The MLP fair linked a review of the 2022 My Little Pony Fair event in Florida, and it turns out that they offered the llama exclusive there as well, for certain ticket packages and on a raffle-to-buy basis. So that might explain why they came up so short for this event.
I’m sure it’s better than the alternative, since this is the very last MLP Fair and the organizers don’t want piles of back stock sitting in their garages, but it does stink for collectors who can’t fly to either coast in the middle of a pandemic. (The year they offered the exclusive online was so great!)
Unfortunately, I expect we’ll see folks buying tickets closer to the event, wondering why they can’t get a pony. I know there’s not a lot of late buyers, but there will be some, and it does kind of dissuade any walk-in fans - especially children. Not all pony collectors are as chronically-online as I am, and they might have missed the warnings about low stock - especially if they’re not on the Facebook page, since the Fair seems to have ditched most of their other social media accounts.
Still, it’s disappointing that the Pony Fair West got delayed an extra two years, and then by the time it happens, there won’t even be enough ponies to go around, since some of them got sold at the Florida event. And the fact that they’re having issues filling the vendor tables (they’re offering extra tables to existing vendors and even offering some as ‘collection display areas’ so they don’t stand empty), it sounds like it’s not an issue of over demand, but under supply.
The one upside is that the Fair staff were on the pony forums encouraging folks to buy memberships and get the ponies shipped, so it does sound like there was an effort made to help folks get exclusives even if they lived out of state! I love that, and I wish more events with exclusive figures would do that!
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