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Re: Australian Brickfest? 2005 - Survey
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:49:56 GMT
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RE: An Australian Brickfest type event for the year 2005.
> > Where are you from?
Hobart
> > What is your occupation and who do you work for?
Part-time IT Consultant, State Government. Full-time Mother, 2 kids.
> > What should Australia’s first larger private/public event/show/convention/fest etc be called?
Something meaningful to outsiders so that it's obvious it's a Lego event.
> > Where should the event be held?
In whichever city has a local active group that is interested in organising it.
Let's face it, the locals will end up doing the bulk of the work.
Somewhere centrally accessible with good transport and accomodation and won't be
overrun by some other big event at the same time.
So: probably Melbourne or Sydney.
> > When should it take place?
During school holidays in mid 2005. BTW this would actually be fairly
impossible as I've just checked and the states are different. There is some
overlapping but not for everyone. Tasmania doesn't overlap any of them but we
do have a long weekend during ours.
Failing that a long weekend.
For myself to attend, it would need to be in school holidays as we would make it
a family holiday at the same time.
> > How many days should the event take place over? Answering that, how many days
> > would you attend the event?
2 Days? Unless it was action packed everyone would be bored by day 3. I'd
personally probably only attend 1 full day, or maybe a couple of hours on each.
> > Should there be an entry fee/ticket and how much should the fee/ticket cost? How much would you be willing to pay?
I'd be reluctant to pay anything over costs.
If you wanted public attendance and interest then charging a large fee will put
them straight off. I'd guess a (public) family wouldn't pay anything over $20
and even then they'd expect a lot for that.
> > How many people do you think would attend such an event?
No idea. AFOLs and their families would be the bulk of it.
> > Would you prefer it if the LEGO group/company were involved or would you prefer for them not to be?
Yes, but would this be large enough to be of interest to them?
I don't have much good to say about Lego Australia I'm afraid, though maybe I'm
unfairly tarnishing the rest of the local organisation with my experiences with
their consumer support. Now if you could get LD involved somehow that would be
great but that comes straight back to "are we large and interesting enough for
them?".
> > Would you like to help organise it? If so how would you like to participate?
I would find helping out extremely difficult due to both location and lack of
spare time.
> > How could/would the event be better than what other events around the world have to offer?
We should be trying to get the basics right for the first one, out-doing other
events is aiming way too high at this stage.
I would measure it's success in national participation levels.
> > Who would you like to attend?
Primarily an AFOL and (interested) families event, including children.
Perhaps a public display as a secondary part.
I'm not suggesting we exclude anyone, I'm just thinking about who we're likely
to actually get.
> > What would you like to see at the event?
MOCs, an integrated display such as a town/train layout including our fabulous
Aussie Icons. A Mindstorms challenge? That said, I can't see myself travelling
with MOCs and I really don't get a chance to build much these days anyway.
I'm not personally interested in Brikwars but I expect that would be the
highlight for many.
Maybe something like
Day 1: Meet and greet, setup displays, ooh and ahh over MOCs, trading, buying
etc, inaugural national lunch (on site even if it's just a big pizza order!),
Brikwars later in the day.
Day 2: Public display (set up from day before), world record event
Day 3: Only for the diehards, Brikwars or whatever.
> > What sort of Audience should the event attract?
Everyone. If you exclude children you'd lose the bulk of your public interest,
and probably a significant amount of AFOLs.
> > If the event turned out to be a success, would you attend another?
Hard to say. More likely if 2 years later.
> > If you would attend the next one should it be held in the same place again or another destination in another state?
It probably shouldn't become the domain of one state/group, but this comes back
to who can best organise it and actually wants to do it.
> > Would you donate any of your ‘unwanted’ LEGO to the East Timor Children? (If
> > there were a deposit box at the event etc).
No because
a) If we were serious about helping them I'd think there would be better
choices than Lego.
b) I wouldn't travel with it.
c) I already donate to locals.
> > Do you think it would be a cool idea if LEGO organised a RLD (Red Letter Day - refer to UK posts) type event, for those who were interested?
Not sure how this is relevant to us.
> > Do you think it would be cool if LEGO gave us a chance (if ever possible) to buy bulk bricks from the event?
Absolutely.
> > Would you like to buy stuff not normally available to us at the event?
Yes, provided the prices were fair, even better if they were slightly
discounted.
> > Would you like to see a ‘World Record’ type activity held at the event?
Yup. This would work well as an adjunct to a public display, but would require
LAs involvement.
> > Would you like to see a Commemorative Brick, especially made for us, at the
> > event? (Like the Promotional Duplo bricks).
Yes, but realistically, is this likely to happen? I imagine there would be a
minimum order size which probably is far greater than what we'd want to buy.
> > What do you think would be the overall ideal event to be held for Australia’s first large event like this? (besides whatever LEGO already do and the National meets).
I see this as just a large national meet, i.e. with greater national attendance
given the longer lead time to plan and gear up interest.
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Deidre
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