The Trail of Painted Ponies Trends

You'd be surprised how often we get asked if the Painted Ponies collection is slowing down. To tell you the truth, it's really hard for us to tell because, we just keep selling them. Here's what we have noticed: It used to be that when the new releases were announced all the dealers would place their orders. There are 10,000 figurines in each edition, and within two weeks of the announcment those would all be bought up by Painted Ponies retailers who wouldn't actually receive them for another couple months. In other words, the whole release of first editions had been bought up before they even hit the shelves. That's pretty good! On the last release, the 13th release, we know for a fact that did not happen. In fact, that release has been in stores for several months now and we're still getting first editions on our re-orders. This looks like a slow down to us. What the cause is, we don't really know. It could be the bad economy or other factors maybe both. We'd like your opinion. What's caused the slow down? Is there anything that TOPP can do to reverse this trend? Please give us your comments here.