A big surprise this week from Hasbro with the release of a new wave of blind bags! Last year we thought it was game over for the classic blind bag waves with the continuous release of Cutie Mark Crew figures, but this turns out the be just a pause.
This week an images was shared on Instagram showing two well-known blind bag ponies with new cards attached. As far as we can tell the ponies in this wave are all re-releases from earlier transparent lines, like Wave 14, 16 and 17, with one exception: Rainbow Smile. A trademarked name we couldn't find a reference to anywhere else, and judging by the name, color and pose it could be a new name for Rainbowshine.
All figures come with a fully transparent body, no painted mane/tail and no added glitter. Though, there seems to be some color variations from the earlier releases, and we spot usage of the new eye designs from later waves.
The figures were found in Mexico, and we didn't see them at the NY Toy Fair this year or last year. This raises the question whether the new wave (technically #25 if we exclude Best Gift Ever) is a worldwide release, or of this wave will only see specific countries. Still, if that latter is the case, they could still end up in discount stores like the budget EqG dolls.

Whew it's been a while hasn't it? A more detailed post which explains the silence these days will be up soon. But thrust me, it's for a reason. (and a rather nice one as well. ;) )
Anyway BigBadToyStore has listed some new items up for pre-order. Some of them we already known like the upcoming Pony Friends Singles, and the awesome Starlight & Trixie Fan Series figure.

Entertainment Earth has listed a lot of very cool and interesting new items! Let's just take a look at them shall we?

Various new listings popped-up on Entertainment Earth, and among some duplicate sets there is a brand new Equestria Girls Rainbow Dash included! Aside from that this is the first time some of these figures are available for pre-order, so if you want to get these as soon as they're out, now is the chance.
None of the listings include images, but aside from the new Rainbow Dash images were already known.

Time for some non-movie merch! It's been a while. Some months ago we reported about beach-themed Minis listed on Amazon. But now Amazon has updated the listings with images! The beach set contains Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie Lulamoon and Twilight Sparkle. What's also nice is that the packaging got a nice make-over for this set with tropical designs all over and some nice traditional-style for the artwork. The packaging now also mentions Hasbro's Official Youtube Channel as well.

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.

Amazon has listed quite a lot of new Equestria Girls Related items. We haven't heard much of any new releases these days about them. So it's about time isn't it? First of all I think its safely to assume that all of these will be minis since, well we haven't seen any of the normal ones for a while, not even at the Toy Fair this year. The Amazon descriptions are just your generic placeholder ones so don't mind those. What is interesting though is that we can expect Beach, and Park themed sets. That means the girls with probably some cute beach-themed accessorizes and play sets perhaps.