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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:46:18 GMT
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Lords and Ladies, knights and peasants,
As you may have seen, BrickFest2005 has been officially announced for the 12th
to the 14th of August. I'm as excited as I know many of you must be! I hope to
see many familiar faces as well as new ones. You guys helped making the Castle
Room last year a GREAT success and the high standard we set last year only
serves as a great springboard to keep taking it to new heights!
I'm honored to have been asked to once again be involved with the Castle Room
but before we start planning in detail, I wanted to get some ideas and feedback
from the community. And maybe throw some ideas out there myself.
Those of you who attended last year, what were you general impresssions? What
was cool, what could have been done differently? Don't be shy with constructive
criticism, there is definetely stuff I know of that I want to do a little
differently this year, but there is also stuff I didn't necesarily catch on to
last time.
BrickFest 2004 aside, how have Castle Rooms been handled at other conventions
and what sort of thing seems to be succesful?
Lets try to do a little brainstorm session here I'll start out by throwing out a
few key words, ideas and questions:
-How can we expand and improve the Classic Castle City display EVEN better than
it was last year. (aside from most obviously, making it bigger)
-What stuff did non castleheads seem to like the most last year? (both AFOLs and
the general public) What can we do to make the Castle Room a highlight of the
event for everyone not just us diehard castlers?
-Do you guys have any suggestions for new building challenges, themes,
competitions etc?
-Think micro. That's all I'll say for now.
Finally, I'm not in this trying to lord it over the Castle Room with a fist of
steel like some kind of medieval warlord, I need some help! Last year there were
lots of people who spontaneously helped out with everything from the 3Cs layout
to helping keep an eye on stuff during the public day and I hope you guys know I
couldn't have done it without you. But I'd also like to have other people on the
actual Castle Room Coordinator team - helping me plan everything in advance and
run stuff throughout the weekend. (Lenny Hoffman helped out last year and was
particularly instrumental in getting the 3CS together.)
Working on coordinating a BrickFest room does involve some work in advance
(think creative and organisational type work) but it's all good fun. During the
weekend itself it would mean spending a fair amount of time in the Castle Room
but by no means would coordinator duties take up the whole weekend. I'd be happy
to hear from anyone who is interested - both longtime members of the community
and newbies too. If this sounds like something you'd like to do, do get in touch
with me by email.
cheers
Magnus
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| (...) I can't help here as BrickFest'04 was my first and only Brick event, but I do hope to make it to BrickFest'05. (...) Reading the responses on the Classic Castle site, I know there was concern with last years setup being too large to the point (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| (big ol' snip) As a castle outsider (I've built very little in the theme, although some days I think it would really be fun), I have to say that as Ken said, the castle layout at BF04 was almost too big. What I thought it really lacked was nice (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: BrickFest 2005!
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| (...) To be more realistic I would think that a walled City would be packed with buildings as merchants would want the protection. So with that in mind I think the area inside the outer wall was much too big for the number of buildings that we had (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: BrickFest 2005!
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| Hi all, Quick update on BrickFest stuff: I'm very grateful to Edward Kohl, who has kindly volunteered to help out with the Castle Room. If there are others who want to be involved, please don't be shy about getting in touch with me personally - just (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.castle)
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