Collector Appreciation Roundup!

 Good news, everyone! Well, everyone that's a Collector Club member, I guess. Anyway, there's a new post about the Collector Appreciation glossies for this year! Check your Collector Club home page to read it. 

The long and short of it is this: the total number of glossies produced was 1,860, with approx. 200-250 of each individual model. Here's the glossy Winx! 

While I was able to trade for a glossy EZ to Spot, I still need to get ahold of a Winx and the glossy Dominante:

Hopefully I can find those at some point. It's a bit funny that the CCA event is all wrapped up at this point, when it's usually just getting started at this time of the year. I guess that's probably for the best, with how clogged up the warehouse is right now. 

Speaking of glossies, there was an update on the Breyerfest blog yesterday stating that the Breyerfest glossy models will start shipping at the end of the month. Woohoo! I can't wait to see my glossy Cheesecake and Topgun! 

Edited to add: Also, Breyer sent out an email begging reminding us to join the 2021 Stablemates Club, and there's a sneak peek of part of one of the releases! 

I'm not signing up just yet, though - they can do better than that. I want reveals of all the new releases! Grr. Hurry up already! 

Whoa! Collector Club Appreciation already?

 I guess it's already time for the Collector Club Appreciation event, everyone! I hope this isn't because they're hurting for money due to the pandemic...well, anyway, buy $125 of merch to possibly get a glossy Winx! Isn't she beautiful? 

The other glossy possibilities are Buckeye, Catch Me and...other unnamed models. Great...well, currently I only want the Winx, so let's hope the other models are things I also don't want. It wasn't too hard for me to get to $125, since I hadn't purchased Adiah HP or Peptoboonsmal yet. My only grump is that the collector appreciation code/model don't stack with the collector club discount code. Talk about collector appreciation...bleh. Anyway, make sure you have both the Collector Club Appreciation model/item in your cart AND you add the THANKSCC20 code in order to get the glossy. 

My Collector Club Appreciation box is here!

Excellent news - my Collector Club Appreciation box showed up today! It wasn't scheduled to be here until tomorrow, but I guess UPS had other plans. Check out my loot!



That's right - I got glossy Seamus. Well, it could have been worse, I guess - I could have gotten glossy Enzo instead. I may already have a trade lined up for glossy Thunder, so hopefully that works out. In the meantime, here's a closer photo of Seamus:



I haven't gotten any other photos of Majesty yet, but he's definitely majestic! He's Stablemate-size, or maybe a little bigger, but I don't think he's molded from ABS - he's too heavy for that. Resin, maybe? He's nice all the same. But I wish Breyer would seal the glittery models better - he sheds glitter everywhere.

That's all I've got for now - but I'm hoping we get the big 2020 reveal later today! We've been waiting way too long!

2020 sneak peek and more Collector Club Appreciation glossies!

First off, there's a new sneak peek in the December Collector Club newsletter:



Looks like a Croi tail! I wonder what she'll be? Lots of guesses of ponies, but she's being described as a horse, so it's anyone's guess what she is. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long to find out!

In other news, the Collector Club Appreciation consolation prize was announced: they're taking orders until 12/16 (buy $125 worth of stuff, get a free glossy), and anyone who gets an order in and uses the code in that time frame gets a glossy model from a whole new set of glossies! The three announced glossies are Khalid, King and LV Integrity. Of course, with Breyer being Breyer, those aren't the only glossies - but they're not telling us what they are just yet. I'm wondering if it's because they're going to gloss some of the new 2020 releases? That might be interesting.

Unfortunately, these new glossies won't ship until May 2020 for some reason (not sure why we have to wait 6 months for them when it can't be that hard to pull some of what they already have out of the warehouse and gloss those) but it is what it is. Maybe they'll ship earlier than that? I hope so. I did put in another order today (the two throw blankets I didn't have plus a Catch Me got me over the line pretty easily), so I'll be one of the people waiting for another glossy. Hopefully I get one I want - I have a feeling people will have a hard time getting rid of the glossy King, but I could be wrong.

My Corbins are here!

Good news, everyone! My Corbins arrived yesterday! Observe!



Sorry for the crappy photos.



They're definitely pretty, but the mold just isn't really my thing. He'd make a good mule with that head, though. Hopefully I can get them sold without too much trouble.

Quality-wise they look pretty good - the one in the bottom photo is better than the top one, though. The top guy has a rub in the paint on his face, under the gloss, but otherwise he looks fine.

In other news, it looks like all the complaints about the Collector Club Appreciation event had an effect on Breyer, because they're doing something "special" today for the people that missed out on Wednesday. I'm guessing they glossed up more of the glossy regular runs for the promotion? Anything else would just piss off the fanbase more, so...it'll probably turn out they glossed some Empres models or something. I guess we'll find out later today!

Whew! That was fast.

The Collector Appreciation sale went up - and then it sold out in under 30 minutes! That has to be close to a record, right? Turns out the glossy possibilities this year are Seamus, Latigo Dun It, Thunder, Enzo and Verdades. Fortunately for me, the glossy Thunder is the only one I want:

And, luckily for me, I was able to slip an order in before they sold out! Although, if I'm allowed to be a little whiny, I wish they'd have glossed Empres if they were going to gloss an Ashquar. Thunder barely looks glossy in the photo, which makes me wonder if we're going to have another Hero's Welcome situation where it's hard to even tell if some of the models are glossy.

Anyway, I hope I get Thunder! I'm sure he'll look better in person. Failing that, I hope I'm able to trade for a Thunder! The glossy Latigo Dun It is pretty stunning, though - he'll make a great addition to someone's collection.

So what did I buy? I had yet to get a Thunder, the unicorn Spanish Barb, Voyeur, or American Dream, so I loaded up my cart with those, plus a Stablemate blind bag to get me over the $125 minimum. Hey, with a little bit more luck I'll get a silver Alborozo! That would be the best.

My Collector Appreciation box is here!

Like the title says - my Collector Appreciation box came today! Check it out!

Ha, I just noticed it looks like the Suncatcher Stablemates box is empty. I promise they're there! Or, well, they were when I took the photo.

So, yes, I got the glossy Cobra - yay! I was hoping for the Shire, but I guess we can't all be that lucky. I do have some gripes about the Cobra, though - it looks like whoever glossed him completely missed the inside of his right hind leg.

I mean, come on. If you're going to do this promotion, at least try to make it look less slapdash and last-minute.

The Cobra is the only thing up for grabs from this box - for once I managed to wait until now to buy the majority of the 2018 releases I wanted, so I'm not stuck with things I can't sell (looking at you, Banks Vanilla I bought last year and didn't manage to sell until last summer). 

Hopefully Cobra sells for a good price - I need to get some money into my PayPal account for whatever Breyer comes out with next! 

Collector Appreciation returns!

Greetings, readers! I just woke up from taking a nice nap at my desk (don't mind me, I have a bad cold - and with a 1-year-old child you tend to take sleep wherever you can find it these days) to discover Breyer's Collector Club Appreciation event has returned for this year!



Once the feeling had returned to my left arm (and my right index finger, oddly), I frantically clicked over to the Breyer website to see what was up!

It's a surprise which one you'll receive, and they are all beautiful, exclusive pieces!  Will you get a lovely glossy Shire??  Or will your surprise be the beautiful Paint Me a Pepto in high gloss finish?  Or superstar athletes PVF Peace of Mind and Cobra sporting high shine?  Or a glossy Kodi Paint horse?  We know you'll enjoy each one of these lovely models! 

Just add $125 of merch and the Collector Appreciation item to your cart, then enter "CCTHANKS18" at checkout, and the price of the Collector Appreciation item will fall off your total and you can check out like usual.

None of the glossies are anything I have to have this year, which is probably a good thing (and the mystery glossy Kodi models are explained!). My enthusiasm for the whole thing pretty much died when I started adding things to my cart and saw that Empres is out of stock again, though. I've been waiting to buy him all year, watching him go in and out of stock (He was in stock a few days ago!), only to have him disappear now? Bleh. But I could get free shipping on my order, so there's that.

Also, the Collector Club 10% off code cannot be used in conjunction with this offer, so keep that in mind. The offer is only available until tomorrow afternoon and only 550 orders will be accepted, so act fast!

Glossy Kodi, Stablemate Club grab bags, et al

I can't remember if I've already posted about the glossy Kodi models that have been showing up in some dealers' orders, so I'm going to just write about it now. So, last week someone found just one glossy Kodi, and then a dealer (I don't know which one) got a whole case of them. The Internets have been rife with speculation since then - are they a factory oops? Something that slipped out early, in advance of next month's (presumed) collector appreciation sale? Just Breyer trying to get rid of Kodi overstock?

Who knows. There's one currently for sale on eBay, and I'm sure it'll go for a ridiculous price, only for more glossies to show up later and massively devalue it. Never go crazy this early over things like this, people. You'll only empty out your wallets faster.

At least if she is the one "popular" mold they use for this year's collector club appreciation sale (along with 3 other unpopular molds, probably), I shouldn't have any trouble selling her. They need to hurry up and get that sale going - I purposely held off on buying several of this year's new releases so I wouldn't end up buying RR stuff I already had and then getting stuck not being able to sell it for what I paid. Hopefully they'll get around to that sometime next month.

Breyer also came out with Stablemate Club blind bags earlier this week for the low, low price of $50 a pop (two random SMC releases from years past per bag). Uh, usually we expect to get a better deal than that, like maybe $40 a box. I didn't order any, since I already have almost all the releases I wanted from previous years (the charcoal Fylkir still eludes me, but I figured the chances of getting one were too low to bother ordering). They're sold out now, but it looks like some people are getting Fylkirs. Maybe that release wasn't as popular as I thought it was? Who knows.

Also, the unicorn blind bags (including the blue chase Alborozo!) have been showing up at Cracker Barrel stores around the country. I checked our only local Cracker Barrel, but got zilch - no idea if they even got any in. I'm pretty much over this whole blind bag thing - I still haven't found a chase Django in the wild, nor did I even manage to get the lavender Alborozo from the 9 unicorn blind bags I got, so I think I'm pretty much done with blind bags. I hope that trend dies soon.

Lastly, the Collector Club advance access to the Black Friday sale opened up last week, but there wasn't anything special this year. Maybe they'll add new things when it opens back up on Friday? I hope so.

My Collector Appreciation glossy is here!

...But it's one of the ones I didn't want. Say hello to glossy Hickory Hills Wall Street!



Fortunately, I'm working on trading him for a glossy Bandera, but I would have really liked to get a glossy Liberty. It would have been easy to just buy the Bandera later, but I have a feeling the glossy Libertys are going to be a lot more expensive.

Oh well! Better luck next time, I guess.

Collector Appreciation 2017!

Just when I thought we weren't going to get a Collector Appreciation event this year, Breyer pulls it out!

Carefully timed to not coincide with the double savings weekend and $10 express shipping upgrade, of course. Well played, Breyer (or not).

So it looks like this year, the first 500 orders to use the Collector Appreciation code to order $125 of qualifying merchandise will receive one of four glossed models with their order: Liberty, Bandera, Hickory Hills Wall Street, or Bryants Jake. That breaks down to 125 glossies each.

I was irritated that they raised the total to $125 this year, but I couldn't resist the possibility of a glossy Liberty or Bandera, so I bit. But what to buy? I hadn't been planning on buying one of the new throw blankets they came out with, but when I saw one of them had the Xavier unicorn on it, I had to get it. I love throw blankets and I love unicorns; what could go wrong? It had better be a pretty amazing throw for $40, though.

Along with the throw, I picked up another Fantasia and Gozosa set to try to get a Fantasia that will stand, and a Hwin to resell. Hopefully I don't have too much trouble dumping those on eBay later.

It looks like the promotion is still available, though I'm not sure how we're supposed to tell if it's sold out unless Breyer is planning on telling us. I'm hoping to get Liberty or Bandera, but good luck if you ordered!

And yes, the 2018 new releases are apparently out in the wild, but I'm waiting for an official announcement from Breyer before I cover them here. Lots of exciting stuff, though!

Sales and Promotions Galore!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! Luckily for us, Breyer has more deals going on! Firstly, the End-of-Year Sale:
































Collector Club members: The code "Clubplus17" is now the current code to use to get 20% off + free shipping on your order (Thxsanta16 won't work with it, but it doesn't matter because Clubplus17 gets you the same thing and the extra 10% off). This sale ends at 11:59pm tomorrow.  I used it to order the new Svali Icelandic, Sweet Pea and Bryants Jake yesterday! More ponies to join the herd, whoo!

Secondly, I got another email from Breyer this morning - they're doing another Collector Club Appreciation Day, featuring...Glossy Julien and Sophia!



The "CCLUV16" code does NOT stack with the Clubplus17 code to get 20% off, so you'll have to choose carefully. You'll still get free shipping on orders of $50 or more. The unfortunate thing with this new promotion is that you don't get to choose whether you get Glossy Julien & Sophia or Glossy Cosette. So...I guess it's a roll of the dice!This promotion ends tonight at 11:59, so choose quickly!

Also, the end-of-year sale email states that Breyer's warehouse will be closed for inventory starting 12/28 and lasting until 1/5, so any orders placed in that time period likely won't ship until 1/6 or later.

Collector Appreciation Glossy Cosette

I can't believe I forgot to mention this. Breyer is doing a Collector Appreciation Day deal on the website right now:


For one day only, spend $100 on the website and get a glossy Cosette! I'm pretty meh about the whole thing (how many of the things did they pump out that they could gloss 500 of them?), but if you were planning on buying stuff on the website anyway, you might as well go for it. It's definitely an improvement on last year's Collector Appreciation event, which only had a chance of giving you a glossy item or one of the new 2016 releases (I got a chestnut 75th Anniversary AQHA, bleh). We'll see if Breyer can move enough product to sell all 500 glossy Cosettes by the end of the day. The offer ends tonight at midnight.