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Re: BricksWest™ 2003 : The Beginning : Part 2
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Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:52:57 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Now, for some preliminary event information:
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> 1) First and foremost, the location and dates for the event need to be
> secured, as all else will stem from these. To this end, I have a call in to
> LEGOLAND California.
For those living on the west coast, the park is there and you go often. (You do
go often right?) Anyway, the attraction for me, coming from the east coast,
would be a chance to go to the park. While I wouldn't object to any location on
the west coast, my first interest would be for the park. A second close
interest would be Anaheim where I hear there is another great group of parks,
but I don't know much about them. ;^)
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> At the end of planning the last event, a preliminary offer was made to hold
> the entire 2003 event inside the theme park. The only drawback to this (as
> evidenced by the discussion folllowing the announcement) is that a balance
> would need to be struck between the public face of the show (where event
> presenters would be holding sessions for the park-going public at specific
> venues throughout the park) and the private conference (our themed modules
> and presentations held for the registered attendees).
Since the park closes so early (5 or 6pm) then I would think it would be great
to divide the day into park time and evening time and have things start around
noon and end around midnight or later. That more closely matches my "play" time
with the hobby anyway.
I guess the fundamental question that needs to be asked is whether or not this
event is geared for adults or children or both. I enjoy BrickFest a lot and I
enjoy the comradere of adults. I think there are adults out there that would
like to bring/invovle their children. If we could divided the day into park
time and evening time, then we could divide the focus into Adult/Child time at
the park and Adult time at night at the group hotel. Some families might be
willing to divide up in the evening to allow AFOLS to play at the hotel while
spouses and children engaged in other evening activities like shopping or
touristy things.
There is certainly a lot to do at the park and in the surrounding community.
As for the issue about where the mocs are and the fact that a great deal of
train stuff will be at the park... We could organize games, events, and
learning session in the evening at the hotel and have MOC or Train specific
sessions in the early evening just before and briefly after the park closes.
If we can get the Park to work with us on certain issues, we could plan for one
or 2 hours in the "tent" after the park closes and exit through the service
entrance. I know I would be willing to bring MOCs to the tent in exchange for
park admission or a reduced rate and a few hours in the tent with just
conventioners and not the whole public. Just my $0.02
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> I do not intend to seriously move forward with any other planning until I
> hear back from the park.
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> 2) If the idea of holding the entire event in the park doesn't work out,
> then we will be open to changing the venue.
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> My current thinking is as follows: If we can hold the event in the park,
> then we do so; if we can only use the Pavilion, then we see about securing
> Carlsbad hotel space (not the Grand Pacific Palisades, though); if the park
> is right out, then we look into alternatives.
Just a thought, but Europe has huge LEGO Fan celebrations. Is there a
community in California that would be interested in exchanging convention space
or community space for a weekend of tourism or community interest. Working with
LEGO might be able to bring a truck or a promotions involvement that might
drive interest in the park in Carlsbad. Again, working now towards this might
enable many things that could be put in the works for Feb.
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> While I'm certain that we could still use the Pavilion at the park as event
> space, I'm not so enamored of the idea that BricksWest would HAVE to remain
> in Carlsbad. In fact, I'm kind of taken with the idea of Anaheim, as has
> been previously mentioned.
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> 3) Despite thoughts to the otherwise, the Valentine's Day through
> President's Day holiday weekend still seems like the best bet for the event.
> It's the only three day weekend in a several month range.
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> If we move off to March as previously discussed, we can pick pretty much any
> weekend we wish. I would advocate against anything after March, as it would
> begin to impeed upon BrickFest.
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> Of course, the final deterination on dates will hinge upon securing the
> venue, so for now just expect it to fall somewhere from the middle of
> February to the end of March.
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> 4) We've already had some great interest from folks willing to run
> conference sessions (Steve Barile and PNLTC for trains, Tim Courtney for
> LDraw.org, Ralph Hemple with pbForth). Anyone else who is ready, willing and
> able to host or present sessions should e-mail to events@brickswest.com ASAP.
I am interested in seeing and participating in Animation and Video events,
Mindstorms events, and maybe a few gaming sessions including perhaps some
Spybotics.
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> 5) Sponsorships will play a mojor role in the event again, and I have had
> some new ideas for this. I'll be making some contacts and such for
> sponsorship as we work on, but suggestions are more than welcome either here
> or at admin@brickswest.com.
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> I have some great things working already from the theme, community, event
> and sponsorship angles, but I invite everyone interested in attending to
> still keep providing ideas here on the group...ultimately it's YOUR event,
> so let's work together to make BricksWest 2003 the GREATEST LEGO fan
> gathering EVER!
>
> Matt
Todd
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