Happy belated Saint Patrick's Day! This week's collection spotlight is almost intentionally on theme! As I've mentioned, I like to ask my friends who I should talk about. My friend Angela picked Paddy, and at the time I was planning my February and March posts. It worked out that the March Collection Spotlight would fall right after the holiday. True serendipity!
Paddy was a Collector Club Web Special in 2012. At that point, I was on a break in the hobby, so I had no idea this guy existed until a couple years later. As with most of the Collector Club Web Specials, Paddy was available through a random drawing.
There were 222 Paddys produced. In addition, there was one buckskin variation produced as a "Pot O' Gold." I don't recall ever seeing him in person, and IDYB only has the promotional photo of him on the website. I'd never be able to afford him, but I'd love to see what he looks like in hand!
The regular version of Paddy is brown with a hunter clip with shamrocks, a blaze, right front coronet, and a right hind stocking. The amount of shading on him is phenomenal. The hunter clip does look very stark against him, but it's one of those cases where paint (especially on an original finish model) cannot accurately represent what it looks like in real life.
I want to say Paddy was one of the last ones I tracked down for my Cleveland Bay conga before the Rotating Draft Surprise had me screaming, crying and throwing up (it was very much an "RIP my obtainables complete conga" moment). My ages old Cleveland Bay Conga Time post says that the WEG signing model was the last one I needed and that I tracked him down in 2021. So I'm thinking I must have bought Paddy in 2020, which sounds right. It was definitely pandemic times.
When I bought him, he came with a single ribbon from a live show. While he doesn't get out very often for me, I show him under the name "Lucko Thee Irish" and he has at least one NAN card in collectability under that name. If anything, I think that name helps date when I bought him - he was definitely named with Megan Thee Stallion in mind, and WAP was released in 2020.
We'll end with a little close up on his stenciled shamrocks. For how intricate the design is, the masking is really well done! It is a little blurry on some spots, but for the most part the shamrocks are nice and crisp. He's definitely an underrated favorite of my collection.
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