Hot Topic Dr Whooves & Fluttershy regular & chase

Postby **adamrfox** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:45 am

Right now you can Pre Order both Fluttershy and Dr. Whooves from Hot Topic!
Fluttershy http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/WhatsN ... 684246.jsp
Dr. Whooves http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/WhatsN ... 684249.jsp

1 in 24 will receive the sparkly clear chase figure variant!
This goes for both Fluttershy and Dr. Whooves!

Postby **Kitzka** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:26 am

Thanks Adam!

Am I interpreting correctly? There are 3 dr whooves variants? Red tie, green and sparkly??

"Awesome My Little Pony vinyl collectible featuring the likeness of the amazing Dr. Whooves!

Half of the assortment wears a red tie and the other half wears a green tie! Which will your pony be wearing? It's a surprise!

1 in 24 will receive the sparkly clear chase figure variant!"

I'm a sucker and will try for them all!

Lara

Postby **Jango_Fresh** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:46 am

I like the idea of having chases, but I guess I am confused since they both are listed as variants, maybe just the Dr one has a variant, but both have chases.

Postby **Kitzka** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:12 am

Eddie

That's what I think. Funko just wants me to spend more money.

Postby **ShoMeNodder** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:17 am

I like the clear, sparkly ones !

Postby **vegasbaby98** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:26 am

I think they all look so pretty, but you're right Carol, the clear sparkly ones are nice!

Postby **Mitchman48** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:41 am

Thanks for the information!!

Postby **Malion** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:58 am

I really want both of these. In fact I kind of wish the first set looked this cool, those had kind of fat faces. Oh well though. Glad they are getting the actually important characters that people care about into Figures. (next set will probably be Twilight and Vinyl Scratch)

Postby **Jango_Fresh** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:01 pm

I kinda remember Brian saying there would be a MLP blind box back at fundays, he didnt mention it with other upcoming blind box sets though. Wonder if they are still coming.

Postby **Eurocoin** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:18 pm

I want that non-sparkly Fluttershy so badly, but Hot Topic's international shipping prices are insane, so I'll wait till Hot Topic's exclusivity period ends (after May) and get the figure then from somewhere closer to me (geographically).

Postby **Mochacritter** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:33 pm

I really don't care for the clear sparkly Crystal Empireish versions. Because of the 1 in 24 chance of getting one of those this ensures that I will NOT pre-order. I also don't like the fact you can't choose which tie version of Whooves you want at the time of per-order.

I'm glad you all are making good quality ponies...(though can you put the cutie marks on both sides so we can display facing either direction?)

I have to question the decision to use the sparkly clear "variants" as a pre-order driver....from what I've seen in the fan community, people are not wild about those and you may have just shot yourselves in the foot with using those as a pre-order incentive. You really need to be 10000% sure a variant is going to be popular before using it as a pre-order driver. Look to the fandom and see what's getting the most attention...that will tell you what's most popular. I see very little...actually I haven't seen any Crystal Kingdom fan art which would lead me to believe that might be a popular variant. People seem to want basic show accurate figures the most.

I think some episodic variants could be popular after the Mane6, all Princesses, all popular background and all villains are out...but they should be ones the fans really liked...for example Nightmare Night costumed Mane6 and maybe Zacora..thats the type of variant I could see being popular.

Postby **Jango_Fresh** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:58 pm

They are chase variants, there will be people who want them, I could see if they were a 1/4 or 1/6 but at 1/24 if someone should get one from their preorder they should easily be able to trade it for another. I also don't see it as a preorder incentive, it's not like a bonus, it's a chase figure.

Postby **Kitzka** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:26 pm

I think many people do not understand what a chase is. Clearly companies like Kid Robot, tokidoki have been doing it for years. I think that Hot Topic saw how well the first 2 sold right out of the gate and were trying to ensure that they captured as much of that customer base as possible.

I think that hot topic was trying to clarify that this set had a chase/variant vs the first set which did not.

And any mlp fan who gets a chase variant and doesn't want it, I'm sure there are funatics or other mlp fans who will want it.

I personally want the glittery ones and the regular ones. Just not sure i NEED 3 different Dr. whooves. Esp with all the other funko coming out this year.

Lara

Postby **The Vandolin** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:37 pm

Mochacritter wrote:I really don't care for the clear sparkly Crystal Empireish versions. Because of the 1 in 24 chance of getting one of those this ensures that I will NOT pre-order. I also don't like the fact you can't choose which tie version of Whooves you want at the time of per-order.

I'm glad you all are making good quality ponies...(though can you put the cutie marks on both sides so we can display facing either direction?)

I have to question the decision to use the sparkly clear "variants" as a pre-order driver....from what I've seen in the fan community, people are not wild about those and you may have just shot yourselves in the foot with using those as a pre-order incentive. You really need to be 10000% sure a variant is going to be popular before using it as a pre-order driver. Look to the fandom and see what's getting the most attention...that will tell you what's most popular. I see very little...actually I haven't seen any Crystal Kingdom fan art which would lead me to believe that might be a popular variant. People seem to want basic show accurate figures the most.

I think some episodic variants could be popular after the Mane6, all Princesses, all popular background and all villains are out...but they should be ones the fans really liked...for example Nightmare Night costumed Mane6 and maybe Zacora..thats the type of variant I could see being popular.

I'm sure someone here would HAPPILY trade you a regular version for your chase

Postby **Molaxes** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:09 pm

The Vandolin wrote:I'm sure someone here would HAPPILY trade you a regular version for your chase

I agree

Postby **Betseygirl** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:10 pm

Molaxes wrote:
The Vandolin wrote:I'm sure someone here would HAPPILY trade you a regular version for your chase

I agree

I'd take it 8-[

Postby **Alleycat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:36 am

Looks like I'll be getting some more Ponies. Wonder what their protos look like?

Postby **Betseygirl** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:38 pm

Alleycat wrote:Looks like I'll be getting some more Ponies. Wonder what their protos look like?

I didn't even think about that, I wonder what the see through ones with glitter will look like.

Postby **Alleycat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:31 pm

Betseygirl wrote:
Alleycat wrote:Looks like I'll be getting some more Ponies. Wonder what their protos look like?

I didn't even think about that, I wonder what the see through ones with glitter will look like.

We will soon find out........ $\:D/$

Postby **dxgirly** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:20 pm

So excited for these! I have two Fluttershy's and two Dr Whooves' preordered right now.

Postby **Eurocoin** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:40 am

Ordered all 4 figs from Hot Topic today. Obviously since I ordered all of them together and Fluttershy & Dr. Hooves aren't out yet, the package won't ship till end of next week, but I'm very anxious to get these, which will be my first ever Funko figures. I just hope I don't get those ugly (imo) glittery variants, especially with Fluttershy, which is my favorite character.

Postby **Betseygirl** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:52 pm

I will gladly take the ugly glitter ones of your hands.

Postby **Geescube** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:14 pm

^ME TOOO

Postby **Alleycat** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:28 pm

Mee three

Postby **Jango_Fresh** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:42 pm

It's funny that most of the pony fans don't care for the chases, but Funatics are all over them, in time they will change their minds ha.

Postby **Kitzka** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:52 pm

I love the glittery chase ponies. And Eddie, I agree it's funny how the pony fans do not like the chase figs but the funatics love them. Maybe it because funatics just love the awesome-ness that is funko.

Lara

Postby **Carol_Lynn** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:05 pm

I'm guessing the chase versions aren't show accurate, so fans of the show think they're "wrong".

Postby **Eurocoin** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:45 am

I don't care how rare or wanted some versions of figures are, if I don't like at all how they look on my shelf. As I have no intention to resell my figures, I don't care how rare or "valuable" they might be. I just want to have as how accurate as possible non-brushable pony figures on my pony shelf. And here in Finland, even having the regular ones of these will result of me having something on my collection that most don't.

Postby **NESSNODDER** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:43 pm

IS THAT DR. WHOOVES CHARACTER SUPPOSED TO BE DOCTOR WHO?

Postby **Betseygirl** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:47 pm

Postby **Kitzka** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:12 pm

I'm pretty excited since the release day is tomorrow or so. I'm going on a business trip but am so excited that these will be waiting for me when I get home.

I hope everyone posts pics and some of us get a chase (if you want one)

Lara

Postby **Mochacritter** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:33 pm

I understand more about the chase's now. It still stands though I didn't want to risk getting one thus didn't pre-order. I think the chase's are really only appealing to hard core serious vinyl collectors who have an interest in such things and might have inhibited Hot Topic's pre-orders from the broader pony fan pool. I'm not a hard core vinly collector, I just want show accurate pony figures, so for potential customers like me...the chase's were a turn off, I also wouldn't want to have to go through the effort of trying to orchestrate a trade if I had gotten one, I just want to receive the merchandise that I prefer.

And yes with regards to Doctor Whooves. He was an unnamed background pony originally but pony fans noticed his looks similarity to David Tennant (if Tennant were turned into a pony!) plus he had an hour glass cutie mark, thus Doctor Whoooves was born. He's become a pretty popular fan driven pony much like Derpy. I know quite a few Whovians that were brought into the MLP herd because they initially saw Doctor Whooves somewhere. ;-)

Postby **Mochacritter** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:46 am

So in the interests of cross-fandom understanding, for you funko fanatics, the MLP fandom is starved for show accurate figures. Hasbro is horrible about producing that, their figures have that brushable hair that isn't show accurate. Sure little kids love it, but not the more discerning adult fans. They even manage to mess up the body colors on some of their figures. Enter the Funko license to address this adult fan base. Funko is now producing show accurate figures with molded hair that we've been clamoring for. To the pony fandom the glittery chases look like a not very good attempt to make pony variants that tie into an episode called the Crystal Empire where the ponies were temporarily turned into crystal versions of themselves like the crystal ponies that live in that Empire. There are also clear glittery blind bag mini figures out there and the chases look like those. The clear glittery blind bag versions to the adult pony fans feels like Hasbro trying to shove little girl sparkly princessness at us when what we want is simple show accuracy that's true to the individual characters. This is why the pony fandom doesn't like those chase variants.

There's a newish thread about people getting ship notices on one of the most popular pony sites. Some people were making comments about the glittery versions, not understanding why they even exist, much like I was until I came here and you all educated me. I shared the info you all shared with me there and suggested that if any pony fans end up with a chase they do not want, they might try coming here to work out a trade. Luckily what we don't want, you guys do so maybe we can all help each other.

It would have been nice if Hot Topic had made a bifurcated ordering process so those who wanted the 1 in 24 chance of the chase variants would have it while those who don't want it could still pre-order. That way the chases would be going to people who actually want and value them. I honestly think this is just a misunderstanding of what fandoms value. The mistake was thinking the larger pony fandom would value the same things that the funko collectors do when our interests/desires aren't the same. Hopefully they'll learn that what's gold to one fandom isn't necessarily gold to another.

Postby **Kitzka** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:22 pm

Thanks for the info. I wonder if any funatics have received shipping notifications.

Please pm me what pony boards you are on. I'm on one but only casually.

Lara

Postby **Eurocoin** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:36 pm

No shipping confirmation for me yet. From other places I've read people receiving their figures without confirmation, but as an international customer I kinda need that for doing customs declaration, so I hope to receive it at some point.

And personally I'm not on any English pony forums/boards, I read EQD and sometimes comment things there, but actual forums/boards I'm at are Finnish ones.

Postby **dxgirly** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:11 pm

Both of my preorders shipped. 2 Flutterhy's and 2 Doctor Whooves on their way to me. Should all be here to me tomorrow, as they're in New Hampshire right now.

Also, please don't generalize adult pony fans. Plenty of us enjoy brushables. :-/

Postby **Kitzka** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:19 pm

Nikki

Hope you get some chases (if you want). Mine also shipped and should be at my house Tuesday. I won't be home until Saturday but am hoping for either chases.

I can't wait to get them.

Lara

Postby **dxgirly** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:39 pm

I'm hoping I get one. haha

Good luck to you too, Lara!

Postby **Alleycat** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:45 pm

Never saw such a fuss over some vinyl ponies. You guys are sick.

Speaking of sick. Hope I get at least one chase. And this is from a collector who knows nothing about MLP other than what I've read here. I just am starving for new Funko that's not Pop!

Postby **Eurocoin** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:36 am

It seem that they had shipped the second half of my my order on 21st, but had failed to inform me about it. I sent them an email about being worried about my shipment, because they already shipped half of it and I wanted known that I'm going to get rest of it. And their response was, that they had sent it already on 21st and provided me with a tracking number. With this info, I should have my Fluttershy and Dr. Whooves by next weekend.

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