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Re: Brickfair is official....
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lugnet.events
Date: 
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:32:45 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Joe Meno wrote:
   Mark your calendars in 2008: August 29th through 31st -- Labor Day weekend. Setup may begin Thursday evening on the 28th.

Visit Brickfair.com for details.

Sounds great. But what’s the deal with the name change? Why does every brick conference have to have a new name?

I don’t really care what name we used. For years, Brickfest was the standard name for this event, but now I guess those are only going to be in Portland. But sooner or later we’re going to run out of unique names for these events!

It seems to me like there is a lot of duplication of effort and unnecessary competition for all these events. A little more cooperation between event organizers, starting with a stop to this proliferation of event names, would be nice.



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  Re: Brickfair is official....
 
(...) The names are proprietary; they are owned by various people. The name BrickFest is a bit debatable (I think 4 people claim rights to it) but one person commands $3,000 fee to use it. I figured, "To heck with that, I'll start my own name and (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
  Re: Brickfair is official....
 
(...) For the short form, check out this post: (URL) partway down the line "$3,000 that went to AMH Productions for use of the BrickFest name". When people use a name for an event, they very often reserve some rights to the name (a good idea - as (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.events)
  Re: Brickfair is official....
 
(...) Again, I must digress. The name of the event neither makes nor breaks it. Although the last 'BrickFest' did occur in Portland, there has been no announcement since, official or otherwise, as to when or where or even if another BrickFest will (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)

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  Brickfair is official....
 
This was posted in the WAMALUG and WAMAltc yahoogroups earlier today: BrickFair 2008 is official. Plans have been in the works to bring the LEGO festival back to the Washington DC area. As of today it is official. Next summer's event is once again (...) (17 years ago, 13-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !! 

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