From Blab, Sande Schneider's post.
Here is a variation that was well acknowledged when these models first hit the market in 1999 but seems to have since been forgotten.
These are the #758 Trigger models from Roy Rogers' Gift Sets that included a video of the 1949 movie, The Golden Stallion. Note the obvious variation in which hind leg features a white sock. Most of the Trigger models have a left hind sock. However some were released early in the run -- June 1999 -- with a right hind sock instead. Reportedly the ones with the right hind sock were found at Toys R Us stores around the country. Toys R Us seemed to have an equal number of models with the typical left hind sock so it is safe to assume that they were a variation [error] and not a special run.
Both variations featured chain reins with the typical twisted links, but they are "silvery brownish-gray" and not the traditional gold color. However, some of those early reins felt sticky, as if their paint wasn't as dry as it should be. By August of 1999, Breyer had switched over to a new style of reins -- still the same color, but with finer links that are best described as being a 'bracelet-style' chain. Presumably Breyer switched to that style of rein while they resolved the sticky paint problem with the original twisted link reins. Then a month or two after that, dealers reported that new shipments were arriving with the twisted link reins again but they were no longer sticky. Production continued with that style of reins until Trigger was discontinued in 2006.
This photo shows a closer view of the two different styles of reins.
So if anyone wants to own an example of each version they will need to find at least three different variations:
1 - with right hind sock and twisted link reins (limited release very early in the production run);
2 - with left hind sock and bracelet link reins (also a limited release fairly early in the run); and,
3 - with left hind sock and twisted link reins (general release for most of the run).
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