Bare pony shelves at stores, anyone else?

[Diamond]

Two words, Summer Reset, most chains are either just starting of finishing their summer resets and are awaiting the stock that go with those changes. 

[Lightning Twirl]

Same pdoblem at my stores. I work ovetnite and we get maybe a case of mlp maybe every other week, mostly walking talking pinkie pie or the so soft newborns. Everything else is empty! No playful ponies, princess twin packs, crystal motions, blindbags, and theres a surplus of pinkie pie & twilght sparkle plushies so they wont order new ones!  The talking princess cadance is still flooding the shelves though!

[sd_dreamcrystal]

Nothing new here. We still have the light blue blind bags in at least one of the stores, lol.. And I took a look at the Plush ponies... at one point Twilight and either fluttershy or RD was there with pinkie... now it's all pinkie! I guess no one here in my area really likes Pinkie Pie, lol

[Stormness_1]

Melbourne sounds like brissie... and yeah sooo many fakies in kmart, the glass-eyed ones... icky!

[ooizza]

Well, our TRU was fully-stocked... just with not very much selection.  Lots and lots of the same things... how they can do any business like that, I have no clue.  Our Wal-Mart more closely resembled that Target photo... except with blindbags.   I miss the halcyon days when the pony section in any toy store looked like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44752000@N05/7281151554/

(I can't directly post the photo, but man, I love it to bits!   Sea ponies... in their boxes... and stuffies... and ponywear... and PONIES galore!!!)

Ohhhhhhhh myyyyyyyy!!!!!! I love it!! I have dreams of this  Thank you for that link - it's been saved

And the pony section at the Walmart closest to me is incredibly depressing and I don't even buy G4s!

[brightberry]

Our Target and Walmarts look bare too.  I guess its a good thing in that at least the merchandise is selling.  But may we have some more please?

[cobalte]

Two words, Summer Reset, most chains are either just starting of finishing their summer resets and are awaiting the stock that go with those changes.

Except here, it is autumn... and there always seems to be a steadier flow of stock during the spring months than this.

[kezrob23]

Lalaloopsy is taking over my Kmart... I'm thinking it'll be a few months before we get anything, as stocktake will be happening soon. Or should say IF we get anything

[Claramel]

Between Brisbane and Melbourne is me! in Newcastle we have the same stuff too.....I'm getting so sick of it!

[starrypawz]

Hardly anywhere around me has ponies, and only one place has blindbags D:

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

Same here, nothing new at my Walmart in ages. Except the blind bags, though they can go for months with out restocking them.

Love that old photo, the good old days.

[Wardah]

Isn't it a good sign the pony sections are empty? That they are selling them faster than they can keep them in stock?

[Wysteria]

My walmart just moved the ponies again, so they're definetly resetting;) It's so pathetic to look at though:/ I still haven't seen any new funrise Rarity or anyone else after her. I'll find an occassional box of wave 7 blind bags but have yet to find 6 anywhere. Meijer has had wave 5 but they're all gone since it's the only place that still sells them for $1.99 now that walmart upped the price.

I'm also glad we've had a little break after all the trading cards. I really should be saving for the fair anyway!

[Roogna]

my walmart is not great, but Target is still pretty well stocked

there seem to be 2 issues here people are mentioning

1) Hasbro not putting enough variety out there (which, unfortunately is nothing new since they started Core 6 with G3s). G3s flew off the shelves when there were new ponies every few weeks. Then the Core hit and pony movement slowed down

2) Stores not having enough ponies period. This is at least partly the store's or company's issue and not Hasbro. There are certain ponies that have been released for a while now that I would like to get, but my stores have been out for months.

[achab1984]

I about died when I saw that pictures with the G1 ponies in it!!!!