Now, I have no idea how common mail order toys are anymore. As a kid they were always too expensive and complicated for me to get, though I remember seeing things like special mail-order dolls and such in the backs of magazines.
I'm looking through Dream Valley right now, just browsing through the ponies, and ended up on the mail-order ponies page. I recognize a lot of them, and I know some of them are super sought after, and others I've never seen hide nor hair of before!
I recall reading about G3 mail order ponies on mylittlewiki before, and G2s, and I was starting to wonder: Would it be out of the question for Hasbro to release special mail-order G4s..? I have no idea if special edition toys still sell through mail-order anymore, or that Hasbro would even bother, (they seem content to keep remaking the mane six) but what do you think? Is there a chance of some super special G4 ponies being available only through mail order during this generation? Or is that method of sale too outdated?