Factory Escapees and Breyerfest countdown!

 Well, readers, it's been an exciting couple of days, between the leaks popping up on social media and Breyerfest only a few days away. On Sunday, weird leaks started showing up on social media, starting with a photo of a pink-and-white pinto Strapless. I'm not sharing the photos here because these models probably weren't obtained "legally" and I don't want to condone such behavior. Anyways, the original Facebook post said there were also purple and black versions of these Straplesses, but I was skeptical of it because it was kind of a random thing to pop up on a Sunday morning and the box originally wasn't pictured. Eventually a blurry photo of the other two colors did appear, along with a photo of the box (one of the white shipper boxes they ship web specials in, rather than a window box), which made me conclude that it's likely this year's Christmas surprise horse (named Merry Dancer). Works for me, since I don't collect Strapless! 

More or less at the same time as the Strapless mystery unfolded, we also got photos (not sure if they came from the same person) of what appears to be two Traditional releases for TSC, as well as a new series of blind bags. The two Trads are a buckskin pinto Troubadour named Brooks and a gray blanket Appaloosa San Domingo named Colby. The blind bags are Mystery Horse Surprise series 7 and include a chestnut Corbin, bay roan Charleston, red roan mini SCO, palomino mini Emma, gray mini MFT and black overo mini Indian Pony. Lots of minis in that one! I wonder what the chases will be. 

In Breyerfest-related news, the countdown is still ticking down! There are already a few rooms open at the Clarion. I was sorely tempted to go do some shopping after work today, but I still have too much Breyerfest prep to take care of. I think I'm done with all my live show prep, though! Woohoo! Now to move on to sales prep. The official Breyerfest app was released today, so be sure to get that if you're so inclined.

Lastly, there's an unannounced special run portrait of Atlanta on the Prince Charming mold! 

Order her here. I don't plan on buying one myself, but some people were having technical issues when trying to order at first. However, those issues appear to have been fixed, so order away! 

That's it for today. Time to enjoy the relative calm before the storm, before the ravening hordes descend upon Lexington yet again! 

What am I looking at here?

 Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone is having a good January 1, and I hope we all have a great new year ahead of us. 

Since it's a new year, it's time for new reveals, I guess! So we have our single-day Stablemates, and...well...I'm just confused by this. Let me badly illustrate this in Paint: 

So...celebrating the triumphs of real horses...and then...

...celebrating the real horses by...doing decorators...? I'm so confused right now! Why are they decorators? Why are they jewel tones? Why are they inspired by pop songs, which an astute Blabber pointed out will probably have to be changed later? Why am I rolling my eyes right now? 

Well...whatever. I guess I don't have to like everything, and they are nice colors even if I don't collect any of the molds. And Breyer is known for not adhering to themes very well...but this is just bewildering. I think most people were expecting these to be portraits of real horses, or rare breeds or something, so it's all just very confusing. Maybe it's my innate dislike of Taylor Swift and most pop singers taking over, I don't know. Grumble, grumble, get off my lawn, etc. 

Anyway, let's hope the next few reveals are really great! I'm looking forward to the 2024 new releases, myself. 

2022 Stablemates Club molds!

 Good news, everyone! We now have the silhouettes of all the releases in the 2022 Stablemates Club! Well, minus the new mold and the optional release. Anyway, behold! 

From left to right, that's the G1 Draft, Charleston, Lyric and Prince Charming. Whew! None of those are anything I'm interested in except the Lyric, and with any luck he won't be the gambler's choice release. I may not even need to bother to join the club next year! It'd be nice to not have a bunch of stuff I need to resell for once. I don't think it'll be too difficult to find someone selling the Lyric and whatever the new mold is (if I even want it) secondhand next year. 

I haven't rejoined the SMC or the PC yet this year - I like to wait until I see the whites of their eyes, as it were, and try to encourage them to show us more of what we're signing up for before I join. They did show us the Croi gamblers before the end of the year last year, so I'm confident we'll eventually see all of these before signups close. I'm excited to see what color that Lyric is, though! 

Peace, Love and Breyers!

 We've had a couple of new reveals for 2022 - check them out! Breyer seems to be embracing a '60s theme - check out the Classics decorator: 

He's definitely...colorful. Personally, I think he'd have looked better without the gold (and possibly the horn), but it's good to see another new release on the Morgan. Maybe this means he'll get another unicorn release later in the year? Who knows.

And check out these Stablemates:

They're reminiscent of the swirly plastic Stablemates given out as trivia prizes, etc., way back when. I'm a bit curious as to why they're unicorns, though - seems a bit superfluous. Maybe I'm getting tired of all the unicorns lately? Who knows. And they could really stand dto give the G2 Clydesdale a rest, honestly. But the colors are pretty, anyway! Just, you know...maybe dig out some different molds? Anyway, it's good that we get to see a couple of the releases for next year. Let's hope get get more soon! 

2021 Premier Club memberships, and more fun stuff!

 Oops...well, I forgot to make a post about the 2021 Premier Club yesterday, so here it is today instead. Membership in the 2021 Premier Club is now open! Here's another look at Fireheart, the first release in the club: 

Okay, this angle is making him grow on me a little bit...but I don't think it'll be enough to save him. I'll join the club regardless, though - can't miss out on those new releases. Anyway, you can join the Premier Club here (must be a 2021 Collector Club member). 

In other news, there's a series 4 of the Unicorn Crazy blind bag series at Walmart! More blind bags...ugh. Can 2021 be the last year of the blind bags, please? And most of the molds in it are the same ones being used as before - the G2 Clydesdale, Alborozo, Mini Magnolia and the G3 Arabian. Yawn! I don't have any photos of these I can use yet, but I'll find them eventually. However, the exciting thing about these unicorns is the chase piece! I don't have a photo of him either, but it appears to be a Stablemate version of Prince Charming, a resin from Breyerfest 2011: 

While I'm not personally a fan of Prince Charming (of the three resins from that year, I prefer Avalon), I've always wondered why those resins were a one-and-done deal - surely they could have put those molds to use somewhere else? Well, wonder no more! I wonder if we'll get a full-size version of him or the other two? I guess we'll find out eventually! In the meantime, I have more blind bags to search for...