Copperfox Valentine's 2026 Teasers

 

In December 2025, Copperfox 2.0 announced an archive sale for Boxing Day.  For logistical reasons, this sale was pushed back until Valentine's Day 2026.  They've been previewing some cool stuff for the last few weeks, but yesterday this interesting post popped up:

That looks like the elbow of a Hackney Pony (Rose) in a Valentine's red.  And wings are certainly something we've never seen with Copperfox before.  

This was matched with some additions to the previews on the website

So... it looks like we are getting NEW! Copperfoxes designed as a special Valentine's Day 2026 release.  When Copperfox closed their doors for the second time in 2024, they mentioned that they were retaining the rights to all molds and keeping the option open for the future.  Could this be the future of Copperfox?  No regular releases, but occasional micro runs for special occasions?  I certainly hope so.  Any chance to get new Copperfoxes!

For this specific release, I'm predicting the clearware Coppercub will be the winged Hackney Pony in variations of red, dark pink and light pink like the micro mini Valentine's releases.  The Copperkit micro mini will be a single mold in pink clearware, maybe micro mini Epona to match the previous Valentine's Coppercub run.  And the fox will be a red clearware Coppercub scale.  I have no idea what the Winston might look like but I am so excited!

Here's hoping the fox awakens often in the future.

Anyway!  You know what I'm doing for Valentine's Day.

The First Christmas - Jingle and Belle

 First Christmas Release - Jingle and Belle

December 25, 2019 marked the first Christmas special for Copperfox.  It was also the first official release of Copperfox 2.0!

In May 2019, Copperfox Model Horses announced a comeback with a new owner Julia Nichols and based out of the US.  For the next few months, fans were teased with pictures of the British Shire being retooled in preparation for production.  A few prototypes were released.  But the true return of Copperfox came on Christmas Day 2019.

CC713 Jingle and Belle were a gambler's choice run of Coppercubs (1/32 scale) models on the British Shire (Winston) mold.  A total of 150 models were sold split between Jingle in green and Belle in red.

Screenshot of the original Facebook post announcing the release of Jingle and Belle

The release was hugely popular and sold out within a few minutes.

Screenshot of the official sale page

Once the models started to arrive, collectors were excited to discover that there were, in fact, 4 variations instead of the original two expected.  A small number of each model were mirror images with the mane on the left side instead of the normal right side mane. 

The final breakdown for Jingle and Belle was:

• 63 - Normal Jingle (Green, mane on right side)
• 63 - Normal Belle (Red, mane on right side)
• 13 - Variation Jingle (Green, mane on left side)
• 11 - Variation Belle (Red, mane on left side)

I have 2 of these in my collection right now. 

A normal Jingle:

And a Variation Belle:

Also noteworthy for this release, this is the first use of the CC in the model number indicating the model is a Coppercub.  (No idea where 713 came from).  It's also the first appearance of the Coppercub size boxes which are mini versions of the original Copperfox packaging complete with shaped foam inserts.  I do not believe this run came with any kind of Certificate of Authenticity.

I was also lucky enough to snag a test for Jingle during the Copperfox 2.0 archive dispersal sale in 2023.  

He is much darker than the final release especially when compared side by side.

Original Jingle vs. Test Jingle

Anyway, hope you enjoyed learning about Jingle and Belle and Happy Holidays from Riker and crew!