Remainder for Breyerfest Haul!!

 While home I was able to get some quick photos of the rest of my Breyerfest purchases, especially the special runs. Though I am now slightly realizing I missed a few when I thought I had gotten them all even after I originally thought I forgot a few others and then got them right after. I still have to get pics of Just Like Fire, Gascon the Great, and the Bejeweled set which I decided to originally leave wrapped up for now anyways. Anyways, lets check out the ones I was able to get a shot of anyways.

The special runs I got were This is My Fight Song, Miss Independent, Hold Us Down, Better Than Revenge, Fighter & Survivor, Edge of Glory, and 3 Surprise models. Then I got blue Zeus, along with Wild Things, from online. In the mix are a few Native American inspired horses my mom got, including a Peter Stone! An old school Peter Stone at that! It's Kola! Whom I now have both his Breyer and Peter Stone versions of his model! Very rare both companies make the same horse, I think it's only happened a couple of other times officially, not including Design A Horse (DAHs) from the Peter Stone program from customers. The other two are Kiowa from the Vintage Club back in 2013 I think, and then one on the Indian Pony mold from the 70s, no official name so I may have to think of one.

For my surprise models, I like to try to name them something relating to the theme and/or sounds nice. Though that started in 2018 as for my first Breyerfest in 2016 even though it was Brazil Carnival themed, my surprise horse was named Ostwind as he reminded me of the movie horse a little. For this year, I still mostly stuck to songs like the past few years or so, but made it exclusive to girl groups/bands/artists this time around. For the Appaloosa I chose Amigas Cheetahs, for the cremello I chose You're The One, and for the Wild Bay/Bay Gulastra Plume I chose Lion's Tail.

The other models my mom got were the Hope & Love set and the chalky Appaloosa Indian Pony. Flamingo and Pech Mele are there because I got them form a trade during Breyerfest last year but never got pics of them until now so thought I'd share since I had them out. Also another I finally got a pic of was Neptune whom I preordered and he arrived earlier this year.

That's all I have for now. Thinking of making a post about my predictions for Breyerfest next year. Though first I need to do a little more research and finish to know what to expect, especially relating to the theme, names, and decos plus symbolism. Don't how long that will take so I don't know when that post will be out. So I'll see y'all in the next one, whenever that will be.

(all pics are mine)

Breyerfest Recap and Start of Haul Posts

 This very late in the making. I was going to make this long, but since so much time has passed and I still don't have all the photos of the models I got, this will be a little shorter than I was originally planning. 

Friday was pretty bad, all the square systems for Breyer were so overloaded that it was the slowest it had ever been. It got to the point where it said my card was charged and was pending to clear the bank so They decided to just let me go but first get my info so if it doesn't go through they can charge me as I was in a bit fo a time crunch to meet someone to trade a ticket before my Spookology workshop and my dad drove me and my aunt to the horse park and he needed to be somewhere in Indiana and north east kentucky before the evening show. My mom stayed back at the hotel due to not feeling well in the morning but she decided to do the online store to get Blue Zeus and Wild Things. The card thing got resolved the following monday with the start of a new business week. But at least I got all the items I wanted from the store including the backpack which I think I'll use from now on. The evening show and workshop made me feel better after a bad start, especially after I found that the unopened Breyerfest 2020 model Thorn I got in the NPOD was the glossy variation. Though I will quick note for the evening show they opted to not scan the QR tickets and were literally told, "we're just gonna trust y'all on this." So what was the point of them then?

Saturday was better because we were able to take it more easy. We quick got breakfast at First Watch (highly recommend), got out celebration horses and special runs. Was able to trade for a wild card so I could get another surprise horse since I got one ticket and wanted more. I luckily got two different variations and were two of my top three fav variations once they were revealed. Then my mom and I did the workshop we signed up together for and both our mosaics turned out great. We ended up trying a new restaurant for dinner as we wanted to take it more quiet, also my aunt went there before us and when we wanted to meet backup after doing our own thing she said she was there and behind the hotel just down the road within walking distance. Never knew it was there before as we usually don't go the back way at that hotel but we tried the Cattleman Ranch, it's kind alike Texas Roadhouse/Logan's Roadhouse and decided to go back when we go t back together at some point. We then went to the Clarion for shopping. Found some good things for good deals.

Sunday was also quiet but also doing last minute shopping at the horse park. tried to do the in person second chance sale, all teh suprises sold out, so I found a person selling the last variation I wanted for close to original cost as they wanted to at least recoup what they spent. So now I have all the ones I wanted. Went back to the Clarion one last time and got a few more things for good prices. And then that's pretty much it. Said goodbye to my family as they were heading home the next morning.

At the end of it it was ok, could've been better. I think the QR codes made it worse as it used a similar system to other things, also I noticed wifi modems being used by Breyer employees and volunteers but regardless reception and what not is horrible there, especially once you get multipole people there as it overwhelms the systems. Also a lot of the employees and volunteers were pretty rude this year and online it seemed a lot of others agreed plus agreed that by trying to make things more online it makes it take longer for things to load and read which makes things take even longer. Also those using QR codes on their phones/electronic devices vs printed (my family printed as we felt it would be better), it was found they could be scanned form a distance and someone else's code would be read vs the one trying to be scanned and they are all one time use, save for VIP for certain things), there fore causing confusion.

Photo dump of haul:

Hoping to get the rest of my haul next week when I go home for a few days. Was really picky with what I got this year due to costs and space. I got more shirts/apparel and plushies this year than I got models.

(all pictures belong to me)