A Small Bit About This Breyerfest and All The Others

Roadies, I have thought long and hard on making this post and while I was still not convinced at the end of the day that I should make it, I was driven by one response that I received to an incident that happened earlier in the main group.  Hopefully, no one really noticed the huge kerfuffle that occurred while I was tending to my child and the other admins were busy, however, I do feel that I need to address the gist of what happened with the Model Horse Community and what it means to this group.

First and foremost, Road To Breyerfest is a positive group.  We strive to share and maintain a purely positive atmosphere where many people will feel comfortable at all times, even when asking the hard questions.  However, this is hard to do when there is a topic that stirs the emotions of many people.  The topic is that of the Breyerfest theme this year.  In the beginning, we were told that this year, we were honoring those horse heroes both from the past to the present.  However, some people seem to have become upset with how the special runs were named.  I want to address this as purely the person that I am in the hobby.  Remember, I am a fan and a hobbyist just like you.  I am not affiliated with Breyer so I do not know what they hold in their minds and meetings.  That being said, I do want to say that while I would love to see more actual horse heroes honored, I do enjoy that these Special Run models were named after Super Heroes.  And the reason why I feel this way is purely silly, so bear with me.  Growing up, Super Heroes are our heroes! It does not matter if it was Iron Man or Rin Tin Tin, we knew them as heroes. I know that I rooted for the Black, for Black Beauty, and many more horse icons that we all grew up with over the normal Super Heroes, but then again, I am a horse obsessed person.  The names of these runs bring back my childhood a bit and I can remember the way that it felt the first time that I was allowed to touch a police horse.  Do you remember that time of your life? It was absolutely magical to me. 

However, coming from a semi military family, I do wish to feel a bit more reverence towards the heroes part now that I am grown up.  The raffle models are more appropriately named and I have seen the trend towards the guest horses that they have been placing on the website.  Most of those horses have overcome something to be a better animal. So while I see that, I can understand why the Special Runs are named for Super Heroes.  Besides, this is a fun event so my best advice as always is to RELAX! This is a hobby and supposed to be fun.  While I do this full time and be a stay at home mom, I know full well how this hobby can become a job.  But even I am taking my own advice this year.  I am relaxing, except for getting my car ready. Let's remember that while Breyer picks the theme, they also release models that they want to release and name them what they want to name them.  We have absolutely no control over that! So, please, take a breath and relax.  Let's have fun this year!