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Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 9 Sep 2006 03:16:50 GMT
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They are a perverted combination of zoo
exhibit, natural resource and employee.
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maybe--but leave out the “perverted”. And it is not really the AFOL’s that
are the exhibit (unless they want to be)--it is their creations that are the
exhibits.
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“Kids, they are going to call you America’s most valuable natural resource.
Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources? The’re going to strip
mine your souls...”
a nice quote from (Bruce) U. Utah Phillips
Frankly, though...it comes down to the fact that there are costs associated with
the whole event. At some point, and I think Brickfest has passed this point,
there is “professional” services being provided, and the organizers are no
longer volunteers, but have to pay themselves from the income to cover the costs
of organizing the whole thing. Assuming that this pay is not excessive, then I
don’t see a big problem with it...and excessive in my mind would mean that the
fest sucked, and the organizers are spending not a lot of time organizing it.
(in which case, it is doomed anyway...)
People have lost a fair amount of their own money running some of the cons, and
it is not as easy a go as some people think it is.
James Powell
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