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In lugnet.events.brickworld, Aaron M. Sneary wrote:
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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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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 drawing on the
resources of the previous year. NWBrickon has had two public days in the past
yet I don’t see you railing against that.
Don’t look for things to pick at just because you already prescribe to some
contrived notion of what started Brickworld and killed Brickfest DC.
Different events have different formats. You have a choice to attend which ever
event you wish or disregard what you don’t. Don’t complain about an event you
aren’t going to attend unless you plan on trying and improve things.
Fradel
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