Saturday, August 31, 2024

The Second Chance horses

 UPS has dropped off three boxes in the last two days.  My luck was not great - no green clearware Surprise, but I got a chestnut sabino to go with the bay pinto.  Second Wild Things was not the green version, either.  But, my Fight Song is the variant without a base, so there's that.  

The final list: 

  1. Quagga A
  2. Quagga B
  3. Surprise A - dark bay overo matte, run of 950
  4. Surprise B - chestnut sabino matte, run of 950 (the greenware was a run of 650)
  5. This is My Fight Song - the baseless variant was a run of 875, the "normal" variant is a run of 1,625
  6. Wild Things A - both the normal chestnut run of 1,950 (the green variant is a run of 1,050
  7. Wild Things B 
  8. Percy A & B
  9. Athenian Lady 
  10. Blue Zeus 
  11. Just Like Fire, the Classic
  12. Better than Revenge, the fruit-stripe Fjord
  13. the 4-pack of single-day Stablemates in deco dapples
  14. the 5-piece Best of Breyerfest SM set 

Holy cow, maybe I need to spend less at BFest.  Eight Traditionals, 11 Stablemates, a Classic, and two plushies.   

Also.  I get that Breyer is using this waffleweave paper instead of bubble wrap, to try and be more eco-friendly.  But when the packers don't expand the waffle paper, and it's just left flat, it offers crap all in the way of protection.  They can do better.

 

 


 

Monday, August 26, 2024

Breyer's Second Chance Breyerfest sale

 One of the reasons for buying a Breyerfest ticket even if I can't go in person, is that it gives me access to their online second-chance sale later on.  This year's leftovers sale was last week, and I managed to be online and make not one, not two, but three orders.  Multiple orders were a thing because of their limit of two SRs per order.  

Order 1 - I Will Survive (the quagga) and Fight Song (the new rearing mold).  Fight Song has sold out, but Survive is still available (odd, given the prices on the Caves of Lascaux horse from a previous BF)

This is My Fight Song facing left 

 

Order 2 - The Wild Things SM (hoping for the variant) and a second Surprise (I really want a green one), plus the commemorative program.

 

Order 3 - a second I Will Survive, a second plush Percy, and a second commemorative program - I think I was planning to use these as trade fodder, or just to sell to someone who missed out on the BF sales.  

 

I Will Survive facing left 

Can't wait for these guys to show up.