Featured Breyerfest - 1994

 Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured Breyerfest! We're moving right along and covering 1994 this week, so let's get started! 

Breyerfest 1994
July 29-31, 1994
Celebration Horse: Bright Zip
Number of Celebration Models Produced: 2,244
Attendees: 15,000 (according to a later JAH) 
Here's the 1994 page from the commemorative program:

At this point the commemorative program expands each year to two pages, so here's the other page for 1994. 

The real Bright Zip was an Appaloosa stallion who belonged to clinician John Lyons. As the commemorative program states, John Lyons was highly-sought-after as a trainer/clinician and used Bright Zip in his demonstrations. Bright Zip died in 2003 at the age of 28. 

This year's raffle model is Winchester, the handsome glossy charcoal Buckshot. Meanwhile, this year's volunteer model is the old-style red roan Indian Pony, and there's an exciting new development! Special run models! Just some G1 foals turned into keychains, but still! As far as I know, there wasn't any special system for distributing these special run models - people who wanted to buy them had to stand in line in the hot sun for hours with no guarantee that they'd get a model, and this system continued for the next several years. 

Here's the first page of the 1994 recap from JAH: 

And here's the next two pages:

And here's the last page:

IDYB has (tiny) photos of lots of the auction models for this year, which is great! One of my favorites is this brindle bay PAS - I wish there were more photos of him! 

I'm also intrigued by this gray/chestnut Paso Fino:

I'm also wondering what the story was behind this strawberry roan Pluto:

But now that I think about it, I think the story was that the model turned out to be extremely similar to another strawberry roan Pluto that was sold at the live auction the year before, and while there's no photo, there is a strawberry roan Pluto listed as a test model in the 1993 live auction. Drama! Well, at least it was caught. Interestingly, the high seller at this auction was the raffle model, rather than any of the test models; that would definitely not be the case today, as they've started to gloss the raffle model in the auction to get those prices back up. Anyway, the second-highest-seller is this rosy rabicano Sham:

And with that, we've reached the end of today's post! Check back next week for 1995!