Category Archives: pony cart

Pony Tales Runway Show Video, March 10, 2012

Pony Tales Fashion Show Look Book, March 10, 2012

This is the look book for the Pony Tales, fashion runway event for ponies held in Carriage Trade using Virtual Runway. 6 ponies, one foal, 18 outfits!

 

Pony Tales: Runway Show today, 12 noon PT

Please join us in Carriage Trade for a unique runway event featuring the ponies of Carriage Trade strutting their stuff on our special cat walk designed just for our horses and ponies.

They will be showcasing 18 looks from the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade.  Show starts promptly at 12 noon PT, and lasts about 45 minutes.  Join us for a rollicking good time. Look book and show special available.

Here’s an advance preview of the ponies, prepping for their big moment:

New in the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: Interactive Gypsy Vardo for the Waterhorse Avatar

The Gypsy Vardo at Carriage Trade's Tack Room

We are pleased to announce the release of the Carriage Trade Interactive  Vardo Gypsy Caravan for both Drafter and Light Horse versions of the Water Horse avatar.

Your new caravan includes interactive capabilities designed to assist your roleplay. Please read the following notecard for details about everything that is included with this item.

1. Multiple poses throughout for both horse and human…
2. Changeable textures both inside scene and Camp scene.
3. RP items given by the scene
4. Day-driven lighting on Vardo.
5. Your choice of scenes: Inside, Camp, Both, or None.
6. Fully functional vehicle

Your new Vardo is a fully functional vehicle that can be driven by any of the passengers or horses.  To change drivers simply type /1driver <name>.

The Vardo itself includes 2 horse poses (one pulling, one following) and 2 human poses (driver, and rider on back balcony).

Touch the front of the Vardo to put the shafts up or down.

Touch it again to rez your choice of Inside or Camp. Default derezzes any scene that may be displayed.  CAUTION: do NOT rez scenes when driving!

Prim counts:
Vardo = 27
Inside scene = 52
Camp = 27
Full display (Vardo + Inside + Camp) = 106 prims

Functionality, Inside
Touch the table or the herb pots to change the textures and colors of the following:

Rug, Drape, Cover, Candle, Herb, and Wood. There are anywhere from 4-6 options for each to allow you to create the inside scene you wish.

Touch the candle to light it or blow it out.

Poses: Rocking Chair (sewing); beds: laying + sitting

Choose between Owner Only, Group, and All access modes.

Functionality, Camp

Touch the Log to receive a sausage to toast on the fire.
Touch the Butterfly to receive a tambourine for your dance!
Touch the Coffee Pot for a cup of coffee.
Touch the crystal ball for your Fortune!

Sit on the pillows to hear your fortune.
Sit on the crystal Ball to tell fortunes.
Sit on the rug to read an ancient book of gypsy spells.
Sit on the rose Log to watch the fire.
Sit on the Butterfly to dance those ancient Romany dances (and don’t forget your tambourine!)

Don’t leave your horses out: they can sit on the trees to stand and lay.

Touch the stump or the tree leaves to change the colors & textures of your camp including the 3 pillows, the rug, the rose bush, and the season of the trees.

Touch the candle to light or blow it  out.

Choose between Owner Only, Group, and All access modes.

Visit the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade to purchase your very own Vardo in a choice of 7 colors for both Drafter and Light Horse Water Horse avatar.  Each sold separately.

Gypsy Vardo in Use

Introducing Land’s End Village in Carriage Trade!

Calm and peaceful shores reflect the quiet village of Land's End in Carriage Trade's Northampton

As part of the overhaul of Carriage Trade’s Northampton region, we put the original Sheffield estate under the bulldozer and allowed the land developers to go to town – literally.

The result: Land’s End, which includes 6 small cottages and a roleplay area, Coophaven.  The cottages are available for rent; each includes a radio system and locking doors and a small plot of space as well as carefully manicured landscaping right on Main Street.

What could be more delightful than quaint brick cottages in the bucolic Carriage Trade countryside?

Of course, the gentle sea breezes help cool the tiny village and it’s location on the southern edge of the newly redesigned cross-country course make it a delight for the equestrian.

Coophaven includes NPC chickens which interact in different ways. Check them out so you know where they are, come the time!

Main Street, Land's End

Main Street in Carriage Trade's Land's End Village in Northampton

Carriage Trade’s Country Faire, July 2nd, 2011

11:00 am – 7:00 pm Country Faire Join us for a romping old-fashioned Country Faire with games of Skill and Luck; Carousel and Hay Rides, and even an old-fashioned country circus!

We have carnival rides, hay rides, games of skill, lots of prizes, a curiously moving picture device, gypsy fortune telling, and a range of events all day long!

11:00 am, Line up in the market to open the Faire with a rousing parade.  Pull a circus wagon, a hay ride, or prance in formation, there will be lots of opportunities to join the parade! and who doesn’t love a parade!

Then at 12:30 pm, engage in a  version of horsie musical chairs with a cake walk in the Carriage House Yard! Prizes for the winners (they get to pick their cake).

At 3:00 pm, get gussied up in a costume and swing by the Big Top.  Enter as a horse or a human; the rules are simple: you must obviously be a horse, or obviously a human, and wearing a costume.  NO: complete avatars masquerading as a costume, and there’s no theme. You just must obviously be a horse…wearing a costume. Or a human, wearing a costume.  Trot on by, slap the board to sign up, and let the voting commence! $500L for best costume in each categoy!

At 5:00 pm, all you  racers out there start your hooves! We’ll be racing melon carts through the streets of Carriage Trade.  We recommend you practice in advance; the course is laid out (it’s  figure-8).  Of course, expect the unexpected that day…you never know when a rock, cat or bump will appear!  Bring your own melon cart, part of the race is filling your cart before the start.  Winners are determined by fastest time with the most melons left in their cart.  We’ll be running in heats of 4, with the best of each heat competing against each other till a winner is chosen.  Trophy for the winner, ribbons for all participants.

Fianlly, at 6:00 pm, join us int he Big Top for the ultimate equestrian circus! Watch the daring do of ponies on swings and the majesty of horses dancing and prancing in Liberty acts.  See the beautiful bareback riders and their gorgeous steeds perform! Grab a balloon or a pair of stilts and join the festivities!  Don’t forget the cotton candy, popcorn or ice cream carts!

Join us on Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm SLT.  􀀁

New @ The Tack Room: Team & Singleton Drafter Step-in Carts!

A Stylish and elegant cart for all your driving needs

New In the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: A drafter-sized Step-In Cart in both Singleton and Team orientation.

These step-ins have been developed specifically for the original WH drafter horse.  These carts are beautifully detailed and feature scripted sidelamps, an attached buggy whip, reins, and shafts adjusted for either singleton or team driving.  In addition, they have been balanced and tuned to deliver a superb driving experience so that even the novice horse or driver can have a smooth experience their first time out.

The team step-in even includes reinds and a buggy whip as well as side lamps!

The Step-Ins use a combination of sculpts and regular prims and careful scripting and texture work to create a showcase cart that is both stylish and functional.

The Step-Ins come in Black, White, Wine, Princess Pink, Hunter, and Navy and seat two passengers, plus one or two horses. Singleton and team carts are sold separately

The Drafter Singleton Step-in is well-balanced and ideal for estate driving.

Please visit Carriage Trade for all of your horse or pony needs!

********About Carriage Trade Pony Carriages********

These products are sold Copy, NO MOD, NO TRANSFER.  The reason for this is simple: Our additions to the basic carriage (animations, poses, gestures, and other add-ons) are precisely placed so that they orient the driver, rider, or particle effect precisely. Changing the carriage by trying to do a simple resize for other sized avatars will  result in an unhappy experience for the purchaser.  We’ve had enough complaints from people trying to resize our carriages (who didn’t realise the reason their driver ended up embedded in the seat or worse was because of the scripting), that we decided to not allow modification to the carriages.

Happy Driving!

New Product Alert – We now have Pony Wagons


Recently landed in the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: FIVE unique and fun pony wagons!

Developed specifically for the Breeder’s Choice pony mods of the Water Horse avatar, the pony wagons are beautifully textured and scripted.

The Pony Beer Wagons come in both singleton and pair versions (sold separately).  The Beer wagons have a driver and a rider pose, so you can bring a friend along to perch on the barrels.  The beer wagons dispense beer by the stein or (pony!) keg as well as pretzels. Just touch and choose from the menu of options.

Beer Wagon

The Pony Florist Wagon features butterfly particles, and touch-change flowers in three of the pots.  It allows a driver and one pony.

Florist Wagon

The Pony Gardening Wagon features lush herbs and a pile of soil as its cargo, and it offers a range of useful gardening objects such as a leaf rake, seeds, a terracotta pot, a water can, and  a hoe, so you can get your favorite gardener all set up for their second favorite activity (the first of course, would be horsing around!)

Gardening Wagon

The Pony Hay Wagon features a mound of hay with a pitchfork, with a sit pose for a rider in the hay mound as well as a driver pose in the seat.  The Hay Wagon drops individual stems of sculpted hay on the roadway as the pony pulls it along.

Hay Wagon

Please visit Carriage Trade for all of your horse or pony needs!

PLEASE NOTE:

These products are sold Copy, NO MOD, NO TRANSFER.  The reason for this is simple: Our additions to the basic carriage (animations, poses, gestures, and other add-ons) are precisely placed so that they orient the driver, rider, or particle effect precisely. Changing the carriage by trying to do a simple resize for other sized avatars will usually result in an unhappy experience for the purchaser.  We’ve had enough complaints from people trying to resize the pony carriages (who didn’t realize the reason their driver ended up embedded in the seat or worse was because of the scripting), that we decided to not allow modification to the carriages.

Happy Ponying!