Taobao Ponies

Taobao is an eBay like site based in China that sells all the items China makes for every company. Items can be released on Taobao over a wide range of time, from months before an item's release date to well after an item has been retired. Quality tends to vary from store-quality to factory items with mistakes.

In the My Little Pony franchise, Taobao has served as a semi-reliable source of upcoming G4 toys, due to the tendency of Pony toys to appear months before their official release. Taobao has also served as a source of extremely rare varieties are factory rejects due to such things as having the wrong head, body, hair, or cutie mark.

taobao shops with ponies:

• http://shop68035909.taobao.com/
• http://haiyangdiy.taobao.com/
• http://haiyang329.taobao.com/

Figurines

When blind bag ponies were extremely under circulated Taobao sellers started selling the figurines as key chains.

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  glitter blind bag Rarity

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  glitter blind bag Fluttershy

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  glitter blind bag Applejack

Color/Symbol Variants

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  Diamond Rose - symbol on opposite flank on ponies sold in store

Glimmer and Style Variants

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Taobao Exclusive Characters

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  G4 Minty (we are still waiting!)

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