question about Cheerilee's picnic & schoolhouse accessories sets

[shabbychicdee]

i guys hopefully someone can help me on some info on these sets. i have finally got hold of the cheerilee school house set YAY, as i never found it in New Zealand, as far as i know we never got it here in nz (unless someone knows other wise, please let me know) was this set hard to get hold of?, was it only released in certain countrys? as far as i know it wasn't a "int' exclusive release" was it as hard to get hold of as the star dreams slumber set?
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it is mib and i just can't decide whether to de-box it or not.

also i finally got hold of the schoolhouse set that i found at the sunday markets for $2 YAY. they have been allover the place here but too expensive to buy in the shops like a lot of the building sets here. know i spotted somewhere while looking for what accessories it came with that it is an "international exclusive"  i never knew. is that right? if so i am guessing it was then just nz, aussy and europe who got this then?
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[SeashellnBubbles]

We had the schoolhouse. Set here in canada, but I never saw the picnic set...I had just started collecting at the tail end of those sets, so I could be wrong.
I've kept my playsets in MIB and hanging on the wall...they just look so darned pretty and colorful up there! But it's up to you what you want to do with your own ponies

[shabbychicdee]

sweet thanks for letting me know yeah they are gorgeous with all their accessories

[hathorcat]

They were both international releases and by that every country that carried MLP was able to stock the items, including the US. They even showed up on Hasbro Toy Shop although they never actually came in to stock. However for some reason both the school and the wave 3 of the story packs [which is the picnic set and the star dreams set] were either not picked up by US retailers or earlier waves of the same line did not sell significantly enough for them to carry more stock.

I love the picnic set its adorable.

[Lon-san]

I am Canadian and can vouch that the picnic set was available, but very limited to where it could be bought. Super Store, a grocery store, was the only one I ever saw that had the picnic set or the slumber party set.

[shabbychicdee]

yeah that's funny some stores can have certain somethings and others not, its really random, we got the fun at the fair and rainbow dashing camping sets really late (which gave me hope for the slumber set and picnic sets to arrive here) but they were sold as a bundle set (2 for the price of one) and only available in one chain store, nowhere else.

sometimes i feel like nz is the bottom of the heap (no jokes from aussy's please ) and sometimes we get left overs but then again they are packaged here, just down the road in fact that we possibly get cancelled orders for other country's