 So I'm just gonna come out and say it like it is, Breyer, you are doing a really good job and I don't think you guys have heard that enough as of recent. There's been a lot of stuff going on between Breyer and model horse collectors that has not been putting the model horse community in the brightest light and a lot of this backlash has been going right on to Breyer and Breyer is the company that supports this whole hobby. If we don't have Breyer we don't have model horses. When I'm having a bad day at work or I'm having troubles in my personal life I come to model horses and customizing to let go and to be happy and to find peace with myself and I don't see the hobby as a negative atmosphere. 2020 kind of threw a wrench in everybody's plans and Breyer did make that executive decision to move Breyer Fest online. That was honestly the best decision that they could have made. I fully supported that decision. I was planning on going to Breyer Fest for the first time. It broke my heart but I knew that the state of the world it wasn't acceptable for us to join and gather for plastic horses. The world was much more important than plastic horses at that time. With like short term notice like we found out in March April so they only had three months, two or three months to essentially move everything online and so they did their very best to release all the information and make everything work so that we could still have a festival and yet no one was happy. It was just like everything that Breyer tried to do everybody was like... everybody was on their case and the same thing has happened here starting in 2021 and the start of the year was really rough. They released the celebration horse for 2021, which was supposed to be Intuit, the halter bred Apollosa stallion, and the fans got so upset about this celebration horse Breyer actually had to pull the model. Owners of the actual real-life horse did not want to be affiliated with model horse people because model horse people were so aggressive and so mean to this particular person that they felt threatened and worried for their animal, worried for their like home, for their lives. Plastic horses, these are toy horses. These are people that like toy horses and those toy horses have become so intense and they need to be so perfect that people are willing to jeopardize someone's well-being, someone's sanity, to use aggressive language, threats, like what even is this? Like what is even happening? I'm gonna personally state that I also don't agree with halter bred horses. I didn't like the appearance of that particular horse that I'm like not judging the entire halter breeding industry. Like with any discipline in real horse world it's such a fine line and that's my personal opinion and I voice that opinion vaguely on Instagram a little bit and then I felt really guilty about it because I'm like this shouldn't really matter what I think and I shouldn't sway my followers either way. That's my personal opinion. I would never sculpt a horse that looked like that. That's my personal opinion. But I would never ever take measures to personally track down the person that owned that horse, send him threats saying how dare you make your model into a Breyer, how dare you be proud of this animal, how dare you have this animal, breed this animal, show this animal. These people are gonna do this whether we say so or not. I just don't feel like it's fair to attack people like that. I don't think it's fair to go after somebody so intensely because you don't believe the same thing as them. They had to release a statement saying please do not harass the owners, please do not post negative comments, please do not take things so drastically and dramatically like the whole model horse community exploded for about two weeks and then Breyer released Fireheart which is the new original sculpture by Raven Maddock and then the community all of a sudden was like oh my gosh we love you Breyer you're amazing. They're really excited about it or they really really despise it and they can't handle it and they need to attack online. Breyer has been revamping the whole virtual Breyer Fest experience this year and they've been trying to add new things and make things better than they did last year and it's fair. There's things they know that they need to improve on. It didn't run as smoothly as it should have but it ran and people got their horses and it was still fine. So these like really aggressive claims about Breyer doing so badly and like making these horrible mistakes at the end of the day you're still getting your horses. You still have beautiful horses. They're still making beautiful horses. We don't like every release that Breyer makes but we shouldn't like attack them and say what the heck were you thinking because somebody might like that horse somewhere. They're complaining about this other person's horse that they don't support now because this particular person supports something else. The horse is lovely. The horse is beautiful. Like sure maybe you don't want to be best friends with the horse's owner but it's about the horse. It has nothing to do about your personal life, your personal beliefs. It has everything to do with the horse, the plastic horses, the real horse, the love of the horse, the art of the horse. That is why I am in this community because I love horses. I love art with horses. I love collecting horses, looking at horses, admiring horses, being around horses. That's what Breyer is all about and the thing that I don't think people realize is that Breyer doesn't have to do this. Breyer doesn't have to be a company. They don't have to make toy horses and if people are hostile enough I think they eventually will cancel Breyer Fest. They'll stop making models. So the whole thing is that Breyer should not have to keep releasing these statements about these things. This should not be a problem. I think that we can make suggestions and hold advice and say maybe we should do that differently in the next year but I don't believe that it is acceptable in any context to make aggressive claims, to make threats. It's getting really tiring. I don't like seeing that stuff. I am part of this community because I want the positivity. I want the love of the horse. I want the support of everyone, no matter your beliefs, where you come from, what kind of horses you like, what kind of, you know, we're all in this thing together and some of my greatest friends have come from this thing. Do we believe in the same things? No. Do we like the same breeds of horses? No. But we all like Breyers. We all like horses and that's all that really should matter. And so Breyer is doing a really good job right now and if you guys all mess this up I'm not gonna have this channel. I'm not gonna have a business and we're not gonna have model horses to collect. So I think you really need to dig deep if you are one of these people that is posting these threats, these aggressive claims and voicing your opinion really strongly on social media. I think you should really think about what you're doing and you should think about the humanity behind the company that's doing everything for us. These are real people behind the scenes and they have feelings too and everybody has feelings and it's not fair for anyone to be so completely rude to these kind of people who are just trying their best and they're just trying to share their love of the horse at the same time. I feel like Breyer has been doing amazing and despite all the circumstances they are still hosting a Breyer Fest, they are still releasing regular runs, they're still releasing Premier Club models, they're still doing everything for us. So really think about what you say online, really think about what this company is actually doing for us and really just enjoy. Enjoy Breyer, enjoy model horses, enjoy the artistry. We're here for horses, we're here for plastic horses, that's all that really should matter and we still have a Breyer Fest so we should be pretty damn grateful in that case. This has been DJB, that's my little two cents on this whole thing and I will continue to remain a positive platform and I know there's a lot of people out there that roll this way as well and there's a lot of positivity still out there. I think it's just a little hard when there's a lot of negativity going around to kind of see the positivity and I hope that this like will pass and we can all get through this and get past this and we can all just be appreciative and supportive and excited and share our love of the horse with everybody else. So thank you so much for watching, this has been DJB.