Another June release will be Gawain. He is the flockie mentioned in the Vintage Club letter. While I typically planned on keeping him for myself, I didn't realize Breyer was making the flockie a unicorn, and since I don't collect unicorns, I'm offering mine for sale. He is beautiful though to those of you who do collect unicorns, and if I hadn't just recently dispersed my Shannondell conga, he would have fit right in. I actually think Shannondell makes a pretty good unicorn! It says there is white, baby blue and silver tinsel in his mane and tail hair to add some sparkle. While I'm not old enough to have ever owned a flockie myself, I can completely understand how Breyer releasing this guy would have brought back childhood memories for a lot of the golden collectors. I mean, most of us are adults that collect literally what most non-collectors would consider toys. Similar to a grown man collecting Match Box cars or toy trains into adulthood, or video games for my millennial gamer husband. However, as an adult, I realize that the reason I collect - and I'm sure this is a big reason why most people collect - is because it helps our sanity. It gives us a reason to feel young again, to have some sentimental attachment to our childhood. Maybe it reminds you of the time your grandmother gave you your first model, and maybe that model brings her back in a way she can't be physically. Perhaps it helps keep you from being depressed in your everyday life, bringing you back to the easier days of being a child. Whatever the case, model horses are good therapy for the soul.
That said, I'm really hoping to get online and get a Rhendish Draft model on the Georg mold this year at Breyerfest. Why? He looks so much like a horse I rode in my childhood, a Belgian draft mare named Shelby, that I can't help but need him in my collection. In fact, when Georg first came out, I thought... that looks just like Shelby, minus the fact that Shelby was obviously a mare. I used to collect Othello but I ended up dispersing most of my Othello conga (so I'm really hoping he won't be the surprise horse this year for that reason) because I fell in love with Georg more. As a child my family owned three draft horses, two Percherons and a Belgian, all minimally feathered so Georg looked a lot more like them than Othello. Eventually I'd like to own the Premier Club original but he doesn't come up for sale very often. Someday maybe.
Ashley
6/3/2022 10:00:08 am
Great post. I'm almost glad the flockie is a unicorn beccause now i don't feel bad about not joining the Vintage Club. But he is kind of cute.... Comments are closed.
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