Top 9 Models, 75th Anniversary Expectations and Info, & Sneak Peaks for Breyerfest 2025!!!

In the recent Just About Horses (JAH) magazine, Breyer stated that most of the 75th anniversary releases for 2025 will be traditional scale. Those traditional scale models will also be having anniversaries of their own next year, hence their selection for next year's lineup. These are said to have a new decorator concept that will blow our minds!! Also the portrait models from the "Why My Horse Would Love to Be a Breyer Model" will be making an appearance soon too. For celebrating 75 years we can expect a mix of vintage and new molds for the Breyerfest special run lineup, I already had a feeling on this so I made sure to account for this in my speculations. Plus of course different disciplines will be represented in the Limited Edition/Store Special lineup, there are several blog posts going over each discipline and some horse in past have represented these so they are used as examples in those posts. Breyer also mentioned the club releases will also have lineups for this worthy occasion. Then Breyer also lists the years for representation and celebration in the lineup for next year.

When I first saw this it confused me why 15 years was listed twice and why no 50 years was listed as well, I know they did it big when they did have their 50 years but still works here, also slightly why I don't know there's no 10 year. 40, 45, 30, and 35 years I can kinda see. But I feel there's at least one mold to represent each decade of Breyer's existence, save for maybe 60-65 years as there was a long gap between making the one for clock horses and making more for the public for children as toys, home decor, and later collectors and overall horse lovers. Though the leaked photos slightly clarified why they did these years but slightly still confuses me. I'll show them tomorrow instead as this post might get too long with them.

Now for the sneak peaks from the Breyerfest blog.

These definitely will most likely be for the single day stablemates, which are also offered in a four pack for the VIP ticket holders. I think I am most excited to see what the Indian Pony and Newport/Polo Pony will look like. I believe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we will get a full reveal and start the full swing for Breyerfest reveals leading up to when the tickets go live for sale. So this means it is time for me to be checking the blog every day and almost every hour to see any updates for model reveals as I am too excited to see what this year's lineup will be!!

And lastly for my top 9 models for the year!!

This one was really hard and kept making changes as I was creating it and getting photos lined up. That's why some are stock photos or borrowed from other places, because I didn't take pics of those models as I had others already chosen before changing my mind. But now it is finalized, the one for sure that was going to be on here was Neptune because he's an Esprit, and we should all know by now that is my fav mold and I'm trying to conga them all. I believe he makes number 11 for my conga. These models were chosen based off grails achieved in the year and new releases that were my favorite for the year.

That's it for now!! Stay tuned tomorrow when I share the 2025 lineup that is to be revealed officially by dealers tomorrow, and should have pre-orders made available too. See y'all tomorrow!!

(first pic and most pics in top 9 grid belong to me, stablemate silhouettes belong to Breyer, info for 2025 comes from Breyer, other pics belong to original owner.)

New Years Post, Top 9 Models, & Another Breyerfest Reveal!!

 Sorry in the delay for my first post of the year and month on here. I ended up getting really sick last Friday and it caused me to be a day behind on things. So with out further ado, I would like to share my top 9 models of 2023!

For 2023 I have chosen the following models: Novelisto D, TB Trueno, Scurry (perlino variation), Daffodil (blossom series), Crane, 2010 WEG Classic Decorator, Pucker Up (Peter stone lemon decorator), and the mini spirit & rain porcelain figures. It was really hard in choosing as I had gotten so many other greta models, most of which were grails, but I ended up deciding on these as they contained some of my highest priority of grails. 

The reason I do a Top 9 models of the year is because a couple fo years ago, I got bored doing the Top 9 posts on social media as well as the color cooler thing. Also they suddenly costed a lot fo money top do, I know it was to help with preventing people form accidentally suing the sites that would hack your social account but it slightly deterred me form doing them anymore. So, to keep it fresh and new I came up with the Top 9 Models of the year concept and hope others would do it too. They have but choose more than 9 which is fine, but didn't quite catch on like I thought as I thought I could invent a new thing for the hobby and everyone in the hobby to do.

After the sneak peaks revealed on the Breyerfest Blog, I knew it had to be the event/single day stablemates that would be revealed first. Lets take a look at what those shadowy silhouettes actually look like!

 

I have to say I am happy they are deco!! I think part of the reason why they are deco is because it is an anniversary year, its the 35th Breyerfest event since its inception in 1990. Also I think deco for against all odds better represents hope, and we'll get plenty of regular looking horses that represent hope and beating all odds anyway so adding some color really helps. Last we saw of deco stablemates was back in 2021 as that was an art related theme, before that was 2014 as it was the 25th anniversary for Breyerfest that year. 

These have been named: Make It Pop Like Pink Champagne (Pink Akilah/Mini Zafirah), Waiting for That Green Light (Jumping Warmblood), Blue Jeans, White Shirt (Stock Horse Mare/Cassidy), and Suddenly I was Like a Lilac Sky (Prince Charming). The set as a whole/complete set is called Still Bejeweled. The packaging looks really cute for them. 

Now from I heard these are all are named after song lyrics, makes sense as one is called "Blue Jeans, White Short" which is a Lana Del Ray song that I recognize as I do like some of her music. The rest I haven't heard and so far someone found two matching for pink champagne, but they believe it more than likely comes from an Ariana Grande song as its the most matching fit. I'll admit, the names do seem a little long due to this. I think simply Pink Champagne, Green Light, Blue Jeans, and Lilac Sky would've done Fien but maybe Breyer wanted his to search for the songs they were named after, If so, that would be pretty cool if that was the reason. (Quick side note, Green Light looks a little too minty green almost like turquoise blue rather than green but I still like it.)

Some people so far don't like them and don't get how they got with the theme, and thats fine. Making the mini models sometimes isn't easy to make them fit with certain themes outside of name alone. Plus I know not everyone is a deco fan, which is again fine as there won't always be a release for everyone but there will be others that may fit their tastes best. Me, I think they're fine. This theme does seem a little hard to find things that would fit and make it festive outside of naming a horse alone. Similarly went for the art theme, "Horse of a Different Color." Also some argue the lyrics infringe copyright, I don't think so as Breyer probably has a great legal team that would look out for this. Plus the lyrics are so vague and yet so common they could've come form anywhere. there just pretty generic and if they were copyrighted we'd be running out of words to use for entertainment pretty quickly. Plus like earlier, someone found two songs with Pink Champagne so I doubt that's copyrighted.

Either way I am hoping to get them through the VIP set as I do like them as they are softer colored decos. Kind of like how Giverny is, and I liked that as usually the decos are bold and most of the time they are fine, others for me were a hit or miss type of deal. Now to wait for the next reveal, so far the sneak peak hints at a Brindle which I'm hoping for as I find they aren't done often in many horse media like models/figures, games, etc.

 (from Breyerfest blog)