Tickets - a Comparison

First, thank you to all of you who emailed me or commented on the blog and offered to help me pick my models up at BreyerFest. Your kindness and thoughtfulness touched my heart and made me smile.

Yesterday I sat down and drew up a list of the BreyerFest models I most want:

Brahms, Rotating Draft Surprise, Gummi Bears, Black Forest, Torlinie, and Lorelei (the crystal horse.) And then I went to Breyer's web site and looked at tickets.

To my surprise, the VIP tickets were not yet sold out. (They are still available as of this writing.) I filled out the online ordering form, selecting the models I wanted, just to see what the total cost of a VIP ticket would be.

The models would tack $200 onto the $230 ticket price. Plus, I only want one of the Limited Editions but I would still have to buy another one I didn't want to complete the ticket purchase. (Strudel, which I'd give to a Pony Pal or Cowpoke.)  Finally, I'd still have to track down the Gummi Bears, Torlinie, and Lorelei for an additional cost of $125 bringing the total cost of going with the VIP option to $555.

Next I looked at the All-Access tickets. Their cost was $80. Add in the models I wanted ($305) and my total would be $385, a savings of $170 over the VIP ticket.

While there are some other perks included with the VIP ticket (a 3 day parking pass, the Event Stablemates, and some swag) I'm thinking that, if I decide to go in person, I will get the All-Access ticket.

Attending virtually is still a possibility for me. Virtual Access tickets won't go on sale until March, but that is still plenty of time before the event for me to compare what it would cost me to go the virtual route with the cost of the VIP and All-Access tickets.