I'm not sure if this photo is even relevant any more, since it's so old, but I'll post it anyway:
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, Semi-Rearing Mustang, Fighting Stallion (twice!), Running Foal (with Mare), the Western Prancing Horse, the Grazing Mare (with Foal) and the Thoroughbred Mare and Foal (not in glossy alabaster, sadly).
The only molds left from the photo that haven't been used are the Longhorn Bull and the Western Horse, but we know from that teaser a month or so ago that the Western Horse is finally making an appearance. Why is the Longhorn Bull even in the photo? Who knows.
This year's Vintage Club has been more or less a return to normal, aside from using Shannondell as the "optional" (as if anyone would skip him) release. But they're switching up his release by doing most of them as a glossy charcoal, while 30 of them will be matte. Honestly, I'd rather have a glossy one myself - I've never been a fan of matte charcoal, and the blacker the better - I don't like the brown tones that can appear in charcoal as well. Not that it matters, since I don't collect Shannondell, but there it is.
These are the vintage Breyer molds that haven't been used in the club yet:
Appaloosa Performance Horse, Black Beauty, the Black Stallion, Bolya/Halla, Brighty, Buckshot, the Donkey, El Pastor, the FAM and FAF, the Foundation Stallion, the Fury Prancer, Galiceno, Haflinger, the Hanoverian, Justin Morgan, 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, Smoky, the Stock Horse Stallion, Mare and Foal, Stud Spider, the Trakehner, the Western Horse and the Western Pony.
For reason that should be obvious by now, I think Midnight Sun, the Donkey, Sea Star and Phantom Wings can all be eliminated from contention. I'm iffy about Bolya/Halla being used either, as the mold has been permanently altered from its Halla configuration. Does its '90s iteration still count as vintage? Who knows.
So what molds are we expecting to see next year? We already know the Western Horse is finally showing up - I suppose I should have expected that, since he's Breyer's oldest mold and 2020 is the company's 70th anniversary. I wonder if they'll sneak in some kind of rare variation to celebrate that? The release is glossy chestnut if I remember right, so maybe they'll leave 70 of them matte, or do an alternate color or something. As for the remaining vintage molds that haven't been used yet...well, most of them aren't terribly popular. I'm going to predict El Pastor and Stud Spider, for starters - El Pastor was a web special this year, and Stud Spider might be vaguely popular enough to be worth using. I don't know what to predict for the fourth model - some kind of gambler's choice on the FAM/FAF? That could be fun. If they keep with the pattern of using a modern mold for the optional model (they seem to go back and forth on that one), I'm going to go with Desatado, just to throw something random out there.
As for the Stablemate, it's anyone's guess. Now that we've seen this year's G1 Quarter Horse Mare (Misty) and the G3 Warmblood Foal (Stormy), I feel like it could go either way. Maybe the G1 Saddlebred, as a reference to some old Five Gaiter?
That's all my predictions for this year. Although I'm glad they finally used the Thoroughbred Mare and Foal this year, I'll be forever sad about not getting them in glossy alabaster...
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