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Just 9 days and another archive item is published! Is that an Academy Record? Considering number of materials to process, definitely yes!

Second GalaCon in 2013 was a big milestone for MLP:FiM conventions on European continent – it moved to a big fancy venue in Ludwigsburg and set many standards followed until today which are kind of expected by attendees, not just at GalaCon: VIP show guests, concerts of brony musicians, many vendor stalls, fun charity auction and opportunities for new friendships regardless the country borders or language.

For many reasons, this was a brony fandom game changer for many people, because this event expanded the horizon not just for MLP, but also for life. A step to unknown with friends and ponies aside.

From my own experience: we organized our own bus with dozens of CZ/SK bronies going from Prague to Ludwigsburg (we joked about it when returning from GalaCon 2012), going through the big MLP event with fans from all over Europe and first money ever spent in Charity auction for a silly item: a hug with Peter New. On top of that, the following visit of Andrea Libman in Prague became a “fun story from a MLP con” being told until nowadays.

If you were there too, I bet you also have a story to tell, which you remember until today. Maybe it was also caught by a camera, so check the GalaCon 2013 photos and video archive and enjoy the memories from those amazing years!

GalaCon 2013

PS: If you find anything missing, incomplete or incorrect, please let me know and I’ll fix it as soon as possible!

Two months of news silence – yeah, reporting site bugfixes and fulfilled requests from people are boring, so I keep those for bigger updates, like the one today. Totally understandable, that people don’t want to be quoted alongside with ponies (main reported reason is possible job issues), but it takes some time to implement these changes, especially when the person is credited at many places. So this is done.

About the promised big update: do you know which anniversary we have today? Exactly 13 years ago started the first MLP:FiM convention in Europe and that was GalaCon 2012 followed by BUCK 2012 just in few days!

So now you can take a deep dive to the very beginning of the European brony conventions and see how one of the biggest and longest running MLP conventions started – the GalaCon 2012 archive is now online! With the photos never published before and re-uploaded videos that vanished from the Internet over the ages.

Also if you attended this brony start like I did, enjoy the memories from the times, where we had only two seasons of G4 ponies and enthusiasm, that was shaking the whole Internet in its boots 😉

We did not know what awaited us, but on this day 13 years ago we laid the foundation of many friendships that last to this day! /)

GalaCon 2012

I just returned home from EponaFest (it was great!) and having a lot of time on my way home, managed to sort my photos. It will take some time, until the recordings and official photos are processed and published, but since my part in sort&select is done, I decided to publish it as soon as possible. 

Enjoy the first EponaFest 2025 photos! The first step to fulfill my promise to make this site active again 🙂

Last news two years ago – sounds bad, right? Yeah, I thought it would be easier to release the archives in a readable form, but the reality was much more complicated: life happens, organizing conventions, traveling to see the events… you know how it is.

Despite all of this, I’m trying to keep the rest of this page up to date: the Events calendar shows the actual events for this year, and the conventions description is also being updated. The materials for archive are still being collected, sorted and searching continues.

Also convention news: BronyScot, welcome back!

I’ll be at EponaFest this week, at Everfree Encore next week and in the next month another two MLP events in Poland and Czech Republic. See you there!