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It took some time before I could relax and sit down to answer your
questions, but here they are:
In lugnet.loc.it, Pedro Silva writes:
> #1 - How many builders, creations and visitors attended the event? Gimme
> some numbers, please. (Important: what percentage of non-LEGO fans?)
Visitors:
All days where sold out. I're read a newpaper article claiming that over the
four days the event lasted we've recieved 40000 visitors. I'm not sure but I
personaly believe it was a figure between 30000 and 35000. Only a very small
percentage of these where AFOL, most where children and parents, showing
that LEGO is still very popular in The Netherlands.
Builders and collectors:
We had about 25 people showing their creations, the 11 foreigh guest included.
On top of that we had a few people selling parts, minifigs and discontinued
sets. We also had a collector showing highlights from LEGO's history
including old sets from the fiftees and the wooden toys from the very early
days of the company.
Some of the attractions:
A modern fair (including those mobile homes with "telescopic" rooms),
several large cranes, a monorail driven atraction park ride with a Harry
Potter theme(wich was a great crowd pleaser, it depicted many scenes from
the book), trucks and other vehincles, buildings (both minifig scale and
much larger),
Roborace, RCX automated train wagon parking building, workshops about
Ldraw/MLcad and smart Lego building techniques, and a train layout (always a
secure hit)
> #2 - What kind of support did you have from LEGO/Netherlands and/or TLC? Is
> it expectable to have that kind of support abroad?
We've organised the event in cooperation with LEGO Instore and Events, the
IJsselhallen (providing the location and admission logistics) and FOX Kids
(a commercial TV station, providing network publicity and preformances by
artists that are popular amongst kids)
There where three halls, the first and largest one mostly filled by LEGO
with their displays, the Lego truck and playing material. Under our
supervision the record attempt mozaic, the historical collection and the
building contest where also to be found here. Finaly this hall contained
several food and drink stalls.
The second hall was the preformance area of Fox Kids (to our relief most
people used this space to eat, drink and drop their garbage of the catering)
The third hall was occupied excusively by members of our Dutch LEGO users
group "De Bouwsteen" (The building brick) under our own supervision.
"De Bouwsteen" has been taken seriously by LEGO Instore and Events, because
we've been organising regular independed club meetings (wich are open to the
public) for several years in a row. Once we've showed them a video recording
of one of those club meetings.
> #3 - How is the planning of one event this big? How much time and people to
> organize it?
We started 6 months ago and formed an organisation committee of 6 people,
We assigned certain tasks, missions and resposibilities to the individual
members of this committee. We've held 3 general meetings during the
preparation period and did a lot of dedicated e-mail communication using a
specific layout for the subject line and the header of the message body,
such as starting with a fixed name and a following number for gouping the
messages and a fixed line for telling what subjects the message is about.
We've appointed a central individual/post address/e-mail box/phone number
that collected all application forms and incomming messages. This person
entered all information in a central database, from wich the other members
of our committee could extract the information they needed. Particulary in
the beginning we strongly recommended to set up such a central entry point
and database, otherwise you will end up with incomplete data,
inconsistencies, different levels of knowlege and other communication
mishaps. Once you've established the different activity groups, you can
delegate specialised communications about those subjects to the resposable
commitee members.
> #4 - How does one participate in the event?
We've invited members of "De Bouwsteen" by means of a large article in our
club magazine. We not only called for exibition participants but also for
voluntiers to help run things smoothly.
Also whe've made a general but vague annoucement in Lugnet/Local/European
Union at the time we started preparation. Later we've made a follow up
anouncement/invitation to participate in the same newsgroup, and in the
local newsgoups of the countries surrounding us as well as the contries that
responded after the first announcement.
Everyone participating recieved a four day pass for free admission to the event.
> #5 - When is the next one?
Yet unkown, but higly possible.
with friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| Hi Manfred! (...) Better ask someone in .loc.it... I understand *some* italian, but I'm afraid I cannot comprehensively translate the whole story. Sorry... :-( (...) Yes, I have a couple of questions for you! But first allow me to congratulate you (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
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