2021 Vintage Club Updates

 

Yay, more updates! I’m glad that Breyer has been updating collectors about what’s going on by giving potential shipping estimates. Today Breyer sent out an update to Vintage Club members. Nugget, the Brighty mold gambler’s choice, is slated to be available in late October. 

The Vintage Club bonus duo of Dusk and Dawn are supposed to overlap with Nugget’s release giving VC members the option to combine shipping. Dusk and Dawn will have an ‘extended purchase window’ according to Breyer. No information has been given on the actual length of the purchase window, but it’s good to see them offering purchase flexibility for collectors.

And last but not least is the VC Stablemate, which you may or may not remember is a gambler’s choice too. The mini-me Smart Chick Olena SM pays homage to Yellow Mount, a traditional portrait model which was in production from 1970-1987. Early models had a white spot on the right foreleg which was later dropped from the model. The SM run will be a 50/50 split of arm spot/no arm spot. 

Breyer also gave a reminder than midnight tonight is the deadline for current VC members to renew their memberships for 2022.  Starting tomorrow, the VC memberships are open to all Collectors Club members.  Breyer also gave us another photo of Cooper and his box:

*Photos of Nugget, Dusk andDawn, SM Yellow Mount, and Cooper are from Breyer’s email.*

2021 Vintage Club Second Release: Nonoma

I keep staring at that blue eye-love the eyeliner around it! Here’s a photo of a real blue eyed horse with eyeliner. 

Lolololol, y’all remember in the post before the last one the discussion on the Foundation Stallion #869 Lakota Pony having five variations of symbols? Nonoma, the VC FS release, will have four variations:

So, Nonoma will be the third VC model to have a Gambler’s Choice this year. Interestingly, it seems one version will have no symbols. Breyer’s blurb seems to be indicating there will be a total of five versions of Nonoma. In addition to the symbol free one, it states that “symbols, if present, will vary in this release! Four different variations.”  

Here is Breyer’s full body promo picture of Nonoma:

The inspiration for Nonoma’s pinto pattern is from the #175 chestnut tobiano Indian Pony. She was produced with warpaint from 1970-1973, and produced without warpaint from 1973-1976. Breyer choosing to have warpaint/no warpaint versions of Nonoma is a nice nod to #175’s run.

Cannot wait to see what I get, and what all of the variations will be. I won’t be ordering Nonoma instantly as I think the second release of the Stablemates Club is due to be released soon. Hopefully I can order them together and have a dual pony day!

*Nonoma photos from Breyer’s website*

*Blue eyed horse with eyeliner photo from Pinterest*

*Breyer Indian Pony #175 from Identify Your Breyer website*

Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!! More Birds and 2021 Vintage Club Reveals!

 Here we go again:

Scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, 1963. Or people running to their computers to enter for Goldfinch.

Breyer has released the second model in their Birds of a Feather series.  It is Goldfinch, a shaded glossy buckskin on the ever popular Silver mold, limited to 380 pieces. The opportunity to purchase a Goldfinch will be via lottery as usual, with one entry per Collector’s Club account instead of daily entries. I would usually enter once anyway as I’d get busy and forget to enter every day. This time Breyer is also requiring entrants to list their home address in addition to their name and Collector’s Club email. I glanced over the conditions of sale but didn’t see any limitations on how many winners per household Breyer will allow. I know there have been instances where collectors have won the same Web Special on multiple accounts. It has happened, but it is rare. Perhaps Breyer will now be checking addresses to help spread the winners around.

I quite like Goldfinch’s promo pictures. The chocolately brown on his legs and the grey/brown mane and tail meld better with the light coat than a straight black. It looks like there may be black tips on the mane and tail, but it is hard to tell from the photo. Either way, it is a gradual darkening and not a stark, demarcated color change. Good luck to all who are entering!

The Grapevine has stated that some members of the Vintage Club have received their official welcome letter, and it included info on the 2021 models. I haven’t received my VC letter yet, but here is the rest of the 2021 VC lineup:

-The Foundation Stallion done as an Indian Pony

-Brighty as the Gambler’s Choice

-Terrang painted a glossy bay and plopped on a Presentation base

-The optional model is a mare and foal set (Marabella and Amber) 

-The bonus Stablemate will be Yellow Mount on the miniaturized Smart Chic Olena mold

I am intrigued by the FS done as an IP. Does that mean an actual color done on the IP, or is it a general statement? People are guessing the FS will be in vintage IP colors, but he’s been done in buckskin twice as Fugir Cacador and as Buried Treasure. He also appeared as a bay blanket Appaloosa in the 1993 JC Penny Wild Horses of America set, which resembles the #174 IP. The FS turned up in alabaster as a Special Run in 1985. Here’s my guy whom I purchased from Horses International decades ago:

The FS has previously been used as First Nations horses-seven times! He was seen as the #710 American Indian Pony, a red roan-ish color. Next he was released in white with cream shading as a Lakota Pony (#869). There were *five* versions of 869; each version had different symbols painted on, predominantly in blue. Some of the models had minimal red symbols on them. In 2010 he appeared as Thunderbolt, a grey Appaloosa bearing symbols in red and blue (and possibly black). Since Thunderbolt was in grabbing distance, here are photos of him:

Maybe we’ll see an IP #175 chestnut tobiano on the FS as we did with 2014’s VC Kiowa? Or maybe Breyer will trick us by putting a more modern IP paint job on a vintage mold. Excited to find out!

Brighty is the Gambler’s Choice which was slightly surprising, but I am happy. I was trying to guess which model would be the GC, and I never thought of Brighty. 

Terrang on a Presentation base is going to be interesting. It makes a lot of sense to use a Classic instead of a Traditional for this, but I’m really curious to see how big the base is going to be and if the horse will be removable. I’m betting it will be removable, and am wondering if the base will be rectangular like the vintage ones. Maybe it will be given a modern spin by being an oval like the bases used for the Ethereal Series or for Cherokee, a black semi-leopard done on the Cody/Ranch Horse mold.

The optional purchase mare and foal set will be done in glossy charcoal. I’m not sure how popular Marabella and Amber are these days, but being a mommy/baby set plus glossy charcoal may make them quite desirable.   

The Bonus SM Yellow Mount is a GC..two GCs for the VC this year! Early models of the traditional Yellow Mount had a white spot present on the off foreleg which disappeared during his seventeen year run (1970-1987). The SM GC will have the foreleg spot present or absent. A tiny difference, and I don’t care which one I get honestly. I’m trying to picture Yellow Mount on the SCO mold, but cannot quite get there. 

That’s all folks, and hopefully we’ll get some photos of the VC offerings at some point...

*Movie still from The Birds, 1963*

*Goldfinch photos taken from Breyer’s website*