrow I will shop 5 stores and if they are not there, I will be buying online!
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*shrug* At least they're being sold in your country!
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I'm still waiting for them to show up in Sweden. We've got some of the new stuff but far from everything. And don't let me get started on the Target and TRU exclusives which rarely are beeing sold here. Has happend once to my knowledge O.o
So I know the feeling :P I usually try and be patient with the things I suspect will show up, but when it comes to the exclusives and whatnot that I know for a fact won't be sold here I just buy it from nice folks in the pony community. Don't see the point in torturing myself by waiting in vain XD
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Yup - distribution is woeful but unfortunately this is pretty standard for this toy line and these retailers. G3 was just as bad if not worse a lot of the time. I feel your pain - as Party says the UK mainstream stores here are atrocious.
The only consolation I can offer is that we are only a month into the 2012/2013 toy line - this line has to carry for the next 9 months and as it looks unlikely new product is coming out therefore we should see a lot of repeats of the same waves. And I hope this means people can finally get the ponies they are looking for.
I hope you manage to track down the ponies you are looking for!
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I just get mine online cos I get sick of waiting :P
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So obviously, after whinging about pony supply in my last post, I go and find Diamond Rose today.
...bad thing is, I'm not supposed to be buying ponies until ponycon....but eh, she jumped in my bag anyway :P
So folks, you can still find 'em!
Carrie
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Don't quit now! Stores are probably getting rid of their old stock right now, so that they can reset before the Christmas rush/holiday season. I think it will get better soon!
This is what I like to tell myself any way!
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I know how you feel!
My Target and Walmart are both sold out!
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There are plenty of lovely pony pals waiting to help here on the forums. Most are really great to work with and will sell new items pretty close to cost.
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does buying here at the arena count as "online" for you? because I know I prefer to buy from folks here rather than online retailers.
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Oh you're in Gilroy, my best friend lives up there! And she always finds the new ponies long before me, if it's any consolation:P Usually when i get tired of waiting and have her pick stuff up for me, and as soon as she does it magically becomes available in my area lol, figures. I also just traveled from SoCal to Oregon and never found a Lyra, but i have faith that she'll show up soon. Im sure the new ones will show up soon in Gilroy too, Just try to be patient and enjoy the ponies you already have in the meantime :)
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My little town has two store. And they do not carry much. And there has been no Blind Bags anywere in this town either. Your not alone! :)
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I feel the same way with the blind bags. Still no wave 3 or 4 here :(
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Hugs I have that feeling ALL the time. Just now my Walmart has the main 6 in luggage! I just got Daisy Glimmer wing too. I am 2 hours from any Target and about 4 hours from any Toys'R'Us! So I hope for trades on here:) It has come in handy because I was able to get a blossomforth and lily blossom in stores up until now. Many pony folk thank me for that:) So I know what it is like to wait and realize somethings will just no come my way:P
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Sometimes it's easier to buy them online then waste the gas and time to find them in the stores.
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Eh, Hasbro Malaysia's track record with ponies has been lousy since last December. This is why I spend a lot of money on ponies online nowadays. At least over there in the US, you could buy it from Target.com and Toysrus.com. Those sites won't even bother shipping here- and until recently Target was even blocking Malaysian access to their site.
And well, think you have it bad? I've yet to find Trixie, Lyra, Sunny Rays and Cherry Berry locally. They were supposed to come out this month, but they're still a no-show. And since our TRU is just a franchise and since we have no Target in Malaysia, that rules out all the exclusives too. And well, I've never seen the blind-bag ponies, the riding along ponies and the R/C vehicles locally. Hasbro has told my aunt that they don't want to risk importing the R/C vehicles since the Malaysian market is already flooded with cheap R/C vehicles. And I do mean cheap- some of them goes for as low as RM29.99 (~US$9). As for the rest, they have no plans to bring in the Riding Alongs, and probably chose not to bring in the blind bags given how badly the G3.5 bags sold.
So yeah. It's worse over here. Although I make the best of it by importing from contacts I've befriended on eBay and here in the Forums.
You know, you could always put up a wish list in the wanted board. I'm sure many of the members here would be willing to help you get the sets you want, even international sets ^.^
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I agree, post a Wanted list or include your most-wanted in your signature, I am sure members here will help you out!
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Here in Brazil I can only find the first two waves of playful ponies (the very first ones, with bangs and all) and the wedding castle, costing around US$90; so I'm always looking for help from members here to get most ponies
At least we've got Rainbow Flash and Daisy Dreams =P
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Here in Brazil I can only find the first two waves of playful ponies (the very first ones, with bangs and all) and the wedding castle, costing around US$90; so I'm always looking for help from members here to get most ponies
At least we've got Rainbow Flash and Daisy Dreams =P
You have rainbow flash?! Man, Canada has non of this stuff, except talking Cadence.
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I know how you feel! Went to Target today and found... main six, main six, main six, main six.... ugh!! I went into rant mode :P Hasbro, every little girl already has a Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy and collectors have like 3 or 4 each... we want different ponies! Everyone is buying up the Lyras and Trixies and leaving the main six. Which is what I would do too, but Hasbro could make more of them instead of a zillion Pinkies and Twilights :yikes:
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I'm only an hour from you and my Target had everyone but Trixie the other day. (gone now)
Send me a OM or something and I can totally do a pickup for you if I see something you don't have.
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you should turn to buying online, like me, it is my only source for new pony stuff
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I managed to get some blind bags from my walmart from the new set, but someone thought it would be fun to rip them open first and leave behind the ones they didn't want. That is what really upsets me about people. Buy the bag and if you don't get what you want aw well. Don't make the other people suffer. And I haven't been to toys r us yet so I have no idea what they have by us. I hope I can get a :muffin: Pony soon though.
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It's not just you - I *just* found Lyra this week and still no sign of Sunny Rays.
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If it makes you feel any better, I can't find them either.
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I know what you mean InkyMilk... here in germany there are almost no new ponies at all. I get all my ponies from friendly arena (other other forums) members and most of them are great to work with :)
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Hasbro has had less than stellar distribution for awhile. Star Wars also suffers from that. They are so/so with Marvel and Transformers. GI JOE is doing abysmal and retailers are already clearanceing the toys from the crappy movie sequel that was delayed till next year :lol:
That being said, I have been fortunate to find everything I was looking for in Chicagoland.
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Hasbro has had less than stellar distribution for awhile. Star Wars also suffers from that. They are so/so with Marvel and Transformers. GI JOE is doing abysmal and retailers are already clearanceing the toys from the crappy movie sequel that was delayed till next year :lol:
That being said, I have been fortunate to find everything I was looking for in Chicagoland.
The distribution to stores isnt Hasbro - thats the retailers themselves.
Unfortunately until "earlier" waves clear off shelves or have been sitting for 8-10 months to justify clearance, retailers wont stock the next wave.
Hasbro are a nightmare a lot of the time but beyond doubt when it comes to what is being stocked thats a retailer - if a shelf has a big empty section with no ponies but the sales tags then thats a Hasbro supply issue - if the shelves are still filled with earlier releases or there is no space for product then thats a retailer decision. Diamonds recent example about TRU is a great example for this - a DC is sitting with 2000 units of Zecora but she still seems to be hard to find on shelves in the stores this DC services; thats not Hasbro they have supplied the product, thats the retailer and their turnaround and how many units stores request or are supplied with.
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if a shelf has a big empty section with no ponies but the sales tags then thats a Hasbro supply issue
I wouldn't necessary chalk even that up solely to a supply issue - if you've just got a rotten retailer, they may simply not be bothering to restock. It happens a lot at the Wal-Mart here - there have been times an item has been absent from the shelves for so long that we've finally asked about it, been told, "Oh, yes, there are (however many) in the back waiting to be put out," and come back at the suggested time only to find out that it wasn't done. And this goes on for weeks on end (not even just with pony items - I'm talking food and household items and such, too). On pony merchandise, specifically, when other Arena members saw their stores reset earlier this month, ours took much longer about it (we could actually go in from one day to the next and see that no work was being done, to the point that an employee in that department actually complained to US about how it was being handled when she spotted us for the nth time that week - we kind of struck up a sympathetic "God this place sucks" conversation), and even after the shifting of brands to new aisles was complete (our store is notorious for moving things around for seemingly no reason), the endcap with the wedding castle/posters wasn't put up until this week - the castles were just tucked onto a shelf with everything else. We know quite a few people who'll drive to the Wal-Mart a town over rather than shop locally, because the difference in stock and customer service is that dramatic.
Not that I don't have some serious issues with the way Hasbro handles things, too, but sometimes you just don't have to go that far to find the weakest link!
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I've been waiting for blind bag waves here. Have still only seen wave 1. Not a single other kind no matter how much I look. I've stopped making it a mandatory trip to 50 different stores without finding what I want. Now I just drop by the toy section of places I happen to be going to anyway, that way I'm not driving myself crazy or loosing gas money.
As people have mentioned, the Christmas season will be coming soon and I'm sure lots of new stock will be out everywhere. In the meantime, definitely don't torture yourself about it. You don't want to suck the fun out of something that should be a pleasant hobby because you've obsessed over it too much. You never know, maybe one day you'll just be meandering around some place and suddenly you'll see exactly what you've been looking for.
I wish you good luck!
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if a shelf has a big empty section with no ponies but the sales tags then thats a Hasbro supply issue
I wouldn't necessary chalk even that up solely to a supply issue - if you've just got a rotten retailer, they may simply not be bothering to restock. It happens a lot at the Wal-Mart here - there have been times an item has been absent from the shelves for so long that we've finally asked about it, been told, "Oh, yes, there are (however many) in the back waiting to be put out," and come back at the suggested time only to find out that it wasn't done. And this goes on for weeks on end (not even just with pony items - I'm talking food and household items and such, too). On pony merchandise, specifically, when other Arena members saw their stores reset earlier this month, ours took much longer about it (we could actually go in from one day to the next and see that no work was being done, to the point that an employee in that department actually complained to US about how it was being handled when she spotted us for the nth time that week - we kind of struck up a sympathetic "God this place sucks" conversation), and even after the shifting of brands to new aisles was complete (our store is notorious for moving things around for seemingly no reason), the endcap with the wedding castle/posters wasn't put up until this week - the castles were just tucked onto a shelf with everything else. We know quite a few people who'll drive to the Wal-Mart a town over rather than shop locally, because the difference in stock and customer service is that dramatic.
Not that I don't have some serious issues with the way Hasbro handles things, too, but sometimes you just don't have to go that far to find the weakest link!
Thats a good point. :)
I should have said if the warehouse doesnt have stock then its Hasbro :) Dont get me wrong I know we dont call them Hasbroken for nothing but at the same time I think they get a lot of flack when the issue is sometimes as simple as the retailer.
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*pokes OP* the Dublin TRU is confirmed for having the Favorites set and Zecora. My geography isn't so good, so I am not sure if that is closer to you or further away!
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I have not seen any blind bags except for wave 1 until yesterday, but when I got there, they were almost all gone. I want a few of them, and my Walmart has nothing for blind bags right now.
I have not seen any sign of the Lyra, Trixie, etc wave in Walmart, Target, or TRU. My best friend works at Kohl's and is getting me a Lyra from there, and she's found tons of blind bag figures in her end of town. Then again, her husband collects the glitter ones and has been driving all over to find them!
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I have been able to get the Favorites and Zecora and the other day I found a box of blue bags. There were 3 bags missing, but I went ahead and bought the rest of the box since it was at Walmart and they are only $2 each there. At TRU they are $3.
I still haven't been able to find Trixie, Lyra and the other 2 girls. Hopefully I'll find those soon.
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*shrug* Living on an island, I have the same problem. No ponies. :cry: They hardly exist here. It's really sad, I remember when my little ponies could be purchased where I live though... makes me a little depressed.