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Hi all ! The sydney bunch have been very busy of late concentrating on trains and christmas, that we may have neglected some of our other themes of interest. I would like to invite the Sydney ensemble to a conglomeration at my place on the 20th of (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Brian- I agree that fest prices cannot be much of issue affecting national, if not regional, attendance. If you spend $1.5K+ for your family to fly, stay, drive, and eat, you really aren't motivated by a better deal on the $60 per person (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) I'm confused. Better prices on what? LEGO (doubtful, as those prices are not driven by competition generated by fests) or things like registration fees (again, really doubtful; I've seen no evidence that those fees are driven by a profit (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Aaron- I think BW is far enough in the past not affect most thinking except, perhaps, to question the viability of Southern CA to attract enough LEGO oriented people. Most of the content at BFs is brought by people in their vehicles and we (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Having lived in SoCal, and asked the same question many times of many people, I think a lot of it is that there are still some hard feelings after the BricksWest incident. Also, many people have expressed the hard question of whether or not to (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 07 Train Layout call for participation
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(...) Great to have you aboard. As soon as I gather more responses, we'll begin the next step. Hopefully we can begin planning no later than late January. -Jeramy (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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(...) Well, he should have. If you look at a map of North America Omaha may be closer to the actual centre of the continent but it does not have Chicago's status as possibly the largest air and rail hub in the central part of North America. It sucks (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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(...) Anthony - You are right Chicago is not in the exact center of the country. Let's consider logistics for a moment: 1) St Louis is 4+ hours from the nearest major city and only 3 or 4 major cities within an easy days drive (still 12 hours from (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Jeramy- I'm thinking more about co-locating (in time and space) a general LEGO event with the big LTC effort for NMRA. Possibly even at the same venue (there's a lot of event space at the Convention Center and NMRA is not even actually in the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Steve- I think this is a very good point and some of us have certainly discussed it before. A public expo provides: A chance to show off creations to a big crowd Opportunity to spread the word about LEGO A bigger market for vendors An (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ted, By this, do you mean that you'd like to display multiple themes as well? Thanks, -Jeramy (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Mark- I think the LEGO gods have shone the light upon us for NMRA 2008 (July 13-20, 2008 at the Anaheim Marriott, 700 West Convention Way, Anaheim CA 92802). This event is walking distance to the LEGO store in Downtown Disney (and Angel (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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Some thoughts of mine: A proliferation of successfull events is good. A big thought on "the one big event": My experience with events encompasses LEGO fan events, Science Fiction conventions, church camps and events, train shows, National (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Brick Bash 2007!
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(URL) Brick Bash 2007, the third installment of this annual event, will be taking place in March of 2007 in, as usual, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Exact dates will be announced soon. Don't let the weather scare you -- come on over, show off your LEGO (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events.brickbash, lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Good points Ted. When is southern California going to anti up and get a fest going again? ;) -mark (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Bruce, Welcome to the DC area! Hope to meet you at a WAMALUG meeting some time, the next will be in January. (URL) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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(...) Ok, so he didn't actually say Chicago was centrally located. However, he did say, in the quoted text above: "We decided to create Brickworld because there was no centrally located large AFOL event" Which I read as saying Brickworld was (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Oooo...oooh. Well that makes sense I guess. I rather like this topic as it has been on my mind as well. The question I have is whether or not some fests have become too much expo and not enough convention. By this I mean, are we putting on (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Very useful: (URL) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) I believe it means: Non LEGO Significant Other. -Jeramy (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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