So I was rather bummed when I walked into the NPOD this year and saw a big stack of the new Pegasus release Cosmus:
The lavender shading is very appealing, but this is not what I was hoping for. In fact, it’s the exactly the opposite of what I was hoping for.
Horses are awesome and fantastical creatures on their own; while I am all for funky colors and gloss or metallic finishes – I would have bought him in a heartbeat if the paint job was all the “fancifying” had been done to the mold – the wings squashed my enthusiasm for Cosmus from the get-go.
It’s a bit of a stretch to call the Lipizzan my favorite Classics mold, but I do have most of them. I don’t have the last two releases prior to the Sagittarius – the Toys ‘R’ Us Special run “Pegasus III” on 2000 and the Regular Run “Mystical Pegasus” from 2002-2004 – because I was done with seeing him as a flying horse by then.
Nothing against Flying Horses or Unicorns – I just wanted more Lipizzans!
As the recent Premier Club releases of Carina and Selene show, you can extend the acceptable palette for Lipizzaners by simply going historical. Or with different shades of gray, different types of dappling, different finishes (Chalky, Glossy, Iridescent, Metallic…)
Or even a basic Bay or Chestnut. Why that hasn’t happened, when rare or less desirable colors on other breeds have had their time in the sun as Breyer releases, I don’t know.
FWIW, I will probably get a Cosmus eventually. Just...not right now.
4 comments:
I'd love to see the Lippizan in bay, or in one of the historical type of patterns!
I've wondered quite a few times why the Lippizan was never released in other realistic colors as well — a slightly-metallic bay in particular seems like it'd be particularly attractive on the mold.
Same argument for Pluto! He comes in 10,000 shades of gray. Even the recent dotted Appaloosa was gray/black. He would make a fantastic Christmas horse in metallic bay or chestnut... We can dream... Haha!
I'm a Sagittarius, and was bummed out when my sign was done on this mold. I wish Breyer had used the Morgan stallion (Mandrake) for it instead.
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