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Re: BrickFest 2007 location
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lugnet.events.brickfest
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Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:22:50 GMT
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Hey, Ever hear of WorldCon. It's The premiere SciFi con, it moves every
year and groups compete/bid for 2-3 years in advance to host it. So I
see no reason why brickfest in all its glory could not become similar. I
for one have never been to, and probably never will, the DC area for a
large number of reasons. Many Personal.
David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Mark Neumann wrote:
>
> > I disagree. This has already happened. It's called NWBrickCon. You might
> > of heard of it.
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>
> Well, I don't think that's necessarily the point. I think there are a few sub
> issues here:
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> 1) There should only be one major Lego convention every year
> 2) There shouldn't be MORE major Lego conventions every year
> 3) BrickFest shouldn't divide its funds and energies into multiple fests per
> year
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> As for 1) and 2), I half-heartedly agree. I can budget and plan for something
> like BrickFest maybe once a year. But 2? 3? More? Guh, I'd love to, but time and
> money quickly become a huge factor.
>
> BrickFest is great, and I'm assuming NWBrickCon and BrickFest PDX are too, but
> it's disappointing to me that it seems like I'll never meet all the west coast
> folks. They'll go to their conventions, and the east costers will go to
> BrickFest.
>
> But if BrickFest travelled around every year, without all the other events going
> on, chances are the attendance at BrickFest would include more people from a
> more diverse area. Also, it gives more people a chance to attend a BrickFest.
> All the lucky people in the DC area have had 7 BrickFests to attend, but there's
> tons more people in other cities who WOULD go if BrickFest were close, but won't
> (or can't) make the journey to DC.
>
> But that's not an ideal solution, either, since it's clearly lots of fun to put
> these events together and attend them-- so having more fests per year and per
> area DOES increase the amount of people who can have a chance to go to events
> like this. And, for the sake of the Lego Company, it increases their exposure
> (I'm sure they'd love for us to have more fests!). If (as per the above)
> BrickFest were the only thing, and were a travelling convention, what happens
> when it's on the east coast or the midwest for a year? All the west-coast people
> who only go to local fests don't end up going to a fest that year.
>
> So, no easy way to slice it. But I do admit that I wish there were one
> "definitive" event every year.
>
> As for 3), I'm sure you'd probably agree that BrickFest simply isn't the type of
> organization that can manage bunches of fests every year. Not unless it became a
> full time job for people, or simply entrusted the BrickFest name to other groups
> (a la PDX) who could organize them pretty much independantly.
>
> DaveE
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>
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