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To everyone who came in from out of town and stayed at a hotel, Can you please list your expences for the weekend (in US dollars) so I can get an idea of the expences I would incur for attending next year? Thanks Jude I like stories. (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...We hope to pick a weekend soon (current target is 3rd weekend in june, aka June 15-17, but don't hold me to it (still exhausted and recovering)). But the sooner we post it and the more we shill it, the more likely people will be able to (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) My expenses were: $140 or so, rental of an Isuzu Trooper for 3 days (it's amazing how much you can pack into a trooper, only a few of the locals brought the same order of magnitude of volume of stuff as I brought) $75 or so for gas (travelling (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, Frank Filz writes: <snip> (...) <more snip> (...) Ok Frank, now you have to explain what "K-8" is. jt (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) And I'm sure it was worth every penny of it. I fall under the 'really pressed for cash' section, and was fortunate to have a friend pay for my transportation and put me up at his house. Having a local put you up is definitely the way to go for (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) A K-8 is the box TLC uses to supply LEGO parts to the play tables and for events. It's about 18" x 30" x 15" or something like that, filled with bricks. Apparently they stock them by dumping parts from returned sets, manufacturing left overs, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...A huge pile of fun! just a big ol box of parts that we begged LEGO to send us for the fest and they were polite enuf to do so :-) (maybe they felt guilty since they couldn't come themselves to this internationally recognized fest (I'm sure (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Very cool, I didn't know they had particular box for stocking the play tables. That would be a cool thing for LEGO Direct to sell, you'd never really know what you're going to get. That would kind of add to the excitement, then you could trade off (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) All my money was spent on transportation and food (didn't buy any LEGO, and someone offered me lodging). Transportation (plane ticket+train+metro) was about $185, and I spent about $20 on lunches and dinners. --Bram Bram (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...yes! I would easily pay $250 for a box or maybe more if I could at least open it first. The stuff in it is sometimes _great!_. (...) ...Ha!!! Us WAMALUG folks already thought of that!!! We're starting to plan a weekend meeting this autumn (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...I meant to ask you, "was it worth it?" Its one thing when us older FOls drop $200+ on a weekend. it hurts, but we can recover, but for the 18-22 crowd, $200 represents several months of saving effort. ...you can go back to ignoring me (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...A 'variation' on that question is 'did you get your money's worth?" And I want honesty from people here! Course, the fest itself was free, but things like airfare and hotel rooms can add up (and unfortunately, there are no real cheap hotels (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Did anyone look into a "group rate" for rooms at hotels? Sometimes you can get a fairly significant discount that way. What were the final Brickfest attendance figures, anyone know? And a further Brickfest question...is it going to be a yearly (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) That's the plan! :) Jeff (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) ... (...) want honesty (...) For me, it was absolutely worth the $85 hotel stay, the 2.5 hour drive each way from Richmond, getting lost trying to find McDonalds, eating much junk food from Giant, the packing and unpacking of the car, etc. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Gosh, you have no idea. For starters, it's amazng how inspiring it is to sit in front of a huge pile of STUFF and just BUILD without thinking about it. I did that for about 2 hours on Sat. night, I think, and I came up with some very weird (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) good sized (...) LMK if you want to do this in Richmond, I will be glad to help organize (being that I live there) and might be able to get us a VERY SWEET (free) space to have the gathering. Chris Busse (URL) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) want honesty (...) OK, honesty. I had a great time. It was very cool. I will be back. But unfortunately, I did get my money's worth on the fest itself. The old adage, you get what you pay for, is correct. And free was too little. The place was (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that the price we paid was a discounted rate for brickfest. Isn't that right? (...) Personally, I hope that it does not move around. I hope that WAMALUG maintains enough interest to perpetuate the event annually. If you want (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, Christopher L. Weeks writes: (many good suggestions snipped) (...) For the record, the only thing I was in charge of was setting up the stuff I brought, and keeping the webcams running. Denise and Stephen (in that order (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) delineated (...) Kevin, Is it possible to get a higher viepoint for the cams ? When viewing there were quite a few views of peoples 'rear sections' at times. Also seen was a face with a protruding tongue shortly before the cam moved to an (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Yes, the rate was $20 per day cheaper than their regular rate (for comparison, their discount for internet registration was $10 per day cheaper than regular). (...) I agree on all counts. Moving events are good for the annual meeting of a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) Oops, correction on the gas price... It was more like $50, partially due to needing to fill up in DC at $1.60 something per gallon (v.s. $1.47 or so at home). (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) The order of Denise and Stephen is actually an example of some of the problems with understanding who was in charge. I wasn't aware that Denise was top dog until arriving and Stephen mentioning something about it. Outside of that mention, the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I'll insert mine as a contrast... (...) $0: I brought my station wagon which could have help substantially more than I brought. (...) $18. (...) Right, I think we figured it as $87.25 or something. (...) roughly: - $2 for two burritos from (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Actually, one might more correctly say it was very hot! :-) (...) I mostly agree here (if a perfect place can be had for free, perhaps one could still do a free event). Another thing that plays into go ahead and charge: prizes were supplied (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Allthough us lonelsome people who were watching the cams and chatting in Brick LUG Chat decided we got so many pics we were gonna have a 'name that butt' contest! Boy were we bored! I cant rtemember who but one of us was saving the transcripts (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Same here. I had $60 worth of SW sets waiting for me at the fest (thanks, Jeff!!), which was actually more like $240 worth... :-) So I restrained myself to a 70 bucks buy at the Store. I would've gotten more if my wallet hadn't been (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I think so. When I was deciding to go, I sort of spread the cost of Brickfest across savings I had made earlier in the year, such as Mindfest (which I went to free on frequent flier tickets) and prom (~$120 paid by my mom (for tux & entrance). (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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The money I spent for Brickfest was definitely worth it. I didn't spend too much since I drove down from Baltimore every day, but I guess $60 for gas, tolls, and food, not counting $100 or so spent on 2 T-shirts and LEGO purchases. I wouldn't mind (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) drop $200+ on a (...) represents several (...) want honesty (...) and hotel (...) area, tho it (...) costs for (...) we had drivers (...) a bit (...) to pay to get (...) consideration for us, (...) somewhere we have (...) forums :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I saved every picture from both webcams on the server. That's 2 pictures every 10 seconds. That's about 19,000 images (but only 287MB). I'm still not sure what I'll do with them, but I do have them. KL (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Where did you hear that? Most of the prizes were donated by the LEGO Outlet Store at Potomac Mills. A few were donated by Denise. Even the T-shirts were advanced out of pocket by Denise. WAMALUG doesn't have that much money. KL (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) When I tried to turn down the cash Stephen offered me for a 6204 and several 1747s, he mentioned something about the money coming from WAMALUG, but I may have misunderstood something. I'm glad to hear that most of the prizes were donated by (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...We blocked a few rooms for the fest. They gave us a group discount, but I'm not sure how much :-/ (...) ...Not sure just yet... still recovering :-) (...) ...We will do this annually. It was just too much fun not to! Tho we have also talked (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) Sequence them in Adobe Premier and make it into a movie!! I can do this if you'd like... If you can put the pics up somewhere with a fat pipe I can download them or you could burn them onto a CD-ROM... Chris Busse (URL) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...I am a bit annoyed with GMU for their AC :-/ Unfortunately, we didn't know it was such a nuisance to change the temp before it was too late, otherwise we would have gotten them to fix it before they left on friday.... grrrrr... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Heh, it was more like 5 feet tall, but it was standing on the table...I was actually more pleased with the fighter I made--having no hinges and few technic pieces required coming up with unique ways of attaching pieces for the way I like to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) As I mentioned earlier, we got a $20 per day savings (they have a different $10 per day savings if you reserve rooms using their web site, but you can't reserve rooms using event codes like we did [that had to be done by calling the specific (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) ...That was prolly mostly to get u to take the money :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) Guide ((URL) the wildlink ((URL) #160 (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...Ur biased! U'd have said that if she didn't do anything!!! :-) ...But the truth is she did most of the behind the scenes organizing and the kicking us slackers and the guidance to make sure it happened. I may have been the public face of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) It was great! I'd pay twice as much to get in next time! (har!) Seriously, you folks did a wonderful job. I've been to paid events that didn't give attendees half of what you provided. I also think an attitude of "let's all play and we'll deal (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I think if we let Steve know the date as soon as it is firm, we will have his presence as long as it doesn't conflict with anything he's already got on his schedule. I think he is very interested in becoming more involved with the LEGO fan (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Post that to the FAQ, please? (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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