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Re: Brickfair is official....
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Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:24:55 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Don Cox wrote:
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In lugnet.events, Michael Huffman wrote:
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In lugnet.events, Todd Webb wrote:
I’m sorry. Brickfair sounded like a cool event to attend right up until
this point.
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The possibility of a Spring or Fall event was suggested to me. But my only
experience with Lego festivals is in the summer. And since I’m risking
approximately $105,000 and months of hard work to make the event happen, I
wanted to minimize the variables as much as possible.
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And this makes me want to attend the event, why? Telling possible attendees
how much you are personally risking on an event is pointless, not to mention
off-putting...
--Mike.
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I disagree, as Todd seems to have been ‘put on the carpet’ for the telling of
his expenses, the fact that he had such a great feeling for the event that he
was willing to put up this or any amount to see it happen is commendable.
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Anyone who has ran event or have been involved in running an event knows that
it’s an expensive ordeal. It takes a lot of time & volunteers (or employees) to
pull a good conference off. I commend Todd as well for disclosing the financial
details of BrickFair -- he was not obligated to do that. I really like the idea
of giving a portion of the profit to charity -- not a true non-profit in the
sense of business, but still very commendable. And I’ve read his follow up post
to different parts of this thread -- there is a certain level of honesty in his
post that I like about him (though I don’t think we’ve ever met face-to-face).
The bottom line, it does say something great about the LEGO community -- if
there is enough interest and money in sustaining 4+ major LEGO events each year
just in the US alone. And BrickFair still sounds like a great event, but the
bottom line is, he needs to sell the event (being that it is a new event), not
come off as sounding self-righteous or resentful.
I honestly believe that the LEGO community can have events without demonizing a
person or group of people or their business practices. If someone chose to
pocket the profit from an event & not give it back to the community, that is
their choice and they have to live with it. And to be honest, they are not
obligated to give money back to the community, no matter how much we think they
should... And with enough dissatisfied people comes revolution & new events.
But if an event is to survive longer than a few years, it needs to avoid the
trappings of doing an event only slightly better than how the ‘demonized group
of people’ ran the previous event.
As a side note: I also find it funny that the LEGO community if falling into
EXACTLY some of the same pit-falls that the model train community have fallen
into.
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I really don’t know or care to know how the financis of these events are
handled. I have gone to the last few Brickfest in D.C. and this year’s
BrickWorld and I am planning to go to BrickWorld and BrickFair next year. As
long as I feel that I ‘got my monies worth’ from the event and come away
feeling good then ok. If the cost factor over-shadows an event then I will
make a decision to attend the next year. Please stop trying to put down the
event organizers or Joe (BrickJournal). I tip my hat to you all.
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Don, go back and re-read my posts. I didn’t put Todd, Joe, or the organizers
down. I know Joe. He and I have talked about how to generate money for
BrickJournal to make it a viable business without going bankrupt -- I don’t have
a solution for him, but I have made some meger suggestions -- in time he’ll have
to attract more advertisers & start paying his writers -- and he knows this.
I don’t know if you added “BrickJornal” above thinking that I’m criticizing Joe
for some of the decisions he’s made for his business BrickJornal or not. And if
you did, don’t confuse my criticizism to Todd’s posting with the current thread
criticizing Joe of his business decisions behind BrickJornal.
--Mike.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Sorry to follow up to my own post, but I honestly don't think Todd was being self-righteous or resentful, but just need to show a little more tact. When I first read his comments, I thought to myself why is he making it a point to reveal how (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| In lugnet.events, Michael Huffman wrote: (snip) (...) Mike, just to chime in... I'm implementing some things that address your concerns. I won't say more because I'm really not in a position to, as I am still working on those aspects. Advertising is (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| (...) I disagree, as Todd seems to have been 'put on the carpet' for the telling of his expenses, the fact that he had such a great feeling for the event that he was willing to put up this or any amount to see it happen is commendable. I really (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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