This reveal came later in the day than usual to where I thought there wasn't going to be one for the day which would be slightly odd as there wasn't one the day before it. I couldn't see Breyer only doing 3 for one week and leaving it till Friday before the weekend. Anyways, they are here and let's take a look.
(Covered arena hosting model shows, now they are at the Altech arena as live equitation takes place in the covered arena throughout the day all three days.)
Breyer talks about how throughout the 80s they had the "Signing Parties" where they'd travel to various retailers across the country. You had to sign up to attend these vents, at them you'd get a meal, ask questions, and talk with company executives. These helped paved the way for other events hosted by Breyer. The first Breyerfest was in 1990, and of course hosted at the Kentucky Horse Park, where around 1,000 people attended. The event was to celebrate Breyer's 40th anniversary and Dr. Peaches was chosen as the celebration horse. There you could have meet and greets with guest horses, meet artists and speakers, there was a benefit raffle, seminars, and a live auction.
Over the 35 years of the events course, there are now special runs and limited edition/store special models, live equestrian demonstrations, workshops, seminars, activities in Celebration Park, model horse shows (4 of them), and the Celebration of Horses show. The Celebration Horse model used to be called the dinner raffle model as you could get it while attending the dinner, usually BBQ from what i've been told by older collectors who attended the first Breyerfests, also you could meet executives and get models signed there too. One I met remembers Peter Stone when he worked for Breyer and he would sometimes let you get a sneak peak of new models and other exclusive ones for the event. I love meeting with these older hobbyists and getting stories like this form them, wish I could've been born sooner to attend the start of Breyerfest. Also Dr. Peaches retired from three day eventing the same year he was the Celebration Horse, that partially may have been why he was chosen. All this reminiscing has lead Breyer to introducing and naming the next release from this history.
It's the mare & foal set!!
Meet "Good Times & Great Friends"!!
Good Times is on the Cantering Mustang Mare/Tigerlilly mold and Great Friends is on the Mustang Foal/Firestorm mold. Good Times is in a deliciously rich dappled bay with a star and three socks, while Great Friends is a very light chestnut with a star, a snip, and a sock and both are finished with a high gloss finish. So far quantities and prices have still yet to be announced along with the event exclusive models page. I'll make a separate post if and when those get released.
Anyways, I wasn't sure if they were going to do a mare & foal set this year. Usually most to almost all of the time they do but there have been times where they do not. Though I figured if they did it was more than likely going to be these two as they are the newest mare & foal pairing. When I first saw the foal I thought he was a palomino till I read the blog post, he is very light and I know they can be this light, especially in breeds like Haflingers and Belgians which are only chestnut in color, especially pale flaxen chestnut. So I guess this could mean these two could be paired with Bolero from last year as the mare & foal are meant to go with him, or even go with the bay Shelby or pinto flaxen chestnut Shelby from last year. Two bays can make chestnut if the gene that makes black, which is represented by "E", isn't passed down as chestnut is "e/e" and regardless of agouti ("A") is passed down or not as the result is red regardless. Real life example is Secretariat's two parents were bay, dark bay to be exact and he came out fiery red. Ever since I got these two, especially the mare in hand from last year's Premier Club, the more I fell in love with her and cannot wait for more releases on her. I will note I feel this releases mare's name is a little too close to the other special runs name, that being Let the Good Times Roll, like she could've had a long name like the rest. I suggest "Here For a Good Time" and the foal's "With Great Friends", but that's just me I guess. I do plan on getting them and I now think they are the most gorgeous releases so far.
Last but not least in Tannenbaum. She ended up being delayed and came day late due to the winter storm that came though earlier in the week. She was originally due to arrive Monday but came Tuesday, at least it was by a day and she's here safe now so that's all that matters. So let's see what variation I have received!!
I at least got my favorite, the red!! I was also slightly hoping to get a coal but oh well, maybe next time. I love this metallic red, almost like camdy apple red for muscle cars, kinda like my dad's Camaro. I wish my deco Speos was this shade vs the deep maroonish red, then I'd be more inclined to keep him and not use him with my gold pollock in hopes of trading for the Sunny deco on the SJW mold. Anyways She is slight more orangey on the one side due to their being more of the gold undertone than the red but that's ok, you may not look at that side very much anyways. She's got nice gold eyes to match!! I am very happy with her to say the least.
That's it for now, see y'all in the next one!!
(pictures and info about Breyerfest and model come from Breyer, the last photos come from and belong to me.)
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