Those that plan on going to in-person Breyerfest... VIP, All Access and General Admission tickets are now available for purchase on Breyer's website. They did say that VIPs will be again limited to only one per account and, just like last year, you will have to pay for your models upfront. With the VIP ticket you get your choice of 2 special runs, 2 limited editions and a 4 pack of the event stablemates along with, of course, the celebration horse. I've decided to forego the VIP this year since there are way too many models I'm interested in that choosing just two would be agonizing, plus I already have my swag box from last year that I plan on using at Breyerfest this year. The last time I checked, VIP tickets still hadn't sold out, but it wouldn't surprise me if they do within a matter of days, especially since Breyer never announced how many they were offering this year. Online access tickets will not be available until March, at a future announced date. They are NOT available for purchase yet. Breyer still hasn't announced when they will be selecting models for All Access ticket holders but I'm assuming sometime in June or early July since tickets are only available through May 2nd this year. I will release any new information as it becomes available. I received a package today from UPS which I thought for sure was Dax. Instead they were the warehouse finds that I bought back in January, which I'd almost completely forgot about. Although I originally bought just the chestnut and palomino, I decided to add the silver bay and the Classics winter decorator, Baltazar. Originally I wasn't planning on purchasing him after weeding out almost all my Classics horses, but he looked so much like Born to Run's twin (one of only about a half dozen Classics I did keep) and his name matched that of two other Peter Stones that I have that I couldn't help but add him to my collection of Balthazars. Here his is with the other Balthazar from Stone's 12 Days of Christmas event. My third Balthazar is packed away in storage. In the past, most of the warehouse finds were remakes of previously made Breyers. They just slapped a slightly different paint job and instead of calling it Susecion and Le Fire, for example (who was a "warehouse find" back in 2014) they call it #430011. Some people claim there are even slight differences in the paint jobs, like with the Clydesdale mare and foal people were mentioning a metallic sheen and dappling that the previous set didn't have before. I will be pulling yet another image from IDYB for this next reference, but the chestnut Trakehner warehouse find is the same, or very similar, to the special run available in the grab bags of only ten lucky people back in 2008. He was a solid metallic chestnut with no socks and a white blaze. The difference this time is that Breyer gave him the more modern tail versus the vintage tail of the 2008 run. As to the Stock Horse Gelding, although there isn't a previous model that looks exactly like him, if you owned the Appaloosa Surprise dunalino from Breyerfest 2009, they would make good brothers. This was the first Breyerfest where Breyer started throwing out surprise models, and it became a hit ever since. I think the gloss on this boy really brings out his shading. Of the three I bought, he ended up becoming my favorite. He smells terrible though. The gloss finish on him really stinks. I never really liked the Roemer mold. He had the perfectly sculpted Warmblood head and neck on what is, in my opinion, a too plump body, making his head look way too small for his body size. However, the silver bay color the warehouse find came on somehow complimented his body and didn't make him look all that bad. He is a bit darker in real life than the pictures show and his mane/tail are pearly. It really is amazing how a modern paint job can drastically change a vintage mold. I'm going to assume that Dax should arrive some time this week. The ball needs to get rolling on Honeybear and the Premier Club stablemate though...
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