More on blind bags

Ok, on Friday, yours truly, emailed hasbro uk on where to buy the elusive blind bag in the uk, I have received this email while havin lunch at work:

Thank you for your email.

 Our Marketing Team advise that the surprise bags should be available via selected Tesco stores, very shortly.

May we thank you for contacting Hasbro and if we can be of any further assistance, either now or in the future, please do not hesitate to contact us again.

Kind Regards,

 Katharine

Well I hope this is true and I thank Katherine a huge thanks.
Taylor x

Blind Bags

After searching the interwebs i have found a (german) website which will ship to the uk for €6.99, and guess what they sell G4 blindbags for €1.79, so if anyone wants to purchase them, i would recommend doing it in bulk for the saving on the P+P, so heres the link.
Taylor xx

We have a confirmed date!

Hello Everypony!

I hope you are all well and have enjoyed this weeks episode and if you haven't seen it yet then run over to derpyhooves.com and grab a download or watch it on Youtube.

Now lets begin... with the date! After lots of talking, a few looks at various calenders and a few texts around we have come up with the following date *drumroll*

Saturday 4th February 2012

Of course this date depends on the world not ending but other then that pop it into your social calenders it is very unlikely to be changed unless we really have no other option.

Now onto other things....

Plans are still progressing we have some more help in with venues and progress has moved forward in all areas. Prizes are being located for competitions and ideas are still swimming about so stay tuned more is to come.

I also promised you all the answer to my post a few days ago. I am happy with the feedback and have taken on board some suggestions so have started work on the real questions and getting Photoshop to behave.

The picture follows:



The answer was: Bon-Bon. For the real one I will be able to use some of the Mane 6 but I couldn't use them for the problem of suitable screenshots being hard to find so limiting my options a bit.

Poll Closed : Location

Well, the poll is now officially closed, and London has been the clear winner, the whole way through finishing up with over half of the votes! Well everypony, I hope you are looking forward to a day out in the capital, God Save Celestia (doesn't make sense since she pretty much is a god)

Taylor x

Pub Quiz Idea

Hi everypony,

Another random update from me to keep you all up to speed.

I am working on the pub quiz as I got some positive feedback about it and it seems like fun. As well as normal questions I am thinking of adding in a few different rounds.

This may be things like "What was said next?" This will be where a clip is played from the show and you have to guess what was said next.

Another idea I want to test out is "Guess the missing pony" round. This is where I will censor out a pony from a scene and you will have to guess who is missing. I have drawn up an example scene, this will obviously not be used in the real quiz and I have made it on the harder end of the scale so this would likely be somewhere towards the end of the round.

The picture is below (click to enlarge):

A few things I want to note as well,

1. This is a rough draft so has been done using MS Paint. The real thing would be done properly using Photoshop so it will look a lot better.
   
2. Please try to do this without cheating, I am trying to find out how hard it is, so feedback is good if you don't know the answer.
3. If you want to have a go, drop me your answer to me by email at: bronydude@live.co.uk
   This is so others can have a go, so please don't put your answer in the comments. But please comment on if you think its easy, hard or impossible. Or if you think the whole idea is a bit rubbish.
4. I will put the answer up in a couple of days once I have some feedback.

Sharpy, signing off now.

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The Day Plan (Rough draft)

Hi Everypony,

Sharpy here. A quick introduction before I begin. I am helping organise the meet along with the team so I will occasionally post on here as well to keep you all informed of what we have planned so far. That way you can all give us feedback on what you think and we can change things if people don't like them. So with that said here is the rough plan, more will be added as ideas flow in.

Date: This is still really open for debate. When do you all feel would be a good time. We are thinking a Saturday possibly after Christmas when people have money.

Location: London, this is due to the results on the poll previously posted.

Venue: This is still unconfirmed but we are thinking a Pub with an event room open for hire.

Age restrictions: We are going to work hard on preventing these and with private function room it shouldn't be a problem. Just if you are under 18 please don't try and buy alcohol as this will reflect badly on the group.

Time: We are hoping to kick things off between 11 and 12. This will allow plenty of time for people to meet and get to know each other.

Activity/Entertainment Plan:

This again is still a very early Idea but this is what we think might work so far,

Everyone start to arrive sometime after 11, we will have set up a projector and have various related stuff playing. Mostly PMVs, Funny fan created skits, Music etc while we settle down and get to know each other so don't worry if you are a bit of a Fluttershy :) we are all here to make friends and have fun.

We are then planning on showing an episode or two for everyone to watch and enjoy. I know for many it will be the first time they get to enjoy an Episode with like minded people. We will probably decide the episodes on the day so everyone can say what they want.

Now this should bring us up to the right moment, and this is why we thought a Saturday would be best. We intend to put up one of the live streams of the new episode so we can all watch the new one together.

After the episode we will resume the random videos and background music while we all mingle and chat.

Perhaps some games will be fun, a pub quiz is a possibility. But please give feedback on this one, I want this to be a good meet up and a real community effort so if you have ideas for games, music etc please drop us a comment.


I think that about wraps up this rather long post. Feedback is of course welcome, so don't be shy if you don't like something.