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Re: Aust event 2005 (update #3) BrickVention!: Event Competition
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:32:29 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Pete White wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Mel wrote:
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As part of the event and also involving the community, you have a chance
to join in by coming up with a custom set of your own to design for our
event. The custom designed set will be available for purchase at the event
and used as part of our fundraising project (this will help for any
finances previously used and possibly for future events).
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Very cool!
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- Winner/s: One entry is to hopefully chosen (possibly two). Winner/s will be announced at the event.
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The kits are going to be used for fundraising before the event (presumably
that’s when you need to raise the funds), but the designer not announced
until the event? That doesn’t quite match with the giving credit bit...
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I think the idea is to pre-sell the sets (to raise funds), and distribute
the pre-sold ones at the event, as well as having them for sale at the door.
The people who buy them before the event won’t know what they’re getting
until they get there...
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Custom kits are labour intensive to produce and it’s expensive to source
parts, so they tend to be pricey for what you get, unless it’s a great design
;^) So does there need to be fundraising before the fundraising ?
Who are you selling to at the door, if it’s the public, they often don’t
touch LEGO at 50% off.
It’s an interesting idea, the creativity is available, but...
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Oh Pete! Of course, I have two custom sets sitting right in my house right now,
much more pieces involved, this is why we will go for the right design with the
right price in mind and with the right kind of pieces used!
It’s not that difficult at all, it’s not like we are saying lets produce 200 of
these right now on the spot... It’s all been thought through and there will be
instructions for it too, they won’t be very big and they won’t be too small...
that is why I said “However, it will not be guaranteed that any submitted set
will be chosen as the kit, this may be due to parts availability, designs,
structure, size, colour, cost of parts needed or any other related problems that
may occur”.
They will be for sale and winner/design revealed at the show and not beforehand.
The sale will reimburse the purchase of them “The custom designed set will be
available for purchase at the event and used as part of our fundraising project
(this will help for any finances previously used and possibly for future
events).” Whatever is left over will go to reimburse other things such as the
website and/or other related subjects etc...”
So the whole idea is to design something that won’t be expensive to produce,
that doesn’t use more than 50 parts, preferably less, that the parts aren’t hard
to get etc etc... and as I also said “Parts: 30 - 50 parts (preferably 50 as
the max usuage of parts). Please use parts that are known to be commonly
available and in the right colours that are also available, do not use rare or
hard to find parts. Please use common sense while designing.” <-- in
particular!
There is more happening and talked about behind the scenes, and this fits in
with other things planned, such as later when I announce the PRESALE/ORDER of
the badges (both for anyone involved in the end and anyone who wants to buy one
for another fundraising purpose, but more on that later)... the presale of those
will also hopefully help fuel some $ for the purchase of the parts for the kits
and I will also be taking parts from my store to help too! There will be batches
of the kit made... but more on that also later, please just wait as this has
been planned in a way that works.
Just get building and submitting!
Thanks :)
Mel
P.S. if no-one submits anything that we can choose as the marketable
end-product, we will have to design it ourselves or just not go with it at all,
but we want to avoid that as much as possible, as we would love the community to
get involved in it too!
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