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(...) Should we assume that the Brickfest PDX organizers are refusing to answer this question? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 07 Draft
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(...) Bob- Is the number of lots set by the number of total pieces in the set or the number of unique piece types in the set? -Ted (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 07 Draft
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(...) Am I the only one that read that and immediately thought: Wouldn't it be great to build each of them in jet form and create an enormous "BrickFest 07 Squadron"! What? Just me? Drat. It's too bad the speed build won't use this set and the Jet (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | BrickFest 07 Draft
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Yes there will be a draft at BrickFest this year! In case you forgot, a draft is where everyone brings an unopened copy of the same set. All the sets are sorted into lots and then lots are chosen in a round robin fashion till all the lots are gone. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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Do we loose points for melting the eggs? At any rate, it makes the foil stay on better. ;-) --Peter (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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(...) Will, If you do manage to combine RCX & NXT, I expect it will look mashed-up, but unlike all the other stuff at BF, this is not a how-does-it-look competition. No matter how it looks, I'm sure people will cheer for robots that try to give them (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'll give it a whirl! I wouldn't want you to get the NXT prize just because you were the only one entered. :) My 'bot may be a mashup of RCX & NXT. It will likely be horrible ugly, and exhibit questional operational effectiveness, but fame and (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) To be clear, I was commenting generally on the discussion, not really in reference specifically to any details of this incident. I found the parallels between this current discussion and the other discussions I was having with separate (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) The walls are going to be about two inches tall. The houses will be considerably taller than that. Probably on the order of three to five times taller. By the way, there's only a bit over a week before BrickFest. If anyone else is considering (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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David, how high is the shortest house? Is it taller than the side panels? ---Will (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I know I'm a little late to this discussion, but here I am. :) It's funny to be reading this discussion this week, as I was just discussing the same thread about a different subject last week. I've been doing quite a bit of conference speaking (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX) !
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| | Now Is The Time To Ship MOCs To BrickFest PDX
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Have some important news to pass along if you plan on shipping a MOC to Brickfest. If you have reservations for the Red Lion Hotel, you may ship your MOC there and they will not charge a holding fee. If you don't have their address, here is is- Red (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) John, I agree with most of your comments and I appreciate your keeping the other side of this arguement. I would like to point out that I feel that a NPO is different than a private company. WalMart is a private company that is not required to (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) Troy, Well stated! I concur completely. Todd (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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Bryan, Thank you for your post and informing the community of the intentions of your organization of BrickWorld 07. I have interspersed some comments among your points. Please read them carefully and in a positive frame of mind. They are not (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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(...) I don't think making money from an AFOL event is tantamount to "screwing us hobbyists" - but I also don't think it's right to make money from an event without telling volunteers and attendees what their time, effort, and money is going (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: What was the question?
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(...) The question was: who, if anyone, will be profiting from this event. I started with the assumption that no one would be profiting, since I was going by David's message. After reading Bryan's email, I thought he was saying that he and Adam (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | One cool thing about being a nay-blay-er (IMHO)
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We won't have access to all the new parts. Is that bad thing? In the case of a few of the new parts, definitely! The new 1x1 angled brick is one of the best new parts in years. Ditto the new 1x1 tooth plate. However, as nay-blay-ers, we will have (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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In lugnet.events.brickworld, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote: <snip> (...) I'm with Steve H on this one--the clips you yourself have taken and compiled into your post are not contradictory and they do lay out, at least in my mind, what's going to happen with (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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Bryan has contacted me privately and assured me that both his statement below, and David Gregory's previous statement about nobody making money, are truthful and accurate. As these are unambiguous statements, this clears up the whole issue for me in (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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