If there's one thing that's not going to end any time soon it has to be My Little Pony blind bags. We've already reached the announcement of Wave 23. According to the packaging it's planned to come out in 2018, so expect to wait a few months for these, but it'll be worth the wait!
Why? Well the huge amount of great characters! Cheerilee, Princess Cadance, Cheese Sandwich, Snips, Snails, Baby Flurry Heart and I can keep going on. Five of the characters will get the chase-treatment of large glitters in their manes, as with the previous Wave 21 and Wave 22 sets.

Below we have a full list of characters with images and names. It's a bit too early for codes, but we'll be sure to post about that once we're certain.

After some early scoops on new blind bags we can finally confirm what Wave 18 looks like! The wave has been announced and the main line of figures have embedded glitter, some of them with a more gold-ish tint. The chase figures are still in line with the Nightmare Night theme, which includes Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Raven Inkwell, Minuette and Sprinkle Medley. The core of this wave consists of Wave 8 re-release figures, but there have been several changes, for example: Flim and Flam are not included in this wave.
Below we have a group shot of all ponies, including their blind bag codes. You can get a closer look at the figures in our MLP Blind Bag Database.

After Pinkie Pie it was a bit of guessing which theme would be next for the Friendship is Magic Collection. We already got some Amazon listing of Nightmare Night related merch some time ago but it's now confirmed that these will be part of the FiM Collection line. We will like was listed, get a Nightmare Night Chariot with a Batwinged Pegasus figure. Have all the listings below.

Looks like a new commercial has been released and this time it's for the Pinkie Pie Friendship is Magic Collection. Even though this wave got released some weeks ago it seems like the commercials has just popped up. But I bet this is actually quite normal as we've seen it happen before.

You can watch the commercial below.

Even before we had the chance to get official stock images, the latest Friendship is Magic collection revolving around Pinkie Pie has been released at Target and Toys"R"Us!
All the regular packs have been found in these stores, except for the Pinkie Pie Sweet Shoppe playset. We hope to see some online listings soon, but for now you can find them at Target and Toys"R"Us, but this may vary per region.
Prices are equal to the original Applejack FiM Collection:
- Single Story Pack $2.99
- Small Story Pack $4.99
- Large Story Pack $9.99
- Ultimate Story Pack $21.99 (not confirmed yet)

Thanks to PixelKitties for the info and images!

This morning we reported that a Maud Pie blind bag has been spotted on Ebay. There's a high change she's part of the Friendship is Magic Collection. Seems like that's almost a 100% confirmed as she was also listed on Amazon a while ago. She does have the word "doll" behind her name but this was also the case with the first Friendship is Magic Collection Singles.

In addition to Maud Pie it seems like even more FiM collection Blind Bags are starting to appear on both Ebay and Taobao. This time it's especially Taobao as 2 new Pinkie Pie's have been spotted and a Mrs. Cake. It's unsure how they will be packaged but they both look adorable in my opinion. Let's hope more of them will appear soon as well. We will keep you updated.

Thanks to Vinícius for the heads up!

And since yesterday the Friends Forever #19 has been released. This comic centers around Rarity and the Cake Family. There are a total of 2 covers again for this issue. The regular variant by Amy Mebberson and the Subscription variant made by Brenda Hickey

MLP Friends Forever #19 Comic

Rarity has a genius idea to expand the Cake’s business! However, Rarity’s big dreams may overtake the Cake’s sanity before the new venture can even get off the ground!

And the next paperback from the Friends Forever comic line has been announced. Well, it has been spotted on Amazon and you can pre-order it now. Like I mentioned in the title this is already the 5th of the Friends Forever paperback series. It contains Friends Forever #17 - #20 and you can pre-order it for $17.99. It will be released December 17, 2015.

Friends Forever Paperback Volume 5 - $17.99

Twilight Sparkle looks to Big Mac to help her feel less stressed out. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy head to the Cloudsdale school reunion. Rarity has a genius idea to help the Cake's business. And, Princess Luna tries to help Discord with his sleep problems. Collects issues #17-20.

Amazon has listed tons of new My Little Pony figures today that will be released somewhere later in the year. As usual with the pre-announcement listings there are no images and no descriptions: The title of all listings is what we need to go by.
Earlier this year, when the Friendship is Magic Collection was first discovered, the Amazon listings mentioned the figures as 'dolls'. In today's listings we have found quite a few 'doll' listings, as well as a few listings that clearly mention Friendship is Magic and set names that sound like new FiM Collection scenery sets. It's also pissible that several new Brushables have been listed as well. Right now it's kinda hard to figure out which listing is which.

We'd probably have to wait for a few weeks, if not months, before we get some more info on these, but at least we know what to expect later this year! There are quite some interesting names like Starlight Glimmer, Fluttershy's Cottage and Miss (Coco) Pommel amongst the listings.
Head on down to see all the listings, and stay tuned for more info, which we will post as soon as it's available!