The Foal Count: Breyer by Collecta

Let's talk babies!

Me! 

With Leslie and Steve. I'm two years old so not a baby-baby, but Leslie is, so the photo counts, right?

On to the Collecta foals.

You know, sometimes you think you know a fair amount about something and then discover that you don't. I have learned so much about Mini Whinnies and Pony Gals that surprised me, and the same thing happened with Breyer by Collecta.

First, Collecta is its own company . With the name of the line "Breyer by Collecta," I had thought that Breyer had bought the company or was subsuming it into Reeves and that this was a transitional name. Not the case.

Collecta's home offices are located in London, Dublin, and Hong Kong.

Collecta's products are distributed all over the world, with Reeves having received the distributorship rights for the United States in 2017. 

Collecta calls their equine line "Horse Country" and lists Deborah McDermott as the sculptor of the horses.

That note made me pause. Another collector had told me recently that Kat McDermott of Breyer had sculpted them all. It turns out that that's not true. So, I did an online search which showed that there are several Deborah McDermotts who sculpt horses.

 Including one who sculpted Monya for Joanie Berkwitz's Pour Horse Pottery.

 

I sent Joanie a message asking if the woman who had sculpted Monya was the same woman who did Collecta's equines.

Her response? "Yes, it's the same woman as far as I know!" I think we can be pretty sure now that they are one and the same.

Next, I went looking for the Collecta foals and information about them. I came across a site called Identify Your Collecta which is connected to Identify Your Breyer. The following photos are all from that site.

There are three scales of horses in the Horse Life section, Mini, Standard, and Deluxe.

Twelve molds, none of which are foals, and comparable to Breyer's Mini Whinnies line in size.

Approximately Paddock Pals scale, there are 125 Standard Horses molds of which 33 are foals.

The Deluxe Collectas are a smidge larger than Breyer's Classic/Freedom pieces. There are only 11 Deluxe molds and no Deluxe foals yet.

So, how to sort out those 33 foal molds in the Standard line? I decided that I would leave the links to the site and just share the Collecta Foals that Breyer currently has available. (The following photos are from Breyer's web site.)

Rearing Unicorn Foal

Black and White Piebald Gypsy foal

Palomino Pinto Foal

Black Shire Foal

Bay Quarter Horse Foal

Grulla Mustang Foal

Bay Clydesdale Foal

Chocolate Rocky Mountain Foal

Chestnut Thoroughbred Foal - Standing

I'm wondering if Breyer might add the Deluxe line or possibly even the Minis. But Collecta's Standard horses fit nicely into the Paddock Pals slot, a line that Breyer doesn't produce any more. And, in my opinion, the Standard Collectas are nicer sculpts than the Paddock Pals so it makes sense to use them instead. And why pay to distribute the Mini and Deluxe lines when you already have Mini Whinnies and Classics/Freedoms?

Plus, with Breyer so recently having begun to shrink their own molds to fit into new scales, is there any need to add the Mini or Deluxe Collecta lines?

I don't think so, and my guess is that we won't see them any time soon.

That concludes the series on The Foal Count. It's been quite a ride and I have learned a lot.

Sure hope you have, too.