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Vintage Breyer horses, c. 1972. Breyer Animal Creations (commonly referred to as simply Breyer) is primarily a manufacturer of model horses.Founded in 1950, the company, now a division of Reeves International, Inc, [1] specializes in model horses made from cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, and produces other animal models from the same material as well.
Breyer Animal Creations released a model horse based on Flim Flam between 2003 and 2004. [14] Blinks credits the horse as having been "a huge part of my education" as a rider and competitor. [ 15 ] She also noted one of his strengths, saying, "He can piaffe forever, basically."
Today Stone and Breyer horses are the top two popular plastic model horse brands. Companies such Grand Champion, Blue Ribbon, Creata, and many others produce some form of model horse, but these are generally considered too toy-like to be of major interest to collectors. Hagen-Renaker is a California-based company which produces model horse ...
In 2013, Snowman was again introduced in the Breyer line on the Idocus mold. The 2013 model box reads "Snowman - Show Jumping Hall of Famer". [6] Snowman is the subject of the book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation, by Elizabeth Letts, published by Random House in 2011, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Big Ben's image lives on as a Breyer model horse. In 2011, a book titled Unbridled Passion: Show Jumping's Greatest Horses and Riders, written by Jeff Papows, featured Big Ben and his owner and rider, Ian Millar. The book documented the challenges, such as the two bouts of life-threatening colic surgery, that Big Ben faced inside and outside ...
Breyer Animal Creations; H. Hagen-Renaker; J. Julip Horses Ltd; M. Model horse; Model horse showing This page was last edited on 21 October 2019, at 23:47 ...
Recently, an $8.85 million settlement was reached in a class action lawsuit filed against Unilever United States, Inc., the owner of Breyers, and Conopco, Inc., the New York-based advertiser ...
Breyer Animal Creations's brand Mini Whinnies, introduced in 2005, are the smallest scale of Breyer model horses at 1 1/2" high for adults and 1" for foals (1:64 scale). Initially produced by Creata Winner's Choice and sculpted by Candance Liddy, they are aimed at young collectors and usually sold in easy-to-carry packages and playsets; they ...