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BrickFest Registration Deadline is Less than a Month Away!
Final registration deadline is July 29 for BrickFest, so now’s the time to go to
the website and join in the fun!
250 people are already registered, and we have a cap of 400 paid attendees, so
hurry and get your registration set up and paid - it may seem that there are a
lot of open spaces, but that changes literally inside of a week! Beat the rush!
Presentations Wanted
If you want to do a presentation on any aspect of the AFOL community or the LEGO
hobby, register on the on the Get Involved page - you’ll be in the company of
LEGO staff members this year! There will be presentations on mecha, space, and
castle so far, but there’s room for more!
And Something Completely Different!
This will be the first time that a new game will be played, as told by Steve
DeCraemer...
Dirty Buildster
Well, It’s a new location and new game. Introducing DIRTY BUILDSTER. What
exactly is this, you ask? Well, here’s how it goes:
Friday night after the opening ceremony we’re getting together. All you have to
do is bring two paper bags. Each paper bag is to contain:
20 regular bricks: All the same color or different colors, it doesn’t matter.
they can be any size at all, from 1x1 to 2x10. they can be all the same size or
all different, but they must be regular bricks. Slopes or other modified brick
does not count in this category.
80 pieces that are not standard bricks:
This is where you can really have fun and dump alot of the junk you never use or
want. You can only repeat a particular piece 10 times (regardless of color). A
piece will be counted the way they come out of sets. For instance: left monkey
arms would not count because when you recieved it in a set it was already
attached to the rest of the monkey. In this way, some hinges could be given in
halves, some not. The pieces are to be in good condition. They don’t need to be
new. But they should not be chewed, melted, written on, badly faded,
modified/broken or show heavy play wear. And yes it has to be actual LEGO. No
knock offs.
Everyone participating gets two tickets which are stapled to the
outside of the bags. The other half of the tickets get put into a hat from
which we will draw from. We will spin a bottle once to see who goes first and
proceed clockwise from there. When your turn comes, you draw two tickets and
call their numbers and the people with the corresponding bags give you that bag.
This is continued until all tickets are drawn/all bags are exchanged. If you
draw your own number, you are stuck with that bag. (serves you right for trying
to pawn off your crap on someone else).
Now the “fun” part. The pieces in
the bag are now yours (like it or not). You now have until noon Saturday to
create something with the 200 pieces from your two bags. You can not add pieces
from your own collection or add a baseplate to build on. You can use as many or
as few of the 200 pieces as you wish. It can be anything at all. Sculpture,
vehicle, sci-fi, whatever.
Saturday morning tables will be set up to display
these “creations”. A number will be given to your creation and logged next your
name. During the public expo Saturday afternoon six youngsters (9-13yrs) will
be chosen at randon to vote for their three favorite “creations”. Votes will be
counted and announced Saturday or Sunday during evening ceremonies.
If anyone
has any questions regarding the contest please feel free to ask
me, Steve DeCraemer.
Hope to see you at
BrickFest.
Steve DeCraemer
and that’s it for this BrickFest Bulletin - if there are any questions, drop me
a line here or e-mail me!
Joe Meno
Event Coordinator, BrickFest 2006
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