Pony Collectors Anonymous

The Breyer horse models usually come with a cute little pamphlet to advertise all of their other toys, and this Paint Your Own Horses kit with blank Little Bits came with an extensive guide in how to paint your horse! I thought you guys might enjoy it!

Another delayed pony post! This is also from January 2025, since these were from Christmas 2024! These are Paint Your Own Horses Quarter Horse & Saddlebred, which are both on the Little Bit/Saddle Club scale. (I know them as the Saddle Club horses anyway, from my own childhood!) I think they are so cool as blanks, idk if I’ll paint them! But they come with lots of painting suggestions in the booklet!

So around Christmas last year… wait, okay, Christmas 2024, Macy’s had the LPS set with yellow shark on sale on their website! But if you spent over $X, you got free shipping… so I added on Natalie, the western rider with tack! I will say, I did not expect to receive plastic tack from Breyer, but I suppose since it’s for the Classic sized line, they figure it’s more for kids? Adults wanna play horse rider too! 🤣 I wanted to immediately tack up a horse for her, and forgot my box of childhood Classic horses is currently missing in the garage! 😕 Sad!! So for now, Natalie is horseless and out-of-box photoless! I will try to remedy that soon! … ish! 🤣

Phew, I’ve run out of new photos! So that means, time to dig through my old pics! 🤣 Tonight we are drawing from January 2025, a beautiful decorator from fall 2024, Zulu the zebra! Of course I hoped I’d have loose photos of her by now, but hey! 🤣 I think some collectors figure she’s probably a zorse, since she’s on a horse mold, but whatever she is I think she’s just STUNNING! 🤩 I absolutely love this girl, and I loooove her colors! I knew I wanted her as soon as she was announced! 🦓

Señor Fakiepants is ready to ring in summer already!

Gems of the Ocean Gift Set by Breyer! While this is a very colorful and pride-y type set, I actually saw them around Breyerfest last year and really liked them! They’re like little pieces of frosted sea glass, so inventive and lovely!! They’re basically little decorator unicorns, so of course they’re right up my alley!

I’m pretty late for the start of Pride month, but I still have some lovely rainbows to share! Happy Pride everyone! 🌈🌈🌈

Here he is, the myth, the moment, the legend, the fakie - Señor Fakiepants! He might not know what he’s voting for, but he knows he needs your vote! Who’s gonna tell him it’s a raffle, not a vote? 🤣 He worked so hard on his photo shoot, I can’t ruin it for him! Thank you to clusterbuckcollectibles for offering a giveaway, Señor would love to be considered! Or voted for, whatever! 🤣

Surprise! More Second Chance Sales from Breyerfest 2025! I was hoping to get a Prosecco (and maybe one for my friend!), and of course I got everyone else! 🤣 They’re all lovely of course, I’m really fond of Mimosa, and Bellini is also very cute, I don’t think I have either of those poses! Cava is probably my least favorite, but I should like him more - his leg raise looks very similar to the unicorn Glory from the MLP line, and she’s basically my favorite! 🤣

A final group shot of my Breyerfest 2025 Second Chance Sale finds! (The traditional sized ones, anyway!) Cue the ‘miracles happen’ song, DJ! 💃

Of course I had to get some comparison photos of YOLO and Wells, from Breyerfest 2023… Driver’s Ed!? 🤣 Ah, Google AI is so helpful! 🙄 Two handsome drafts with dapples, although one is glossy and one is matte!

IDK if it's the Pope's announcement, but as of around 5am PST, every single ad I'm getting on Instagram is AI. It's AI businesses, AI consulting teams, I got an AI children's book, it's just ... all AI. And if it's not openly AI, it's "businesses" (music consulting, realtors?) who all have AI-created profiles, and they all start looking the same after the tenth ad. Someone (Facebook/Meta) is pushing AI incredibly hard, and even if it wastes precious doom scrolling time, I'm blocking every single ad I get. No amount of 'see, everyone else is doing it!' is going to make me like or use AI, and in fact shoving ads in my face makes me hate it even more viscerally! In fact I'm on an unrelated social media, talking about what a piece of shit you are, Meta!

Here he is, my beautiful YOLO from Breyerfest 2025! This year’s theme was all about celebration, so You Only Live Once was a pretty good name for this guy! Of course when I saw he was in-person only, I wasn’t happy! And then when I saw the holographic silver micro run? Suffering! 🤣 But like I said yesterday, I got wildly lucky in the online second chance sale, and I got myself a YOLO! There was also a pinto 50-50 split, but I’m glad I got this one, because he reminds me a lot of another Breyerfest SR drafter I got - Wells! 💖

The Breyerfest 2025 Second Chance Sale was REALLY good to me last year, I hope I don’t jinx my chances for this year, LOL! I told my friend I would battle to get us each a dog, which meant I had to make at least two passes through the store. The first thing I saw was - dogs sold out! And I thought, that’s not right. The dogs weren’t that popular, the ‘animal’ choice rarely is. But then I saw him: YOLO!!! After they revealed the holo micro run, everyone was crazy to get him. I FLEW through checkout, blown away by my luck, and I thought… they’re gonna restock. This has to be an error. And then, dogs back in stock! I BLEW through checkout again, twice! Two dogs, purchased! I’m over the moon at this point, I’m excitedly texting my friend (who I had sadly informed wouldn’t be getting a dog only moments before, LOL), and then I see her… Get This Party Started. I wanted her even when I thought she was only the black pinto, but the micro run was even MORE gorgeous, and I never thought I’d even have a chance at her. So running on pure adrenaline, I added her to my cart, and managed to snag my second ‘never thought I’d get her at cost’ Breyerfest 2025 buy! Okay, I’m sure she’s much cheaper nowadays, but that doesn’t lower my excitement for her! I ended up with the buckskin variation, which is just as lovely as the black, and I think this one was a 50-50 split! Of course I was hoping for the micro run, but I’m still hugely excited to add another Connemara mare to the herd! 💖