2024 new arrivals!

 Exciting news today, everyone! The KHP finally got in the 2024 new releases (well, most of them) and I also snagged a Brandell from Triple Mountain. Behold! 

Well, okay, I have an Iridium too, but she's already on her shelf upstairs, so you don't get a photo of her. 

So, from left to right in the above photo, we have Legend, Cossaco, Atlanta, Brandell, Love and Hope. I know, I know, I wasn't going to buy Love and Hope, but they kinda grew on me...the foal is so leggy, but cute! 

I'm pretty sure Love and Hope are Sarah Mink sculpts, but I was pleased to notice these two don't seem to have the toothpick legs that Malik and the Marchador have. Well, the mare doesn't, at least. The foal is all legs! I don't remember the last time we got a new Classics foal (2011?) so I'm happy to have another one! I'm looking forward to seeing this pair in a realistic color. 

There were at least a few of each model to choose from, so it was nice to be able to handpick the ones I wanted. I chose the Cossaco because (at least from the front) he wasn't as flawed as the others, and he's also slightly lighter than the other Cossacos on the shelf. 

I picked up all but the Brandell models yesterday at the KHP, and Brandell came in today's mail, so today seemed like a good day to blog about them. I really like the Brandell too - I hadn't realized his body color is slightly glittery, similar to the Wassail models. 

Unfortunately, while I did have the chance to handpick my models, pretty much all the Traditionals were body-quality straight out of the box. The Cossaco had little black flecks all over it, some of which took paint with them when I picked/scraped them off, and Atlanta and Legend aren't much better. The ones I left on the shelf were worse! Legend would probably be the best of them, if he didn't have a weird little pink mark/scrape on his butt. The Classics aren't too bad, other than some irregularities in the silver paint on the Love and Hope set's feet. Which is odd, because my Iridium has some weirdness too, and she's completely silver. What's going on with the silver paint? "Smear" isn't quite the right word, but it's similar to that. Hopefully Breyer can get a handle on their QC soon, because I'd like to think the Trads are usually at least a little better than this. 

That's all for today - let's hope we get some exciting reveals soon, because things have been pretty boring lately! 

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, and other stories

 More good news, everyone! Amongst other things, I had a pretty good mail day today - behold! First off, my Neva showed up: 

What a beauty! 

Quality-wise, though...he's really kind of a mess. It's almost laughable - weird textures in the finish by his elbow, globs of plastic and/or paint in random places, bubbles in the gloss, poorly-applied masking, really bad overspray on the mane...the list goes on and on. And these guys are sold out, so I can't even ask for a replacement. However, the funny thing is...the snowmen:

I'm getting major Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goon vibes from these snowmen. 

Now, I love derpy stuff like this (I'm not a Barbie collector, but I do have two Barbie Christmas tree ornaments because one of them has a doofy face and the other one looks like she wants to eat your face), so I'm happy to add them to the collection. So yeah, if I was ever to decide to start showing (not likely), and if I could find a class to put this guy in (also not likely) his show name would definitely be Snow Goon. 

Now then, on to the next new arrivals. I was expecting Snow Goon up there to come today, but what I wasn't expecting...was two of my Poppy & Ollie sets! Huzzah! Behold the first one I opened! 

Fortunately, their quality was much better than Snow Goon. Though I have to say...normally I like alabaster, especially glossy alabaster, but I'm just not feeling it with this set. It's not so bad in the photo, but that yellowish cast Breyer added to make them look "perlino" mostly just makes them look like they sat in a smoker's house for way too long. So this is probably my least favorite color of the three.

At least the quality was good! And I got two different colors - behold my next set! 

Woohoo, the palominos! This color is easily my favorite of the three, despite there not being anything vintage about it at all. They're just gorgeous. 

The quality on this pair is mostly okay, but I really wasn't impressed with the mane masking job on the mare:

They pretty much missed half her forelock when masking it off, and look at the giant white area behind the left ear. What a doozy. 

Oh well. Could have been worse, I suppose. So with any luck, my third set will be the bay, whenever it gets here. Here's hoping! 

There were a couple of other exciting developments today - the other two sculptors for next year's Premier Club have been announced! 

Jennifer Scott sculpted the first release (Cancion), so it's anyone's guess as to what Kylee and Heather will be sculpting. I'm excited to find out, though! 

And lastly, Breyer is running a holiday sweepstakes:

10 lucky winners will receive two Clydesdale Christmas blind bags from last year's event! Enter here - the deadline is 12/13. I won't be entering, as I don't want any of them - just more stuff to sell, and I have enough of that already. Good luck, everyone! 

More exciting reveals!

 Ooh, shiny! We've got some new reveals for the holiday season on Breyer's website - check them out! Let's start with this new Cantering Welsh Pony:

She's this year's A Pony For Christmas special run - I guess that's a yearly thing now. Her blanket is so cute - it looks like a candy cane! She even has her own gift box! 

Next, here's this year's holiday mare and foal set, Ceres and Minerva! 

What's this? A unicorn Bluegrass Bandit? Sign me up, even if it is pink! Must have her! The foal is cute too, but I'm still trying to sell off my Ambers and Ashleys, so I'll have to split up this set if/when I get my hands on them. Let's hope they don't sell out too fast! 

Next, take a look at this stunning new Rearing Mustang! 

Will we ever stop collecting plastic ponies? This one has the answer to that in his name - NEVA! Anyways, that's a pretty cute design - reminiscent of Black Forest from this year's Breyerfest. Interestingly, he doesn't look glossy in the above photo, but the description says he's glossy and he's glossy in the other two photos as well. Maybe they were playing around with finishes and used that photo by mistake or something.

Lastly, here's Altair, the galaxy unicorn that was previewed in the Collector Club tent at this year's Breyerfest! 

A rare appearance on the elusive Shire B mold - I gotta have him too! 

Let's hope they give us some notice before these come in stock - I have to have them for the collection! I hope we get even more reveals soon! 

Featured Model - 2/29/20, American Dream

Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured Model, the weekly blog event where I pick a model from my collection, give some stats on it and provide commentary about it! My apologies for missing last week - I'm not always the best at planning ahead. This week's model is...American Dream!



This guy was one of my purchases from last year's Collector Appreciation event, and I don't think I've talked about him much since then, so I figured I'd feature him now. He's item #62203 on the brand new Rearing Mustang mold sculpted by Maggie Bennett.

I liked this model the instant I saw him, because he's like a budget version of Wahoo. Too bad Stone beat Breyer to the punch on that one. Anyway, according to Breyer, this is also the first Breyer model to be digitally sculpted. I wonder if we'll see more of that in the future? Who knows. And blue roan is a fitting color for a Mustang - there are a lot of roan Mustangs out there, and I love roans! Too bad he doesn't have a little more detail, like some corn spots and things of that nature.

As for the mold himself, I think there's a fairly good chance he'll be used at Breyerfest this year in some capacity (if he doesn't get shoved out by the new Brabant). If not, he'd make a good Halloween-themed release as well. Maybe as the Headless Horseman's horse? He's a little too new to show up as this year's gambler's choice Classic, but you never know. I don't think he's been retired from the regular line yet, so he could really show up anywhere. I guess we'll find out eventually!