Getting the Word Out

No one really pays too much attention to this blog. I like that, I think. I can say anything I want about anything, really, and be confident in it's presence on the internet and no one will really care. It'd be nice to have a pack of wolves stalking my blog, with a cute nickname like the 'Paranormas' but I don't think that's realistic. I don't inform or anything important. I pretend I'm your buddy and I'm telling you about something model horsey. Mostly because I love talking about it. Whether or not anybody cares that much about what I actually say doesn't really matter too much. I'd like to think my friends read this blog. If they don't, then moving on. Let's talk about cats.

It's been too long since we've seen a Breyer Kitten. You know, that awesome giant 6 inch kitty thing? That many call 'The Creepy Meow'?  This is one of them:

Slightly creepy. Maybe. Still, they're neat little creepos and a new release would be nice. Like all of the Non-Companion-Animal Dogs, the kitten mold hasn't seen much attention since the 1900's, with 3 releases in the past 16 years. This is generous. All of the other molds have seen two or less since 2000, or none at all. Grant it one of those 3 releases is a release of 50, Angel from the Vault Sale a while back, and thus un-obtainable for the majority of cat lovers. The newest release pre-Angel was in 2003- a Christmas set, thus also limited to some extent. Then there was Calico Patches, who allegedly haunted the Breyerfest Pit for years after it's SR date of 2000:

Thus the 20th Century Kitten Releases are rather few and far between, and all are limited. Yet the odds of a 6 inch kitten being a regular run anytime soon seems like a slim chance, unless it's a retro release, which I'd be cool with. And the odds of the kitten being a Breyerfest Special Run again seems slim, too; as Calico proved, kitten SRs don't sell well. But moving on. There are other molds that deserve attention, too, including poor Benji and Tiffany:

Alas they haven't been in production since 1978, making them practically retired. They 'tanked' when they were first introduced, not selling well, and only meriting a run from 1977-1978, and some time in the JCPenny Holiday Catalog. A nice paint job would work wonders. A chestnut-pinto style on Benji would be lovely, a sweet tawny-pinto on Tiffany just as nice. Sell them as a set for $25-$30 and your in business. But they've been out of production for 38 years, so perhaps that's a hint that Breyer has intentionally forgotten about them. Only even more time will tell.