What I am a fan of? Stablemates, obviously:
(And yes, I did look for the Florentine chase piece, too – without success, obviously.)
I’ve said this before, but it’s really remarkable that Stablemates of this quality – especially compared to the very first Breyer Stablemates issued way back in 1975 – can be had for less than five dollars.
Sure, most of the newer molds aren’t as conformationally or anatomically correct or “showable” as the original Hagen-Renaker G1 releases, but in every other way these new Stablemates are superior. The seams are cleaner, the assortment of molds is crazy, and there’s a greater variety to the paint jobs – enhanced by clean and remarkably detailed masking that would have blown my ten-year-old mind back in 1975.
And this little guy isn’t even the “Chase” piece – just another “Regular Run” in a blind bag assortment!
The only thing that is a bummer about the current Stablemates boom we are going through? Being a completist is now (probably) out of the question.
Before I give in to my desire to hibernate, I do want to address a question in the comments from the previous post: yes, there is a Vintage Club Stablemate for this year. Who or what it is, on the other hand...
4 comments:
Love all the SMs! And check your new guy- some of them glow! Mine does, faintly, but he does glow!
Thwy had posted a thing saying it was g1 and modeled after a famous mare and foal. Hoping misty personally with the qh mare and lying foal
I had a handful of G1 stablemates growing up, and still have some of them, they are just beautiful but the new ones are so much sturdier. One of them was named 'Broken' because he lost both front legs in a tumble from his shelf and a part of his tail in a separate incident!
Its a g1 qh mare misty!!!!!!! Swoooooonnnn
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