After a teaser campaign on Instagram the news is now officially out: My Little Pony will return to Discovery Family in 2020 with a brand new animated series called Pony Life.
The new TV-series will feature new chibi-style animations, done by Hasbro's own Allspark Animation, and the mane 6 and their voice actors from Friendship is Magic will return for this series.
The show will center around Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie and mysterious potions in a Slice of Life setting. Aside from the main TV-show the My Little Pony YouTube channel will continue to release exclusive shorts.

More big news on Amazon today, as the single ponies for next year are all out in the open! The line of 6 ponies is part of the Reveal the Magic line, of which we already saw some other releases last week.
The 6 ponies that are part of this set aren't just the mane 6. While we do see Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle, there will be no Rarity and Rainbow Dash in this first set of these singles. They are accompanied by Trixie and a new character Potion Nova.
With the new character and product descriptions we're still not certain on what this line will be based on: a stand-alone toy line, G4.5, toys based on the upcoming movie, or possibly the first step towards G5?

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.