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(...) WTIC 1080 AM in Hartford, CT also carried this Brickfest story this morning, but then they added a bit of local flavor by discussing the model builders in Enfield, CT (not far from Hartford) who have careers building models for Lego, then they (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2003 Keynote Broadcast - BrickCast 2003
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(...) Note that this last line item is severely non trivial. The rtlToronto gang are a bunch of technoGeeks but several of them nevertheless had to spend several hours on this project on Friday making sure that things were set up. Major props to (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Saturday General Session Announcements
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(...) No problem. I figured that was the case considering I had three posts in a row. (...) Exactly my point. A BrickFest event put on the west coast on the same weekend we were anticipating a BW event without any previous mention and entirely (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: More vending at BF: now with 2-inch capsules!!
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(...) From what I saw, they were minifigures standing on a 4x4 green plate. Some had Lugnet stickers, others BrickFest 2003 stickers and some with older BrickFest 2002 stickers. I thought the one I had from 2002 was cute, so I got a 2003 one. It's (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Thanks for the web broadcast!
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I just want to add my thanks for the work and effort put into the webcast. And also to Larry for having the AIM chat - between the 2 it was almost as good as being there in person! THANKS!! Mark P (URL) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Official answer: The proportion of non Windows platform users is not worth effort to support them. WindowsMedia allows for easy content creation, encoding, broadcast, administration and works on servers I have easy access to. In the future, if (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) You're welcome. Many people offered to help to get the broadcast together and it was watched from places as far as Australia, Brazil, Japan and Denmark. Thanks to all who helped! Calum (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Saturday General Session Announcements
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First of all, Dave, I'd like to apoligize to you if you felt I was jumping down your throat personally. I read LUGNET from the main News page, I got sick of seeing people complaining about the situation without actually trying to do anything about (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Saturday General Session Announcements
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(...) Here is my senile recollection of those historical events. Many of us batted around the idea of having a west coast brickfest type convention. While in infancy our East coast counter parts voiced loud opposition to everything from our desire (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2003 Question and Answer
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(...) Enough to make it worth while creating a set like this... I guess? (...) Which is why I wondered if adult builders would want it. Perhaps it's aimed more directly at pure Star Wars fans than previous sets from this series? Contrasted with the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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(...) I'm in total agree ment there. I've already started preliminary plans using the connections I could reach on a Sunday. I'll expect better responses tomorrow. (...) How about September 6th? Join us in Mission Viejo at the next LUGOLA meeting (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Dave Johann wrote: -a lot of snipping- (...) It's good to see someone is giving a thumbs up to my idea :-) It's also good to see this topic starting getting some attention. Let's go back in history to when the BW idea (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | Re: More vending at BF: now with 2-inch capsules!!
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(...) Can anyone share some news about what's in the vending machine plastic capsules? Is there a variety of items or do they all have the same contents? I could sure use a bunch of LUGNET mini-fig logo stickers for a MOC I'm building! (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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<snip> Why Portland???? What possible draw is Portland???? To me the draw of BW was LLCA!! I'm not one of those 'same old, same old', but I can understand that feeling. To be fair, another draw IS the store/being able to buy sets there as well as (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I have to assume that you aren't fully aware of how many adult SW collectors are totally accustomed to having to use their credit cards online just to keep up with the Hasbro stuff. I seriously doubt they'll have any trouble moving enough (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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Hi... I just talked to Steve (and others) about this topic. He realises that there are a lot of open questions and valid concerns, and would like to apologise for not having been able to answer them all at the same time that the announcement was (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Which still doesn't really answer the question of who's going to buy it, only by which arm of their distribution network it's being sold on. The question I still have is, "will adults buy this 'play set' for $100?" Or, will they only see it as (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Fair enough. Though that wasn't what was presented to us yesterday, but fine, we'll go with your analysis for now. (...) Partly true. What I see is a group of people trying to put together an event more than 1000 miles away on the same weekend (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest mention on CBS radio in NorCal
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(...) The Bay Area ABC radio affiliate picked up on it too. In addition to mentioning the "cathedrals to robots", they talked to AF'sOL who admitted spending upwards of $10,000 a year on LEGO. Hmm, that could be any of several people.... :-) Maggie (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2003 Question and Answer
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(...) Ew, that probably leaves me out. I was hoping for the deep discount option. Oh well... -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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