Stocking Stuffers & the December Give Away

First Post of the Day

The December 14 Yuletide Challenge is Stocking Stuffers: A Little Treat. I knew just the stocking stuffer that I wanted to share.

It's Mighty Mouse's mini-me!

It is TINY. And if I were to use it as a stocking stuffer, I'd put it in a bag or box - otherwise it would get lost. I keep it in a box full time for that very reason.

I'd like to announce the December Give Away, too.  Hot off the embroidery machine!

It's a little hard to tell, but that's a pine green color for the checks.

The usual rules - enter on any and all blog posts beginning with this one and ending Tuesday night December 16 at 11:59 PM. I will spin to win on Wednesday morning and pop it into the mail that very day - hopefully it will arrive to the winner by December 25.

Time is short, so start entering!

Woodstock's Mini Me

I'm really not a Stablemate collector, but when Breyer began shrinking some of their vintage molds down to 1:32 scale, I added a few of those to my collection.

To have the Indian Pony as Woodstock's mini me counterpart makes me really happy.

Mini Me only has two pairs of feathers - in her mane 

and on either side of her neck.

(Sorry for the picture quality - she is very small and the light was not good when I was photographing her.)

But there was something else that puzzled me. Mini Me did not feel the same as the other two SM Indian Ponies that were in my collection. She felt thicker and heavier - even the feel of her plastic felt different from theirs. 

I pulled them out and popped them onto my postage scale.

The other two SM Indian Ponies weighed in at an ounce each. 

Mini Me was a bit more portly at 1.3 ounces.

So, clearly a different (and heavier) plastic was used to produce her.

I will be going into more detail as to why I think Woodstock and Mini Me were supposed to be the last offering in the 2022 Vintage Club instead of a Vintage Club Special Run but that blog entry will have to wait a few days as I have the Great Lakes Congress show this weekend.

Stay 'tooned!

Woodstock - She's a Puzzle

Woodstock has arrived and there is a lot to talk about because there are several odd things to note about her.

She is beautiful. The Indian Pony is one of my favorite molds of all.

Breyer replicated a chalky look in her white markings

and added four pairs of feathers to her mane and tail.

Regardless of which side you are looking at, 

you will see two of those pairs of feathers.

Woodstock arrived in the usual Breyer shipping box 

but she was inside a replica of the old Indian Pony boxes from the 1970s.

That's when I began feeling puzzled. Normally, web specials and Collectors Club special runs don't have a special type of box. But, Vintage Club offerings do.

Neither do the web specials and SRs include the quarterly information sheet that comes with all four of the Vintage Club models every year.

And this one has my Vintage Club number on it. A quick check of Woodstock's belly showed that she had the 2022 Vintage Club belly stamp, too. Hmmmmm.

Woodstock's Stablemate mini me was wrapped and tucked between her legs. (She's a whole blog post in and of herself.) 

With all those clues piling up, I had to conclude that Woodstock was originally intended to be the fourth Vintage Club offering.

So what happened? And how will Breyer straighten out some of the problems that issuing her as a SR will (and already have) cause?

I will go more in-depth into that in the next couple of blog entries as well as take a look at the mini me - she's got something interesting going on, too.

Stay 'tooned!

Woodstock Dropped!

Coupled with an explanation that the fourth Vintage Club piece has been delayed until next month,  Breyer dropped Woodstock, a Collectors Club Special Run yesterday.

Breyer describes her as a dark woodgrain and there is a bonus mini-me included with her!

The Indian Pony is one of my favorite molds (she's in the top five along with the Semi Rearing Mustang and the Five Gaiter) so I ordered mine as soon as I read the email. I also sent Liz a heads up just in case she was busy at work and had not seen Breyer's email.

Miss Windy Warpaint (okay, so I was 12 when I named her in 1970...) was one of my first Breyers and she is also one of the earliest Indian Ponies manufactured.

Check out her hand painted mane tendrils. She is a favorite not only in my conga of 28 Indian Ponies, but in my entire collection as well.

Thanks to my sister Jenny, I had a birthday gift card that I used to purchase Woodstock and I am looking forward to receiving her in the next week or so.