Another compilation of Store Finds that we received in the past weeks! We've got some big announcements, like the Series 2 Cutie Mark Crew blind packs, as well as plenty of smaller releases from the US, Mexico, The Netherlands, France and Australia.
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

Last week we asked you whether you started watching season 8 of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic yet. And this shows that we have some big fans of both the merch and the show here, as in the first week almost 68% started watching right away! After a long gap we see another reasonably sized group of 19% that's going to watch it soon, followed by 6% who will watch it once the season is over (good luck not reading any spoilers in the mean time!). This leaves 12% of you that aren't watching MLP:FiM.

It's been a very long time since our last episode of the Fakie Quest, and while we did two quick updates on fake EqG Minis, a new episode was well overdue! In this post you'll find tons and tons of fake My Little Pony toys, figures and basically everything that can be printed with bootleg artwork. Since the last episode we did not stop collecting images, and we did receive several submits too. (Thanks to Tomo, Ayu, Sharon and Andrea for their contributions)
Enjoy our 4th episode in the quest for the worst fakies!

It's been around a month since the first Quest for the Worst MLP Fakies post, and because of the overwhelmingly positive reactions I've decided to write another one! I once again saved up all the fakies I found last month, and was planning to keep going a bit longer. However, I want to warn you all for new fakies that have been going around since the past 2 weeks, and in the past few days it's gotten a bit out of hand. So, as a warning to everyone I start this post with:

Every now and then we search far and wide on Amazon to collect current sales for My Little Pony merch. It's been a while, so there are quite some new items available for a good deal. Interesting to see is that the Equestria Girls Mini's, Friendship Games and some of the poseable brushable figures are already on sale.
So, head on down and check what's available right now:

When browsing the internet for My Little Pony products you find all the good and legit stuff first. But when you go beyond page 30 of Google and searching for shady marketplace website you will eventually get into the world of My Little Pony fakies. Of course eBay has plenty of fakies too, but this is usually only the surface of what you can find. Many of these marketplaces (like Taobao) don't have anti-counterfeiting on the top of their agendas, although Alibaba has had a major clean-up lately.
For the protection of everyone I will not share any links nor name websites, but rest assured that most of these fakies are only available when ordering thousands at the same time, which is usually done by equally shady retailers.
In this post I will discuss some of the more interesting fakies I have found over the past few weeks, mainly focusing on figures and plush. While there won't be a definite 'worst fakie' in this post, it was my actual goal during my search, skipping the other common and already known fakies.

So, after this brief introduction, head on down and enjoy my quest!

It's been a while, but it's back: The huge 3-day MLP sale at Zulily with more items and variation than ever before. This time there are more classic G1 items in stock, and plenty of comics too.
You can find all items on the My Little Pony product page, but we've listed some gems below too!
Note: You need to register for an account first. Also, be sure to select 'United States' as shipping country in the top right corner to see all deals!

During the NY Toy Fair we didn't saw much of the Hasbro Pop/Design-a-Pony merchandise besides a large Rainbow Dash one. But the Brazilian Toy Fair (Abrin) was hold not long ago and besides the Guardians of Harmony Discord they showed a lot more Hasbro Pop Ponies.

So we've seen several of the new Hasbro Pop/Design-a-Pony appear online. We've found them on Taobao and the official MLP Website posted these as well. But we all began to wonder when and where they would appear. The first reports are in. They've been found at Toys'R'Us and ASDA in the UK and they've also been spotted in Sweden, all the Scandinavian TRU websites have listed these as well so there's a high chance the other Northern countries have these as well.
No reports yet on from people of the US. I've you find them please feel free to let us know.

Thanks to SETC and Josefin for the heads up!

Last week we asked you what you think the best merch release of 2015 was. And, as we already expected, the Equestria Girls Minis won! Even with only the final weeks of 2015 of actual sales, these figures were simply too cute not to like. Second place is for the Friendship is Magic Collection, which introduced a whole new way to play and collect 'blind bag'-figures. Another popular option was the Friendship Games line of Equestria Girls dolls. And at the bottom we find the Playskool Friends figures who, even though we think they're cure, couldn't win from the other releases.