The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Ponyfan on August 03, 2017, 02:46:46 PM
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I guess they just aren't out in my area yet. I was really looking forward to the sea ponies and Princess Skystar and her musical shell. I've checked Toys R Us, Target and Walmart and have found a few things, but not many. I did find the baby sea ponies and their shells though. Two weeks ago I did find 3 of the Mane 6 sea ponies but they were out too early so the store said I had to come back the next weekend. When I went back after the street date they weren't out on the shelves. Maybe my area is just slow putting them out.
Ponyfan
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They may just be slow. I checked Sunday, when they were supposed to be out, and my TRU had nothing, and Target had some. Went yesterday to TRU, and they had brought it all out. Hopefully they put it out at yours while the sale is still on.
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I haven't been seeing much of them yet either. I haven't checked TRU at all but last time I went to Target they only had a couple things (Pinkie/Luna set, blindbag set, and the swimming Pinkie Pie). Last time I went to Walmart they didn't have any movie stuff IIRC.
Hopefully they're all out in full force by the time my birthday comes around! :P
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I haven't found any so far either, but keep looking! The movie will be out in October, so I feel like they'll be trying to get out as much merch by the end of August as they can.
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I say good luck. I'm still going on no new ponies in my area, we still have the single bagged ponies only and maybe a few pinkie and cheese sandwich playsets. but nothing other than that and the pony section is more and more shopkins and other things section they have two baskets and thats it at my walmart
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I haven't seen hide nor hair of them either, sadly! My local shops are still trying to sell the Princess Twilight train set, and the articulated brushable packs...
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The movie ponies are all over the place here, but there aren't any baby sea ponies among all the stuff I've seen, so it looks like different countries are just putting out stuff at slightly different times. I imagine you'll have them all soon enough :D
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Same here. Can't find them or the loyal subjects ones.
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I was able to find a fair amount of the new merchandise at one of my two local Walmarts,the other one just had old stock. Toys R US had just a few sea ponies, both Targets in my area have not a thing. Shelves were completely bare short of two items. :I
I tried to do ship to store for the exclusive Songbird Seranade brushable that they claimed was in stock and they just canceled my order.
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Thanks everyone. I will keep trying. I checked Toys R Us again today (3rd time this week) and got excited when I saw the pony aisle was full. However it was full of older MLP toys and there were only a few movie toys out. I think my Toys R Us may be waiting until the sale is over. I got a Toys R Us catalog today that showed the exclusive set with Tempest and another set and the catalog said the prices were good starting 8/11
Ponyfan
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I don't have a TRU in my area but our Target had the spaces for the movie toys.. however I think I caught them on a restock day so there really was nothing there...
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Thanks everyone. I checked two Targets and two Walmart stores today. The first Target had almost everything out, one Walmart had nothing, the other had a few toys out including the new Guardians of Harmony pirate ponies and the other Target only had a few things. I still can't find Princess Skystar and her musical shell though.
Ponyfan
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From the other side of world, nothing.
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From the other side of world, nothing.
They're here in the UK, Alkevin, so Portugal must get them soon, I'm sure. Keep looking :D Sometimes they show up on the continent first, sometimes in the UK first, but there isn't usually a huge stretch of time between the two. Don't give up!
@Ponyfan - so glad you're finally seeing them show up by you :)
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Thank you Taffeta. :) I was really happy to see them showing up also. I'm hoping some of the stores that haven't put them out yet will soon. I'm sure more sea ponies will be joining my herd.
Ponyfan
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I've checked Toys R US again and still they only have a few movie toys including the extra large Twilight Sparkle animatronic toy and a lot of older toys on the shelves. Walmart was resetting and putting out new pony toys but I still haven't found either musical shell sea pony.
Ponyfan
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I'm going to be going to Target today, I'll report back any findings!
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My Target finally has them. I found them on Sunday. They had rearranged the toy aisles and put out what they had for the new season. I got the baby seaponies and they had just a handful of other things.
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Okay, here's what my Target has:
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Songbird Serenae is an exclusive? Argh!
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Thanks TheBeatlesPkmnFan42. :) It looks like your Target has a good selection of sea ponies.
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Okay, here's what my Target has:
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They finally have the Nightmare Night BBs?!
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Sometime in the next few days I plan on going to TRU, so when I do I will report back about that!
They finally have the Nightmare Night BBs?!
Yep!
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I found 1 toy at GameStop. GoH Storm King with his little skunk minion.
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ETA: Found a few at TrU. Tempest, Skystar and Mane 6 merponies. No babies though
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Songbird Serenae is an exclusive? Argh!
According to mlpmerch all figures of Songbird Seranade are going to be Target exclusives with the lone exception of the Build a Bear one.
All mlp pirate themed stuff is going to be Walmart exclusives.
They went big in the exclusives this year.
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Songbird Serenae is an exclusive? Argh!
According to mlpmerch all figures of Songbird Seranade are going to be Target exclusives with the lone exception of the Build a Bear one.
All mlp pirate themed stuff is going to be Walmart exclusives.
They went big in the exclusives this year.
Sigh
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I went back to Target and a lot of the movie toys were already gone. They still had most of the larger ponies like swimming Pinkie, singing Songbird and Twilight and Spike. The non transforming Mane 6 sea ponies were gone.
Ponyfan
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so my walmart decided to prove me wrong. I went and checked and cause we NEVER got the new stuff on actual release time I was NOT expecting anything new.
to my surprise we had the sea ponies and pirate twilight and pirate pinky 0-0 I couldn't afford them but oh man my walmart actually has new stuff!
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I dropped in on the far-away Target today and found a similar display to the picture above, quite plundered but still had some stuff left.
After seeing the Magic of Everypony set in person, the skinny legs look pretty good in this size and the bubbleheads don't look so bad really with the "show accurate hair"...it was fun to see them up close.
Seeing the swimming Pinky in person, I decided against her for now....in person she doesn't look as nice for the hand as i thought, but maybe later. I did buy the cloth tail changeable Pinky, even though Fluttershy's tail colors are better (might be a good fluttershy to buy later I guess, even though she's worst pony haha). Seems the tail is just a skirt with a spring clip sewed in, and under that is a mostly-normal, hip-and-shoulder-jointed figure. I like skirts on ponies, and posable joints, so:
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I also got the big glassy-eyed Skystar merpony, though not the shell version. I used a 1" wire hook to secure my Twily big merpony to the wall, looks much better than standing on her tail:
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I didn't plan for a second one of these and I can't figure out where I have that much wall around here anyway so for now I posed Skystar on Twily's hook:
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This size Skystar is big thick and heavy like I wanted, but they did skip her nose freckles and her forehead is too big...ug, good thing I didn't look too close at her in the store or I might have hesitated to buy her.
Oh I also saw the Twily and Spike duet which isn't as good as it's supposed to be at ALL, has three short sayings and the one together with spike just plays every third time whether they're touching or not....I thought it was supposed to be context-sensitive, and this as well as the Sia pony have sound clips far too short. With today's tech, it's kinda inexcusable not to have longer sound samples in there. Oh also it isn't Tara Strong's voice either, and it's not a good as the animatronix Twily's voice (the one I call the Starlily Twilight, maybe I should call her Twi-Lily?).
Oh I got her some batteries today but there's not much point in putting them in...I know what to expect from a toy review. She's OK, but she's not as good as Starlily who is much softer and more luxurious, better-proportioned and has much better sounds. Maybe I battery her up anyway....I got two packs because my Star Lily is low on juice so she's getting a fresh set too.
Oh yeah I forgot to add, I found the Nightmare Night BBs there too, but I had a look at the card and I don't get it: while the packages are all dressed up in the first Nightmare Night art, none of the ponies have costumes??? what's the point?! I wanted some Nightmare Night costumed ponies, cmon hasbron't.
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Hrm, now I know what you guys are talking about with the Nightmare Night BB, I have seen thm a lot here. Was there an issue with their distribution or something? <--barely in the loop.
I saw a big plush-but-somehow-animatronic movie related Twilight in Smyths the other day. She was up way too high for me to look at in detail or take photos of so I don't know what her deal is. She looked a bit creepy to me...
Looking it up on the site I guess it was probably this?
https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/fashion-and-dolls/my-little-pony/my-little-pony-my-magical-princess-twilight-sparkle/p/160437
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Ooh Lostpony, I love the way the merponies look when mounted on the wall! Looks like it's the best way to display a sort of swimming pose.
I'm wondering, does Princess Luna in the new mold have her symbol backwards? It's backwards in every stock photo, but I saw a picture where it wasn't, so maybe not...?
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Thanks Luxrayx! i think so too. A big gold hook at a funny angle to go around the base of the mertail does the trick. I think a couple of nails in the right places might work too, like one uder the bent front leg, and another further back?
Taffeta, yes that's the giant "Magical Twilight Sparkle". She's pretty lame. I got mine off Hasbro's website with a 20% discount so got her around $100, probably the best price we're going to see on her until they are trying to get rid of stock later. I put batteries in her for the first time last night, and checked her out. She's supposed to have four "modes", but when you touch her sensors (on her nose on cheeks) she responds with a few rote responses that are the same in all the modes and there doesn't seem to be a lot of seconds of stuff in her mode sounds.....quite a bit more than the smaller toys which seem to have really disappointingly short sounds though. She's actually a remake of Starlily, who has no modes and no off switch and has a mouth-sensor that you put a fake strawberry in to wake her up and get munching sounds, and all the way round Starlily makes such happy and excited sounds and is just so dreamy. Twilight is pretty boring, constantly asks if you've seen Spike so she can tell him to take a note (though she doesn't come with any Spike), and if I expected better I'd have been disappointed. Oh yes physically, Starlily has luxurious fuzzy skin and Twilight doesn't, so she look a bit gaunt, and of course they changed her head to be a bubble, and her ears are only fabric while Starlily's have a rubber foundation to them that is really neat. What I don't understand is why they didn't do this for Pinky instead of (or along with) Twily...I think Pinky would have made a much better toy than Twily in this sort of thing. She sings the FiM theme song too, replacing the notes that follow "my little pony" with "friendship is magic". So, I'm glad I got her because I had to get her but she could have been a lot better. She's not getting a spot on my bed alongside Starlily and Buildabears.
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Do you mean this Luna?
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Yeah, that Luna! Plus every other bubble head mold Luna. Her symbol is backwards in the stock photo, but I guess it was fixed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I was so busy grimacing at the way the new Princesses look that I didn't even notice the symbol.
Forcing me to look away from that mesmerizing weird head, I notice that she looks OK otherwise....maybe if I sculpt a replacement head I could go ahead and get these. The wings and bum look good and I think a little hot water would let me move the wings into a more active pose. I wonder why the hoof armor isn't colored in...that has to be remedied too.
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Okay, today I went to Toys R Us (got that 12 pack with the Mane 6 and 6 other ponies, I've got one more thing to get with my birthday money and then I'll post all my new stuff!), and they had a decent amount of Movie stuff.
They didn't have everything. I didn't see the Princess Skystar or Pinkie Pie seapony with the musical shells, Seashell Lagoon, or Seaquestria. Don't think I saw the set with Tempest either. They had the baby seaponies, the big 12 pack set I got, I think they had some of the molded hair sets? They had the big talking creepy Twilight Sparkle... I think the seaponies with fabric tails... I really should have taken a photo because it's hard to remember off the top of my head everything that they had.
In the next few days I will have to go to Walmart for groceries, so expect my report on that soon-ish.
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Oh the big Twily is creepy all right, and I'm interested to know if anyone else here buys her other than me.
I couldn't resist anything built on my Starlily's chassis, but if I wasn't hooked on Starlily (at first sight by the way before I even knew she was robotic) I would wonder why anyone would buy the crazy giant expensive Twilight. Nonetheless, I'm glad I did and she does have a certain charm so those of you who have nothing better to do with your money, get her!
I don't think too many are going to buy her. I bet she sits on shelves for two years before they liquidate her though.
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I don't think too many are going to buy her. I bet she sits on shelves for two years before they liquidate her though.
Literally? That sounds painful xD
If it's here, she'll be still shelf sitting five years from now. If TRU can still stock MH dolls from 2011 with a straight face, no issues on giant creepy Twilight.
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She might be intended to be a shelf-sitter in the first place: a bigger, more exorbitant toy than most will ever buy. Kids will pester, their adults will buy many less expensive ones to try and meet the demand, and the kids will never know how awful she really is because they won't get her, haha.
I dunno maybe she'll be a hit. I wonder if bronies will even like her. Poor Quasimodo Twily, and her pose in the box really is hunchbacked. Out of her package, she actually has much better posture. I like her, but I'm weird like that.
(as to liquidation, maybe she's a candidate for the Rainbow Factory....)
Monster High from 2011 huh? I saw one I really really liked on sale at Target and by the time I decided to go ahead and buy her, she was gone and now I keep looking for any I like, but nope. Just that one. Shoulda paid attention to her name, and I guess it was the outfit I liked. She's probably still on the shelves over there!
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I do want the creepy animaTwilight specifically because it's so creepy! But not at the price that she's at, and probably not even for $100. Maybe if she were to ever be $50 or something. More likely though I probably would have to get her if I were to find her at a thrift store. It would be fun to own creepy Twlight, but she's so pricey!
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Well...using Starlily as an example, I got mine after she'd been on the shelves two years on sale for about $100 (her original price being I think $10 or so below Twily's) and on a fluke got a second one new in a rather beatup box at Goodwill for $35 (who gets liquidation inventory from Target) just after she started disappearing from TRU and Target. Then i found her again clean and working at my used kids store for $25.
Don't expect to find Twily under $100 for a long long time. Considering the big merponies are already $15 and the Sia pony is $25, maybe just save up for a while, and get her when she's $100 like I did. If you get her at Hasbro's website, she's free shipping and it seems it isn't hard to time one of their 20% coupons...I got her on a one or two day sale and I think I got another 20% for next time just for signing up. I haven't even seen her in my Walmarts and targets...she's prolly at TRU by now though.
She's actually not as bad as I described, and she's a LOT better for sounds than the other offerings in the movie line. If you want her, get her! You aren't going to be disappointed....
Also, I have two of Starlily's predecessor Butterscotch. A little bigger, much bigger hooves, a lot fuzzier, has mouth that moves and makes some pony sounds but nothing wordsy or cutesy, and turns its head but no hoof-raising. Holds its value on eBay for sure, I got both of mine as a fluke at thrift for like $4 each Wow! The smaller Butterscotch, there's a like two foot tall one from a while back, that kids can sit on which costs like $600+ on eBay and I reeeeally want one of those, have no idea how it is in person. Hasbro has done a lot of great big animatronix ponies but Twily is the first time that's crossed over with MLP toys so in that, giant Twily is very special. If she doesn't sell, they might not do any more....if she does sell well, maybe they'll improve the basic Starlily capabilities and make a much better one that does more....I keep hoping, but it seems since Starlily their animatronix stuff is getting smaller and cheaper like the baby dragon Torch and the dog that poops (and you re-feed it the same pellets it pooped out, eeks!)...I'm guessing if Twily doesn't do well, they're going to quit doing stuff that costs over $80 so I really hope she does well.
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Monster High from 2011 huh? I saw one I really really liked on sale at Target and by the time I decided to go ahead and buy her, she was gone and now I keep looking for any I like, but nope. Just that one. Shoulda paid attention to her name, and I guess it was the outfit I liked. She's probably still on the shelves over there!
It's really just our TRU. They are confused about whether they are a shop or a toy museum I think ;)
If you remember what she looked like at all I can try and help you figure out who she was. I'm no expert but I can try ;)
As for Quasitwilight, I agree, she is weird looking. But it might be that they do a rush on her for Christmas and some kids get her for the holidays. It's the kind of toy that unwise parents splurge on at that time of year.
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Honestly, I wouldn't worry about not finding them. My boyfriend and I must have gone to at least five different targets in our city and every single one's stock was nearly completely barren (lots of empty peg spots on the walls), like someone either raided the whole wall (not likely) and just left a few behind, or they just haven't put it out yet. Working in transportation (and sometimes being lucky enough to see this stuff while they're wrapped on their pony pallets) and in retail in the past, I can tell you that merchandise gets moved around so quickly and so frequently that it's easy to misplace entire shipments of goods, believe it or not! :what:
Never fear though, I've noticed that some locations have some parts of the set (one we went to had ALL of the sea ponies and none of the mane six, one had only Songbird Serenade, etc), so it could be that they're just being unloaded strangely (if they got the shipment first, it would be in the "back" of the storage area, if they got it later on it would be towards the front), which also might explain the unpredictable stocking pattern I've been noticing. :drunk:
I will say that they are worth the wait, though! I picked up the 3" Rarity playset and the merpony babies, and the quality is pretty nice for the price you pay! Though I did find it amusing that the phrase "Not intended for water play" was on the side of mermaid toys! You mean I can't play with my seaponies in the tub?! Rarity's hair is actually smooth and manageable (I got the Crystal Castle and Cadence was quite literally frazzled/melted/something beyond repair), so I think they're definitely worth the wait! Best of luck to you and remember, they'll be bound to restock them! :good:
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Today I went to Walmart, I saw a few things, the Pinkie/Luna and Twilight/Skystar sets, the single seapony AJ, Rarity, and Twilight (they had one each of those three and I couldn't resist buying the Twilight!), I don't think they had any of their exclusive movie stuff out yet. There's at least two (maybe three) other Walmarts close by, maybe one of them has more.
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I'm still fascinated by the fact that the merbabies are all over the US but not here. But the musical shell sea Skystar and Pinkie are all over the UK, and not there. How does that even work in Hasbro's mind? Is there a plan at work here or is that completely random?
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That's tradition, Taffeta. Sounds like the G1 distribution...
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Thanks everyone for reporting on what you're finding. :) I know what's out now is probably just the first wave of movie toys and that the new toys are most likely being bought soon after they are put out on the shelves.
I also find it interesting that Skystar and Pinkie with their musical shells are not being found much in the US (if at all) Maybe most stores didn't get them in their shipments? I've only found the baby sea ponies at Target but have found the fabric tails, Man 6 sea ponies(Applejack, Rarity and Twilight) and playsets in a few stores now.
Lostpony I like how your merponies look hanging on the wall. :)
Ponyfan
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Thanks Ponyfan! Just a simple gold hook did the trick.
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Anyone found the babies at Walmart and Toys r Us yet?
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Anyone found the babies at Walmart and Toys r Us yet?
I think I recall them being at my Toys R Us. Didn't see them at the one Walmart I've checked.
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Anyone found the babies at Walmart and Toys r Us yet?
I think I recall them being at my Toys R Us. Didn't see them at the one Walmart I've checked.
Ah, so there's hope.
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That's tradition, Taffeta. Sounds like the G1 distribution...
The G1 distribution here generally revolved around not putting on shelves in stores near me any pony from a set that I really wanted. Compounded by no year 2 unicorns or pegasus ponies. Yes, I remember those days well...
Though I think the musical shells will get to the US, they are on US amazon. And I am sure we'll get merbabies at somepoint too. It's just the order of it is so weird. We have the cloth tails and the merpony mane six, we have the skystar/twilight set and Novo's castle and a whole slew of the stuff you guys are also finding (though no Songbird Serenade), but we get shell ponies everywherre, and you get merbabies everywhere. O.o.
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Thanks everyone for reporting on what you're finding. :) I know what's out now is probably just the first wave of movie toys and that the new toys are most likely being bought soon after they are put out on the shelves.
I also find it interesting that Skystar and Pinkie with their musical shells are not being found much in the US (if at all) Maybe most stores didn't get them in their shipments? I've only found the baby sea ponies at Target but have found the fabric tails, Man 6 sea ponies(Applejack, Rarity and Twilight) and playsets in a few stores now.
I did find Skystar and Pinkie with their shells at Toys R Us so they are in the US. I actually saw almost all of the new stuff there except for the babies. They even had the Seaquestria Castle, the Equestria Girls minis movie collection and movie theater, and the new brushables with the scenes on their sides. The Walmarts and Targets I've been to have been to have mostly been in between clearing out old stock and putting the new toys out. One Walmart had several of the seaponies (fabric tails and Fashion Styles) and most of their exclusives but the rest had mostly empty shelves with maybe one or two of the exclusive items. Target has been similar with one having quite a bit of the new stuff out including the babies but the rest being in the process of changing from clearance to new stock (the entire toy section not just the ponies).
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I found some of them in my area but they were sold out fast. :/ I hope they will be restocking some of them.
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Thanks everyone for reporting on what you're finding. :) I know what's out now is probably just the first wave of movie toys and that the new toys are most likely being bought soon after they are put out on the shelves.
I also find it interesting that Skystar and Pinkie with their musical shells are not being found much in the US (if at all) Maybe most stores didn't get them in their shipments? I've only found the baby sea ponies at Target but have found the fabric tails, Man 6 sea ponies(Applejack, Rarity and Twilight) and playsets in a few stores now.
I did find Skystar and Pinkie with their shells at Toys R Us so they are in the US. I actually saw almost all of the new stuff there except for the babies. They even had the Seaquestria Castle, the Equestria Girls minis movie collection and movie theater, and the new brushables with the scenes on their sides. The Walmarts and Targets I've been to have been to have mostly been in between clearing out old stock and putting the new toys out. One Walmart had several of the seaponies (fabric tails and Fashion Styles) and most of their exclusives but the rest had mostly empty shelves with maybe one or two of the exclusive items. Target has been similar with one having quite a bit of the new stuff out including the babies but the rest being in the process of changing from clearance to new stock (the entire toy section not just the ponies).
I guess I just need to be patient with my Toys R Us. :) I've checked at least twice a week since the street date for the movie toys and there is still no Seaquestria castle, musical shell Skystar and Pinkie or Tempest brushable. Just the large sea ponies toys (not even the smaller brushables) tons of headband and water cuties and min Equestria Girls from Rainbow Rocks. I really think my Toys R Us is holding the new movie toys back until some of the older stuff is sold.
Ponyfan
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America is also a really big country, so it makes sense that it takes time to get to all the states. I suspect TRU are distributing state by state, but also it's interesting that Breyer600 has found the musical shells and not the merbabies, same as here. I wonder if there are two dispatch lots to stores - one with merbabies and one with musical shells and the other is the second wave for whatever area...
Sort of an alternating supply pattern?
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America is also a really big country, so it makes sense that it takes time to get to all the states. I suspect TRU are distributing state by state, but also it's interesting that Breyer600 has found the musical shells and not the merbabies, same as here. I wonder if there are two dispatch lots to stores - one with merbabies and one with musical shells and the other is the second wave for whatever area...
Sort of an alternating supply pattern?
I still haven't found the baby merponies
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America is also a really big country, so it makes sense that it takes time to get to all the states. I suspect TRU are distributing state by state, but also it's interesting that Breyer600 has found the musical shells and not the merbabies, same as here. I wonder if there are two dispatch lots to stores - one with merbabies and one with musical shells and the other is the second wave for whatever area...
Sort of an alternating supply pattern?
Oh, I did find the merbabies; just not at Toys R Us. The one Target that actually had some new things out had two of each (went back later and they were down to two total).
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I'm hoping to have good movie toy news to share later. :) I've noticed the same thing with the baby sea ponies. A shipment seems to include 2 of each character and the sell out fast. I picked up another Lilly Drop last week and when I went back to the store on the weekend the baby sea ponies were all sold out.
Ponyfan
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Has anyone gotten their hands on the musical shells who can say how much music they actually play? How many tunes/how many seconds each?
Songbird Serenade's 2 song clips of ten seconds each and the Twily/Spike duet's three tiny clips or so, are a little disappointing and I wonder if the shells do better.
Thanks.
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Where are those darn baby merponies?
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Where are those darn baby merponies?
My Target had several of each in stock. If anyone needs help with pickups I am happy to assist. They were super cute. I posted them on my Instagram :D
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Where are those darn baby merponies?
My Target had several of each in stock. If anyone needs help with pickups I am happy to assist. They were super cute. I posted them on my Instagram :D
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Argh and they're nowhere else but at Target? Stupid stupid Hasbro!
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I've changed my mind about the giant Magical Twilight Sparkle or whatever they've named the Starlily robot Twily.
While she does look odd from front-view and looks awful in her hunched-over posture in her display box, from her side when she's standing up properly she actually is pretty darn accurate looking and from behind her ears and head are just perfect. I wondered why she is a bit chubby but then I realized it's to perfectly complete the bean-profile body shape and it's perfect. Her wings are pretty good too, and you can move them into the various poses they use in the show and they look pretty accurate. In almost every way (except for directly in front) she's got a perfect G4 shape and presence.
She has at least three songs, including the Festival of Friendship song in full (not just a clip like all the other movie toys) and a seapony song I haven't heard anywhere else yet that's probably in the movie, and when you interact with her a while she actually does have quite a few sayings including "this is so much fun!" and "you're my best ponyfriend" and several other things. Won't shut up about friendship of course but that's ok. She hiccups and sneezes and yawns and says "nity night sleep tight" and at least two other going-to-sleep phrases and once asleep she doesn't wake up without pushing her hoof button so she's not obtrusive. While her voice isn't tara Strong, it's actually really accurate and sounds really good, sounds great in the songs and is clear and not scratchy or anything. She's all happy tone of voice, none of the negative Twily voice like she has a lot in the show like when she says "you know she's NOT a tree right?" etc.
And it turns out she's pretty snuggly to curl up with all night (just checked and she's nice to wake up with too) and her wings squash up against her body for hugging and like Starlily, her joints are tough and you can wangle her around without hurting her. She's got that nice clean plush smell (polyestery) and doesn't get grungy right away which is good cuz she's unwashable.
So, she's great. I hope everyone that is thinking about her gets one.
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I finally found a piece of movie merchandise with my own eyes at work last week. Had Applejack as a pirate at a ship's steering wheel in it. Someone had left it lying around.
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The steering wheel is from the pirate airship, that's a $40 playset that's been in one of my Walmarts for a week, which has lots of pieces like barrels that it can drop. Guess we have a barrel-dropping scene in the movie probably.
Seems we get all the 6 as GoH pirates, the pirate airship comes with RD and AJ is separate, with a little flight backpack propeller thing.
Without question, the movie transforms our 6 into as many different toys as possible!
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I got the FS Fluttershy merpony today. It's pretty cool I guess.
I finally made it back to my regular target that had put out a whole bunch of the old Wonderbolts FS set, but seems (two weeks later) that I missed whatever liquidation deal they had on them cuz every last one's gone replaced by Magic of Everypony set. I was just starting to want that Wonderbolts set and I wonder how low its price went....guess I'll have to keep my eye on the Goodwill that gets Target stock n see if any of them end up there.
Hasbro Toy Shop actually approved my Twilybot review!
http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/en/htsusa/-c02990950?catName=
I want a second one now.
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Lostpony please I can't afford a Twibot don't make me want one ;-;
I visited a nearby toy store the other day, they didn't have much pony in general, but they did have the baby seaponies. So if they are Target exclusives, at least they aren't the kind of Target exclusives that don't make it overseas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Netherlands finally got the seaponies! I got Rarity :D
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Lostpony please I can't afford a Twibot don't make me want one ;-;
I visited a nearby toy store the other day, they didn't have much pony in general, but they did have the baby seaponies. So if they are Target exclusives, at least they aren't the kind of Target exclusives that don't make it overseas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's positive to know. If you have them chances are they're not exclusives, though I didn't see the target logo on Beckysaurus' photos of them. Not sure how I feel about them as no brushable hair but they are cute and kids will probably love them.
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I finally found Princess Skystar and her musical shell. :) :) :). I checked a different Toys R Us than usual and they had one all the movie toys including the baby sea ponies.
Ponyfan
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
She is! (https://www.mlpmerch.com/2017/08/new-mlp-movie-brushables-announced-on.html) A normal Songbird Serenade will be in the same wave as the All About versions of Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee, and Pinkie Pie. They'll come out in September, and the Songbird is not a Target exclusive, turns out that only applied to the singing one.
As far as I'm aware you can only get a Queen Novo via the Seaquestria playset. I wish they'd release her on her own though (although I want to get Seaquestria anyway myself to use as a display shelf).
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
She is! (https://www.mlpmerch.com/2017/08/new-mlp-movie-brushables-announced-on.html) A normal Songbird Serenade will be in the same wave as the All About versions of Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee, and Pinkie Pie. They'll come out in September, and the Songbird is not a Target exclusive, turns out that only applied to the singing one.
As far as I'm aware you can only get a Queen Novo via the Seaquestria playset. I wish they'd release her on her own though (although I want to get Seaquestria anyway myself to use as a display shelf).
Hooray! :hifive:
Hey look, a new adult merpony! Great color choices, though the head fins remind me of Dartrix's foppish hairdo. :s
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
She is! (https://www.mlpmerch.com/2017/08/new-mlp-movie-brushables-announced-on.html) A normal Songbird Serenade will be in the same wave as the All About versions of Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee, and Pinkie Pie. They'll come out in September, and the Songbird is not a Target exclusive, turns out that only applied to the singing one.
As far as I'm aware you can only get a Queen Novo via the Seaquestria playset. I wish they'd release her on her own though (although I want to get Seaquestria anyway myself to use as a display shelf).
Hooray! :hifive:
Hey look a new adult merpony! Great color choices, though the head fins remind me of Dartrix's foppish hairdo. :s
Wait! New adult seapony? Where? I missed it.
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
She is! (https://www.mlpmerch.com/2017/08/new-mlp-movie-brushables-announced-on.html) A normal Songbird Serenade will be in the same wave as the All About versions of Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee, and Pinkie Pie. They'll come out in September, and the Songbird is not a Target exclusive, turns out that only applied to the singing one.
As far as I'm aware you can only get a Queen Novo via the Seaquestria playset. I wish they'd release her on her own though (although I want to get Seaquestria anyway myself to use as a display shelf).
Hooray! :hifive:
Hey look a new adult merpony! Great color choices, though the head fins remind me of Dartrix's foppish hairdo. :s
Wait! New adult seapony? Where? I missed it.
If you look on the link Beatle posted and scroll down to the molded ponies, I think they're blind bags, you can see a blue and purple merpony.
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Is Songbird getting a smaller, single version? $24.99 is way too much!
Has anyone seen a single Queen Novo yet? She is my biggest want.
She is! (https://www.mlpmerch.com/2017/08/new-mlp-movie-brushables-announced-on.html) A normal Songbird Serenade will be in the same wave as the All About versions of Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee, and Pinkie Pie. They'll come out in September, and the Songbird is not a Target exclusive, turns out that only applied to the singing one.
As far as I'm aware you can only get a Queen Novo via the Seaquestria playset. I wish they'd release her on her own though (although I want to get Seaquestria anyway myself to use as a display shelf).
Hooray! :hifive:
Hey look a new adult merpony! Great color choices, though the head fins remind me of Dartrix's foppish hairdo. :s
Wait! New adult seapony? Where? I missed it.
If you look on the link Beatle posted and scroll down to the molded ponies, I think they're blind bags, you can see a blue and purple merpony.
I am still not seeing it...
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Hmm, it was right there. Try Busy Book Movie Ponies.
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Hmm, it was right there. Try Busy Book Movie Ponies.
Ah, those. Ok, I thought you were talking about something else.
I was hoping for official Hasbro figures.
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I'm happy to hear about a regular sized Songbird figure as I also find the $24.99 for the Target exclusive one a bit too expensive at the moment. I'd also like a Queen Nova without the Seaquestria playset as well.
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Good news for my fellow Aussies...? (I'm in QLD)
I went to Kmart yesterday and saw the first MLP Movie packaged toys I've found! They had the new fashion styles with the gala outfits: Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity (who has a mermaid looking outfit).
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Went to another Walmart today, this was their pony selection:
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Unlike my closest one, this one still has some older stuff as well as newer stuff. The other one has for the most part gotten rid of all the old stock. This one here still had some of the 2-packs of pearlized ponies, a Cutie Mark Magic blindbag figure set, and the FiM Collection Flim (swear I've been seeing this in stores for so long now I'm amazed it's still around).
Still have not found the Skystar and seapony Pinkie with their shells anywhere yet. Really hope I won't end up having to resort to Amazon for Skystar.