What happened to the Mini Pony Set with Chrysalis?

[UrocyonFox]

No snot, within hours of posting that I could not find this set I went to Walmart on my lunch break and there it was, right in front. *dances*

[MaronaPossessed]

No snot, within hours of posting that I could not find this set I went to Walmart on my lunch break and there it was, right in front. *dances*

Wooo congrats^^

[Ionn]

Congrats on finding it!

I will find you, Chrysalis, Celestia...and your little pony too!

[WrittenEmber]

Nope not an exclusive. As mentioned its just a wave revision - so only if wave 4 has sold out will a store then restock and get a wave revision.

Ah, so that's how that works! When the hereabouts stores sell out of the Groovin' Hooves/Pony Lessons and order more, Royal Surprise will be with the new batch. Good to know! I was rather confused.

Also, glad to hear people are beginning to find them! I am more hopeful now that it won't be too long before I see more of them around. 

[nogames]

By the way, what happened to Apple Family and Wedding sets?
As far as I know, these two along with Cloudsdale set were "the 1st wave" of character collections, right? There are a lot of Cloudsdale sets everywhere, but the other two are nowhere to be found, only overpriced on ebay.
If all of them are sold out, it's permanent? Doesn't Hasbro make a resupply for out-of-stock merch?
I feel really bad that I didn't buy them when they were available.

[MaronaPossessed]

By the way, what happened to Apple Family and Wedding sets?
As far as I know, these two along with Cloudsdale set were "the 1st wave" of character collections, right? There are a lot of Cloudsdale sets everywhere, but the other two are nowhere to be found, only overpriced on ebay.
If all of them are sold out, it's permanent? Doesn't Hasbro make a resupply for out-of-stock merch?
I feel really bad that I didn't buy them when they were available.

I've been seeing them at my Walmart and Target

[nogames]

I've been seeing them at my Walmart and Target

Too bad I don't have Walmart and Target around. Judging by ebay where these 2 sets cost around 30$, they are rare.

[hathorcat]

Nope not an exclusive. As mentioned its just a wave revision - so only if wave 4 has sold out will a store then restock and get a wave revision.

Ah, so that's how that works! When the hereabouts stores sell out of the Groovin' Hooves/Pony Lessons and order more, Royal Surprise will be with the new batch. Good to know! I was rather confused.

Also, glad to hear people are beginning to find them! I am more hopeful now that it won't be too long before I see more of them around. 

Toy waves can be confusing And yes thats exactly how it works. The problem with wave revisions is that stores with low movement on the line will often miss them and skip straight to a new wave because by the time they are out of stock they have missed the revision.

By the way, what happened to Apple Family and Wedding sets?
As far as I know, these two along with Cloudsdale set were "the 1st wave" of character collections, right? There are a lot of Cloudsdale sets everywhere, but the other two are nowhere to be found, only overpriced on ebay.
If all of them are sold out, it's permanent? Doesn't Hasbro make a resupply for out-of-stock merch?
I feel really bad that I didn't buy them when they were available.

The Royal Wedding and Apple Family sets are really old; that's why you will not see them in stores any more. However the Cloudsdale set got a release in the wave 3 revision which is actually quite recently in stores [only the wave before the Pony Lessons first release]. So that's why you will find that easily enough. The other 2 waves are long passed release [especially the Apple Family which only got released in the first wave].

And no they wont resupply - toys like the MLP line work in waves - so once something is passed unless Hasbro decide to release the item specifically again in a future wave then that's it over unfortunately. Hasbro and many retailers consider some items all the same thing. So the mini figs are all the same to them - their impression of resupplying is simply to stock the next wave [even though thats not necessarily the same ponies]

[HoustonCollector72]

i think sometimes is the distribution is up to the stores to order the items
so it is poor if the stores do not require to stock the different releases, so a store has so many blind bags of one type, they might not order more of them until they are gone , because in Target and TRU all of them mostly share the same item # , even some sets like the Baker /Spa/Jewel sets is the same story , I learned this with checking the site on Target  and it showed in stock , but when i went there , there was none , I gave the item # to a sales person and the showed me all of them under the same item # and so their stock was correct but not the actual items, I believe is the same with the BB, so many stores might have old stock and never reorder the new "real " items , because of that 
if they were individual then it would be easy for them to know that it has never even been at the store and needs to be order and stocked.


Post Merge: December 06, 2013, 07:15:58 AM

LOL  they had already answered  it while i was typing mine  LOL

[MaronaPossessed]

i think sometimes is the distribution is up to the stores to order the items
so it is poor if the stores do not require to stock the different releases, so a store has so many blind bags of one type, they might not order more of them until they are gone , because in Target and TRU all of them mostly share the same item # , even some sets like the Baker /Spa/Jewel sets is the same story , I learned this with checking the site on Target  and it showed in stock , but when i went there , there was none , I gave the item # to a sales person and the showed me all of them under the same item # and so their stock was correct but not the actual items, I believe is the same with the BB, so many stores might have old stock and never reorder the new "real " items , because of that 
if they were individual then it would be easy for them to know that it has never even been at the store and needs to be order and stocked.


Post Merge: December 06, 2013, 07:15:58 AM

LOL  they had already answered  it while i was typing mine  LOL

Yeah it stinks...HASBRO WHY U DO THIS!?!?!

[HoustonCollector72]

i think sometimes is the distribution is up to the stores to order the items
so it is poor if the stores do not require to stock the different releases, so a store has so many blind bags of one type, they might not order more of them until they are gone , because in Target and TRU all of them mostly share the same item # , even some sets like the Baker /Spa/Jewel sets is the same story , I learned this with checking the site on Target  and it showed in stock , but when i went there , there was none , I gave the item # to a sales person and the showed me all of them under the same item # and so their stock was correct but not the actual items, I believe is the same with the BB, so many stores might have old stock and never reorder the new "real " items , because of that 
if they were individual then it would be easy for them to know that it has never even been at the store and needs to be order and stocked.


Post Merge: December 06, 2013, 07:15:58 AM

LOL  they had already answered  it while i was typing mine  LOL

Yeah it stinks...HASBRO WHY U DO THIS!?!?!

Is not Hasbro  LOL  , these are the Walmarts,Targets and TRU's  stores systems