Yessssss, finally some 2024 releases! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!

 The hour is finally upon us - 2024 new releases have finally been revealed! Hustle on over to the Breyer site to see them, but here are the ones I'm most excited about! 

A new Georg, YES! I love him! And he's a portrait of a horse I've seen many times at the KHP! Must buy! 

Woohoo, a regular run Constantia! Can't wait to add her to the collection either. She'll look really striking next to Via Lattea. 

Ooh, new molds for the Classics Horse of the Year release! The mare looks tantalizingly familiar, but I think she's a new mold. Not sure if I'll buy this set (they both look really awkward for some reason). The colors are pretty, though! 

There's a new Classics "Elements" collection, featuring some very handsome models! I'm not as excited about these as I could be, since they're going to be randomly shipped. Get out of here with that crap! We have enough randomly shipped stuff as it is. I added it up and there were at least twelve randomly-shipped releases last year, between Breyerfest, the clubs and various special runs. Stop it already! Fortunately, at least some dealers will be letting people order them directly - which is good, because I think we all know the Mustang is the only one people will actually want, while the other five colors will barely sell. 

Not all of the releases are on Breyer's site yet, so here's a link to Triple Mountain, which has them all. 

Here's the Halloween Horse! Ooh, a werewolf. Nothing I need to buy, but that shade of bay is really pretty. There was some drama on Facebook about that (stolen? not stolen?) wolf design on his left shoulder, so we'll see what happens with that. The discussions have disappeared, so I suspect shenanigans are afoot. 

The Holiday Horse (Apres Ski) is on Big Ben! Also nothing I need to buy, but he looks good in silver(ish) bay. Or is it just bay with a gulastra plume? Not sure. Anyway, I missed the model's name at first and spend more time than I want to admit trying to figure out if the ski poles were swords or guns, before my husband pointed out they were in fact ski poles and the brown things are the skis. Just throwing that out there. 

The unicorn ornament is a mirrored Porcelain Shire Mare with a new tail! Huzzah! I like her way better with the new tail. Does this mean we'll get her in plastic someday? I hope so, although it's more likely she'll join the ranks of the Spanish Barb, who also was an ornament a few years ago but hasn't been seen since. 

There don't seem to be any new Stablemates other than the ones that were at Tractor Supply last fall, which is irksome. Also no word of the Flagship release (or any mention of Flagship stuff, according to Triple Mountain) which makes me wonder if the whole Flagship concept has been killed off (not surprising). Guess we'll hopefully find out more on Monday. 

I'm also excited about Neptune and Cossaco! But I don't want this post to get too long, so let's move on. We also got a Breyerfest reveal - behold! 

Her name is Miss Independent, which is a Kelly Clarkson song, so I'm just going to resign myself to the fact that all of the special runs are going to be named after crappy pop songs. She's a nice color, but once again nothing I need to buy. Maybe this year I can get away with just buying one ticket and spending all the money I would have spent on horses on raffle tickets instead? I probably still wouldn't win the raffle, though, so saving my money would probably be better.