This is for those that played with Barbie’s horse more than Barbie.
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I had a Barbie. I also had several other baby type dolls. I preferred to play with my plastic horses and I think dinosaurs. This would have been in the 60s way before the Jurrasic Park craze.
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The only reason I ever had a single Barbie is because it came with the horse 
I love the Barbie craze right now, I’m way more girly at 30 than I was at 5. I have pink nails at the barn 
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I had a couple Barbies as well as dozens of Breyer horses and Ken doll or two. Barbie rides like a beach tourist so she never got on the Breyers.
Brenda Breyer had articulating limbs so she did all the training and competing. Ken had flat feet and could articulate at the waist so he was a decent farrier.
This is kinda how Barbie rides, she needs a LOT of Pilates
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Is Barbie’s horse in the movie? That would be about the only thing that would make me go to that movie. I don’t think I had an actual Barbie when I was a kid.
I do totally remember that I had a toy truck and a gooseneck trailer to go with my model horses. Priorities! Lol.
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I played with those Breyer model horses as if they were Barbies…gave them voices and all. hah.
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I heard the horse isn’t in the movie.
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My painting shows Barbie after moving through the equitation ranks.
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I didn’t have a single doll, either. But I had Breyers plus several pretty ceramic horses from my grandmother’s collection. And plastic farm sets with the token farm truck and trailer. Most of the farm animals got tossed out except for the horses.
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I saw the movie yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how good it is. Barbie doesn’t have a horse in the movie but Ken finds out that patriarchy rules the world and horses somehow give men more power.
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Clearly Ken has never been involved in the horse business if that was news to him.
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Am I the only one who has zero interest in seeing the Barbie movie? I have a 6 year old daughter who also has no interest, although she does have some Barbies lol.
I remember having Grand Champion horses as a kid, I think we were too poor for Breyer. That or my mom refused for some other reason lol. My daughter has Breyers now, I think they went down in price some (although as I type that out, that really doesn’t sound right LOL). Unfortunately I don’t think they make Grand Champions anymore (would love if someone corrects me if I’m wrong!!), HOWEVER, I do still have a bunch of Grand Champion horses that I’ve passed down to the kiddo.
I can still hear the song in my head … “Grand Champions, the most beautiful horses in the world”. Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers this LOL.
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I had zero interest in seeing the movie.
Now my interest level is up to maybe about 5%, based on positive feedback from people who have seen it.
That’s still a long way from me buying a ticket. Lol.
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You’re the only one who remembers…haha. jk. I remember when the Breyers were less than $10 each, now I think they are around $30. I don’t remember the Grand Champions. Were they like the Stablemates, the smaller versions of Breyer.
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hahahaha!! I have a memories of being in toy stores and all the breyer stuff was expensive. maybe we were just in the wrong stores, who knows! I feel like I’ve gotten my daughter some of the small Breyer horses and I know they’ve been relatively inexpensive. I still want a Breyer horse of Secretariat (my favorite racehorse ever, aside from the ones I own lol), but I can’t bring myself to justify the price.
Grand Champions were smaller than the Breyers, but not as small as the stablemates. Their “claim to fame” is that they had magnetic noses and could “nuzzle” each other or “eat” apples / whatever treat they came with. My favorite thing of all time when I was a kid was a GC set my mom bought me, it came with a chestnut stallion and a stall. The stall had a barrel with a hose attachment on the outside of it that you could put real water in to pump out to give him a bath. I still have it - the horse is sitting in my daughters room and the stall set is in the garage, because apparently it just dawned on me I may be a hoarder lol.
Of course, I can remember this all in immaculate detail and know exactly where these things are, but I can’t seem to find my keys or remember what I ate for breakfast on a regular basis.
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I remember “riding” the Breyer horses, galloping around the backyard. Mainly, though I played with them as if they were barbies, talking and everything. haha. I used to love going to the toy store and staring at the shelves of Breyer horses. Back then, they were like $10 and the boxes were cardboard, so opening them was always exciting, seeing if they matched the picture on the box. I’m weird. I even remember what they smelled like when I opened the box. haha.
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I’m wondering about the symbolism of his obsession with the horses. Is it like a role reversal since girls are usually the ones obsessed with horses?
I had a TON of the Grand Champion horses, and the different stable settings. Their saddles and riders fit my guinea pig perfectly
I had a couple Barbie horses too and it drove me nuts how ill fitting the saddles were and how awful Barbie was as a rider.
I had a Cabbage Patch horse too that I liked a lot. It was bigger and harder plastic but had a mane and tail you could curl or crimp…the hair must have had wires inside. I can still remember how that thing smelled!
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Very much in the same boat as you. Grand Champions were like $9 at our local K-mart, whereas Breyers were like at least $30 and we have to drive 30 min to a neighboring city for a special trip to Toy R Us or RCC Western Wear to purchase. I think I finally got my first Breyer when I was 13 - it is one of my very best Christmas memories 
I total had a nice GC collection, complete with the stall and the mail-away special edition models. I was very careful with them and never lost a brush or one of their crappy plastic saddles. Lots of good hours spent hosting my own ‘horse shows’ with them as only a truly horse-obsessed kid can.
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