Off with your head! Off with your mane! Off to the store! A mysterious disappearance, and chaos ahead (pun, hahahaha)!!!
Nothing like having the Queen of Hearts screaming about manes. Better than heads, right? Oh wait, in this hobby, that is certainly not unheard of…
Ahem, let’s get back to the first SMC release of 2024, our friend Lanin. Lanin (#B-CS-10004) is on the Mirado mold, and marks the third appearance of this mold in the SMC. He debuted in 2017 as Mirado, a grullo sabino. He next appeared in the SMC in 2019 as Fiero, a dappled chestnut in either a matte or glossy finish. And his latest inclusion in the SMC has him representing the Criollo breed as a black sabino with a naked neck- his mane has been roached (shaved off). As a quick reminder, this is how the mane originally looked:
And here is Lanin showing off his new haircut:
Now, who gave the “Off with his mane!” order? Turns out, it was not the Queen of Hearts pictured above, but a different Queen of Hearts, specifically this one, who also goes by the name Josie:
Not only did she give the order, looks like she carried out the mane clipping herself. Toting around that giant pair of scissors is making her look mighty suspicious. Come to think of it, she may have been responsible for another roached mane on another black sabino Criollo:
Hmmm, hmmm, and hmmm…maybe Josie knows something about my Lanin’s disappearance, lol. I ordered my Lanin and he did indeed arrive. I did look over him quickly to make sure there were no broken pieces or glaring flaws and then put him somewhere. I thought I put him in a box with other recent arrivals (Scorpion, Heath, Terran, and the Classic/Freedom Series Pintaloosa). However, when I went to retrieve him for photos to show off his pretty purple tones, he had vanished. I checked some SMC boxes thinking he somehow got mixed in with SMs from previous years, but he didn’t turn up. I am left scratching my head as to where he has gone off to. Stay tuned while we try to solve the Lost Lanin mystery!
*Cartoon Queen of Hearts photo from clipart-library.com
Mirando looks fine without a mane but Nokota…Yikes!!
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Agree 100% on Nokota; with so many molds, why choose him to have a roached mane?! He looks so bizarre maneless.
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