A few months ago, a lot of this stuff was leaked on the Chinese Taobao site. It looks like they have started to invade Target stores. We have images from a few different people this time around. Included in this new wave are:
Winged Ponies
The Friendship Express Train
A New CMC+Cheerilee Set
And I'm not sure if the Fluttershy is new, but that's in there too!
I have to admit, I was hoping they would finish off the old molded gift set. Out of all these toys, those are my favorites so far. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Luna, and Fluttershy need to join the group!
More images are after the break.
111 comments:
Target, Y U no exist in Europe?
ReplyDeleteHmm. Might have to keep my eyes peeled the next time I go to Target. Though on that note, I don't usually shop at Target since the closest one to me is a couple of miles away.
ReplyDelete*out to run errands*
ReplyDelete*last stop is Target*
*get home, check EqD out of habit*
*this*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Wake me when they're released in the UK. Which will probably be about October.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there an iTunes sticker on that last Fluttershy toy?
ReplyDeleteI must own that Cheerilee!
ReplyDeleteWow, finally a Celestia toy that's proportionally accurate. Now, if only they would take care of that pink issue...
ReplyDeleteNah, the Fashion Fluttershy isn't a new toy. It's been around for some months now, I have one.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any of the glimmer wing pony toys yet at my local Target. Or the train or CMC set. I kinda want the CMC set though.
I must own that Cheerilee!
ReplyDeleteI just went to Target and saw the "Royal Castle Friends" set. However the Target near me seems to have severely reduced their pony offerings recently.
ReplyDeletesomebody tell me when they make them 100% show accurate and not creepy as fuck.
ReplyDeleteTo bad it won't be at Target AU :(
ReplyDelete@Senn555 Probably promoting their presence on iTunes. Or maybe a code for a free episode. That would be my best guesses.
ReplyDeleteMust. buy. Scootaloo!
ReplyDeleteFluttershy itunes? What.
Well...I'll be checking out my local Target very soon then.
ReplyDelete@ftfc
ReplyDeletethey're advertising that you can find it on The Hub AND iTunes.
They might of had both Fluttershies you can see have been there for a little. I got the Fashion Style Fluttershy as a gift on Christmas, and all the times i've given the pony part of Target a quick look and the scooter Fluttershy has been there for a while.
ReplyDeletefind the show, of course... <-<
ReplyDeleteMy favorite happens to be the Ponyville series, like the ones that come in the blindbags
ReplyDeleteI thought those winged and gala dress ponies were old news. I got a winged rarity before xmas because it reminded me of her in the sonic rainboom episode
ReplyDeleteY U no have stuffed ponies?
ReplyDelete@wackypony Something tells me that for the foreseeable future, the task of show-accurate ponies is gonna fall on us.
ReplyDeleteNone of the new My Little Pony... ANYTHING is available in the UK it seems, even on iTunes and the Hub website we can't get the episodes
ReplyDeletefml
I want that cmc set
ReplyDeleteNow I know what I'm doing this weekend!
ReplyDeleteI actually got the train and butterfly wing Rarity for the holidays, and I think they came from Walmart a month or so ago.
ReplyDeleteCUTIE MARK CRUSADERS: INACCURATE TOY MODELS YAY!
ReplyDeleteWhy. The. Butterflies.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, wtf.
W00T my news got posted, there was also something called "so soft sweetie bell" but we didn't have any so i couldn't get a photo.
ReplyDelete@Flutterfan The Applebloom one is the creepiest...
ReplyDeleteLook! Accurately labeled CMC toys! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI....think I'll just wait until some more accurate ones are released. Then there's always that hint of creepiness in these...
ReplyDeleteThat CMC toy set looks pretty cool! If they ever arrive to Spain I'm so getting one to customize Applebloom and make her look all badass.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that train set gives me ideas for an Unstoppable set XD
Will Celestia ever be white? Or is she doomed to forever
ReplyDeletebe stained pink?
no target in mexico ME SAD
ReplyDeleteJust like the previous generations of my little pony, this still has the toy brand tradition but more appeal to bronies especially since we all love the show!!! ^_^
ReplyDeleteCelestia has the chestpiece, and brushie hair but still pink:/
ReplyDeletedude! i got a 20$ target gift card for christmas! YEEEESSS!!!
ReplyDeleteHasbro, Y U MAKE CREEPY LOOKING TOYS?!?
ReplyDeleteAll we want is a plushie. One without brushable hair.
Still not show-accurate. Let me know when that happens.
ReplyDeleteWait, what the ... the first photo is so blurry, I can't make out the winged pony names. Rainbow Dash onna right, check. Rarity left, yep. Pl... No, wait. Bloomette? What?? Gah! What the lead brick!? Who is that pony!?
ReplyDeleteTrain!.....that's it? That's the train set we were waiting for? An engine and a cart? Dude, the train they threw into the middle of Ponyville had, like, three cars and a caboose. A caboose! You could fit twenty ponies in there. The hell can I fit in this thing's little barrow? A bunny, that's what. And, by the way, who the hell made Pinkie a certified train engineer? Are you trying to kill us all?
ReplyDeletePoor Applebloom, she doesn't really look like herself there. Her body should be a darker yellow. The other three ponies are clearly more accurate.
ReplyDelete@wackypony
ReplyDeleteTell me about it!!!
The dolls are adorable! but Hasbro, I would LOVE to have some plushies please! preferably a Fluttershy plushie please?
ReplyDeleteI will probably get the CMC one because I am a mad twitchy completionest.
ReplyDeleteAlso my customized brushable ones look pretty decent, the cutie mark crusaders you say hasbro? Challenge accepted.
(The molded ones still look the best, I was really hoping for the rest of the characters.)
Now we can recreate that wonderful moment when Rarity acted like a complete jackass and nearly got herself and three of the Wonderbolts killed.
ReplyDeleteAlso, good luck getting Sweetie Belle's hair to be show accurate.
And I still wonder why the CMC can't be referred to as the Cutie Mark Crusaders on the package. Unless... Can it be that they're afraid of offending someone by using the word Crusaders?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I would like to see Hasbro just offer a collectables license for the show to some other company. It pained me to go into Hallmark over the holidays and see so many cartoons and properties with holiday themed ornaments, snow globes, figurines, plushies, bookends, etc.
ReplyDeleteI get that they don't want to cater their successful toy lines to older fans... Keep them mutated, pink and brush-able, that's fine. But give me a snowglobe with show-accurate characters that plays "Winter Wrap-up", or some statues depicting scenes from the show, or especially those 1980's era Hallmark store "Smurfs" hard plastic collectable figures (they made every kind of Smurf imaginable, all with unique molds/poses/accessories... not "blind bag" repaints. If they could do an unknown "painter smurf" with a beret, easel, paintbrush and palette, then why wouldn't they be able to do an Octavia with Cello for a pony collection, or any other background pony?)
Surely it benefits them to at least test the waters with some kind of collectable for older fans, and I know there must be some companies that would love to have the license.
Just bought the CMC + Cheerilee set a couple of days ago. It's great!
ReplyDeleteWhere am I? Why can't I have one? Hold on let me rephrase that before I get a pink one too, why can't I have an accurate model of myself?
ReplyDeleteI have a Sweetie, but I MUST get that CMC+Cheerilee!!
ReplyDeleteSweet CMC set! Although I already have a Cheerlie... Maybe I customize one into 80's Cheerlie. Thinking about it.
ReplyDeletei like trains...
ReplyDeleteno but in all seriousness i want that train set didn't see it last time i went to target tho hmm will have to look harder
Old news, I got the CMC set a week ago. Me and my friends went to target last week and bought the set, we split up the set, I got Sweetie, my friend Rick got Applebloom and my other friend Jerry got Scootaloo and Cheerilee.
ReplyDeleteRick also bought the Twilight, Princess Celestia and Spike set for himself (he plans to give Spike to his fiance.
In fact I went to different target on Monday and I saw the toys there as well.
I've been thinking about how you have been pretty slow with this.
they sell all the mane 6 molded ponies at toys'r'us. it is the collectible ponies set.
ReplyDelete@RushingRoulette hey, at least you guys get blindbags, right?
ReplyDeleteI saw the Butterflies ponies, the CMC and Castle set and the Friendship train in a store called "Palacio de Hierro" here in Mexico, so, if any Mexican brony is interested on one of these toys, you can found it here
ReplyDeletemy target isnt carrying ANY of these or any pony for that matter all my pony buying is at K-mart and Walmart and Toys-r-us walmart had the train before xmas almost got it for Christmas. but needed twilight more.
ReplyDeleteI simply MUST have the CMC toys. I wonder when they will be available in Europe.
ReplyDeleteHASBRO
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Y U NO MAKE GOOD TOYS
I've seen them but I don't like the ones with real hair.
ReplyDeleteI picked up the CMC & Cheerilee at a Target in Federal Way, Washington — they had the train too.
ReplyDeleteI'm only interested in the school set. The summerwing ripoffs look weird. And Pinkie wouldn't be driving a train. She'd be the one robbing it.
ReplyDelete@MasterContinuum
ReplyDeleteThey're talking about the set with 3"-tall Twilight, AJ, and Pinkie Pie, a 5" tall pink Celestia, and a Spike. All of them have molded hair (minus Spike of course).
Hmmm...I got a Target gift card as a gift. I think I may buy a little something "for my kid"...
ReplyDeletePony School Pals re-release set with names right this time, yay!
ReplyDeleteYay this is the week I'm going to Buffalo to raid Target too! I want the CMC! Although I finally saw the Applebloom/Sweetie set at Toys R Us here in Canada....
ReplyDeleteWell, Celestia is still pink, but it doesn't look as bad as before. Eh, despite her actually having the proper chest jewelry and Twilight coming with her Big-Crown-Thingy, doesn't quite look worth it. CMC set however... yay!
ReplyDeleteYay this is the week I'm going to Buffalo to raid Target too! I want the CMC! Although I finally saw the Applebloom/Sweetie set at Toys R Us here in Canada....
ReplyDeleteAlready found all these. I bought the School Pals set and redid the hair on them all. I got the castle friends for the Spike and Celestia. They're all very good.
ReplyDeleteWell, the North Kansas City Target does not have these in yet. I had to go there anyway, so I figured I might as well check.
ReplyDeleteDamn that CMC set...why do Applebloom and Cheerilee have to have that damn raised leg? Sure, easy enough to get a normal Cheerilee...but I've yet to see and Applebloom.
ReplyDeleteWait, why does Rainbow Dash have butterfly wings?
ReplyDeleteMust not go to Target and spend all money on ponies...
ReplyDeleteWish the Target stores in Australia carry new stock
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's time to go on a road trip trough Sweden in search for pony merchandise =/
ReplyDelete@Harwick
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see them do some market research into this area. I would probably spend $100 or so on a large, awesomely posed, show-accurate, super high quality Celestia or Rainbow Dash.
Of course that might be a bit steep.
uhhh none of these are new D: ;;;;
ReplyDeleteI was at a local Target yesterday (Capitol/McKee in San Jose). They seemed to have rereleased a number of individual "regular" sized pony figures (with the little pet), but packaged with a mini-DVD. As far as I could tell they were all the SAME episode, Ticket Master.
ReplyDeleteI saw the "Glimmer Wings Rarity" at a Tampa Bay area Wal-Mart yesterday.
ReplyDeleteSo after my husband and I saw this post, we went out to our local Target here in Tennessee and we had no luck finding the CMC & Cheerilee set. We did, however, come home with a really comfy & soft Twilight Sparkle/Celestia blanket, and they also had the winged ponies. We also checked 2 of our 5 Walmarts & the Toys R Us. No dice =( Another pony board had several other posters from TN, and they were having trouble finding the CMC/Cheerilee set too. So just a heads up for TN residents - might have trouble tracking down that set.
ReplyDeleteThe winged ponies are a pass for me, might pick up Rarity if I ever find her in the UK...just cause of episode 16 Sonic Rainboom. :D
ReplyDeletebut I really would like the CMC and Cheerilee set...stupid UK not getting ponies. ;-;
Hasbro fails to capture the look of the characters on the show once again. These are just creeepy and so 3.5 gen-ish. To get the ponies right, they should start hiring the fans who actually work hard on their dolls and figuresto make the characters look good.
ReplyDeleteI love the toys...just style their manes. they look really good after! :)
ReplyDelete@Pyrobug
ReplyDeleteI had been to Target just a few days ago. I bought a ton of the Canterlot playsets for 50% off. I finally have a second Shine Brite Princess Luna, and I DIDN'T have to pay $42 for her (that was really the old price, no joke). $20 was much better, and a fair price, for including a Shine Brite, regular, and a gem carriage in one box. I picked up a third Rarity's Carousel Boutique (spare to just screw around with, maybe take apart or mod). I already have one, and gave one (minus the tiny blind bag sized ponies) for Christmas. I got it half price then too. I also have stated picking up spares of all the Fashion Style Ponies. I'm hoping the Princess double pack is moved to clearance so I can get it cheaper, as it's $30 still. All I'm missing is a pair of Twilight Sparkles, and a spare Applejack (I have one so far). I hope to mod the spares with molded hair. I've considered modding a trio of the talking Celestia toys. I think their scale may be more correct compared to the Fashion Pony line, and the Fashion Style Princesses remind me of filly alicorns.
I'm glad to see them playing so heavily on the clearances, as that means they are making room for the new toys. They did this before right before introducing the Canterlot Exclusives, so I have high hopes.
As for the Glimmerwing ponies and the Train set, I bought these in early December from a nearby Walmart (south central MN). Fashion Style Rainbow Dash...
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RAINBOW DASH ALWAYS DRESSES IN STYLE!!!
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OK... I said it...
Dash was COMMON around here, but Fashion Style Fluttershy was impossible to find. I ended up ordering her off Kmart's online store... only to see her 2 days later in the Wallgreens 4 blocks from my house (facehoof). I bought her and a Pinkie, and decided at that moment that I wanted spares of the F.S. line for molded mane moding.
The Train... It's short, but you can add at least 2 known train cars to it. Sweetie Belle's Ice Cream Car, and Fluttershy's Nursery Car. I got the ice cream car online, but everywhere I looked, Fluttershy's car was sold out. I guess everypony felt that they needed it BAD if Pinkie was the engineer running the train! LOL!
One final note... My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic exists because it's toys are popular enough to support the continuation of the show. If the toys did not sell, the show would not be continued. If you want to support this show, do so in what ever way possible. Buy a toy, give it as a gift to a little girl in the family if you have no desire to keep it for yourself... Just support the show. I for one hate the brushable hair, but for every person who whined that the 5 piece gift set had a pink Celestia, that was one more giftpack that sat on the shelves. We have the neighsayers who endlessly whined about pink Celestia to point a hoof at for Hasbro saying there were not good sales... Now we have lost the LAST molded hair pony product that was still in the US (the Princess Celestia + Princess Luna double set appears in line to be replaced with this new set that has a brushable mane Celestia). She's still pink... No one who cared enough bought the product, and if you didn't buy the product, to both retailer and toy company, if you don't buy, you don't have a voice with them.
I choose to support Hasbro, even if they are not perfect. I have hopes they may learn to listen. The last thing we shoudl do is run them out of town like Trixie or Gilda... They'll take FiM with them, and nopony wants that!
And now, with my Scootaloo in hand, I lol at everybody who spent upwards of $20 on one single one that didn't even come with the rest of the Crusaders.
ReplyDelete@Jordan
ReplyDeleteThe bodies and head shapes of the G4 toys ARE surprisingly accurate to the 2D flash vectors. Some people just have trouble translating 2D to 3D. It's those awful brushable manes that don't work, and the fact that a certain pony keeps being made pink, or another always not having a hat (or a hat of the correct color) and minor details like that.
This isn't McFarlanne toys dude... And if they were as perfect as you wish they were, they'd probably cost $30-100 each. Try to step back into reality.
The PRIMARY issue I see in people's skewed perception of the toys is the manes. Brushable hair has a VERY hard time looking like the styled manes on the show. It also leaves most of the ponies looking very nearly bald, but with a mohawk of hair. This IS how ponies are, and it's even how ponies on the show are. Rarity and Pinkie Pie are the BEST examples of this on the show. look at the point where their forelock meets their forehead. It's a narrow point. The problem is that unlike real, full scale hair, the toy hair does not take this styling well, and you end up with the hair sticking up and you get an exposed, mohawk with baldness on either side. It's the baldness that throws people's brains for a loop. You expect a hair style, and when it's not there, your brain reacts the same way it would react if you went to work, or to school, and saw that everyone had buzzed themselves mohawks.
You would /)O_O(\
I've still heard some people compare the G4 toys with the old G3.5 stuff. Wait... REALLY??? I call SHENANIGANS on that! God, I actually read that somewhere just today. It made me cringe. At this point, I truly believe that it's a pathological bias in some people's minds. I get frustration over Pinklestia. I get the frustration with AJ being perpetually hatless. I get that the hair is insane. No one bought molded hair ponies, cause they were to busy whining like Rarity in a mineshaft about Pinklestia, that Hasbro just came to the conclusion that molded hair is not wanted.
Hasbro is NOT BRIGHT. They DON'T always get us. They have to be guided, hand in hand, dollar changing hands in the process, to even have a chance to understand anything.
Shoot... I'm downright flabbergasted that people are STILL using the "it's not show accurate argument"... Try the "I'm not MANLY enough to walk into the pink aisle" argument! LOLOLOL!!!
I routinely browse there man! I bet I've been in the pink aisle over 50 unique times in various stores in the past year since becoming a brony. I used to go to Target and Walmart 2 or 3 times a week, and every day when rumors of new product came out.
I'll go there again tomorrow, to see if all the clearances have made way for new product.
Also...
By the way, that Train is only $19.99, and considering it's contents, and the construction quality of the Train engine... I was impressed. THe train freewheels until the electric motor is engaged, then immediately locks the drive into the motor. THe turns on the track are absurdly tight, and I wish they had expanded track sets, but it functions well.
@Harwick
ReplyDeleteThat's a bummer you didn't find anything...
I have my Pinkie Pie Christmas ornament, with a molded hair Pinkie holding a snowflake up in front of her face.
I'll admit, I'd like to see more. Hearth's Warming Eve versions of the mane 6 would be ROCKIN' AWESOME!!! For now, I'm happy they have released at least one Christmas ornament.
@Scootaloo
ReplyDeleteTHAT's where I saw the Gen 3.5 comment. It was in the reply window, but I'd not reloaded my main window...
Hmmm... Nah!
Have you EVEN SEEN G3.5? ABOMINATIONS!!!
G4 toys are much closer tot eh 2D vectors than most people are willing to admit, and 90% of the uncanny valley factor comes from that stupid brushable hair making the ponies look like they have mohawks.
Have you SEEN the STANDARD 3 inch toy line modded with molded hair before. It's BEAUTIFUL!
If only Hasbro would learn...
Sadly, everypony whined about Pink Celestia instead of buying the molded mane 5 piece gift set, so Hasbro interpreted the low sales of the 5 piece gift set as "people don't like molded manes". Now we have no molded manes anymore, unless there are a few lingering old sets around of either the 5 piece or the Royal Pony Sisters set.
LOL...
ReplyDeleteLooking above at all that I typed...
I wish my "word wall" was in Skyrim.
I'd learn all the shouts from just a single location! LOL!!!
@Shiranai
ReplyDeleteLooking into it, Sideshow Collectibles makes statues and toys based on Hasbro properties like Transformers and GI Joe, so the giant toy company is apparently willing to let other companies make such products. Hopefully someone will snatch up a license to do some higher-end Pony stuff.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if any initial offerings would be very high priced based on limited runs... a lot of those statues go for $300 and more. But it would at least be a start.
@richfiles
I am jealous, as I probably would have snatched up the Pinkie ornament had I ever seen one in person. I did, however, find the molded hair pony toys in a closeout store for under $10, which was nice, so now I actually own some Pony merchandise.
I like ponies and trains. Now they are together sweat need to get me a new train set and the CMC set
ReplyDeleteI like ponies and trains. Now they are together sweat need to get me a new train set and the CMC set
ReplyDelete@Harwick
ReplyDeleteToys R Us has carried the Pinkie Ornament, so check there if you are in the US. It was available online for a short time, but online ordering didn't last long. I'm not sure what production numbers were for it, but it was only like $8 I think. Since Christmas has passed, it'll likely be on clearance, if you ever do see it again, but it also means it's not likely to see any new pieces either. They are already SELLING on ebay for $30-40 (actually being sold at those prices, and not just listed). It would seem post Christmas prices on them have actually gone up. Yikes! They were selling for $22-30 before Christmas. I did find an auction with an opening bid of $26.99 with no bids and 2 days left. If you want one, hit it.
I checked. They are not available for shipping from T-R-U, and you can't do a pickup in store either. All you can really do with them is call or visit a store and check if the item is in stock on site. Chances at this point are rather slim, sadly.
Most reviews for it describe it as the most show accurate version of Pinkie Pie to date... and I'd agree. Top it off with the snowflake, the adorable pose, and the blue scarf...
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HHHNNNGGGGGGGGGG
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So true...
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely picking up that CMC set. Not sure about the Celesria/Twilight?Spike one, though. On the one hand, Celestia looks much improved over her previous mold. On the other, I already have two Celestias, two Spikes and three Twilight Sparkles. Do I really need more, even if Twi comes with her Big Crown Thingy?
ReplyDeleteAAAAAARGH! Tell me what to do, pony fandom!
I hope the winged ponies, Celestia and the train will be available in my country.
ReplyDeleteGreat another Celestia, so I HAVE to buy it. Gosh darn. One day I will have enough Celestias to take over. Maybe.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter's birthday is coming up, I know she wants the Rarity playset, but I bet she'd want the Rarity with wings, the CMC set and the train if she knew they existed. :D
ReplyDeleteofficially sucks that hasbro makes such lame toys.
ReplyDeleteI got to set these up at work, and I was overjoyed all night. It doesn't get much better than ponies at work (Well, maybe working on the actual MLP:FIM show)!
ReplyDeleteNot getting these because: They are not accurate, I really don't like their manes, and the new Sweetie Belle is just... Wrong. What's the deal, HasBro?
Remember when pink was considered a masculine color, because pink was associated with red and therefore associated with blood and therefore associated with violence? And purple was mostly associated with luxury and royalty?
ReplyDeleteNeither do I.
I miss those days, anyways.
FUUUUUUUUUUUU...
ReplyDeleteI *just* bought the Apple Bloom/Sweetie Bell set and the Cherilee school set for MiniDork for Christmas. So, of course, they release a set with Scootaloo.
I NEED CMC AND CHEERILEE SET OMG
ReplyDeletePrincess Celestia toy difference comparisons:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/108032
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/108033
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/108034
Well, I have all three of the major releases of the standard size Celestia toy. This is a detailed review of the differences between the three versions of the toys.
The oldest is the Friendship is Magic 5 Piece Gift Set (Right most toy). She has a solid color tiara with gold (yellow) color, a purple multifaceted gem, and a dark gold trim and back. It fits tightly against the forehead. The hair is 4 toned, and the wings are made of the same plastic as the main body. Head is fixed, and mane and tail are molded.
The middle image is the version of Celestia that came bundled with the 3" standard version Princess Luna toy. Her tiara is the same mold, but is now unpainted, and uses a translucent yellow plastic. The body is identical, and uses the same mold as the gift set version. Her hair is now only 3 tones of color however, eliminating pink. Her wings are now made of a translucent plastic... I'd call it magenta, or close to it.
Both of these versions of the toy featured molded manes and tails. The wings are individually set into recesses in the body, one for each wing. There is a "peg" that can't be seen on the rear left leg and the right side of the neck on both of these. There is also a deep "Y" shaped trench in the top of the head, and a deep hole in the back. These are all mounting/anchor points for the molded mane and tail.
Finally, we get to the newest version of the toy, seen on the left. This toy comes with a posed leg variant of Twilight Sparkle, with a tiara that ACTUALLY looks similar to the "Big Crown Thingy", aka her Element of Harmony. It even has the purple 6 pointed star on it. The set also comes with Spike... Same old Quadrupedal Spike the Dragon that has come in every Spike pack in. Props for finally releasing a posed leg variant of Twi. Another check mark off my "Gotta collect 'em all" Pony checklist... Yes, I carry a detailed checklist covering pony toys in my wallet. Twi would be so proud. :D
ReplyDeleteSadly, Twi would not be proud of the Princess Celestia toy that comes in this set. I honestly can't say everything about it is good.
The newest version of the Celestia toy is more of less defined by the fact that it has a brushable mane and tail. Due to these changes, there are no longer any "pegs" on the neck or legs for the molded hair to mount to. Fact is, the ENTIRE body and head mold are new. The head is noticeably larger, larger eye decals are used, and the horn was slightly bent out of the box. It's also angled more upward than forward. I will admit that the forward view of the face looks more natural on the new Celestia. The old toys looked derped a bit when looking at them head on. The brushable hair is fitted to a very large number of plugs... With the light blue colored hair being fitted three plugs wide in the forelock position. The purple strands are mounted 2 plugs wide. The hair only has 3 shades, with there being 2 shades of purple. Last head detail to point out... The head can be rotated. That's nice.
The tiara on the new toy is made from yellow plastic, and only has the purple gem painted, but the gem, and overall crown design is much simpler. The gem no longer has complex facets. One nice addition is the neck piece. It does NOT fit the older toys, unless you break the bond between the neck peg and the mane. Both the neck piece and the tiara are loose fitting, unfortunately. One new addition to the body is a hole in the bottom of the fore hoof. The old toys did not have this hole. This means the new toy can be pressed onto the pegs on many of the toy playsets now.
The wings have returned to the overall color of the body, but now feature a gradient shading from body color toward a very deep pink near the wing tips. They are notably thinner than the wings of the old toys, and are extraordinarily flexible. I was able to bend them all the way down to the legs, and did not fear they would break. I suspect these would be good for custom poses, by applying a little heat to make the deformation permanent. Sadly, the thinner wings come with a big negative. The body no longer has two individual slots for the wings to insert into, but instead has a massive rectangular pit on the back. One wing has a large "block" of plastic, and the other wing is thin. It leaves an ugly looking asymmetrical back with deep seams and is simply not as nice as the old wing plugs. It kinda reminds me of the plastic chunk on the back of the new Glimmerwing ponies.
ReplyDeleteThe most notable difference stood out to me the second I placed the toys side by side. The new Princess Celestia with brushable mane and tail is fatter... Yes... Celestia appears to have been partying too hard at Sugarcube corner with Pinkie Pie. All the well defined, trim features of our favorite sun raising, prank loving Princess... are gone. You can clearly make out the lines of old Celestia's legs as they meet her body. The old toy has her flanks clearly defined as an extension of her leg into her torso. No any longer... All leg definition ends the moment the leg meets the body. The new body is physically larger, filling in all those fine details, and the forelegs are spaced slightly wider apart at the point where they meet the body. In addition, other details, like the hoof shoes are less defined, and are overall, thinner and less defined. The seams between mold segments are in more visible spaces, and it certainly appears they sacrificed overall quality to simplify the overall mold structure. (I speak with a degree of experience on the subject, as I've worked with a friend who does injection molding for a fishing lure business).
Overall, I'd say that the new Celestia is probably cheaper to make than the other two Celestia toys (not considering the mane and tail... I'm uncertain whether molded is cheaper or costlier than brushables). Thinner wings, less complex molds, more obviously visible seams, fatter body with less detail, cheaper tiara and neck piece (though it's nice they added the neck piece), and overall... I feel the whole product is cheaper. It's still pink, though a SLIGHTLY lighter pink. I emphasize the slight part.
Also... Still pink...
Still Pink...
HASBROOOOOOOO!!!
A MOTORIZED TRAIN?! ME GUSTA!
ReplyDeleteI just posted a picture of my Target receipt for my purchase of the "Royal Castle Friends" and the "Pony School Pals & Cheerilee" play sets I bought.
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The receipt that Target printed made me laugh so hard. Both the Royal Castle Friends and the Pony School Pals & Cheerilee sets were listed under the same descriptor in their system. This is what the receipt printed:
TOYS-SPORTING GOODS
086020285
FOREVER
2 @ $14.99 ea
T $29.98
Yes...
Target has the new My Little Pony play sets entered into their system as "FOREVER". No other descriptor other than item SKU number and department. Not MLP, not MYLITTLEPONY, not PONY, not PLAYSET, not PONYPLAYSET...
Just
FOREVER!!!
Hasbro's website said my local toys r us might have the cmc set, i might get it, but i really only want it for applebloom since she is my favorite of the cmc
ReplyDeletebut its only 15 us dollars so it shouldnt be to bad. (especially since the online prices for applebloom by herself are more the 15 dollars on average which is ridiculous)
my target wouldnt have it since they dont stock to many toys because they do not have alot of space for toys. oh well lol