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Why Toy Horses Are Not Just Horse Toys Anymore
ufree horse - In approximately 1950, the initial toy horses were introduced in America. Since then, these toys have carried on growing in popularity. As you go along, toy horses became not only a horse toy. They became a popular hobby which includes horse painting, photographing, prop and tack making, exhibiting and collecting valuable model horses.
pony pal stable - Breyer capitalized around the growing collector hobby by introducing a hobby magazine within the 1970's. Then they launched the very first special edition artist resins model horses in the 1980's. From the 1990's, the collectors hobby blossomed and remains very popular today. Exclusive edition artist resins are freed now with restricted editions of some hundred pieces, or even in certain cases only 50 pieces. These pieces usually sell quickly. After these toy horses are sold out, they increase significantly in value in the collector's market.
By 1996, Breyer toy horses were no longer the only game around. Stone horses were introduced with horses just as detailed, some would argue more in depth, than Breyer. While Breyer caters to the large toy market as well as the collector's market, Stone focuses more about special edition collectibles. Other brands also entered the marketplace including Hagen-Renaker Horses. Today, Schleich and Safari also offer detailed, hand-painted model horses. However, Schleich and Safari are more popular as toys rather than collectibles, perhaps due to the smaller size of their 1:24 scale horses when compared to larger 1:9 scale for Breyer and Stone horses. Despite all the competitors, Breyer still dominates this market for toy horses and collectibles.
zippy pets - We was brought to the field of model horse toys in 2007 once we added the Breyer products to the store. Since we already carried a lot of other toys, we assumed these would be merely another toy category. We had been surprised this past year when Breyer gave us a gift of a few special edition artist resins with a suggested expense of $300 each. We thought they would never sell but we were wrong. Our customers were desperate to pay that price since these were no longer merely another horse toy in their mind. These toy horses had taken over a completely new value as rare collectibles.
What began being a horse toy has changed into a full-blown hobby with thousands of devoted hobbyists worldwide.
