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« on: May 30, 2023, 06:53:51 AM »
Weird how all the others have original poses and such, and then Celestia's in pretty much just the stock Celly pose. lol
That was the first thing that popped into my head when I looked at that picture!  Everyone looks so dynamic and then her pose is just so static.
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« on: May 23, 2023, 09:41:39 AM »
It's here it's here!  visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginOof I spent way too much money on all these extras... I forget how much the final pledge was, but I remember it was over $100... Anyway, here we have the exclusive Kickstarter cats, Moneybags and Catsper. I think originally the Kickstarter said we were going to get a voucher for a free Catsper, but I guess they decided to just include him in the box instead. (Maybe the original plan was that Catsper wouldn't be available by the time they started mailing out the games, but the game got delayed a month or two during production in China, according to the kickstarter updates.) @Carrehz - I only got one Moneybags and I'm going to keep him, I'm sorry.  I also bought the fantasy 4-pack because I wanted the dragon kitty so badly. His tiny wings are adorable but you can't see them unless you turn him over. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginI also got the horror movie 4-pack because I really like the kitty from the black lagoon (back row, far right). The front row is a 4-pack of characters that is exclusive to the game. (You can see their tags say Mayhem on it, like Moneybags and Catsper.) I love the little lightning bug on the far left! Sticking her little tongue out lol. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginI got the 3-pack of the new keyring blind bags. All this time I thought these new keyring merch were going to be like tiny versions of the beans, but then when I got the packages I could see they were very flat, so I realized they couldn't be actual plush critters. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginThey're actually made of soft vinyl. They're cute! I love them! I got GPS Cat which I am SO excited about. Lookit him winking at you! Haha. The other two I'll probably sell on ebay, try to recoop some of my pledge money. The front of the package says 24 characters to collect, but I'm annoyed because this is like the ONLY CvP product that doesn't come with an insert poster with all the characters in the set. Who are the 24 characters? Going by the package, which includes wave 1 characters, and the ones I got, which are all the latest wave, the 24 could be just about anyone. I really wanted Blank Page, the kitty on the package with the notebook paper pattern, because I was never able to get him during wave 1 and now he's super expensive on ebay. Oh well, hopefully these keyrings will be available in stores soon, I'd like to buy a bunch. I think the price point is going to be $3.99 which isn't bad. (Like most CvP products, the blind bag does have a tiny air hole in the corner so you might be able to see what color is inside before you buy it. You can also feel the tail so you can at least tell the cats from the pickles.) visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginAnd last but not least, here's the game itself (which I will be putting up on ebay because I'm not interested in playing LOL). It's pretty cute. It comes with a mat you put on the ground and you throw all the CvP you've collected over the years and try to hit the mat. lol. I give them kudos for thinking up a way to include the CvP you've already collected in a game they made about CvP. There's a bunch of playing cards that give you certain rules for how to throw them as you play (blindfolded, etc.). It actually sounds fun. I assume using Chonks and Jumbos are against the rules.
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« on: May 23, 2023, 08:58:49 AM »
I'm very sure this was a set they were already planning to put out and someone said "Uh hey it's the MLP 40th anniversary according to the internet" and the marketing team was like "Oh crud, well here, this set we're planning on putting out has some different gens in it, so just put something in the advertising about how it represents multiple gens!"  I just dislike the G5 style so much... they're spindly little legs look like they're going to snap at any second... But I do like the hair styles and the facial expressions, so I might get them. I need Rainbow Dash for my Dash Stash, at least. But that price point... ow... If I do get them, it will be the first G5 toys I own, and it would just be for RD and Minty. (I'm a G3 girl at heart I guess lol) Post Merge: May 23, 2023, 09:00:43 AMAnyone notice that Pinkie Pie's hair here looks like how they styled her hair for the "many years later" epilogue in the last G4 episode? So that's an interesting choice, anyway.
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« on: May 15, 2023, 08:18:33 AM »
Oh man, retro art! I'm so happy!
Also sad it's loungefly. We sell a lot of loungefly products in the store where I work. They usually go for $70-$80 USD.
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« on: May 10, 2023, 09:22:32 PM »
That's the way of most trends, I think. :\ Collectables is usually a flash in the pan enterprise. As soon as the fervor starts to die down, the company loses interest and moves on to the next moneymaker.
It does seem like Cepia is still interested in the franchise, but I feel like they spread out way too much trying to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. At first it was just waves of many different characters, which were fun to collect. Then they tried all these different sizes, they had playsets with exclusive beans, they tried the little vinyl beans that we never saw more than one small series before they abandoned it because it didn't catch on.
Then after that they moved on to other series: the kittens, the dogs, the bears (and I think cows versus aliens hasn't even hit shelves yet). The game is coming soon. And one of the extras for the kickstarter were keychain versions of the characters, which I assume we'll see hit shelves at some point.
The problem is, I think they piled too much on and released too much at once. They didn't pace themselves. It grew confusing for the collectors trying to keep up. I certainly had trouble keeping up with the different waves, gold versus gold-with-blue-bar, and all the different side series. And then suddenly everything stopped?
In the past we used to see several waves one after the other, but I think this latest wave, the gold one (whether with or without the blue bar) has been around for almost a year? We haven't seen new cats v pickles, maybe because they were focused on all these other side series.
Where I work, the CvP used to fly off the shelves -- the bean size, anyway. The mega size (the size one up from the chonk, which retail at $20 each) we've had since the beginning and they continue to sit around. And we've had the gold-with-blue-bar and the kittens/gherkins for months and they've just been sitting on the shelves now.
Maybe it's the fault of the stores, not buying new series since the old ones are still around, or maybe it's because Cepia is stalling on the new products. I'm not sure.
It's hard to tell if the fervor of collecting has died down for CvP or if it's the company that is delaying the next waves. Hopefully they'll get going again. I hope this gold wave isn't the last wave for CvP! Dogs are cute and the bears are okay, but what I really want are more cats and pickles!
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« on: May 09, 2023, 10:05:11 AM »
I just got a notice that the CvP kickstarter games are starting to ship to backers.  I'll post photos when I get mine! I actually forgot what I've ordered, it's been so long. I recently went to Walmart (rare for me) and got super excited because I saw they had the gold packages without the blue bar at the top! I bought a bunch of them and got mostly duplicates, because I had already bought the gold series I wanted on ebay.  But it was still fun to buy them and open them up! I also found dogs vs squirrels purple wave (I think that's the second wave?) and bears vs donuts! But I passed on those. I don't like them enough to buy blind packages of those, since there's so few characters I like. And lastly I stopped at Target and there I found the gold series chonks! I guess I must have missed these before, because all the characters seem new to me. Or maybe I heard they were coming and forgot. Anyway, I got GPS cat, he is *so* cute. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginPost Merge: May 09, 2023, 10:07:59 AMAlso I got the unicat hugger and I love it
Oh man, can we see pics? I just can't believe how huge those things are. I've never seen one in person.
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« on: January 16, 2023, 07:48:00 PM »
I want Zipp's flaming jeans for myself!
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« on: January 08, 2023, 06:57:18 PM »
Hmm... I hope they're not disappearing! I did recently see a Facebook ad for the bears. I had forgotten about those! I think it's supposed to be "bears versus donuts", if I remember right? That's so odd lol. I wonder if the donuts will be crazy characters like the pickles. I haven't seen the bears in any stores, just in a FB ad. My store never got the 2nd year Christmas beans, which was depressing. I'm going to guess maybe we had a lot of 1st year ones left over, so they didn't bother ordering any new ones from Cepia? Well, at least there weren't any I really wanted... heh. We still have a lot of the dogs versus squirls hanging around. They didn't seem to become very popular at all. We also have about half a box of the gold blind bags with the blue stripe across the top. I don't understand, weren't the blue stripe ones supposed to be special or exclusive? But I see the blue stripe ones in stores much more often than the plain gold bags. And on ebay the blue stripe ones seem to be cheaper in general, which seems to me to mean they were easier to get than the regular gold ones. That's so weird. I caved in and did the kickstarter. I spent about $100 and got a lot of the exclusive beans. I only wanted a couple of them (like the dragon bean! Aww! So cute!). The rest of them are an investment. I'm going to resell them and hopefully get some of my money back. But the game isn't going to be done until April, I think, so I have to wait. I'll take pictures when it gets here! Oh, one of the "add-ons" for the kickstarter are some CvP keychains, so I think that's going to be a thing we'll see in stores at some point soon. The kickstarter showed the package for them. They seem like they are smaller than beans and come in blind bags, and apparently are all characters we've already seen. I decided to get a couple as an add-on in the kickstarter. I'm hoping I get Blank Page, he was one of the original characters from the first wave that has never made a reappearance. I like his design but he's way too expensive on ebay, the first waves usually go for a lot of money these days. More than I want to pay, anyway lol. (The kicker is that I remember seeing Blank Page in the store but I passed him over because I didn't think he was interesting! Ha! I should have invested in more of them to resell... Didn't realize how much the first wave ones were going to go for. Ah well, hindsight being 20/20, you know how it goes.) The last CvP I bought was Rorsch-cat, as well. I love the striking black-on-white look! I got him on ebay for a good deal.
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« on: December 22, 2022, 12:41:19 PM »
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's weird we didn't see a rush of pony toys before the holiday shopping season? I wonder if G5 is doing well or not for Hasbro...
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« on: December 09, 2022, 01:53:09 PM »
I saw a video of a lady with one of the big cauldrons. The plush she got was super cute, but they're going for like $65 and most of the stuff is throwaway "ingredients" and a plastic bowl that becomes useless when you get the plush. So... it's $65 for a small plush you can sort of interact with with a wand. I think I'd rather have a Furby
They ARE very cute though.
Oh yeah, "interactive" toys are really big this year. (Like, toys you have to do stuff via packaging to get to the actual toy.) The Magic Mixies are the biggest and flashiest example. My store where I work sells it for $99! :O I wouldn't pay $65, but I think it's a cute idea. (I have seen the ingredients sold separately as a "refill" so you can use the cauldron again.
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« on: December 04, 2022, 07:58:38 PM »
If they're making ponies with flappy clear wings, it would be a good gen to reintroduce flutter ponies.
I 100% agree, but I don't think this gen could think up anything that interesting.
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« on: November 30, 2022, 02:09:55 PM »
Thanks! Haha I went to the toy section to see if I could put him back and literally every one of our 4 Sunny lanterns has a different number of baubles in it.  And none of them seems to have an empty one.
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« on: November 28, 2022, 07:51:31 PM »
Ohh, thank you! I think I know what it is now. We have those Sunny lanterns with the little baubles inside it that have accessories in each one, and the baubles are constantly falling out of the lantern because of the poor packaging.
I should have guessed that, I just wasn't expecting a G4 Spike to be inside a G5 toy!
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« on: November 28, 2022, 01:43:28 PM »
I work in a store that sells toys so it's quite often that I find a toy on the floor that either A.) a child dropped or B.) was on the shelf but some kid or adult took out of the package. Either way, I found this tiny adorable Spike today. Look how tiny! I don't know if this is from a new toy or if some kid brought it from home and dropped it. Does anyone recognize it? visitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: November 25, 2022, 08:17:21 PM »
I found these blind bags of Hasbro retro toys, which includes G1 Cotton Candy. (They are little soft figures you can clip to your backpack or a keychain or anything. We have a million of them where I work, just about every anime you could think of plus Disney plus Marvel plus Star Wars plus D&D the list goes on and on...) Notice on the back they say Retro Pony instead of Cotton Candy, which I think is pretty funny. (But then again, the Disney Princess ones show Merida on the back and list her name as "Brave" lmao. So I guess they aren't that concerned with silly things like accuracy) visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
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