The celebration of My Little Pony's 40th anniversary is starting to take shape: Hasbro is promoting the celebration actively on social media, and licensees are releasing their retro toys and merch. Today we'll look at what Basic Fun (known from earlier retro G1 ponies) and Loungefly have available.

This morning I stumbled upon quite an interesting piece of upcoming Merchandise, especially those who are fan of the first generation of MLP: New Zealand Mint who is known to release silver coins themed after famous IP's such as Lord of the Rings, Disney etc. has now listed a My Little Pony one!

The coin is made of 1oz of pure silver and features the original six ponies (Blossom, Blue belle, Butterscotch, Cotton Candy, Minty and Snuzzle) in full-color together with the logo and sun. The other side of the coin features a Niue two dollar design together with a portrait of the recently passed Elizabeth II as well as the year 2022. The coin comes protected in a transparant case and is boxed in a high quality packaging featuring Starshine. 

Big news coming from the 2023 Preview & 2022 Holiday Market this week where Basic Fun revealed their line-up for next year. This is all centered around the 40th anniversary of My Little Pony (yes, the last celebration is already 4 years ago) and included in their plans is something very special: the never released Celestial Ponies!

The Virtual Running Club, an organization that promotes excercise through virtual runs/races, has announced a special My Little Pony themed challenge event: the My Little Pony Rainbow Retro Challenge, which includes exclusive rewards.

We're back with a filled store finds post! It'll probably be the last one for this year, so we made sure to include ornaments and wrapping paper in this episode. Other finds include Hitch Trailblazer figures, Twinkle-Eyed retro ponies and several older announcements that have been spotted in the wild.

If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

It's been a while since we last heard about the Retro Ponies by Basic Fun. But today we've finally gotten an update. Blain's Farm and Fleet has now listed four new Retro Twinke-eyed ponies.
Even though the first original set had a total of 10 ponies, this set will only include four for now which are: Fizzy, Gingerbread, Skyrocket and Sweet Stuff

 A few months ago Loungefly teased an upcoming G1 Retro collab. The only thing we saw at that time was a very nicely looking Starshine backpack. Entertainment Earth has now listed this backpack alongside a matching Starshine Zip-around wallet on their website.

It's been a while since we wrote a store finds post, and to be honest, the amount of finds have been low in the past months. Still, we've build up a backlog of G4 merch and want to share the first G5 in-store release too!
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

Aside from that Entertainment Earth has also listed the Pinfinity Augmented Reality Pins which we made a detailed blogpost about a few months ago. If you want to learn more about these I would recommend reading that post too since it has some nice information about how the pins work.

Hallmark is keeping up a tradition to release a new keepsake ornament of a G1 pony every year since 2017. This year is no exception, and they announced the new pony this week: Powder!

And we have some My Little Pony news from Australia. This might be already a bit old perhaps, but we still wanted to report about it since we think it's very interesting nonetheless: A total of three new Retro G1 plushies have been spotted by two different companies. Have all information below.

We're back with another store finds post! After the pre-order announcements from Mighty Jaxx and Funko it's time to take a look what's all available right now. There's quite a variety of items in this post, ranging from ornaments to scented plush and Kinder Surprise eggs.
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

It's only a short week after the official announcement of the new Funko POP! retro My Little Pony figures, and we just got word that pre-orders are now available, including a Hot Topic and GameStop exclusive!

In total there are 6 regular-size Funko POP! figures and 2 keychains, all themed after G1 ponies. Blossom, Butterscotch, Cotton Candy, Minty, and Snuzzle will be generally available, while Blue Belle will be released as a Hot Topic exclusive, and a scented Cotton Candy will only be sold at GameStop. Blossom and Cotton Candy will also be released as smaller POP! keychains.

(Even though the Funko announcement says otherwise, Hot Topic and GameStop list their exclusives as is written in this post)

About two months ago a leak has appeared telling us that possible G1 Funko Pop Figures were on the way, this has now been confirmed as the first images have appeared. The images are actually from a video made by Funko Themselves (My Little Pony Part Starts at 14:10, you can find the video below)

While we're already in the fall, and Halloween and Thanksgiving are approaching, we're still not seeing a lot of new releases in stores. Nevertheless we've compiled all the latest My Little Pony store finds for you (and there's still plenty to show you)!
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

 

A few months ago stock images were revealed of Peggy Mane and Right Hoof Red. Also known as the Lite Brite and Twister Ponies. It has been a while we've heard anything about these two, but it turns out they have been found in stores! These two have been found at Toys'R'Us Canada for $16.99 CAD each. It's interesting to note that the price tag mentions "Retro Mash-Up Assortment". Makes me wonder if we'll see more retro crossovers aside from these and the Crossover Collection...

A Greek toystore named Toys-Shop has listed something interesting. The website has listed single versions of the Retro Rainbow Mane 6 set that was released last year. The figures appear to be the same as their multipack releases. However as for now we were only able to find listing for Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle. It's unclear if Fluttershy and Rarity will also be released. (Though it seems a bit strange if they don't) 

Just before the (expected) new wave of MLP figures and sets will be released on the shelves, we're posting the backlog of stores finds still left in our mailbox and social media channels. The biggest news right now is of course the first finds of the second Potion Surprise blind packs, which we'll start with. Below is more My Little Pony news from around the world.
If you happen to find brand new stuff in your local store, then feel free to write us a small message with photos.

Target has listed the second set of the Basic Fun Classic Series Unicorn & Pegasus Ponies. The Unicorn Ponies Gusty and Sparkler are part of this set and the pegasus ponies includes are Heart Throb and Surprise. All of them are listed for $9.99. You can find the listings below alongside their DPCI. Below we also have a gallery with the official stock images.