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Hi all,
Things didn’t go right for 2BeContinued, the sponsor convention to House of
Bricks. Through some odd factors, the covention lost a sizable amount of money.
So much, the meeting space wasn’t paid for. On top of that, two of the three
guests of honor backed out...
I didn’t know about any of this until Friday
morning. It was then that I met some of the staff and was informed of the
changes - and it was asked what we were going to do.
I said, “We were going
to display.“
And with that snap decision, I went to the vendor room, where we
were placed in because there were no places to put us. There, I met Brian Davis,
who knew what was up and was already placing tables. And there, the HoB group
began to get organized and set up...by that afternoon, everybody was on their
way to setting up, and we ran out of tables - just when we didn’t need anymore!
Brian Darrow came in to put up his Blacktron Intelligence Agency, and we had a
space waiting for him.
Friday night, the NXT gang came in, and we went into
high gear Saturday, with the GBC setup running and NXTs running on the floor. My
camera became part of NXTcam that was charged by Steve Hassenplug’s mouse NXT.
And what was intially a questionable convention turned itself around to one of
the best events I have been part of.
Saturday night was spent watching the
Pirate comedy show, and then going to the NXT room, where the gang was making
guns for their NXTs... somewhere in there Felix got auctioned off as a cabin
boy...and Bryan B was passing drinks...
Which leads to Sunday, the last duel
of the NXTs with launchers(!) and wrap ups - I was done by 3 and out by 4 and
back home by midnight.
I had a LOT of fun. Many thanks to all the AFOLs who
showed:
Steve
Hassenplug, John Brost, Brian Davis,Purple Dave, Adam Tucker, Matt DeLanoy,
Stefan Garcia, Felix Greco, Kevin Clague, Bryan Bonahoom, Mike and Laura Bosch,
Kevin Lauer, Brian Darrow, Chad Phillips, and Greg and Andrew Dykstal.
While
I was the person who led, all of the people above gave a great display and
deserve most of the credit, from Brian Davis for starting to Stefan for
gathering all the video and burning DVDs for us, to everyone else for not
flinching when things looked pretty doubtful at the beginning. I saw the best of
the community come out, and Iwas pretty proud of the display and teh people.
Thanks also to the Susan and Jose at the hotel (Doubletree Suites of Downer’s
Grove) for their help in getting tables. Many thanks go to Cersei of the
convention (she’s the girl in the group pic) for helping to get things worked
out...
Some things of note:
big things (Brian Darrow’s Blacktron
Intelligence Agency)
tall
things (Adam Tucker’s Sears Tower)
Matt
DeLanoy’s pirate in brick
and
NXT gang!
So
what’s next? Well, there’s other conventions interested in us...and we’ll be
ready!
More galleries:
Joe Meno’s
Felix Greco’s
Brian Davis’
more from Brian Davis
Stefan Garcia’s
Matt DeLanoy’s
Brian Darrow’s
Blacktron Intelligence
Agency
Joe Meno
House of Bricks Coordinator
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