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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steven Barile wrote:
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Hi All,
The BrickFest staff has some bad news. BrickFest ’11 in Portland is canceled.
There are no catastrophic circumstances surrounding this, but rather a
collection of smaller issues. Given there are so many wonderful alternatives
we hope that this doesn’t impact the community’s ability to gather. It has
been our pleasure to serve to community, thanks to all those that have
volunteered in the past. It’s been great fun.
Feel free to communicate this out to the rest of the community.
Thanks,
Steve Barile
& BrickFest staff
PS This is note is only for BrickFest ‘11 in Portland in March, not for
BrickFest in general.
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Steve--
Sorry to hear of this--but understand, and we’ll see you next time around.
Thanks for verifying this info.
Play Well and Prosper,
Doc Crandall
“The Brick Detective”
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Hi All,
The BrickFest staff has some bad news. BrickFest ’11 in Portland is canceled.
There are no catastrophic circumstances surrounding this, but rather a
collection of smaller issues. Given there are so many wonderful alternatives we
hope that this doesn’t impact the community’s ability to gather. It has been our
pleasure to serve to community, thanks to all those that have volunteered in the
past. It’s been great fun.
Feel free to communicate this out to the rest of the community.
Thanks,
Steve Barile
& BrickFest staff
PS This is note is only for BrickFest ‘11 in Portland in March, not for
BrickFest in general.
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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Steve & Christina can give the definitive answer but Steve sent a note around
to some folk saying it has been cancelled. That note circulated to a fair few
club lists and the like. An announcement here and on the other major
discussion centers might be a good thing (wherever the original announcement
was posted I suppose)... I’ll ping him.
Hope that helps.
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According to the Brickfest site:
“We are sorry to announce that BrickFest and BricKids Has been cancelled
due to staffing issues.
News of future events will be posted on this site
as well as many of the regular LEGO AFOL web sites.”
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Matthew Crandall wrote:
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steven Barile wrote:
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Hi All,
We are happy to announce that BrickFest(TM) and BricKids(TM) will be held on
March 24-27, 2011 at the Oregon Convention Center - Portland, OR. The hotel
is same last time, the Red Lion at the Convention Center.
Steve & Christina
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Hi everyone!
Is there--or is there not--going to be a Brickfest in 2011? It was announced
at BrickCon there would be but now, according to the website, “We are sorry
to announce that BrickFest™ and BricKids™ Has been cancelled due to staffing
issues.”
Need to know so we can plan accordingly.
Play Well,
Doc Crandall
“The Brick Detective”
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Steve & Christina can give the definitive answer but Steve sent a note around to
some folk saying it has been cancelled. That note circulated to a fair few club
lists and the like. An announcement here and on the other major discussion
centers might be a good thing (wherever the original announcement was posted I
suppose)... I’ll ping him.
Hope that helps.
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steven Barile wrote:
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Hi All,
We are happy to announce that BrickFest(TM) and BricKids(TM) will be held on
March 24-27, 2011 at the Oregon Convention Center - Portland, OR. The hotel
is same last time, the Red Lion at the Convention Center.
Steve & Christina
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Hi everyone!
Is there--or is there not--going to be a Brickfest in 2011? It was announced at
BrickCon there would be but now, according to the website, “We are sorry to
announce that BrickFest™ and BricKids™ Has been cancelled due to staffing
issues.”
Need to know so we can plan accordingly.
Play Well,
Doc Crandall
“The Brick Detective”
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steven Barile wrote:
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Hi All,
We are happy to announce that BrickFest(TM) and BricKids(TM) will be held on
March 24-27, 2011 at the Oregon Convention Center - Portland, OR. The hotel
is same last time, the Red Lion at the Convention Center.
Steve & Christina
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When I clicked through to the Brickfest site, my site advisor gives the
following warning:
“1 red download
In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware,
spyware or other potentially unwanted programs.”
When I checked
the warning out, it said that there’s a “red” download called sell.exe that’s
described as “PWS-Goldun trojan,IEPatch virus,Generic PWS.y trojan”.
Might want to get that cleared up...just sayin’.
David
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Hi All,
We are happy to announce that BrickFest(TM) and BricKids(TM) will be held on
March 24-27, 2011 at the Oregon Convention Center - Portland, OR. The hotel is
same last time, the Red Lion at the Convention Center.
Steve & Christina
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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When Thomas Michon returned from BrickFest on Monday morning, he found that
his room at Olin College had been remodeled with a new door by classmates
using 9000 LEGO bricks.
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Ha! That is great fun.
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When Thomas Michon returned from BrickFest on Monday morning, he found that his
room at Olin College had been remodeled with a new door by classmates using 9000
LEGO bricks.
-Ted Michon
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I'm enjoying the con virtually by viewing early pics from:
Bill Ward's Flickr photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billward/sets/72157615928651109/
and Mark Neumann's Flickr photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowleopard/sets/72157615967895737/
also new BrickArms prototypes from Will Chapman posted by
the enigma that is badger (Official Spokesman of BrickArms)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enigmabadger/sets/72157616055083556/
Thanks Bill & Mark & Badger!
In the interest of fairness to all, I hope the "up to three" (or something
similar) limit on scratch and dent sets reportedly instituted at the Washington
Square Mall LEGO fest store event 03/27/2009 continues on to BrickWorld, etc.
First waiting in line at shopping event gets first picks on sets, but everyone
gets a chance at a bargain. With the store occupancy limit quickly reached, and
store staff not wanting to raise the ire of the Fire Marshall many people waited
patiently (or not so patiently) outside the mall store at BrickWorld 2008 while
a few scooped huge piles of 1/2 off merchandise. I'm grateful for whatever the
stores are able to do in conjuction with AFOL events.
--
Bill
(TooMuchDew)
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Just remember a few things you may want to bring to BrickFest:
The draft set (8632: Swamp Raid) if you want to draft.
The Build-in-the-Bag set (8119: Thunder Racer) if you want to participate
in the Build-in-the-Bag. (Make sure to get one that's packed in a bag
within the cannister!)
There will also be an Eiffel Tower speed build but you don't need to
bring anything for that.
A wrapped gift for the Dirty Brickster (or two, if you want to participate
in both).
A thumb drive with a few pictures for the Virtual Lego Room Tour, if you
want to show off your Lego Room.
Yourself.
Your MOCs. Oh, I'd better get busy building. . .
BrickFest 2009 will be March 27, 28, and 29 in Portland, Oregon.
http://www.brickfest.com/
Posted on behalf of Jon Rasmussen, Special Events Coordinator for
BrickFest 2009.
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TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
LEGO: CA+++ SW++ GA+c #++++++ LS+++ P+++++ YB77m
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BrickFest 2009 will see the first Virtual Lego Room Tour.
When LUGs have a meeting at a member's house, the one thing that everyone
always wants to see is the owner's build area. A Lego Room, a Lego
Garage, a Lego corner-of-one-table-in-the-rec-room. . .every Lego
enthusiast at least tries to have a place where Lego is sorted, stored,
displayed, and built. Since BrickFest's (already 200+) attendees come
from from locales ranging from Hawaii to Germany (and that's just Mathis
and Matthes) we can't visit everyone's Lego Room. . .in person. Hence,
Virtually.
Those who want to present during this session should take several
representative pictures of their Lego Rooms and put them on a thumb drive.
At the session we will use the BrickFest computer and projector to put the
pictures up on a big screen and speak briefly about them. So. . .
1) Do not clean up (much). We want to see your real working area, even if
it means parts and bins spread all over.
2) Do make sure your pictures are of sufficient quality and resolution to
be magnified so everyone can see them. Shun fuzziness and poor lighting.
See you there!
BrickFest 2009 will be March 27, 28, and 29 in Portland, Oregon
http://www.brickfest.com/
Posted on behalf of Jon Rasmussen, BrickFest 2009 Special Events
Coordinator.
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TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
LEGO: CA+++ SW++ GA+c #++++++ LS+++ P+++++ YB77m
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This year at BrickFest Jon Rasmussen will be running the popular Build in
the Bag competition.
The way it works: you bring a copy of set 8119: Thunder Racer
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/8119
to the event, still in it's sealed polybag. Jon will have ten copies at
the Fest if you forget to get one ahead of time. At the appointed time,
Jon will start the stopwatch and participants will build the set---without
opening the bag!
Please be aware that Lego may have changed the packaging on this set so
that it is no longer packed in a polybag. Shake before you buy and open
the cannister (but not, of course, the polybag inside) to make sure that
the parts for your copy were packed in a bag.
BrickFest 2009 will be March 27, 28, and 29 in Portland, Oregon
http://www.brickfest.com/
Posted on behalf of Jon Rasmussen, BrickFest 2009 Special Events
Coordinator.
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TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
LEGO: CA+++ SW++ GA+c #++++++ LS+++ P+++++ YB77m
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Hi All,
I am attending Brickfest this year and as wondering if there was anyone
interested in showing a Portland-first-time-visitor around the city?
At NMRA in Detroit, Matt Doyle and Jim Garrett were kind enough to take an hour
or two to show a couple of us around Motown and we had a great time (and some
very good food!).
I'd love to be able to do the same in Portland.
If interested please contact me at: Jonathan.c.lopesATgmailDOTcom
I'd be very much appreciative!
Thanks,
Jonathan
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BrickFest ’09 - Portland, OR - March 27-29th, 2009
The BrickFest ’09 team invites the creative designers and artists of the AFOL
community to submit graphic ideas/artwork for the official BrickFest ‘09 event
graphic. It will be used on items such as, the T-shirt, webpage, commemorative
items, minifigs, and on other related materials.
The event graphic should appeal to the broadest spectrum of LEGO fans and
exemplify the LEGO hobby. This year we are interested in visually representing
the community. Please be sure not use the word LEGO® or infringe on any other
trademarked logo.
Submissions are due on or before December 31st 2008.
Graphic Requirements:
Should be no more than 5 colors (3 colors preferred)
Also work in monochrome (black and white)
It should scale well with little of no loss of quality (recognizable from AFOL
tee-shirt to minifig torso).
Final format in EPS format or 300 dpi raster file (not to exceed 11" X 13").
Submissions should be e-mailed to info@brickfest.com with subject line
"BrickFest Event Graphic submission"
Thanks,
Steve Barile
And the BrickFest ’09 Team
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Hi All,
Well the staff for BrickFest 09 is reaching critical mass however there are
still some choice positions that need to be filled (see below). Please feel free
to copy this post in its entirety to your favorite theme specific user group
websites.
Candidates should be well connected (and respected) within their theme
community, able and responsible to lead the effort as a theme coordinator, and
coming to BrickFest '09! Responsibilities include creating some noise (PR)
about the events for your specific theme at BrickFest, coordinate/keep track of
the people bringing MOCs and space requirements, and be on the BrickFest staff
as the main contact for your theme. If your interested please send me your
contact info and I’ll get back to you ASAP!
Space coordinator
Castle coordinator
Robotics coordinator
Art coordinator - sculpture, mosaic, vignette, micro-fig
Bionicle coordinator
Event Mosaic coordinator
Event Kit coordinator
Thanks
SteveB
Legosteveb at yahoo dot com
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Thanks Ted for looking into this!
SteveB
BrickFest ‘09 - See you all there!
In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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All-
Having taken MOCs as large as whole LTC layouts from LA to BrickFests in DC
and LA to PDX, I have some experience in the matter. I made a recent
discovery that may interest some of you. Turns out that to ship 255 pounds of
LEGO in a $200 collapsible crate (including palette) rated to 1500 pounds
from ULINE that weighs 94 pounds (66.2 x 29.2 x 24.4” interior dimensions)
from Southern CA (SAN, LGB, LAX, etc.) to PDX costs $328 round trip
(including fuel and security surcharges) on Alaska Airlines!
That assumes a packing density of 10 pounds per per cubic foot. If you pack
less densely, you pay by “dimensional weight” since aircraft are space rather
than weight limited.
Unlike other shipping methods, the dimensions of your shipment are limited
only by the size of an aircraft cargo door!
Here’s the ONLY CATCH: You need to be a “Known Shipper”, meaning you have
passed a security screening. The process is free and individuals qualify, but
it takes 5-7 weeks. So if you want to ship via air freight to BrickFest 2009,
you need to apply NOW!
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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All-
Having taken MOCs as large as whole LTC layouts from LA to BrickFests in DC
and LA to PDX, I have some experience in the matter. I made a recent
discovery that may interest some of you. Turns out that to ship 255 pounds of
LEGO in a $200 collapsible crate (including palette) rated to 1500 pounds
from ULINE that weighs 94 pounds (66.2 x 29.2 x 24.4” interior dimensions)
from Southern CA (SAN, LGB, LAX, etc.) to PDX costs $328 round trip
(including fuel and security surcharges) on Alaska Airlines!
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-Ted Michon
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From east of the Mississippi (Boston, Newark, Miami), that’s $600.28 round trip
for the same load.
From Chicago, Denver, Dallas or Minneapolis, that’s $411.82 round trip.
-Ted
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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Here’s the ONLY CATCH: You need to be a “Known Shipper”, meaning you have
passed a security screening. The process is free and individuals qualify, but
it takes 5-7 weeks. So if you want to ship via air freight to BrickFest 2009,
you need to apply NOW!
-Ted Michon
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The application for Known Shipper on Alaska Airlines is one page and contains
just simple stuff: name, address, phone, email, date, and signature. You must
provide a copy of a utility bill. I mailed an application out yesterday
(December 6) and will report how long the process takes.
-Ted
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