I have to tell ya something about regular runs. These are the bread and butter of Breyer as a company, the majority of their sales. However, there are so many people focused on obtaining rare, impossible to find horses that regular runs are kind of pushed to the side. Other than when they first come out, at the time when they're a hot new item, their price starts to sink almost immediately. By the end of a year, you can't even get what you paid for out of them. I think this reason alone is the main reason why collectors stay away from regular runs. If you want a return on your investment, you'll have to wait about a decade before you can flip the horse for a good price, maybe getting a decent $20 profit depending upon the model. I don't have a problem against regular runs. In fact, about half of my collection are regular runs. Sometimes I wish I liked regular bay and chestnut horses or I'd focus my collection solely on regular runs. They're decently priced, easy to find which makes it nice if you don't have the money at the time to buy a special run before it's sold out. Several new ones are released each year and come in the exact same molds that people in the Premier Club pay $175 for. So for this post, we're going to focus on the regular runs of the past 10 years (only 5 years are listed here, the next 5 years will be on a different post due to space). Please note that any clearware horses, as well as horse/rider sets are not included on this list. I also didn't include anything that was available through exclusive retailers like JCP, TSC or the mid years since not everyone had these stores available to them at the time. These were all strictly regular runs that could have been obtained by anyone. I may do another post later on down the road with Tractor Supply and mid years. 2010I remember saving up enough money from this year to buy Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta (at the time I was focusing on the racehorses mostly - it wouldn't be until after I started this blog that my herd goals would change) and I was gifted GG Valentine/Heartbreaker from my husband, who found the glossy version that was every 1 in 6. This was back before glossies were as big as they are now. I bought Fleetstreet Max years later on the second hand market. The only others I had an interest in, but as of yet haven't found, is Summer and Winter from the Treasure Hunt. 2011Whereas the year before had lots of browns, this year had lots of blacks/dark bays. I did end up buying TS Black Tie Affair (before I realized how tippy the Huckleberry Bey mold was) because his owner is actually a local. Years later I added Stormy from the Weather Girl Treasure Hunt, and of which would sadly mark the end of the Treasure Hunt series. 2012Yet another year of mostly browns, the only horse I was interested in at the time was Northern Dancer, whom I later sold when I downsized my racehorses. I bought Brookside Pink Magnum, the overo mare/foal and Lil Ricky Rocker after they started making him pearly. 2013I appreciated the amount of color from this year as well. I think Breyer literally made a horse of every different color of the horse rainbow. I bought the Marwari in 2015 when I began collecting again, though I later sold him because the horse I had didn't have very many dapples. On the other hand, the Gypsy Vanner and Lindsay's Faith are still part of my permanent collection to this day. I would have liked to have found the Indian Pony with war paint, but unfortunately my dealer at the time never got one in. 2014I honestly don't own any horses from this year. I had Frankel - again before I sold my racehorses - but nothing else really struck me. It was another year of rather plain horses. Breyer released a ton of "warehouse finds" this year which added a bit of color, however I didn't include those since they were simply re-releases of previous regular runs. 2015As far as colorful horses go, this was a good year. I have several in my collection from this year including Emma (can't resist that mold), American Pharoah (my favorite racehorse ever), Picasso and Santiago. I will be making a second post soon with the next 5 years as this was too much to cram on one post :)
8/19/2020 11:45:56 pm
I primarily collect Regular Run models mostly since I like them and have always. The other reason is that I cannot afford to be apart of the collector clubs or attend Breyerfest (though I did the virtual event this year and got my very first SR outside of the Flagship models). Nowadays, when I see a premier model released, I watch for when it's going to come out in the regular run (like the year when they released all those new mares to the general public: Fantasia, Paint Me a Pepto, and Hwin - have all three!) Comments are closed.
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