You know what? I’m going to let the two Gambler’s Choice models I received – and opened – yesterday remain a mystery to you all. A Schrödinger's Cat, if you will, with twelve different possibilities, rather than two.
The more interesting item in that box was the Vintage Club 2019 Renewal flier, featuring the debut model for 2019, a Gloss Silver Bay Pinto Pacer named Rockford:
He’ll be only the third production Gloss on the Pacer – after the 2010 Web Special Pace Yourself, and this year’s BreyerFest Special Gloss Reissue of the Foiled Again. And the third Pinto as well, the others being the impossible-for-me-to-acquire Exclusive Event Praline and this year’s BreyerFest Open Show Reserve Prize Hot to Trot.
And the first Pacer release that is both Gloss and Pinto!
Incidentally, he’s not named after the TV show character Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files – that went off the air a few years before the “White Frame” style of box debuted – but after Rockford, Illinois, which was the mailing address for Just About Horses for a while (as was neighboring Loves Park, and Walworth, Wisconsin.)
That’s probably all I can/should say about next year’s Vintage Club releases, at this point. Other than if you like what you see so far, wait until you see what’s coming….
(Yes, knowing he was coming did soften the blow of Hot to Trot, just a little bit.)
(Yes, knowing he was coming did soften the blow of Hot to Trot, just a little bit.)
2 comments:
Wow, is he pretty or what! I'm no longer a die-hard OF collector......but if I was, he is right up my alley! In other words, if he wasn't a collector club special, I would definitely get him!
Seeing that he's a CC model,I hope Breyer fixed the tippiness problem with the Pacer mold. I have at least 10 pacers, and they all are tippy to some extent. My husband sort of fixed a few of them, but they still can't be trusted to be on display. I still love the mold though.
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