Weather Girls

My intention for this bog was to be about showing for showers.  Unfortunately, my work schedule and the local show schedule can't quite seem to get it together :(  Between this, and my current hobby activities (I am president of NAMHSA, and it seems that when I get near the Board of Directors, sparks have to fly.  Prior to that, I helped to run NAN last summer.) this poor blog has suffered quite a bit.

I do more model horse pondering than I probably should on my personal blog, so last night it occurred to me that maybe I should push that here,as that was one of the original intents.  So here we go.

Despite being entrenched in the showing end of the hobby, I find I have been amazingly out of touch with the collector end.  Thank goodness Breyer sends me email, or I may have missed out on the Weather Girls. I participated in the Treasure Hunt the first year it was done, because I HAD to have a pegasus.  What perked my interest this year was the idea of a "Rainbow."   I have no idea what this is going to be, but seeing as how the other three horses' colors are suggested by their names, I am really hoping for some color freakshow.  Yes, its true.  I show the highly realistic, but dangle a blue horse before  me (stars, lighting up, making sounds all earn bonus points) and I become putty.

Anyway, I think they are nice.  They are smaller than the picture I had in my head, but I suspect that f I started measuring, they would be like 14 hand Arabs instead of the giant, supersize Arabs were are used to in "1/9" scale.  I like their trot, though its really a moment of suspension, which may foil any performance plans that are trying to hatch out (I so totally want to turn this into a show hack or some other such performance event I know next to nothing about)  They all stand.  Hooray.  I like the colors--the palomino is deep and metallic.  The dark grey is a deep, steely thing.  The pinto, being dapple grey and tobiano is slightly over the top for my personal taste, but its a complicated thing that is well done.

And I want one of these in bay.  And chestnut.  Suppose I must wait.

I am intrigued with the idea that these are "going into the vault" for a few years.  This will make the run a bit more valuable in the short term, as I imagine some of these are going to be purchased to make customs.  They are kinda sorta special runs, given that they are in that limbo between a true SR and a RR--a "regular run" produced for a limited time. Its possible they may be more uncommon than some "real" SRs.  Any time customizers want to lay their hands on an OF that is perceived as "special" that makes people sort of panic about them.  I figure each on that gets a coat of primer makes the one on my shelf that much more desirable/rare :)

I also got an Enchanted Forest in this shipment, as I already adore Newsworthy, and doing him in bay, hello!  And then he got added into the line and almost instantly discontinued.  Huh?  Anyway, he is cute, but mine has box rubs on his flank and elbow. Disappointing--its been a very long time since I had a horse with box damage, and my other 2 Newsies (white and silver) were fine.

Who else has them and what do you think?