42486 - Quarter Horse Mare [2019]

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Profile Picture, she is a very pretty lady

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Other side, ever so slightly bend away

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Front, ready to charge

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Back, swishy tail

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Underside

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Moderately accurate udders

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Unshoed hoof

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Pink bows, yay

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Headstudy

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With mate Inkheart and filly Penelope

She is beautiful, and you have presented her so well!

What a lovely family

I think Penelope will turn grey . She has the dark colour for foals with the G-gene

BUT ....a quater horse with pink braids ! ?

I think it is one more of these horses that Schleich assigned a breed randomly. Obviously the pink braids purpose is not to use it in a rodeo with a pink-horned bull. Schleich surely knows what is doing. However, it is always wonderful when we have the chance of judging a figure watching pictures from all different angles.

I could never have known this was a quarter horse mare, if I was not told so. There have been so many Schleich horses lately, that is impossible to tell which breed they are suppose to be, if it was not announced. I used to buy all the Schleich horses that were released, but not any more. The big black eyes, all those braids and cartoonish look   Very, very sad

Growing up, I liked to imagine my horses wild. (I had Breyers as my horse toys) Things like braids, molded on tack, and even trimmed manes/tails when I was 'in the zone' were a big turnoff for me. I can't help but think Schleich is doing itself and its target audience a disservice with all the braids.

Roger wrote:

...... Obviously the pink braids purpose is not to use it in a rodeo with a pink-horned bull. .....

Perhaps the rodeo is sponsored by Dolly Parton ?

I prefer my domestic animals wild too, but I'd have thought there is a market for decorated animals too. Think of My Little Pony; this mare looks rather wild compared to that. Schleich has many animals without decoration, so they would just widen their market by including a few figures that are different.

SUSANNE wrote:

Roger wrote:

...... Obviously the pink braids purpose is not to use it in a rodeo with a pink-horned bull. .....

Perhaps the rodeo is sponsored by Dolly Parton ?

The rodeo surely, especially with a pink-horned bull. Though, when I think in these new Schleich horses, it is a Danish band that comes, I'm talking about Aqua ... don't clik the link... - I am sure it won't result in a rodeo, 10 seconds of this Europop would be enough to put the strongest rodeo bull performing a Cadillac gait.

SUSANNE wrote:

Roger wrote:

...... Obviously the pink braids purpose is not to use it in a rodeo with a pink-horned bull. .....

Perhaps the rodeo is sponsored by Dolly Parton ?

rogerpgvg wrote:

I prefer my domestic animals wild too, but I'd have thought there is a market for decorated animals too. Think of My Little Pony; this mare looks rather wild compared to that. Schleich has many animals without decoration, so they would just widen their market by including a few figures that are different.

I'm old enough to have missed out on My Little Pony; I don't think I would have been a fan so perhaps fortunate. (my daughter loved them) You surely are right that the Schleich braids aren't quite THAT bad! It's not that I think they should have no tarted up horses, and yes part of the market may prefer them, just that they should have some who aren't. Frankly I think most should be 'au naturel'.