Bulk order of SDCC 2008 ponies arrived!

This parcel containing my combined order of Mint-In-Box (MIB) San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2008 ponies arrived this week from the USA!  I had teamed up with a couple of other local My Little Pony collectors 2 weeks ago to order these exclusive ponies directly from Hasbro’s website.  The ponies sold out quickly within 24-hours of being offered on the website, as US pony collectors rushed in to buy them for themselves and overseas collectors who sought their help.

At that time, Hasbro’s online toy store had a special offer of free shipping within the USA, and we managed to seek the help of an American collector to secure our SDCC ponies.  We had also considered using vPost to ship in the ponies to Singapore but my pony collector pals and I decided that ordering through our American friend would be faster.  Nevertheless, one day we could use vPost’s service to test out its delivery speed and efficiency.  Currently, vPost is the only other shipping solution to resolve the issue of overseas online sellers not willing to ship to Singapore.

Actually a local toy store also participated in the San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2008 held in the USA last month.  The toy store took in pre-orders before their representatives flew to the USA and they brought back cartons of various SDCC 2008 exclusive toys with them.  I dropped by to check out their stock of 6 MIB SDCC 2008 ponies.  4 of them had dents and bad scratches on the boxes, which is a common flaw in this year’s SDCC pony packaging.  Nevertheless, I managed to pick up 2 good MIB SDCC ponies from the store for an Australian and a New Zealand collectors who had missed out buying directly from Hasbro’s website.   

I shall be meeting my pony collector pals this weekend again to pass them their SDCC 2008 ponies and collect payment from them.  Overall, the ponies we ordered from Hasbro’s website were cheaper than buying from the local toy store.  Nevertheless, I still appreciated the store’s wonderful service of making SDCC 2008 exclusive toys more conveniently accessible to local toy collectors.  At least the toy collectors here have another option of knowing where to get SDCC exclusive toys!