These next few weeks winding down to Breyerfest are going to be rough. I'm trying hard to avoid MH$P, Mercari, eBay, Facebook marketplace and anywhere else that sells model horses so I can save for Breyerfest, mostly room sales because I only want a couple of the Breyerfest special runs for my own collection. For what was supposed to be a colorful year, I was expecting more... roans? Rabicanos? Peacock spotting? Maybe even mapping like Sprinkles? Then I realized something... they all have doppelgangers and I already own most of their past look-alikes. If this is your first Breyerfest, or if you've only been going for a few years, you may have never even known about these doppelgangers. We'll start with my favorite for this year, Uffington, who looks a lot like the Quelle Surprise cremello on the Lonesome Glory mold. The reason he appealed to me most is because I wasn't lucky enough to pull the rare cremello. I ended up with the chestnut pinto instead, my second favorite because of his metallic sheen and blue eyes, but it would have been nice to have pulled that beautiful cremello. Since I don't have the cremello in real life, I had to use the Quelle Surprise picture from the Identify Your Breyer website as a reference, and I feel I still need to give credit to Janice Cox even though she is sadly no longer with us for the use of the photo. If you don't know her, she was the face behind IDYB, which most of us, if not all of us in the hobby have used at one time or another. Her website the best encyclopedia on Breyers out there. I only hope someone is able to save the website that Janice Cox put years into to honor this amazing collector. Next... Pech Merle. Recognize him from Breyerfest 2014? I didn't at first, but it has come to my attention that he is very similar to Bonne Fete. The bay extended blanket appaloosa with realistically shaded hooves is the same, though I think Bonne Fete has a bit more detail. He has ghost spotting, lightning stripes on the legs, mottling on the nose and a silver tail. I currently own Bonne Fete and I think that's why I don't really care to own Pech Merle. Gran Cavallo is the less roan-y version of By A Nose. The sabino pattern is very similar. As with By A Nose, there may be some models with more roaning than others, which is why I'm on the fence about this guy. If I can get hold of one with quite a bit of roaning (I think I see some around his haunches) then I may add him. I'm imagining that Seurat was meant to look like Chanel. Unfortunately her sooty dappled palomino color ended up being a lot more orange than brown in real life. At least mine did though I've seen lots of variation in coloring with her. I'm praying the same thing doesn't happen with Seurat. Anyone remember the store special Mark of Distinction the chestnut pinto Saddlebred? Well, Tassili looks very similar, but instead of pearling Tassili will be glossy. Still, the horses look pretty similar. I think because I own Mark of Distinction already, this is why I don't want Tassili. Also, more recently, he kind of looked like the Hero's Welcome Surprise chestnut pinto from 2019 minus the blue eyes. If we're on the subject of the Hero's Welcome Surprise, Apollo looks almost identical to the champagne, and though Ansel doesn't look like a Breyerfest horse of the past, he does look like a Collector Club special run that I own... Out of the Blue. The blue roan pinto is almost exactly the same. I do plan to try for him, as I do like blue roans, however I think I would've liked him more if they'd left the white out. To top it off, we all know that Pollock is a cross between rainbow horses Prism, Spectrum and Giverny.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the brindle Josie and Rheverence are really the only colors not previously used for Breyerfest before, so they are the ones I'm mostly hoping to obtain for my own collection. Hard to believe that we now have only 2 weeks until the big event!
Ashley
6/28/2021 09:37:45 pm
Wow! This is my first BF and I did not know that. I also have a question. If they offered BF glossy models (like they did last year) would it be worth the wait to buy it? Hey Ashley! I got the glossies last year, and while it was a long wait, I LOVED THEM! But I do not think they will offer them this year, because the real reason they did last year was because there were so many people unable to buy models. This year, there are much higher quantities for each special run and store special, so I don’t think they’ll do it again. They’re also back ordering matte models for December, so I don’t see Breyer doing glossies. But hey, maybe it could happen! If it does, I’ll probably pick one up!
Ashley
7/2/2021 03:37:34 pm
Thanks, Liz! Comments are closed.
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