One of the biggest My Little Pony figure hits from 2020 were the Hidden Dissectibles ponies. These blind bags featured unique My Little Pony sculpts with half dissected ponies. Many people wanted to see more ponies in this same style, and they have been heard: Mighty Jaxx just announced their second series of My Little Pony Hidden Dissectibles!
Update: Series 2 Hidden Dissectibles are now available! Check our review for all details or get them directly at Mighty Jaxx (you can use our referal link for $10 off $100)

Hasbro is on a roll with Cutie Mark Crew announcements and releases this month! After the listing for series 5 blind packs and two multi-packs we're already seeing official information and photos on the 6th series of blind packs on the My Little Pony website. This brand new series will feature similar gradient finishes as the 5th series and all ponies come with fashion-themed accessories like skirts, shoes, hats and pearl necklaces.
No details on the in-store release has been given so far, but seeing as this info is already up on Hasbro's own sites, we expect this set to be available not too far in the 3rd quarter of this year. Possible only weeks after the first findings of the 5th series.

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.

A small update on the upcoming Cutie Mark Crusaders brushables from the School of Friendship line today! On Taobao a photo was spotted where the three did not only have their painted on clothing, but also fabric skirts and accessories. As seen above Apple Bloom is carrying saddle bags and Scootaloo comes with a helmet. Sweetie Belle is currently only seen wearing her skirt, but that might change once we finally get to see them in packaging.
I bet people will be happy with that news, as a recent poll we held showed that painted on clothes are far from popular. Personally I think it's a great combination to see, and wonder if other ponies in the set (like Starlight Glimmer) get additional clothing as well.
Speaking of other ponies, if you look closely on the photo above, between Apple Bloom and Scootaloo, you can see a Fluttershy brushable with what looks to be a new outfit. If my eyes don't deceive me she's wearing a skirt/dress as well, combined with painted on shoes and a headband. While it's not very clear, we hope to get more information on these upcoming ponies in the coming weeks.
Thanks to Tomo for the info!

Amazon UK has listed quite an unexpected and exciting new set! The Cruising Cutie Mark Crusaders set to be exact and it contains the Cutie Mark Crusaders with molded manes and articulation. Scootaloo comes with her own scooter as well! But there are also some other accessories like a cart which can be attached to the scooter, and some in-line skates. Also, notice that Apple Bloom got the wrong eye-color on the loose product image photo's. However it's fixed with the in-packaging image so it's most likely a Prototype that was photographed.

Last week we asked you who your currently favorite pony from the mane 6 is, and compare the results to the last time we asked this, which was about 3.5 years ago. The first thing that we can see is that Twilight Sparkle jumped from place #4 to #1 in this year's results, and Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are more or less still as popular as before. Like Twilight, Applejack too got more popular, but Rarity saw the biggest decrease, and effectively switch placed with Twilight: from spot
1 to 4.

Scootaloo had the spotlight two weeks ago for being the first filly that was released after the reboot series started in 2017, and she had her cutie mark! Of course Scootaloo is never alone, so it was only a matter of patience before the complete Cutie Mark Crusaders trio would show up.
And that turned out to be today, as on eBay a listing has been posted featuring the complete CMC, all with their School of Friendship Outfit and cutie marks.
While the outfits and shoes are all the same, every one of them has a different pose: Scootaloo has an open mouth, Sweetie Belle a closed one and Apple Bloom has a raised hoof.
We don't have any further information on the release of the crusaders, but expect them to be bundled into a 3-pack that will be available towards the summer.

Last week we asked you who your favorite figure from the new EqG Minis Theme Park Collection is. The results were actually pretty close this time, with Sunset Shimmer winning this poll! On a close second place we can find Twilight Sparkle, followed by a bigger gap to the ponies that both got the same amount of votes to claim place #3: Pinkie Pie & Rarity. This leave Rainbow Dash in the final place, yet she managed to get over 10% of the votes.

Over on AliExpress four new brushables appeared that will be part of the School of Friendship line. Right now Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and Scootaloo were spotted, the latter being the very first filly-sized brushable since the reboot line started last year.
Rarity, Twilight Sparkle and Scootaloo are dressed (painted, not removable) in school uniforms, while there's also a second Twilight Sparkle found that has no outfit, but features some multi-colored ribbons in her hair.
Because they were only found online, we have no idea what release type these brushables are going to get. Be aware that this could become a larger store exclusive set (e.g. Target).
Thanks to Monster Glad for the heads-up!

Below we have photos of all four ponies from all sides!

Over at Target in the US you can now get the latest waves of the My Little Pony Squish Pops and Fash'ems figures by Tech4Kids. While we already had some info on the 6th wave of Fash'ems (which has the same figures as wave 5, but with a clear finish), the Series 4 release of the Squish Pops is completely new.
The latest wave of the small squishy figures introduces the first flocked figures and some new characters as well. Below we have more details on the included figures for each wave.
Thanks to Anto for the images!

Back in January we saw a magazine advert for the upcoming Rarity Friendship is Magic Collection Small Story Pack sets and a week later we got many high quality images of the other Rarity FiM Collection sets, but we were left without promo images of the earlier shown small packs.
But now, on the Icelandic Toys"R"Us website of all places, we finally get the images we were missing.
Below we have all images of the sets:

Back in March we initially spotted a few listings for Friendship is Magic Collection sets around the "Green Isn't Your Color" episode, and it has long been quiet around these sets. Out of the blue the official UK MLP Magazine is giving some of these sets away in a contest, which is extraordinary, as the sets are not available or even officially announced yet.
We can now clearly see that these sets are based on the Season 1-episode, with both spa scenes as well as clothing shoots with Photo Finish. The dresses from Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo in this case are from the "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" episode, which aired later in Season 4.
With the huge amount of release in the past few weeks and this announcement in the UK magazine are strong indications that these sets will be sold very soon. Below we've included the original Amazon listings for all sets, which will hopefully be updated with high quality stock images soon!
Thanks to Robbie for the images!

Remember when Hasbro told us that most of their new stuff was coming fall 2016? As it appears July is now officially renamed to Fall, as another wave of merch has been released in this very month.
This time, it's the Small Story Packs from the Nightmare Night Friendship is Magic Collection.
The wave consists of 4 packs with either 2 figures or 1 figure and some accessories. All the sets are themed after Nightmare Night and are now available on Amazon through a 3rd party seller.
You can find all the sets, images and listings below (thanks to April for the heads-up):

Always wanted to try one of the My Little Pony books, but never been able to get them cheap? At this moment Zulily has a 3-day flash sale on all kinds of licensed books, including 6 My Little Pony deals. All listings can be found below.
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!

Friends Forever #28 is now released and this one centers around the CMC and Princess Luna. This issue is written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by Jay P. Fosgitt. Three covers are available

Looks like a new Paperback has been listed on Amazon. We're already at the 10th volume of the FiM Series. Time goes by so fast... This paperback contains FiM #38 - #42. It will be released on September 6, 2016. No High quality image of the cover at the moment but expect that one during the September Solicitations by IDW.

You can pre-order it now on Amazon for $19.99

The official websites of the MLP Fashems and MLP Squishy Pops by Tech 4 Kids have updated their website which includes some HQ Images of the upcoming figures. We first got a look at these during the Spielwarenmesse and the NY Toy Fair but we didn't had good images of both.
First of all we're already at the 5th series of Fashems, as always six figures will be included with one of them being Starlight Glimmer. The CMC will be re-released as well in this wave but they will have their cutie mark which probably is the first time we see merch of them with their CM's. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie will be in this wave as well. According to the images they should be available this spring which is quite soon.

In addition to the Single Story Packs of the Nightmare Night Themed FiM Collection, it looks like the small story packs have now been listed as well. Their listings only have some awesome HQ images but the descriptions of them all are just the generic ones so we don't get much info about removable parts yet. Expect these this fall, perhaps earlier.

At last the 7th expansion for the My Little Pony CCG has been officially announced on the Enterplay Facebook page and it's named: "Marks in Time" and it looks like this one will focus on the CMC as well as Starlight Glimmer. This set will be released on the 20th of May. Have some of the details below!