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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Bryan Bonahoom wrote:
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John & the whole community,
snippage
Our goals were to give the children of Chicago exposure to the great
creations >of the AFOL community to spawn future AFOLs
huge snippage
Best Regards, Bryan & Adam
Co-coordinators for Brickworld
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And that’s my problem with this event....
and with the direction many of the AFOL events have been leaning. Don’t get me
wrong, I love kids, and want them to know how cool LEGO is. I worked for
LEGOLAND so I could show them. But I don’t pay $70 plus hotel, plus two or three
days off work for that.
I miss when our events were about the community coming together and playing. And
I have to say I take some offense to paying a registration fee to an event that
then uses mine and others’ creations to draw a public crowd and charge
admission. If the registration fees were going down in cost, I wouldn’t peep.
But they seem to be rising with the more public days the event allows.
We are near a paradigm shift with events. Soon it will be time to hold huge
expos of AFOL creations to the public. Separately from (perhaps smaller, more
regional) insiders conventions. We’re not there yet, but it (should be) is
coming...
Aaron
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: BrickFest 2007
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| (...) Sigh...I don't know what is that makes you continually speak out of ignorance. It's no secret though, where your thinly veiled bias lies. Your stance is already public record. Nice venues and cost money. New events don't have the luxury of (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
| | | Re: Brickworld Info (was BrickFest 2007)
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| (...) Aaron, You took your sentence quote from our post out of context. There was more to the sentence. And, while it may not have been clear to you, giving the children of Chicago a great show to watch was only 1/2 the goal. The other half was to (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
| | | Re: BrickWorld costs
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| (...) Registration for BrickWorld is actually $60. (<https://registrati...us/?m=info BrickWorld registration info>) A small difference, I know. I agree with what you've said and have thought the same thing about other AFOL events that I've been to (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
| | | Re: BrickFest 2007
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| In lugnet.events.brickworld, Aaron M. Sneary wrote: big snippage (...) end big snippage The cost seems very minor in regards to everything that is offered! Where else could you spend 4 days straight building/playing/talking about Lego for only $15 (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2007
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| (...) John & the whole community, We want to apologize on behalf of ourselves and the Brickworld Team. If anything we have done to create a great public event in Chicago has offended you, we are truly and sincerely sorry. Our goals were to give the (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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