Black Beauty and La Molina & Masella!

 Greetings, readers! Exciting news today - my Black Beauty and La Molina & Masella set are here! I'll start with Black Beauty: 

Isn't he a beauty? I don't have the QVC Black Beauty to compare him to, but the reports I've seen on the Internets indicate that the new release is more of a grayish color than the original. 

I'm still wondering why they reused Silver for this release when True North is right there. I suppose they figured they had to use Silver again since the horse is apparently a mustang in the new movie. 

Quality-wise, he's pretty nice - I didn't see any flaws on him. Another worthy addition to the collection! 

Next, let's take a look at the mare and foal set whose names I'm tired of typing! 

The foal isn't as dark in real life as he is in the photo. Sadly, I don't have a Benasque to compare him to, but they haven't been a complete match in the photos I've seen online. I'm definitely glad to have these two, though! 

I'd forgotten how much I missed Breyer's silver filigrees - we used to get them every year, but the last one we had was 2018's silver filigree variant of Callahan. And she looks good with my other silver filigrees! 

With regards to their quality...well, I didn't see anything wrong with the mare, but the foal apparently was splattered with white paint after he was glossed. I was able to scrape most of it off, but...how did it get there? When would he have been anywhere near white paint after he was pretty much done being painted? Weird. 

But anyways, I'm super stoked that I was drawn for these! Now if I can just find Benasque for a good price...

More exciting reveals!

 Greetings, readers! I have a lot of exciting reveals today, but I'll start with this - most of the 2021 Stablemates Club lineup has been revealed, and the club is now open for signups! 

So those outlines are Mini Croi, Django, the G2 Appaloosa and the G1 Seabiscuit, plus the already-revealed Mini Clydesdale Stallion with a new hairdo. Plus there will be the new mold, but I'm assuming that comes later. Well, it looks like I'll only want two of the releases next year. Crossing my fingers that the Django isn't the gambler's choice! Hopefully they reveal that before the signups close. 

Next on the agenda, the new Black Beauty release can now be ordered, though it's showing up as backordered. Be sure and get your order in if you want one! I am withholding judgement about the movie itself until I actually see it - which is slightly more likely than it was before, since I recently found out Ser Jorah is in it. Mmm...but anyway. 

There's also an early Black Friday sale going on for Collector Club members, but I didn't see anything particularly exciting in it. Maybe they'll add more later? As it is now...meh. 

And lastly, my CCA box is finally here, after taking a short jaunt through Seattle to get here (that's only 1500 miles out of the way, after all). Check out my goodies! 

It's a little depressing that I only had to buy three items to get to $125 in merchandise...but anyway. I got a glossy Catch Me...which is not what I was hoping for. Well, with any luck I can still find someone to trade with, or just sell it. 

That's all I have for today - hopefully we get some more fun reveals next week! 

Vintage Club signups and more new stuff!

 Vintage Club members, if you've been waiting for signups to open for next year, they're now available! No word on any of the other releases for next year yet, but I'm sure they'll show us something...right? Right? Who even knows anymore. But anyway, the deadline to sign up is next week, so don't miss out! 

Speaking of the dribs and drabs of new releases...there's a new Black Beauty coming out: 

Seems kinda random, but okay. I guess there's a new Disney+ version of Black Beauty coming out next month. I never did get my hands on the QVC version of Black Beauty (also on Silver), so I suppose I'll have to pick up this one. Silver does look good in black, but I feel like they could have used a different mold rather than reusing Silver. Oh well. 

In other news, the new carry stables are now available to order. Wait, what's this? Those aren't the Stablemates I remember from the earlier photos...

I feel like at least three of the molds changed here, if not more. Those are super-simplistic paint jobs, too. Let's take a look at the unicorn one...

Those are definitely all different, because they were the generic regular-run blind bag unicorns before. And there's only three molds, repeated twice each. Are the G2 Andalusian and Saddlebred about to become the new G2 Clydesdale? I guess time will tell. Those colors are...interesting, too. The carry stables are both backordered, but I bought them anyway, because I'm curious to see what these will look like in hand. I hope they come in stock soon! Frustratingly, they're only a few cents short of qualifying for the free shipping discount, so I threw in a Christmas present for my daughter. Gotta get that sweet, sweet free shipping (they also qualify for the Collector Club discount!). 

That's all I have for today - maybe tomorrow we'll get the holiday mare and foal set, eh? 

Tractor Supply Ship to Store Option

Tractor Supply now has this year's holiday selection listed on the website! Here's a much better (and not-flipped) photo of Jacy:

 

Mmm, I really like him. Although that color would be really difficult to keep clean in real life. Ha!

Next, here's a photo of Lakota!


 

Like I said before, the color is nice, but I don't collect the mold, so  he won't be coming home with me.

Now, Tractor Supply appears to be doing pre-orders of these two guys (and everything else Breyer), so you can get them shipped directly to you if you want. Or, if you want to save on shipping, there's a ship-to-store option you can choose to have the model shipped to the store closest to you and then you pick it up. I decided to opt for the ship-to-store option this year because my husband works in the same town our nearest Tractor Supply is in, so I can have him pick it up. If you'd like to do the same, go to the main list of Breyer items and click "Add to Cart" under whichever item you want. On the next page you'll pick which store you want the item(s) to ship to, etc. Make sure you do this from the main list of Breyer items, because for whatever reason, the "Add to Cart" option disappears when you click on individual items. As for when these will be in stock, the last I heard was mid-September, so we don't have too much longer to wait. Good luck and happy ordering!

New special runs keep popping up!

So there are some new releases floating around on the Internet lately. I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but they're the TSC special runs for this year and another clearware special run for Back in the Saddle. I wonder if that's going to become a regular thing? Here's the clearware horse, Sugarmaple:


(image removed as apparently it wasn't authorized for release by Breyer)

This actually isn't the first time the Show Jumping Warmblood has been issued in clearware (apparently both Twilight Terror and Sunny are clearware). He's certainly interesting-looking. One of the alternate names for last year's Patriot was "Bomb Pop;" I wonder if this one should be called, "Camouflage," or something? Nevertheless, I ordered one, because it will be interesting to see what these look like in hand.

As for the Tractor Supply special runs, they're on Geronimo and the old Black Beauty mold:

 

They flipped the Geronimo's photo for the ad, which is kind of weird. But I'm going to have to pick one up - what I can see of that gray in the photo looks really nice! I won't need the Black Beauty, though, despite the fact that his color looks really nice. I'll definitely be haunting our local TSC stores until these beauties show up! 

The Classic Liam is getting some love!

Looks like some of the 2017 new releases are starting to show up! Breyer's website has a new Classic Black Beauty on Sir Buckingham/Liam!


He certainly looks dashing in black! There's been some murmurings on Blab about 2017 being the 140th anniversary of the novel's publication; perhaps he was produced to commemorate that? I guess we'll see. He's very reasonably priced ($14.95!), which comes to about $20 with shipping. Not bad! I ordered one - too bad he wasn't on the website yesterday so I could bundle him with Yasmin and Django. 

There are also rumors/photos floating around of a couple of other new Classics releases - a chestnut Liam and a bay/roan Appaloosa Mesteno. I'll refrain on posting more of those until we get official announcements - but the chestnut Liam has me excited! I'll definitely be tracking him down. I hope we get a new Gretel and/or Hansel, too!