Many people around the world are awaiting the release of new characters in the 3rd Cutie Mark Crew blind boxes series, and few have been lucky. Out of the blue we found them laying around at Intertoys, here in The Netherlands! We didn't get to see the series 2 blind figures, and directly jumped to the 3rd series, which is available around the country.
We visited 3 shops in the past week, and in each store we were able to find 5 loose packs (outside of the display box) and bought them all. This way we could get a start on our collection and get a closer look at the packaging they come in.

Great news for fans of Cutie Mark Crew: the series 3 blind packs have been spotted at Meijer, AND the Amazon listing now has a limited stock available!
To start, the box seen in the photos was found in Chicago at Meijer, and were sold in the original 24-pack display box, which should still guarantee you a complete set. The boxes themselves don't have any codes to identify them, as far as we know. And as Meijer is not represented in every US state, you luckily can now also visit Amazon to buy them there. At the time of writing it's a very limited stock, but we're sure more packs will be added soon.

For a complete overview of the available figures in this 3rd series, be sure to visit our Cutie Mark Crew database and get ready to fill your wishlist and checklist!

Thanks to Victor for the photos!

We already wrote about several new sets that were announced on Entertainment Earth and we're happy to write that most of these sets are now accompanied by stock photos! Not on EE, but on detmir.ru, who listed the Equestria Girls and Brushables this week. Below we have a combination of the original English descriptions and the new stock photos, showing that most of our expectations match pretty good. Sadly we're still missing the photos of the Pinkie Pie Equestria Girl and pony, so we're still hoping to find these soon.
We also added them to our Brushables, Equestria Girls Reboot and Equestria Girls Fashion Squad databases, so you can now start to add them to your wishlist for 2019! For easy access we linked each database page with the listings below.
Thanks to Tomo for the info!

Not long ago the 5-packs of the 3rd Series of the Cutie Mark Crew figures were found early at Target. But now a Vietnamese website called "My Kingdom" has listed both 5-packs with some very nice stock images. I'll include the listings below:

While they are probably not going to be in time for the holiday shopping period, we're very close to a release of the Series 3 Cutie Mark Crew mystery packs in North America. The Canadian Amazon website just added images showing every detail of the upcoming 3rd series of Cutie Mark Crew packs, which have gotten a redesign from the earlier 2 sets. Sadly ordering is not possible at the time of writing, and the US site does not have the same listing online yet.

One big plot twist, however, is that these images surfaced on the listing of the Series 4 Cutie Mark Crew mystery packs, which still holds the same name and description. So either the description of the 4th series went out too soon, or we need to wait a bit longer for these photos to be updated to the correct ones.

Nevertheless, we already saw this set pop-up in The Philippines and an online listing in France, but this is the first listing with photos in Northern America that we know of. Though, the 5-packs already saw an early shelve release in the US.

Little reminder for those eager to open these packs once they get their hands on them: beware of the confetti inside! You'll make a whole lot of mess if you open these unprepared.

Below we have an overview of all the figures that are included in this wave. Want the full photo of each pony? We've updated the Cutie Mark Crew database with all high-quality photos, so you can now see every pony when extending your wishlist!

Exactly 10 months ago a mysterious Queen Chrysalis popped up on AliExpress, together with a brushable of Sandbar. While the latter has long been released, the changeling queen with updated eyes wasn't seen again. Until now, as JCPenney released their first My Little Pony exclusive, that includes the Queen Chrysalis figure!
She's combined with the complete mane 6, all with the same pose as the Reboot Series singles and School of Friendship Equestria Friends, being it without any accessories. Other than that the box itself is pretty basic, with the regular border and a green background. The back of the box shows an angry mane 6 and Queen Chrysalis. It retails for $29.99
While this release may not bring any new mold or characters to the shelves, it's good to see that JCPenney is also invested in releasing exclusive My Little Pony stuff, as Toys"R"Us is no longer able to release these lines in the US. I don't expect a large line of, let's say Ponymania, to come from JCPenney, but it's s slightly bigger chance at getting new releases nonetheless.
(Thanks to Erik for the info & photos!)

Amazon has updated one of their listings again! This time we get a good look at the Twilight Sparkle Magic Wings Figure. She has some really gorgeous Rainbow Wings. When you press her Cutie Mark her horn and wings will light up, they will also flutter. The body is the same as the Friendship Duet and Talking Ponies release minus the wings. So she's quite large, about the size of a Styling Size.

A while ago Entertainment Earth posted a listing for upcoming Cutie Mark Crew Keychain plush. No Images where shown when they got listed, but thanks to a Polish site, we now got images!

 It's been about two week since our last post, so time for a new report on the latest store finds! We've got a post filled to the brim with interesting releases, some neat price drops and loads of random licensed merch.
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

A big scoop today with the first sightings of the Series 3 Cutie Mark Crew 5-packs! While the singles were first found The Philippines, these 5-packs were just out and about at a Target store in Texas. Though, at the counter they noticed that these were not yet in the system, so perhaps they were released a bit too early in stores. Nevertheless we now have photos of the sets and know which hidden characters are inside!
(Many thanks to Mark for the photos and info)