Ideal the Breyer

I see a lot of similarities between TC and his sire, Ideal: they're both gray, they both love working at liberty, and they both give the below look with their ears all smooshed forward.

Ideal

TC

I fucking love that look, it's probably my favorite TC facial expression aside from this one:

I just love it, I'm going to put together an entire post of
skeptical faces from TC

Anyway, one of the coolest things about Ideal HAS to be that he was made into a breyer. I've wanted it since I learned that it existed! But the thing about discontinued breyer horses is that they are worth a lot of money.

The idea of spending nearly a hundred dollars to get a... toy... seemed silly. I'd occasionally scour eBay for him, but they were always these pristine in-the-box horses. I didn't care about the box or even if he had some wear and tear. Honestly, I figured it'd make me feel better if it was boxless and a bit questionable because I didn't want to be the one to reduce its value or anything.

I gave up for a long while and then when perusing eBay for something else, found myself typing in the familiar phrase to get the Ideal breyer (do you know how many "ideal breyer horses" there are because people want to say that this is an ideal purchase for someone hahaha). I bid on a few but they kept going above what I was willing to spend. And then one came up for sale! While I was paying attention! And I bought him, finally. He came, boxless and with a few little rub marks, but he's perfect for what I want.

So I finally have Ideal in my tack room!

Hanging out in his possibly temporary home in my tack room

The card that it comes with, mine didn't
have it but I don't care, I can always
print it out or something

I don't know how much of TC's essence they really captured in the breyer, but I do like that he's galloping because TC assumes that position on the semi-regular.

Now I just need a friesian mare breyer so TC has his two parents in his tack room. I don't know why this is at all important to me, but I smile every time I see him now and that counts for something!