Breyerfest 2021 Limited Edition Stablemate Reveal

 

Due to my lagging behind, I didn’t get this Sneak Peek Square up before the reveal:

This is the final reveal of the Limited Edition models for this year’s Breyerfest. I must say, I am not disappointed by this guy! Meet Kaleidoscope, a whirl and swirl of colors!

Kaleidoscope is on the Lipizzaner/Darwin Stablemate mold. He has a white mane, tail, and socks, gold hooves, and his body is a “rainbow resist splatter dapple on a pearly blue coat.” I cannot tell if his mane, tail, and socks are pearly from the picture. He is limited to 6,500 pieces and will not be available for back order. I think Kaleidoscope will look great next to Favrile:

Who will look great next to Pollock:

Hmmm...here is something interesting. I noticed on the Breyerfest ticket page that the Event 4 Pack of Stablemates is still showing as available. I popped them into my cart to see if they are still available for purchase, and indeed they are (I didn’t buy them as I have a full set coming as part of the VIP ticket purchase). Clearly the set wasn’t popular enough to sell out. It seems many people weren’t too fond of the mini Fighting Stallion’s color, along with the set being all decorator colors. Perhaps if half of the set had been done as realistic uncommon horse colors, more sets would have sold. While decorators have steadily increased in popularity in recent years, there is still a segment of the collecting population who collect only realistic horse colors (which is totally fine-collect what YOU want!). I cannot wait to see the purple Fjord (Avant Garde) in person as that is the one I want the most from the set. Yay for purple ponies!

*All photos are from Breyer’s website*

Hailstorm and Meet Measure!

 

Having another week of insanity here...again, I am behind on posting...moving on to an unscheduled (but hopefully amusing) blog post...

Hail the Hailstorm! Actually, no hailing of the hailstorm. We had a severe thunderstorm move through late yesterday afternoon. It started out just like you’d expect-drizzling all day with no significant rainfall. About 4:15 pm it got dark-dark enough that the street lamps popped on. I looked at the weather app and there was a severe thunderstorm warning, with high winds, hail, and possible isolated tornados. Typical spring weather...then an alert came through about damaging hail. Large, evil hail plummeting from the sky to get you. Get your pets in, get your vehicles in, get yourself in-the hail’s a-coming so find shelter. In the first few seconds of the storm the hail was marble size. Then it was mixed with golf ball size hail. The sound from the hail battering the roof was astonishing. There was frequent lightening, so I didn’t run out immediately after the hail stopped. When it was safe, I scurried out to collect some of the hailstones. They were kinda melty, but they were still a good size. The hailstones from this storm left 3 inch (7.62 cm) deep craters in my raised garden bed. There was a lot of damage in the area, especially to vehicles. Plenty of cracked/shattered windshields, and dents. Some houses had roof damage. Take a gander at my hailstone collection:

And now, meet Measure! I like to use this G3 Standing Thoroughbred StableMate as an unofficial ruler (since I find it hilarious). And yes, that is the word measure written in Sharpie. Model horse people will instantly understand the size of an object when Measure is next to something. In this case, I had Measure measure the hailstones:

Measure will be featured in an upcoming post, so this isn’t the last we will see of our pseudo ruler!