Well, the panic we were all waiting for is here. Breyerfest started with a huge hiccup in that people weren't able to checkout with the store specials. I woke up and, before checking social media, went to the store first thing like apparently so many other people. I thought "Huh... that's funny. All the special runs are still available. I thought for sure some would be sold out by now." I attempted to add them to my cart to no avail. It kept asking me to log in, and when I did, it didn't recognize my account. Apparently those who had early special run times were also unable to add any special runs to their account which delayed special run times by 2 hours. The next hiccup, but this one was not surprising in the least, was how quickly store specials have been selling out. I gotta tell y'all that I was hesitant about this to begin with, but I didn't realize that you literally have only a matter of a couple minutes once items are restocked - which has been consistently about every 2 hours - to check out. There were a lot of times when I'd get the horse in my cart only to have it displayed as "sold out" halfway during checkout. Despite this setback, I was able to fulfill most of my pre-orders this first day, though it took a lot of time fighting with thousands of other people for the same horse. By the way, I'm not blaming Breyer on any of this. In fact, I still think they're doing a phenomenal job for taking up such a difficult task. The website is easy to use, by Friday afternoon everything seemed to be running smoothly as far as the special run lines and they've been doing their best at answering my questions whenever I messaged them to let them know about a glitch I was having. I can only imagine how their IT department must be feeling. All the power to them. I would like to show you all what many Collector Club members look forward to at Breyerfest each year, the who wore it best special run where Collector Club members can vote on who is their favorite. This year it's called "Picture This" and consists of four different molds in silver bay overo coloring. They'll be available for purchase next year so if you want one you can either join the Collector Club 2021 at the end of this year or take the one I'll have available upon its release, as I'll likely not add this one to my collection because of all the bare plastic. Really In my opinion, Adios and Zippo Pine Bar match the breed to the color quite well. Carrick and Latigo (though Latigo was made to be a stock horse) just not stocky enough to be a Paint horse. It was hard to decide but in the end I went with Adios. We had a couple specialty club reveals today in the form of stablemates. The first was the Stablemates Club new mold, a walking stock horse. I can't believe how detailed they're making these little guys. The amount of muscling and the mane/tail are just phenomenal. She's a little fat in the barrel for my liking though, so depending upon her coloring will decide if I keep her or not. She definitely looks like an older broodmare well past her prime who has had her share of healthy foals... The second reveal, although we saw the sneak peek yesterday of what the new little Fjord for the Premier Club will look like, we didn't see his color. Breyer posted this today, saying he could be one of the three following colors. Since the first looks like Altynai and the third is similar to the leopard appaloosa pattern we saw in the sneak peek at the end of last year, I'm assuming the middle guy is going to be the coloring for the PC horse we haven't seen yet. If it is, I'm super pumped! Yet another splash pinto, this time hopefully with mapping! Love me some splashes. Which color will they pick for the PC stablemate? I'm thinking the one that looks like Altynai since it's more similar in color to a true Fjord than the other two, however we all know that colors matching to breeds mean absolutely nothing to Breyer. What if it's a gambler's choice? Ooo! That'd be something!
As for my special runs, well I ended up somehow getting four surprise models with my two Friday tickets. I don't know how because I thought they didn't give duplicates for the same time slot but for some weird reason I've been having incredible luck with surprise horses lately. I either got a really good place in line both times or nobody is taking a gamble on the surprise horses since they don't know what they're going to be. I'm excited, as I love surprises and I really hope I get at least one glossy. Chances are I'll probably end up with duplicates which will be for sale on eBay once I know exactly which I get. I have two more time slots but not until Sunday so I'll be spending tomorrow trying to scoop up whatever store specials I can get. Bring on day 2! Comments are closed.
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