My Little Pony books come in all shapes, sizes and themes. AR-enabled book? Sure! Crochet ponies? Of course! A cooking book? Well... there really wasn't one yet. But that won't be the case for long, as we just spotted the My Little Pony Baking Book on Amazon.
The 144-page thick book contains 50 My Little Pony-inspired baking creations, like the tasty rainbow cake that's shown on the cover. In the description some of these recipes are mentioned, like a pizza, cookies and of course cupcakes. All is written by Christi Johnstone, a baker and writer who has a certain sweet-tooth for these types of books, as she also wrote a book on baking with Peeps.
For $15.99 you can now place a pre-order for this book. However, you're going to have to postpone your ingredients haul: the release date is currently set to April of 2019.

While Toys"R"Us is sadly no more in the US, overseas the stores are still booming with new stock. Take Denmark for example, were we found stock images of the Princess Cadance and Princess Luna Clip and Go plush, part of Hasbro's My Little Pony plush line.
Note that Princess Celestia is not listed just yet, but she's certainly part of this wave.
These particular two were earlier listed on a Japanese import website, but with hand-made photos in contrast to these official ones. While we didn't find any listings from the US just yet, it's highly unlikely that these will not be available worldwide.
Toys"R"Us got them listed for 60 Denmark Krone, which is just shy of $10, and with that a tad cheaper than the Japanese listing.
Update: All Scandinavian TRU websites listed only Princess Cadance and Princess Luna.

Yesterday we blogged about the Target-Exclusive Cutie Mark Crew Set, and this morning we posted about the 35th Anniversary Pretty Parlor set which has been found at Target as well. And just now Target has listed both items on their website including some HQ stock images, info and a way to order them online as well. Both sets retail for $19.99, have the listings + more below!

A few days ago we reported that the the second set of the 35th Anniversary Ponies, the Rainbow Pony ones to be exact, were found at Target despite being rumored that they would be exclusive for Europe. But not only the Rainbow Ponies have been spotted. The Pretty Parlor set has now also been found at Target!

We've posted about several ponies from this set from some time now, including at the SDCC this year, and we already anticipated on a larger, store exclusive set. Today we got the confirmation that this indeed is the case: say hello to the School of Friendship Collection Pack!
The full set consists of the CMC, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Spike along with over 35 accessories. As seen this set is divided into four classes, each with 2 characters and several accessories: Rarity's fashion lesson, Pinkie's baking class, Rainbow Dash's speed lesson and Applejack's outdoor class.

Thanks to one of our readers we now know that there will be exclusive Cutie Mark Crew sets, as this set has been spotted at Target. This set called the "Sparkly Sweets" Set and contains the whole mane-six as ponies + Spike and a hidden figure. (who turns out to be Princess Celestia with a glitter mane) Each figure also comes with a cute Glitter-Covered Food-themed item hence the name Sparkly Sweets.

 We got a first look at these girls during the New York Toy Fair this year but after we didn't hear much about these. But today Amazon Canada has listed both the Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle Mighty Muggs figures. A Rainbow Dash one will also be released but she isn't been listed at the moment.

It has long been a mystery how the second series of the 35th Anniversary re-release G1 ponies were going to be distributed. The first sign was a non-US release, but luckily we can now confirm that this isn't the case: Target is officially selling the second series of Anniversary ponies! The complete set is available right now, but do mind that not ever Target store has them on the shelves yet.
Included in this series are replica ponies of Moonstone, Parasol, Skydancer, Starshine, Sunlight and Windy. They're all sweetly scented and come with a comb, brush and puffy sticker.
The first series of 35th Anniversary ponies were originally released in the US and are still available, for example on Amazon.
Credits to Nimrodel for the photo from Target! Below are the official photos of all included ponies:

We skipped another week of Store Finds, but this way we did build up to a better filled post for this week (hope you don't mind!). Almost all types of merch is present in this post, ranging from the new Fan Series statue to magazine figures, talking ponies and even a water pistol!
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

Have a Lyra in a Piano just because there aren't any images so far. Anyway Amazon has listed a very interesting book titled: My Little Pony Cutie Mark Crew Collector's Guide. According to the description this book will contain a overview of all the released Cutie Mark Crew figures + artworks and fun facts. The book will also contain a poster to check off your collection.

So at the moment I'm gathering information about all the older-gen ponies and taking pictures of my own ponies. And it's a lot of work let me tell you but very fun and interesting as well! But occasionally I like to check out some sites in the meantime to see if they have listed anything new. Turns out that Walmart has listed a new set called Fluttershy & Starlight Glimmer Pet Care Class! It contains both Fluttershy and Starlight with a lot of animals... a lot.

Today we have a special guest report from Anto, who was kind enough to shoot photos at this year's San Diego Comic Con of everything My Little Pony that was on display across the convention floor.
Hasbro had a relatively large booth this year with lots of items that are going to be release this year, including Cutie Mark Crew, Ultimate Equestria Collection and Best Gift Ever sets.
And of course we get to take a peek at an actual prototype of the Pinkie Pie Bishoujo statue can be seen.

A few months ago we posted about a 2-pack containing Twilight Sparkle and Spike both dressed up into their Nightmare Night Costumes. I expected this set to be an Amazon exclusive just like the Glitter Seapony Pinkie Pie last year. Recently Amazon has updated this listing with lots of information and additional images and best of all: It's now up for pre-order!

Quite an unexpected store-find! Remember all the School of Friendship-clothes brushables we spotted several times before? Well today one of our readers Andres has found this brand new Twilight Sparkle brushable at a Mexican Store called Soriana, according to him this store can be compared to Walmart/Target. This Twilight is officially named 'Principal Twilight Sparkle' and is all dressed in her teachers-outfit and comes with a pair of glasses and a presentation board with stick (sounds familiar?).

Good news for Equestria Girls fans today! The Friendship Pack that was first seen at this year's New York Toy Fair, is listed and available on Amazon.com! And it's not just a placeholder listing, as the official stock images of the set and packaging are also added to the listing. This is the first time we hear about this set since the initial announcement at the toy fair, so let's dive into some of the details:

The Friendship Party Pack is a huge box with 7 Equestria Girls dolls, consisting of the Mane 6 and Sunset Shimmer. Each doll has 5 points of articulation (being the arms, legs and head) and comes with a colorful party dress and shoes or boots to finish the outfit. Also included are a belt for Rarity and a bow & pair of glasses for Twilight Sparkle.

On Amazon this set is directly available and in stock for $69.99.

About 2 weeks ago Hasbro revealed the SDCC 2018 Exclusives: The My Little Pony Established 1983 Greatest Hits Set. And as usual these exclusives will also be available on HasbroToyShop after the convention. In this case they have already listed the item and also included some more images and info.

I'm not sure if everyone is familiar with it, but 'Cucumber Time' is the perfect description for My Little Pony merch release news at the moment. It's summer, a lot of people are on holiday, we're in between two release seasons by Hasbro, we don't have a new MLP:FiM movie this year and TRU is out of business; there's just not a lot of news.
However, we did get a few store find reports in the past weeks, so we've decided to wrap this up in a new store finds post today, which hopefully helps some of you to find new stuff in stores!
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

Two week ago (sorry for skipping a week!) we asked you when you started watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. We were wondering how many first-hour fans there are still out there, and we are not disappointed! Almost 24% of you started watching directly from the first episode, and another 18% joined later in the season. The largest group is the fans that first watched FiM during season 2 or 3 (28%) followed by 20% during the 4th or 5th season. Only a handful of fans joined later on during season 6 or later. Interesting to see is that the release of the movie introduced 2% of you to Friendship is Magic.

It's been a while since we've talked about merch from Bioworld, but today we're back with a review on one of their latest additions to the My Little Pony line-up: this multi-character snapback!
This snapback wears the Bioworld label, but is exclusively available through Snapback Empire, who also provided the review copy for us.

Right now you can find a huge sale over on our MLP Tee Store on TeePublic with t-shirts for $14 and tons of other discounted items! Just for the occasion Ilona added 6 new neon designs of the Mane 6 Cutie Marks, as well as several other designs that have recently been added.
Aside from clothing you can also find wall art, mugs and phone cases in our MLP Tee Store.

Keep on with the big news! The 2018 SDCC exclusive Ponies have been revealed! The "My Little Pony Established 1983 Greatest Hits Sets" Some people might have seen some of the 80s inspired MLP-Shirt designs I've made and well, looks like these exclusives will also have an 80s vibe going on which is always a big plus in my book. But as you know it's also the 35th birthday of My Little Pony this year and since the line oficially started in the 80's. I think this is a nice tribute.

We knew she was coming for quite some time but we decided to keep it a secret to protect employees. But now she's finally listed on the Build-a-Bear Website: Sunset Shimmer!

First revealed during the NY Toy Fair this year and now on Amazon: The two "Best Gift Ever" Sets. The first set contains pearlized mane-six ponies and 6 "secret" gifts. (which are hidden in the packaging but clearly visible on the stock-image.) The second set includes both Princess Cadance and Shining Armor and Baby Flurry Heart plus some additional accessories.