Subject:
|
Re: BrickWorld costs
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.events.brickworld
|
Date:
|
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:37:41 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
5694 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.events.brickworld, Aaron M. Sneary wrote:
| |
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Bryan Bonahoom wrote:
| |
John & the whole community,
snippage
Our goals were to give the children of Chicago exposure to the great
creations of the AFOL community to spawn future AFOLs.
huge snippage
Best Regards, Bryan & Adam
Co-coordinators for Brickworld
|
And that’s my problem with this event...
and with the direction many of the AFOL events have been leaning. Don’t get
me wrong, I love kids, and want them to know how cool LEGO is. I worked for
LEGOLAND so I could show them. But I don’t pay $70 plus hotel, plus two or
three days off work for that.
I miss when our events were about the community coming together and playing.
And I have to say I take some offense to paying a registration fee to an
event that then uses mine and others’ creations to draw a public crowd and
charge admission. If the registration fees were going down in cost, I
wouldn’t peep. But they seem to be rising with the more public days the event
allows.
We are near a paradigm shift with events. Soon it will be time to hold huge
expos of AFOL creations to the public. Separately from (perhaps smaller, more
regional) insiders conventions. We’re not there yet, but it (should be) is
coming...
Aaron
|
Registration for BrickWorld is actually $60.
(BrickWorld registration info) A
small difference, I know.
I agree with what you’ve said and have thought the
same thing about other AFOL events that I’ve been to in the past. Hopefully
when you see the Westin (if you’re coming), you’ll think that the nice rooms and
huge display area make it at least partly worth letting the public in.
This
summer’s BrickWorld will be the first one. If the public expo part of the event
doesn’t work for the best, then we can always change it in subsequent events.
The fact that this coming BrickWorld is the first one also means that we have no
kind of leftover funds from previous events.
If attendees wanted us to adjust
their registration fee because they thought that their MOC’s drew in more of a
crowd than someone else’s, then we’d have to track who brought what and try to
judge how much of a draw each MOC had, which would be IMPOSSIBLE. We don’t
want you to feel like we’re using you, and of course, anyone can attend whether
they’re bringing any MOC’s or not.
Since the area for BrickWorld is part of
the hotel, we’ll have all night (from 4:00 on) for public-free AFOL events and
comradery. If you’re one of those people who like to sleep in reeeally late,
then you just might miss the public altogether. ; ) I hope no one is
discouraged from attending because of the public expo times. We’re putting a
lot of effort into making BrickWorld a great event that’s well worth attending,
but there’s one main ingredient to this event that we can’t do ourselves, and
that’s you. No matter how many free prizes we convince LEGO to donate, no
matter how many vendors come to sell brick, and no matter how many people show
up for the public expo, BrickWorld is nothing without AFOL’s and their amazing
creations.
None of the event or theme coordinators are making any money from
BrickWorld. All funds that are collected, both registration fees and public
admission, will go toward making BrickWorld a better event. I know that I
personally am going to try and capture every spare minute I can to enjoy the
people of the community coming together and playing. I hope everyone coming to
BrickWorld has plenty of opportunity to do the same.
David “Fuzzy” Gregory
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: BrickWorld costs
|
| In lugnet.events.brickworld, David Gregory wrote: -Snip- (...) (URL) You have got to make another type of name badge again! That was so awesome! :) (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
| | | Re: BrickWorld costs
|
| (...) Sorry, I was making a rough estimation on AFOL cons in general. I'm glad that you guys are thinking along those lines, and willing to allay those concerns. (...) Oh, goodness, I wasn't suggesting that at all. Of course that would be (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: BrickFest 2007
|
| (...) And that's my problem with this event.... and with the direction many of the AFOL events have been leaning. Don't get me wrong, I love kids, and want them to know how cool LEGO is. I worked for LEGOLAND so I could show them. But I don't pay (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
|
34 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
