While the series 4 Cutie Mark Crew have started to become available on most continents now, over on a Ukrainian website the first images of the 5th series has been spotted! As we saw on the NY Toy Fair the base idea will remain the same as the current line we saw with series 3 and 4, namely the confetti-filled balloons with a single pony and accessory inside. This time around the ponies have a gradient design, and come with makeup/beauty-themed items. Overall we get to see a lot more mane 6 variants, but some other characters make a return in this set and we get the first release of Sweetie Belle and Zecora (in a rainbowfied form?). The accessories for the ponies are all duplicated once in a different color.

It's been a while since we've talked about merch from Bioworld, but today we're back with a review on one of their latest additions to the My Little Pony line-up: this multi-character snapback!
This snapback wears the Bioworld label, but is exclusively available through Snapback Empire, who also provided the review copy for us.

A new Blind Bag for the upcoming Nightmare Night Friendship is Magic Collection has appeared on Ebay. And this time it's every one's favorite zebra: Zecora. During the Toy Fair she was shown with her cape but most Chinese Ebay sellers sell the figures loose without their accessories. It's also unknown how she will be packaged but judging by the fact that she was standing next to a Star Swirl Twilight Sparkle figure probably means these two come together in a "small story pack" The Nightmare Night FiM Collection will probably be released this summer/fall but we'll keep you updated.

And already the 6th Friends Forever Paperback has been listed on Amazon. Sure goes fast! This one contains again 4 issues of the Friends Forever Series: #21-24. This one included the stories of Spike & Zecora, Pinkie Pie & Princess Celestia, Applejack & Fluttershy and at last the one with Rarity and Gilda.

But as predicted (the last two issues aren't even released yet) you quite have to wait for this one as it will be released on February 9, 2016. But you can already pre-order it on Amazon for $16.92 at the moment while the normal price will be $17.99.

Pre-order it here!

From today on you know have the option to get the newest issue of the Friends Forever Comic Series. This time the story will focus on Spike and Zecora who need to work together as a strange flu has descended over Ponyville. The writer for this issue is Ted Anderson and the artist is Agnes Garbowska. There are a total of three covers for this issue:

• A Regular one made by Amy Mebberson
• The Subscription Variant made by Agnes Garbowska
• A New York Comic Con Exclusive one made by Diana Leto

You can get the comic on Amazon as well.

• Regular Variant
• Subscription Variant

 A strange flu has descended over Ponyville! Only two friends find themselves immune... Spike and Zecora? Will the unusual pair be able to find a cure?

And some new comics have been announced! Today it's 21th issue of the Friends Forever Series. This issue will focus on Spike and Zecora. Interesting combination.  The writer for this issue is Jermy Whitley and the Artist is Brenda Hickey.
Update: Apparently IDW made a little mistake on the cover, as Ted Anderson is the writer and Agnes Garbowska is the artist. The cover is made by Amy Mebberson and this issue will be available on October 7, 2015

A strange flu has descended over Ponyville! Only two friends find themselves immune... Spike and Zecora? Will the unusual pair be able to find a cure?

Build-a-Bear shared this on their Twitter page today: 25% off all make-your-own My Little Pony plushies! The sale will only be on for a couple of days (ends in March 19), but 25% is a neat deal for their great plushies (confirmed by our readers, who voted Build-a-Bear for best plushies brand).
Note that the offer is only valid on make-your-own plushies, so all pre-made plushies (CMC & Spike) are not on sale.
The regular plushies are now $18.75 instead of $25, Princess Celestia is $20.25 and Zecora is $26.25.
Update: Thanks to Emmy we now know that the sale is on until March 19.

Remember our Toys"R"Us order from yesterday? Well here is a review about the Zecora POP Pony that came with the order in both text and video, which you can view either on YouTube, or the embedded video below. Enjoy!

We've just received our Toys"R"Us order! Because we in The Netherlands don't have any Toys"R"Us stores we decided to do an order at the USA website. Want to see what we ordered? Check out the video on YouTube or watch it below!

At an extensive merch hunt today in The Netherlands, we've spotted many new official Hasbro MLP products that have recently been released in the United States. We've also had various reports of findings in other European countries. The new releases consist of the first wave Hasbro POP ponies, fashion style Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom playset and the Pony & Breezie sets.

Hasbro has released 3 new commercials about the POP! Line on their Youtube Channel! We also added them on our Commercial Database. You can watch them below.

In addition to the store findings of Ponymania sets in various Toys"R"Us stores, they've now also appeared on the US website. The Ponymania Collection ($34.99), Zecora doll ($19.99), talking Queen Chrysalis figure ($24.99) and Photo Finish brushable ($10.99) are listed on their website, but the Ponymania Collection is (currently) not available for online purchases. This also means that we finally have high quality images of them all (except Photo Finish, but we already had some of her), which can be seen after the cut:

With the San Diego Comic Con only a two days ahead of us. We decided to make a special of all the My Little Pony related things this SDCC has to over! So that you know what to look for, and what you can expect!

A while ago Shapeways received a C&D from Hasbro because they were selling 3D printed models of MLP. Now things have quite becoming interesting since according to the New York times, Hasbro has decided to team up with them to sell 3D Printed figures in the future.

A quote from the article: “We have been investigating 3-D printing for quite a while, as have many people,” said John Frascotti, chief marketing officer at Hasbro. “What 3-D printing truly empowers is the creation of artwork that maybe wouldn’t make sense for mass production, but it makes sense for a unique item.”

Right now Super Fan Art has already listed some models on their website! You can find them here.
They will also come to the SDCC, you can see them at the Hasbro Booth.

Below the cut we have pictures of all the current models!

Out of nowhere, we saw this box at our local drugstore called 'Kruidvat', and for only €4.99 we had to buy it! The name isn't very clear, but the box contains both a jigsaw puzzle of 48 pieces and a memory game containing 30 pairs. Surprisingly enough, it's not just the mane 6 that got memory pieces: mane side and background characters are also included, even Lyra is there!

Below the cut we have a review with plenty of images:

 Seems like the new Build-a-Bear Ponies have appeared on the UK Build-a-bear website. In this article we will post the prices, pictures and other information about these new lovely plushies.

Toys"R"Us has posted a promotional page for their 2014 SDCC exclusives. Among the exclusive toys are the earlier found Ponymania Queen Chrysalis and Ponymania EqG Zecora doll. The weird thing is that while the USA store will be selling these after the SDCC, the Australian store is already selling Queen Chrysalis and Zecora, and Queen Chrysalis is already on sale too!
Last year's Toys"R"us SDCC exclusives (talking Nightmare Moon and Shadowbolt Rainbow Dash) are still being sold online, which hopefully means that Toys"R"Us keeps selling these exclusives for a while as well.

A few weeks ago the Ponymania Zecora doll had already been available for Australian TRU stores. But now it seems she's also appearing in the Canadian TRU stores. You might want to call your store first if they really have her, because there will be a change they don't have her yet.

For more information and product description see this article.