The Peter Stone company had their Moonlight Madness event today, and I just want to compliment them on what an awesome job they did! In the past, Stone would select a list of people who could participate in the event and they'd select from the list what order each person would get a chance to shop. Basically, if you were last on the list, you didn't get very good choices. Thankfully, last year they did away with that and made it a free for all event. The speed of which these models sold out astonished me last year, so you could imagine how I felt this year when the same thing happened. I felt like Stone should do with Moonlight Madness what they did last year with the Christmas event, how they'd release one or two models per day and one day of OOAKs. Maybe one day they will. The models this year were very creative. Lots of skeleton horses, sugar skulls and black light reactive paint. I already have a sugar skull so I looked for another Halloween decorator, preferably on a mold I didn't yet have. I found it with In the Shadows, a beautiful dark shaded grey appaloosa Santa Fe Morgan that caught my eye in the Facebook lineup. I've always wanted something on this mold but have been waiting for the right one to come along, and this guy was a limited edition of 3 rather than a OOAK so I thought I'd have a good chance of getting him, despite our incredibly slow internet we have now since moving to the boones of Kentucky. After watching the live stream, I began to fall in love with Bloody Mary on the ever popular Bunny mold, especially when I found out she had a "blind eye" so I tried for her first. I lost her. Then I tried for a black light reactive pebbles Arabian. Lost her too. But there he was, still hiding in the shadows, waiting for me to bring him home. I held my collective breath as I went through checkout... and snagged him! I guess it was meant to be. I loved his cobweb design, which will go good with my sugar skull and graveyard horse from last year. My favorite color of Stones are greys, the realism in the shading is unlike any other. This will be my third grey on Stone horses. I would like to thank Amy and the girls at Stone Horses for doing these events. They don't have to and, like Breyer, constantly deal with complaints because they can't ever seem to please everyone. However, they really upped the numbers of the runs this year so most people who wanted a model could get something, and that's really great to see. Maybe one day the Stone company will grow to finally meet the demand of their customers. If y'all attended the event, feel free to share what you snagged! Hope y'all had a fun and safe Halloween!
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