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I had a friend with a Kirin family when I was around 10-14, and thought they were really beautiful but I couldn’t afford Windstones at that age. It was a few years later when I fell head-over-heels in love with the White dragons in a store called Glass Menagerie. I saved up for months, then bought the White mother. (I could have saved less, and bought the Young or Hatcher, but I wanted my first one to be one of the big dragons!)
She was followed by the Young, and the Male, and most of the rest of the White family over the years. I remember being so excited when the Lap/Scratcher/OW came out – more Windstones to collect! Just as I was running out of White pieces to save up for.
Then one day I went into a Tinder Box intending to order a White dragon, and fell in love with a Peacock Oriental on the shelf; I ordered the White but also walked out with the Oriental, starting a whole new branch of my collection. 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I’m so glad you got him, Natasha! Congratulations.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Snerl PYO sounds fantastic, especially if he’s in scale with the Kitty Griffin PYO! Then again, Snerls painted by Melody & co. would also be awesome…
(So what I’m concluding here is that we can’t lose!)
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Cosigned! 🙂 Windstone has been a bright spot during a really tough time for a lot of people. We appreciate you, Melody, Susie, John, Gina, & the whole team!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Oooo-Oooo!
Qi-lin PYOs???????Oooh, wait, what, where???? *looks around frantically*
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Oh, wow. I don’t collect hoofers, but “Darude” is absolutely gorgeous. <3
Natasha, I hope you catch your Chimola!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Very cool! Love the dots inside the stripes. 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
White Lightning looks fantastic on the Oriental dragons and the Kirin family!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
GardenNinja to the rescue! 🙂 What a great collection of PoadPics (TM)!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Well, I have a PYO griffin I bought in, uh, 2008?? And still haven’t finished it…
On the other hand, I think it took me 2 days to finish my first PYO Kitty Griffin, and the second day was just sealing it and glueing in the eyes and stone.
So I guess my answer is “somewhere between 2 days and 13 years” – whatever that averages out to! XD
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Thank you for the update, Melody! Looking forward to some restocking, and hopefully some of the things I want most are popular enough to be in it. 🙂
I wish there were a way to join waitlists for things that don’t exist yet, though. 😀 I keep hoping for Lap Dragons in Elven (and any other color they haven’t had yet!), Sitting Orientals and Moon Orientals in Peacock, Color Shift Pebble Fennecs, Silver and Black (like the Cougars, not Sparkle) Lady Cats, & Black Rainbow griffins…
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
It’s so good to see an update in this thread! Thanks for leading the way, Prezaurian. 🙂 Hopefully more artists will remember that it exists, and come to add their own info!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I can help with some:
The Hatching Royalty (Emperor, Empress, & Kinglet) were first introduced in 1997. They were offered in the Peacock, Emerald, & White colors available at the time, and were retired in these colors in 2000, according to AstralCastle.
The sculpts themselves have not been retired, though! They have been offered in most of Windstone’s other color lines, as you can see in the Windstone Store: https://windstoneeditions.com/product-category/dragons/hatching-dragons/, and also pop up pretty regularly as test paints; 2 Hatching Emperors, 2 Hatching Empresses, and 1 Hatching Kinglet have been auctioned on Ebay in 2021.
Based on Windstone’s information for the Amethyst Lap Dragon (https://windstoneeditions.com/shop/permanently-retired/lap-dragon-amethyst/), the Amethyst color was retired in 2015. (Confirmed on the pages of other Amethyst pieces: https://windstoneeditions.com/shop/permanently-retired/baby-dragon-amethyst/, 2https://windstoneeditions.com/shop/permanently-retired/hatching-dragon-version-2-amethyst/)
I was unable to find a confirmed date for the retirement of Red Fire, unfortunately, and AstralCastle stopped updating their Windstone encyclopedia in 2008, the year that Red Fire was introduced. Hopefully someone else here will remember!
Copper Patina is tricky, because it was originally introduced as a “refurbishing” measure – the color was designed to cover up small casting imperfections, allowing imperfectly-cast sculpts to be painted and sold instead of discarded, so Copper Patina pieces were usually released in small batches (whenever enough flawed castings had accumulated) instead of being released as a ‘full production’ set of sculpts like Windstone’s other colors. (For example, we just had a small batch of Sun Orientals in Copper Patina released this week!)
There are some big Copper Patina fans on the Forums who might be able to look up when they bought their own CP Curled Dragon, but there’s always a chance that another batch will be produced somewhere down the line, so they’re not really ‘retired’ the way other pieces in a specific color family are.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Oh, I really adore that Calypso Pebble Dragon. ♥
Melody, I love the idea of a Pebble-compatible “interpretation” of big-dragon colors! I’d definitely buy Pebble versions of White and Blue Morpho dragons if they appeared in the Store.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Fatalbeauty – Amazing!! Congrats on your incredibly lovely sitting kitty. 🙂
Megan, my sympathies; I wish Windstone would bring Copper Cowry out as an LP color, because I’ve always loved it. (And brown isn’t even my thing!) I’d buy a Copper Cowry Lap in a heartbeat. ♥ Griffins, too.
I’m still dreaming of some more test paint Laps to round out my conga, particularly Water Sprite, Blue Ice, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, & Mountain Frost.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
