The Vintage Club opened today this morning and literally sold out within an hour, not surprising with Georg being on the lineup. I'm happy to announce that I was able to sneak into the Vintage Club while it was open. I wasn't going to, but I can't resist that Georg with that vintage red roan coloring. I don't know why I like that coloring on him so much, but I do. His official name is Julius and I'm just glad he'll be coming home with me. I just hope that the rest of the lineup is as nice. I don't like as many of the Vintage Club horses as I do the Premier Club, but I decided I'd try it and see. Worse comes to worst, I'll just have to call it an experience and forego my spot next year. So what do we expect to see? Since Julius is our vintage color on a new mold, most likely we'll get two vintage molds, one on vintage coloring and the other on modern coloring. We'll likely get an appaloosa and a pinto. The fourth will be the gambler's choice which, if it goes by all previous years, will be the four decorator colors: gold, gold filigree, wedgewood blue and blue filigree. I purchased Troubadour finally. It doesn't look like we're getting anymore new releases at the moment so I've decided to add Bellatrix/Spica and Christoff as transport buddies. It was only an extra $5 to ship them with Troubadour. I'm going to bite the bullet about the unicorns, only because I can't resist the color, but I may customize them to remove the horns once they get here. I saw someone who had the horn break in the mail during transit and left a cute little white star where the horn was. It looked a lot better that way. Now for the Magic Stables. Lots of speculation about whether the unicorns are cheap plastic or the rubbery material that Melissa and Doug use with their stables was floating around social media. I now have an answer for you. They are, in fact, plastic, but it's not the same plastic most Stablemates are made of. They are a bit more flexible, though still feel like Stablemates, not the rubbery texture of Melissa and Doug horses. On the shelf, they look like regular Stablemates. Granted they are not painted as well as most Stablemate unicorns, but they're still nicer made than I thought they'd be based on the stock photos, considering that you're getting a wooden stable with 6 unicorns for only $25. Here is a picture of the actual horses: The pearly white Andalusian Stallion and blue appaloosa are my personal favorites. The stable is very nice, I'd say it is very similar to the Melissa and Doug in quality. It could be used as decorative shelving for your stablemates. If you'd like to purchase a stable, I have them now available on eBay, in hand and ready to ship!
Good morning, everyone! I hope y'all are having a spooky fun and safe weekend! I have an announcement to make and that is the annual JAH magazine for Collector Club members is on its way. Several people have already got theirs. For some reason, it seems like I'm always the last to get mine, so I always see a good number of sneak peeks through social media before I get my magazine. Admittedly there isn't too much new to see since Breyer has just released everything in like a week, but I will also warn you that if you're like me and still waiting on your magazine, I will put any spoilers further down the post. Though most people come to my website specifically for spoilers, some people may not want to see every one, and I completely understand that. We've already seen the models but here are the numbers for the glossy Breyerfest store specials. In case it's a bit hard to read they made 2,675 glossy Benellis, 2,225 glossy Cheesecakes and 1,445 glossy Top Guns that they also made. I will be the proud owner of a glossy Cheesecake come December, which I preferred in glossy because of the excessive amount of white on the model. I'm surprised at the numbers, mostly because with them being a pre-order (and the number of people trying to flip them) I was kind of expecting the numbers to be a bit higher than that. Now here comes the spoilers... And I have to tell ya that as a dealer I'm greatly excited about this one! It appears that speculation is correct and the Orren Mixers are going to be a series. They are keeping with the Geronimo mold but using different colors, so if you conga this mold, you'll be happy to have The next in the series is the one I was especially looking forward to... the Paint. He is right smack on the front of the JAH cover this year. I can now look forward to the possibility of the overo, that shiny palomino and appaloosa in future. Could we also see that new blue/black color that Breyer has done this year for Eclipse and the new unicorn set on a black Orren Mixer? I hope so! That blue/black color has my fancy. Another possible regular run to be released is this purple Classics unicorn with a rainbow colored mane and tail. This is the same mold that was used for Salem from the Halloween series last year. The giveaway are the test runs from the "Makin' A Splash" collector's choice. There was a red dun splash pinto on the Esprit mold and a red dun splash pinto on the Desatado mold. Personally the Desatado was my favorite, and I'd love to win him! My chances? Practically zero. But I'll still try anyways ;) Apparently the Stablemates Club horses are, yet again, getting a new look for their boxes next year. I really hope they go back to using the brown shipping boxes for these, as the miniature decorative box, though cute, is just too thin to protect them during transit. This new packaging looks similar to their vintage packaging.
This is all I have right now but I will post if any more happen to pop up, or if I happen to get my magazine early this year (not likely) and see something I missed. |
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