Yellow Blind Bags - are they out yet?

Peppermint Truly

Peppermint Truly

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Wondering if these bags are out yet, specifically in the US, or if we know if they will make it here eventually.
 
Wave 3 and 4 are just hitting my area finally...so at least not here.
 
They just recently have started showing up in Europe. I believe someone on the Arena was able to get confirmation that they will be coming to the US sometime this year, but I'll have to look for the post about it to see where they got their information.

ETA: I found the post. The member reporting it was chatting with a Hasbro representative that told her the purple bags were wave 1, the blue wave 2, and yellow wave 3 (for this year) and that the yellow bags "will be released shortly."
 
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Not here yet... I'm just now seeing the beginnings of the purple and blue bags. I can't keep up! lol.... At least I'm almost done with the first wave....(pink) I found the blue bags in FYE, of all places! Another place for everyone to start checking!!!
 
Ugh, I've been waiting for these things? When are they supposed to hit north america?
 
Both the yellow bags and the next wave after that (Wave 6/2013 Wave 1) are now up for preorder on both toywiz and bigbadtoystore (expected in November). :D Wave 6 appears to be the non-crystalized versions of Wave 4 plus a couple of new ponies. The picture isn't clear enough to identify them for certain though. Here are the links to them on toywiz (since they have the pictures up):

Wave 5/yellow/light green: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic 2 Inch PVC Figure Green Series Box [24 Mystery Packs] Pre-Order ships November

Wave 6/dark purple: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic 2 Inch PVC Figure Blue / Purple Series Box [24 Mystery Packs] Pre-Order ships November

Around here we got pink bags at Walmart, Target, and Toy R Us (but only the Target that's an hour away not the local one); purple bags showed up briefly at a couple of Walmarts and have only just arrived at TRU; and blue bags are currently only found at Walmart. I haven't been back to the Target that carries the bags recently to check what they have now.

ETA: Just checked and Entertainment Earth has the next two waves up for preorder now, too.
 
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Yay!

For me, Wal-mart had all 3 waves, Target with nothing at all (they are horrible when it comes to stocking MLP), and Toys R Us, Meijer's and Walgreens with wave 1.
 
Surprisingly, I didn't have much trouble tracking down wave 3, but wave 4 has been a pain. Between the two Wal-Marts near me, I was able to find two partial and one full box of them, completing my wave 3 collection and I traded the extras away.

My local Wal-Mart ran out of wave 3s back in late July and didn't restock any until after the reset. There was a delay (they said something about a glitch in the inventory) in resetting the toy section, but the day they finally reset, I went there to find an empty wave 4 box. I took that box home since I collect the boxes. It was nearly a full month until they got another box, which I found with only one bag in it. That empty box is still there, and it's been like 2 weeks. Wal-Mart's my only source for blind bags since the Target near me doesn't have them and I don't have a local TRU. Luckily, I've managed to get most of them through trades.

I hope wave 5 & 6 won't be so hard to find. What I really am wondering, though, is why do stores only seem to get one box at a time? I mean, do they think "well, there's 24 in here, so it should last a few weeks" or does Hasbro just have a really limited supply of these and will only send one box at a time? Because if it's just them thinking they'll sell them to 24 different people, they're way off. I know most people tend to buy the full box.
 
One of our Walmarts actually had three boxes of blue bags out at the same time (two full and one almost full), and I've seen a couple TRUs with two boxes of pink bags out at once; so, some do get more than one box at a time.
 
My local Walmart had hung up the wave 1 ones...and about a month after they sold out, put out a special display jam packed with loads of Wave 3, and then one box of Wave 4. The Wave 3 ones are still there as they are kind of hidden (good for me, I am buying them slowly when I have a couple spare coins) but the Wave 4 sold out in a day. xD
 
I kind of miss when I was like the only one in my area who bought ponies. Back when the G4 singles first came out, I could always find what I wanted because what I left at the store would usually still be there days later when I went back. Now stuff tends to sell out before I can get it, even when I check the stores 3-4 times a week. It's crazy. One of the last times I was at Wal-Mart there was a woman with her daughter looking for the blind bags, which was what I came for, but someone beat us to it. I did tell the mom about the codes on the back because she mentioned getting duplicates of them and she was really happy about that. But other than that one time, I never see any other pony collectors, but obviously they exist.
 
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