My BreyerFest History: 2000

This blog post had been written before the malware crash of my computer. I'm posting it now as the last BreyerFest History post of 2025.

I did not attend  BreyerFest 2000, but that doesn't mean I don't have ephemera from it.

Leah's Fancy Chick, the 2000 Dinner Model. Yes, Breyer was still serving dinner! Documentation below. 4,000 were made and she is currently valued at $40 - $60. (Picture used with permission.) 

I am not overly fond of pintos) and I did not purchase her on the secondary market (even though I like the Lady Phase mold.)

I do have the program from the event, though. Although it may actually have been an advertisement for BreyerFest and not the actual program.

In a big change from the 1999 program, this one had 24 pages! I have posted them all here but will only make a comment on a couple of them.

It says, "Welcome to BreyerFest 2000." It looks to be the event program. But as I photographed the pages, I began to wonder.

I enlarged page 1 of the program because it contains documentation that Breyer was still hosting a dinner which they called the "Country Cookout Dinner."

I found it odd that the program also doubled as a means to register for that year's BreyerFest.

More registration forms.

BreyerFest Live was no longer in the Covered Arena, but was now being held in the "COOL" Dinner Tent.

A very good idea considering how hot it can be in Kentucky in July.

Kentucky actually has a humid-subtropical climate! (If you've ever been to BreyerFest, then you are now nodding your head.)

The Youth Show was also held in the Dinner Tent which was now air conditioned. (I remember how good that felt when they first did it!)

The Children's Show was also in the COOL Dinner Tent.

The 2000 program, with its forms to be filled out, had to have either been sent out to collectors by Breyer (most likely) or possibly tucked into Breyer model horse boxes. Maybe even both. I don't remember (doggone, getting older!) but if you do, please comment below.

Thanks!