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This message is posted on behalf of Steve DeCraemer:
First and foremost, Dirty Brickster and Dirty Buildster are two different
events. Please don’t confuse the two. Please do get involved in both.
For those those who have been to some of the larger adult LEGO fest in the U.S.
in the last few years you probably already know the rules and your just looking
for the dollar amount. So, to cut to the chase it’s $10.00 like usual and we’re
doing it on Friday evening. Have a nice day, and see ya in June. :)
For the rest of the new comers, welcome aboard! What’s Dirty Brickster? I’m
glad you asked. If it was happening around X-mas for a gift exchange it would
be called something like “Naughty Santa”. But it’s not so it isn’t. But it is
still very much a gift exchange. Everyone who wants to join in brings a $10.00
Lego gift. It has to be official LEGO product and the original retail value
has to be or add up to $10.00. If you manage to find a $10.00 set on sale for
$3.00 that’s fine but if you find a $20.00 set on sale for $10.00 that’s even
better. You can also give several smaller things that add up to $10.00 but they
should be wrapped in one box, not several boxes. If your giving a actual LEGO
set (which most people do) then it should be unopened. If your giving an
opened set then it should be at least several years old and have some kind of
undisputed value as something of historic value or something a collector would
want. If you question if you gift is legit you can always ask me. Your gift has
to be wrapped so people can’t tell what it is. You can have fun with this and
putting a smaller gift in a larger box before you wrap it is completely
acceptable. For those of you flying in and not checking your luggage please
remember don’t wrap it before you get here. (It’s an airport security thing)
If you can wrap it before hand please do. There is always people running around
at the last minute looking for bags and such to mask their gift with. Please
come prepared. Wrapping your gift in something odd is always fun, Sunday
comics, old Lego posters, aluminum foil (your a LEGO fan, get creative).
THE GAME: Everyone puts their gift into a pile and gets a ticket. If we have
over 40 people enter we may opt to split into two groups to make things move
along faster. We draw a ticket to see who goes first and that person choses a
gift from the pile and unwraps it. We draw a second ticket and the person with
that ticket has the option of either drawing a gift from the pile or stealing
the first persons gift. If he steals it from the first person the first person
takes another gift from the pile. The person with the third drawn ticket would
therefore get to steal from person one or two or the pile. Likewise, if they
stole from any of the previous players then they in turn would get to either
take from the pile or steal from someone else. You can not steal back from
someone who just stole from you, but if that gift is stolen again by someone
else then you can steal it back from the second person who stole it. (confused
yet?) Once a gift is stolen three times (the fourth person to hold it) it is
LOCKED and can not be stolen again. Hence, if it’s a great gift you may not
want to even bother stealing it early in the game because someone will probably
grab it from you. Once all the tickets are drawn and the pile is gone the first
person gets one last turn to steal a gift that is not locked. This is because
since he went first he didn’t have a chance to steal from anyone at all.
The game can be really fun and can take a while to get through depending on how
much stealing is taking place. Hope you chose to join us.
Please let Steve know if you have any questions.
Steve DeCraemer
cowinacan@earthlink.net
We look forward to seeing you in June!!!
Regards, the Brickworld Team
Brickworld will be held June 21-24, 2007 at the Westin North Shore Hotel in
Wheeling, IL (a suburb of Chicago). Register soon to ensure there is room for
your creations to be displayed. There are a limited number of hotel rooms set
aside at the special Brickworld rate. Get yours before they are all gone.
visit the Brickworld Web Site by
clicking here
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In lugnet.events.brickworld, Bryan Bonahoom wrote:
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This message is posted on behalf of Steve DeCraemer:
For the rest of the new comers, welcome aboard! What’s Dirty Brickster? I’m
glad you asked. If it was happening around X-mas for a gift exchange it
would be called something like “Naughty Santa”. But it’s not so it isn’t.
But it is still very much a gift exchange. Everyone who wants to join in
brings a $10.00 Lego gift. It has to be official LEGO product and the
original retail value has to be or add up to $10.00. If you manage to find a
$10.00 set on sale for $3.00 that’s fine but if you find a $20.00 set on sale
for $10.00 that’s even better. You can also give several smaller things that
add up to $10.00 but they should be wrapped in one box, not several boxes.
If your giving a actual LEGO set (which most people do) then it should be
unopened. If your giving an opened set then it should be at least several
years old and have some kind of undisputed value as something of historic
value or something a collector would want. If you question if you gift is
legit you can always ask me. Your gift has to be wrapped so people can’t
tell what it is. You can have fun with this and putting a smaller gift in a
larger box before you wrap it is completely acceptable. For those of you
flying in and not checking your luggage please remember don’t wrap it before
you get here. (It’s an airport security thing) If you can wrap it before
hand please do. There is always people running around at the last minute
looking for bags and such to mask their gift with. Please come prepared.
Wrapping your gift in something odd is always fun, Sunday comics, old Lego
posters, aluminum foil (your a LEGO fan, get creative).
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I would like to add my $0.02 about this. First, in the interest of full
disclosure, I would like to say that I have participated in several of these
Dirty Brickster events and have always come away feeling positive about what I
ended up with, and have not ever had ill feelings that I got shafted. I have not
had the same feeling about what others wound up with.
Please, I would like to stress that this should be a LEGO Product not a LEGO
branded product. Please do not bring candy or other food products. Yes,
technically you could bring $10.00 worth of LEGO waffles, but it is not a LEGO
Product. Would you want $10.00 of waffles that were probably not properly
refridgerated?
Second, I would like to stress that you could buy $10.00 worth of Pick-A-Brick
from LEGO online or a LEGO Retail store. Please, DO NOT, buy a full cup and
remove what you think is $2.95 worth of product to keep. Bring the full cup.
Avoid, if possible a cup of the largest elements where you can only fit a dozen
or less of the item in the cup.
I think we all agree that it is fun when someone opens that Clikits or Bellville
or other “girly” set. In fact, in all the times I have played, this set seems to
have gone to someone who WANTED it. So I encourage it. However, make certain it
is a set whose value meets the $10.00 requirement. I once saw a Belville set
that was only $6.95. NOT COOL! If you want to get rid of a cheap set, throw in
another cheap set. Mathematically, 2 sets costing $6.95 is greater than the
$10.00 entry.
DO NOT USE EBAY AS YOUR PRICING GUIDE. Just because an eBay seller is trying to
pawn off a 1196 Tour de France Promotional Set for $10.00 doesn’t mean that it
is worth $10.00. I hope everyone understands that we would like to set the bar
of $10.00 at the MSRP or manufacturers recommended price. Now, if you would like
to throw in a 1831 Maersk Sealand Promotional Set, that’s okay. It retailed for
more than $10.00. Yes, I know it goes for $100.00 on eBay and in BrickLink, but
that doesn’t make it worth $100.00. As P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker
born every minute.”
I think the fundamental rule everyone should apply to a Dirty Brickster item is
this: “Would I consider this worth $10.00 if I received this item while playing
Dirty Brickster.” If you hessitate, then do not contribute it.
Appreciatively and Respectfully,
Todd
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Well said Todd!!!
I hope I can make time to participate!!! (I might be a little busy that weekend
doing other things at Brickworld) :)
B
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