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Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest
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Date:
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Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:32:57 GMT
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Anthony Wrote:
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However.
The Brickfest organizers put on this expo where they invite all these AFOLs
to attend their event. Why do the AFOLs come? Not for profit. They come to
share ideas, visit with friends and show off their creations.
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You are absolutely correct to this point
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Now let’s say for the sake of argument that the Brickfest organizers are
making a profit from Brickfest. Brickfest has now become no better than a
zoo.
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Well to many, including myself, a well run zoo is a cultural resource that has
value and needs to be sustained and nurtured. Literally thousands of people
volunteer their time and money to make them possible. All the way from vets to
sales clerks. So perhaps I do like your analogy. But to really make it a well
run zoo; one that cares for the needs of the animals and the public, you need a
director--and in all well run zoos, that means compensating the director.
Go into a zoo, and you will find volunteers working at all sorts of jobs. Just
as in Art Museums, and every other kind of museum or historical building. Why,
because they believe in it. My mother was a docent for 40 years at the
governor’s mansion--why--she wanted to help.
The more I think of it, the better the analogy works. Most zoos and museums have
membership dues if one wants to contribute. Those dues help fund the zoo, and
give the members some added benefits--such as special behind the scenes tours,
discounts, etc.
In many ways BrickFest is the same thing--the dues give you access to the
lectures and presentations which from what I gather are not only getting better
and better but also very well received. And for many, the 25% discount at Tysons
Corner Store more than paid for the registration fee. One NXT at discount saved
the whole registration fee.
As far as I know, it is not a requirement for one to register to exhibit. If it
is, then, I probably have a problem with that.
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Certain AFOLs then decide to take on even more responsibility and volunteer
their services to do the Brickfest organizer’s job in organizing the
different themes of the event for no compensation.
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Which they do of their own free-will. No coercion involved. They want to see the
event succeed. Just as volunteers at say the History Museum want to make it
succeed.
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And then Brickfest invites the public, who also pay their dues, to come see
what? The AFOLs creations, which would not be there if the AFOLs had not
come.
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The same is true for a museum or zoo--they come to see works of art or animals
that were almost always donated to the museum.
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A for-profit organization in
this situation is getting money from three sources: The public, The
exihibits, and the help (by saving money by not paying the help).
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We are not necessarily talking about a for-profit organization--just not a
completely volunteer organization.
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In essence, the attending AFOLs are making money for the Brickfest organizers
without making money for themselves.
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No, they are partaking in the experience that they deemed to be of value and
understand that there are financial obligations that need to be met in order for
the experience to take place. Yep--just like going to a zoo.
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They are a perverted combination of zoo
exhibit, natural resource and employee.
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maybe--but leave out the “perverted”. And it is not really the AFOL’s that are
the exhibit (unless they want to be)--it is their creations that are the
exhibits.
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The difference is a side-show versus a public exhibition.
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There is no “public exhibition” that I know of of any quality that does not
incur expenses that have to be paid--
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That is my reasoning. Agree with it or not, you won’t change my mind.
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I am not really trying to, but think your analogy of a zoo is not bad.
I, myself am not anti-zoo.
Tommy Armstrong
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