Aside from retail stores, we've seen several series of plush to release exclusively as arcade hall prizes. In 2020 we'll see at least two new My Little Pony plush lines as arcade-prize manufacturer Toy Factory announced their new line-up.

Hasbro has posted several videos of their MLP Booth at this years New York Toy Fair. It's not as much as previous installments but still we see a few new items. More detailed images etc will follow in our annual Toy Fair wrap-up.

Hasbro has just released their brand toolkits for 2020 including the one for My Little Pony. Not much new items are actually shown but we do get a look at two new items. The Kiss my Unicorn Princess Celestia and the Unicorn Sparkle collection set featuring Dj Pon-3, Rarity, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie and Twilight Sparkle. What's interesting is how both of these don't feature brushable hair anymore but more show-accurate molded manes. Have all the official info below.

Amazon has listed a new interesting item: The Friendship Castle Playset with Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle. People who have been following the G4 line for some time might recognise the castle as the Wedding Castle Playset which was released in 2012. (8 years ago already! Time flies...) with some new stickers.

Now the interesting thing about this release is that it features Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle with their Reboot molds. But as you can see the eye-design for G4.5 is used. This makes us wonder if these molds will still be used overtime or that they are perhaps "leftovers" to be released in a last set before we truly get to the G4.5 design. With the New York Toy Fair around the corner I guess only time will tell.

Together with the release of the brand new blind bags set Target also added the first series of Generation 4.5 ponies and figures on the shelves, or at least, most of it. What has been spotted so far are the Potion Ponies ($4.99), Magical Mane Rarity ($21.49), Fashion Squad Singles ($4.99) and Potion Princesses ($14.99). The few sets that were already announced and not found could be available at other Target stores, or perhaps release at a later moment.

After the original announcement and availability at Amazon people spotted a second 12-figure box at Walmart, which we named Batch 1A quickly after. Instead of waiting for the second set to release at a later point we got a surprise update today: the second half of the set, Batch 1B, has just been released at Target!
Aside from the split of characters there are no other changes to the series. Even the codes on the packaging are exactly the same over all sets. More on that below.
This second half of the first batch (previously called waves) features Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Winona (black), Tank (blue), Angel, Gummy, Opalescence (black), a hippo and 4 unnamed unicorns.
Thanks to Victor & Samantha for the info and photos!

Entertainment Earth has listed a lot of new interesting items on their website. For example new Equestria Girls Fashion Squad figures combined with... Pony Life Molded Mane Ponies? That's right! Have all the information and new listings below.

About 2-3 weeks after we spotted them on Amazon, the first of the G4.5 Pony Life! Reveal the Magic Brushables have now been found. At least all of the new Singles and the Magical Mane Rarity have been found in the Philippines by one of readers named David. He has found them at Toys'R'Us and Toy Kingdom.