Updates and blah, blah, blah

Welcome to Road To Breyerfest! This is not only the best place on the internet to get all of the information about Breyerfest and Stone’s Equilocity, but it is a positive hobby community that allows members to share their love and plastic and real horses alike. The group has been renamed Road To Model Horse Fest as a few members expressed concern that we do not only follow Breyerfest, but share other things as well. But a name is not something that we dwell on much here at RTB. No, we want to bring you the information that you need and a place to share your hobby.

We have linked our page and our group together so that you are more connected than ever! On the group, you will get the same amazing community that you have come to know. You will see shares of Breyer, Stone, and Copperfox, as well as real horse and other model horse type shares. On the page, you will now be able to view what artists offer for sale, real horse events, and much more! There is also a new hashtag to follow in the group for those that follow along with our Mold Discussion topics. This hashtag is #RTBMoldDiscussions.

Starting in November, we have a monthly Live Video that is there to answer your questions. This weekend video will always be on the weekend and we encourage members to watch and participate as these videos can be a wonderful source of information that you might be looking for about the events that go on in July. After March, these videos go from monthly to bi monthly and then after May, they become every weekend until Breyerfest. You are encouraged to tune in and ask your questions or tune in and help answer the questions that might be asked.

Last year, we offered Lanyards for sale and while it was awesome to see such encouragement in the group, we are rethinking this idea on swag to offer during the event. The cost was high and personal expenses were high despite asking for a low cost. If anyone would be willing to donate some swag or money towards swag of some type, we are willing to think over things that we want to offer. We do want to offer swag, but current funds say that we cannot offer anything out of pocket. RTB is funded entirely by our creator at this time and funds are not there to offer things for swag. We have started a Kofi and are willing to start of Patreon with special updates and gifts for income just for the community.

We do cover more than just Breyer events, though we started for just Breyerfest. We picked up Stone Horses’ Equilocity soon after we were created and have attended both events for several years now. While we do not always volunteer for either company, remember that we are usually always online during the event to help members with their own Breyerfest and Equilocity experience. However, after last year, we will not be setting aside time per day to meet with people to help them. There will be the annual Thursday Meet and Greet Lunch and Cracker Barrel in Lexington and if a member of the group wishes to hold a meet and greet, we will sponsor up to two of these and attempt to be there, if possible. In the past, we have offered a cell phone number to call or text for help, however this year, we will not be doing this, mainly to protect our sanity!

Our mascot this coming year and from now on is Aria, the palomino pinto. She will be making some more appearances here soon and we will be looking for tack and props for her for Breyerfest and other events that we attend. This mascot is always available during the events and you could win a mini whinnie if you take a selfie with her and post it to the group with the hashtag #RTBAriaSelfie! This will be a new addition and on a test run for the year 2020. If this goes well, it will be a yearly thing at every model horse event that we attend.

This coming year, we will be looking to offer a sponsorship for certain model horse and real horse events. We will be offering either a small monetary donation or a custom model with our initials and the year painted on the model. If this is something that you want to look into, please message the page and we will get back to you as soon as we are able to.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this crazy update of things and know that this is just some of the changes coming to RTB. We will keep the initials of RTB in order to not confuse everything, but just the group has been renamed so as to make sure that people understand that we are so much more than just one event! I am excited to finally be able to bring about the changes that I have been discussing with my friends and family and I cannot wait to share everything with you! Thank you all for being Roadies and I look forward to personally meeting as many of you as I can during July!

2020 Celebration Horse Has Been Released!

Here is our first look at the 2020 Celebration Horse, Ballynoe Castle RM, also known as Reggie around his barn.  This lovely bay Irish Sport Horse has had numerous wins, including several Rolex wins in Kentucky.  In 2017, he was retired at the Rolex Event in Kentucky and is now retired to farm life and loving it!  There will be more to come about this lovely horse soon!

In Which We Decide To Make A Change

Since 2013, we have been called Road To Breyerfest and we knew that later down the line that we might have to change that name. In 2014, we made the decision to start following more than just Breyerfest and added in Stone's Equilocity. It was mentioned then that we should become the Road To Model Horse Fest. We sat back and decided to think about it later on down the road.

Later on came faster than we thought. That is perfectly fine, however we will not be doing the change all at once.  Everyone got to know the name of Road To Breyerfest and the initials of RTB. We cannot change that immediately and not expect some confusion.  So if you are a member of the Facebook group, you will have woken up this morning and see that the group has changed its name over the the new name.  The Facebook page, this blog, and the Instagram will still remain Road To Breyerfest for the 2020 year.

It was also brought to our attention last night that we do not share just Breyerfest information.  We had made that change back in 2014 when we started to share Stone posts as well.  We do not work for either company or any other large model horse company and remain as a freelance information supplier.  We created this online community so that people would have a positive place where they feel that they are safe to share what they love in the model horse community and even the real horses that they love.  It has been our mission to share the posts of Breyer, Stone, Hartland, Copperfox, and other companies and let the community know what they are currently offering for sale.  Yes, Stone does make more posts than Breyer and therefore they are shared more often that what Breyer posts. We aim to provide their posts to the community that we offer, nothing more than that. We ask that you respect the decision that we made years ago as we did this in an attempt to bring you even more information. Negative comments in the group on Facebook will now result in a three day mute and a permanent ban for the second offense.  We truly hate to even have to implement this new rule, but feel that we can no longer allow some of the things that have been said to continue to be said.

What do the changes and the ones still coming mean to you? Absolutely nothing other than you have access to information that is not readily available in other places and a safe community to share your love for plastic and real horses.  What is coming? Lots! We have already started exploring each and every mold that has been released through the companies and how they relate in the model horse showing world. We have plans to bring you more videos on our youtube channel, little swag purchases to help fund a new website that we are working on creating, and so much more! We also are welcoming your ideas of what you want to see here in the community!