This post is extremely, shamefully late, but I need to pad out my post count for the year better late than never...right? Much of this post will be cribbed from previous years' worth to save some time. Anyway, let's get going! Last year's post on the Vintage Club was also pretty late, but I'd predicted that the gambler's choice mold would be the Justin Morgan in an array of colors (wrong) and that the optional model would be on Vermeer (also wrong). I also failed to predict that the Indian Pony and mini-me (??) would show up, along with Galahad (so wrong!). So uh...I'm not going to put much stock in these predictions, and neither should you.
This photo is so old, it's probably not worth bothering with anymore, but I'll put it up just the same:
So far, club members have seen the following models from the photo above:
Amigo, the charcoal Adios;
Halo, the Appaloosa-Performance-Horse-colorway on the Stretch Morgan;
Commander, the smoke Five Gaiter;
Denim (Diamonds?), the Copenhagen pinto Shetland Pony;
and Kiowa, the Indian Pony pinto on the Jumping Horse mold.
Also, the glossy palomino Semi-Rearing Mustang was one of the losers in the vote that gave us Tanner.
Molds that appear in the photo, but were used in the VC in other colors, include the Running Stallion, Man o' War, Quarter Horse Gelding, the Belgian (twice), Semi-Rearing Mustang, Fighting Stallion (twice), Running Foal (with Mare), the Western Prancing Horse, the Grazing Mare (with Foal), the Western Horse and the Thoroughbred Mare and Foal.
So really, all of those molds have been used by now, with the exception of the Longhorn Bull, and I doubt he'll ever show up - but you never know.
These are the vintage Breyer molds that haven't been used in the club yet:
Black Beauty, the Black Stallion, Bolya/Halla, Buckshot, the Donkey, El Pastor, the FAM and FAF, Galiceno, Haflinger, the Hanoverian, the Lying Down Foal, Midnight Sun, Morganglanz, Phantom Wings, Phar Lap, the POA, possibly the PAF, Quarter Horse Yearling, the Race Horse, Saddlebred Weanling, the Scratching Foal, Sea Star, the Stock Horse Stallion, Mare and Foal, Stud Spider, the Trakehner and the Western Pony.
So, with the Fury Prancer and presumably Justin Morgan already in the lineup, that leaves one vintage mold and probably one modern mold with a vintage paint job, plus the optional model. El Pastor is currently in production as Vivaldi de Besilu, so I wonder if he might turn up in the VC as well? I'll guess him for the optional model. For the modern mold, I'm going to go with Duende, because Premier Club molds have been used in the VC quite frequently. That still leaves the gambler's choice - for that I'm going to guess the FAM and FAF, because they're way overdue for inclusion in the club.
Lastly, there's the Stablemate. Last year I guessed the G1 Morgan Mare because they'd been alternating between old and new molds, but I was wrong again and it turned out to be the mini Clydesdale Stallion as Dandy. That presumably means a newer mold for 2023, so I'm going to go with Cassidy, because it's been ages and she hasn't had any releases since her debut in the Stablemates Club.
Breyer seems to enjoy taking their sweet time revealing the releases for this club (along with everything else), so it'll likely be a while until we see the releases. Let's hope my aim is a little closer to the mark this time!
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