Summer Slip n’ Slyder

 

Summertime...vacation, lemonade, watermelon, vacation, Fourth of July, heat, vacation, swimming, flip-flops, sunscreen, vacation, cookouts, popsicles, and vacation. Back in the day, vacation from school was spent outside running around with the neighborhood kids. On those sultry summer days, sprinting through sprinklers was a great treat to get relief from the heat. Most homes then didn’t have central air-you just opened the windows. If you had a box fan, you would pop that into the window. It was definitely better to spend your time outside instead of being in the stifling indoors. Even better than racing through the sprinklers was someone inviting you over to play on their Slip n’ Slide. It was fun unless the plastic runner had a sharp twig or rock under it. Wham-O is toy company that brought us the Slip n’ Slide in 1961. 

With all of that ‘crazy seal scooting’ (see advertisement above), Slyder has decided to give it a go.

  

It was so much fun, he went and got his two siblings to join in the summer fun:

I was very impressed that Breyer had double wrapped the models for shipping. I couldn’t immediately tell which ones I had received when I unboxed them. As you can see, I got duplicates of the Appaloosas and my top choice, the grey! I am trying to trade for a pinto as I’d like all three. Breyer did such a good job on these guys-beautiful colors, and nice thick gloss. Some of Breyer’s glossies in the recent past haven’t been so generously glossed. Skimpy gloss has been seen on the Collector’s Club Appreciation models. I do think some models (CC appreciation) are glossed in New Jersey, but I’m not 100% sure. If they are, that clearly has nothing to do with their overseas factory. My Olaf (a glossy alabaster SR on the Texas Longhorn Bull) has areas of skimpy gloss, along with patches where there is almost no gloss at all (the location of where Olaf was glossed is unknown to me). But being fair, Breyer doesn’t have much control over what actually happens in their overseas factory. They probably place the order and then it’s shipped here, so whatever arrives, arrives. But let’s turn to these properly glossed beauties. They are so shiny, you can see the sky and clouds reflecting in the gloss.

Here are the three of them together:

The Appaloosas:

And the grey:

Crossing my fingers that I can trade for the pinto and complete the set!

*Photos of Slip n’ Slide advertisements originally from the Wham-O Toy Company*