Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured Model, the weekly blog event where I pick a model I don't own but may have an interesting story behind it, give some stats on it and provide commentary about it. This week's model is...the Hunter Hayes model!
This model was a OOAK produced on the Latigo mold sculpted by Sommer Prosser. He was presented to the country singer Hunter Hayes by Breyer shortly before his concert at the KHP in 2016.
I remember we were all a bit bewildered by this release, because Hunter Hayes isn't exactly a household name - but clearly somebody at Breyer likes him, because now he has this (very handsome) model horse. I wonder if he has any idea how much it would be worth if he were to sell it? Let's hope somebody clued him in when they gave it to him. Maybe it was intended to be a regular run release that was later canceled? Those little HH logos couldn't have been easy to apply - maybe it just didn't work out for a mass production run.
As for Latigo, he's had a healthy number of releases over the years, in a variety of hairdos, so it's hard to predict where he'll show up next. He was the Holiday Horse in 2019, the Breyerfest surprise model in 2017, and a Breyerfest prize in 2020, among other things...but it doesn't look like he's been a TSC special run, surprisingly enough. Maybe he'll show up there this year? That or a web special would be my guesses.
Don't forget his CC release in 2021! Notoriously Framed. Yeah, lol, let's hope someone told him he's got a $10,000 model there! Who knows, maybe it ended up at a "free" bin at a yard sale.
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