Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured JAH! This week we'll be covering the Summer I 1994 issue. Let's jump in, shall we?
On the cover, legendary hunter Grand Central takes a fence with Jessica Fleischmann Aronson (sister of Breyer/Reeves head honcho Tony Fleischmann). On the back cover is the 1994 Breyer Show Special, Silver Comet on the Polo Pony. How timely, since the new Polo Pony gambler's choice release is arriving in people's mailboxes now. Note that despite getting a four-page article in this issue, Grand Central never got his own Breyer model.
On the inside cover, three Breyer portrait horses strut their stuff (but aren't accompanied by photos of their corresponding models for some reason). On the insert page, we find the official Breyerfest ticket order form for 1994. Tickets for adults were $45 each and kids were $32.50, and that ticket price got you admission to the KHP, a souvenir bandanna, hayrides (after 5pm), the dinner/dancing/dinner model (Bright Zip) and entry to the live auction. We also have the menu for that dinner! Turkey, the perfect choice for those hot, sweaty Kentucky nights!
In the Editor's Desk, Stephanie reports that the Steel Dust model from the previous issue sold out in a pretty big way (as the JAH special runs usually did in those days) - so big that "we received hundreds of requests over the limit of 1,500" - sound familiar? And nowadays we don't even get to find out how many they made of the various Collector Club special runs. In the EquiNews, we find an announcement about Breyer on TV via Horseworld (I did a search on YouTube to see if any of these old segments were on there, but no dice), Gem Twist winning another show jumping competition, and an announcement of the now-defunct West Coast Model Horse Collector's Jamboree.
On page 6 is an article about pedigree assignment, and page 7 holds a wealth of information about the upcoming Breyerfest 1994! The format has changed a little bit over the years, but is still mostly the same, other than taking place a couple of weeks earlier.
The centerfold of the magazine features Bright Zip, the aforementioned Celebration Horse/Dinner Model for Breyerfest 1994! He certainly was handsome, wasn't he?
On page 20 we have a poem about Paul Revere's Ride, and on page 21 is a salute to Julie Krone, first female winner of a Triple Crown race, and Blythe Miller, rider of Lonesome Glory.
Here's the rest of the salute to Blythe Miller (with classifieds cropped out of the scan). Interesting that Lonesome Glory got a call-out in this issue, but it would take another 6 years for him to become a Breyer model.
Lastly for this issue, Vintage Point covered the Running Stallion and all his releases up to this point (Breyerfest Live '94 ticket order form cropped out). I didn't scan the first two parts of the article because they were split over two other pages and it would have just been too many scans.
Other things in this article that I didn't cover: a Dear JAH response suggesting bleaching yellowed models to whiten them (don't do it! it makes the plastic break down years later!); Breyer Tour events for 1994, featuring Ofir on the Traditional Black Stallion; the Grand Central article (too many scans, again), an article about sidesaddles; Blast from the Past, featuring the G1 Standing and Lying Foals, the only Stablemate foal molds at the time; sneak peeks of the Mesteno "The Progeny" mold and Chinook, the 1994 Export Model; and the debut of Breyer jr., the section of the magazine aimed at younger kids. Whew! Lots of stuff in this issue, but I couldn't cover everything or the post would have been super long.
That's all I have for today, but check back next week for Summer II 1994!
Other things in this article that I didn't cover: a Dear JAH response suggesting bleaching yellowed models to whiten them (don't do it! it makes the plastic break down years later!); Breyer Tour events for 1994, featuring Ofir on the Traditional Black Stallion; the Grand Central article (too many scans, again), an article about sidesaddles; Blast from the Past, featuring the G1 Standing and Lying Foals, the only Stablemate foal molds at the time; sneak peeks of the Mesteno "The Progeny" mold and Chinook, the 1994 Export Model; and the debut of Breyer jr., the section of the magazine aimed at younger kids. Whew! Lots of stuff in this issue, but I couldn't cover everything or the post would have been super long.
That's all I have for today, but check back next week for Summer II 1994!
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