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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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Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Anthony Sava wrote:
I’m only going to speak (type?) for myself here. I came... because it was fun. A
*lot* of fun. And I learned an amazing amount of things, and was deeply inspired
by a lot of the things I saw (interpretation: I will steal a lot of cool ideas
from the rest of you ;-).
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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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Huh. Well, I’d say, for the sake of argument, that if your analysis was true...
I’d still gladly pay $20 a day for the privledge of attending. After all, I do
that for the Chicago museums & aquarium... all of which cost more than that. I
do it for family trips to Disney... which is much more than that, and I come
back with far less inspiration.
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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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As one of those volunteers... yes, and I’d do it again, and I HAD A BLAST doing
it!! I also, by virtue of being a volunteer, now have a better idea of what the
organizers on the level above me do. And as others have said far better than I,
it’s an amazing, mind-numbing amount of work.
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That is my reasoning. Agree with it or not, you
won’t change my mind.
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Fair enough. I prefer continued reasoning, discussion, and keeping an open mind,
especially about situations where I have evidence that I don’t have all the
facts. But that’s just me.
Oh, and jumping to parallel threads (sorry)... Marc wrote:
% Would people be so eager to lug 50 lbs. of
% MOCs to BF if they thought they were padding
% someone’s profit margin?
Well, I guess that argument could be made for me as well, substituting “time and
money” for “luging 50 lbs of MOCs”. Lately, I’ve spent a large amount of my
personal money, and an insane amount of my time, to help a large profit-making
corporation to try to make their product more successful... in other words, I’ve
essentially given away my hard work and time to increase somebody elses profit
margin, while recieving almost no compensation in return.
The company, by the way, is LEGO. The product is the NXT, and I’ve been working
on the MUP or MDP for months and months. Why?
Because It’s Fun. PERIOD.
--
Brian Davis
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