[Deptheads] First attempt at a flyer

Wed Jun 16 15:10:39 PDT 2010

Yes, Back to the Future will be a pre-release at the convention. If there
are no other objections, I will ask Kristen to contact Universal and see
what she can get done. Honestly, the worst case scenario is that we cannot
show the movies and that isn't the end of the world. The Looneys will be
great - they are fully committed to playing with fans the whole time and it
is nice they come with some ready-made events. Their fan-base has terrific
materials to support their events and they are bringing plenty of games to
support the cons, too.

I'm not sure we want to mail those postcards out with a marketing message.
To whom would you mail it? I guess we could send it to VIPs ahead of time if
they committed to the higher cost as a nice bonus reminding them that their
premium con experience is coming soon (or just put it into the bag).

Alan and Chris at the last con excepted, we've been treating the guests
pretty well and I had many of them thank us for what we have done for them.
Let's make sure we coordinate on that so we aren't doing double-work.
Although I recall some talk about a VIP deal, I haven't heard much about the
plan. Keep in mind that we have Tom Lehmann coming, too.

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com
www.strategicon.net

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  --Since we charge for our convention we cannot show a convention
> advertised movie without paying a fee (which is based on attendance). If
> Kristin can get them to allow us to show it for free (since Looney Labs is
> doing the official game) then great.
> We had that issue come up last convention because of haters. I talked to a
> few of the companies friday of gamex. I used the "any and everyone in the
> hotel or walking in off the street can watch any shown movie for free" and
> it worked short term but with haters and competitors around we have to cover
> our butts on any movie we advertsie in our con book.
>
> --Gateway will have Pre-register vip packages (which include swag bags, vip
> meet-n-greet, and much much more. Norm will give the rundown when it is
> complete and on the site)
> This also includes rolling out the red carpet for our special guests and
> having staff and vip meet and greet them fri night. From the time all
> special guests get off the plane til they are put back on a plane they will
> feel like special guests "celebs" at a major convention that is glad to have
> them. Guests who get the  red carpet treatment tell other guests, their
> fans, and post on their site about how great it was to be at our con.
>
> --When I spoke to Kristin and Andy at Gama about being guests they sold
> themselves on being fun and entertaining guests (as if I already didn't know
> they are awesome guests at a con). She showed me the postcard and it is
> something that would benefit us both. We should have Eric D. contact Looney
> Labs and work out putting a marketing message on their postcards (cost, what
> message he wants for our conventions, etc).
> Looneys also mentioned pre-releasing Back to the Future Game at our
> convention. Are they planning on doing that still? That would be a big bonus
> for our convention.
>
> This is great! Looney Labs rocks a game room.
> Besides fluxx their game "Are you the traitor?" is very fun and will also
> attract the "are you a werewolf?" crowd as well.
> I am excited about them at Gateway. Tie-dye, lava lamps, and labcoats.
>
> Awesome!. Thanks for the update Eric.
>
>
>
> V
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> *From:* Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com>
> *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net
> *Sent:* Tue, June 15, 2010 11:49:52 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Deptheads] First attempt at a flyer
>
>  In fact I had a great talk with Kristin Looney today about this subject
> today. We laid out all the big events and there are some exciting things we
> can do.
>
>    - Back to the Future Game - This new game is going to press now.
>    Kristin gave me links to a description and some great artwork to use.
>    They'll bring plenty of the game so we can run an event (Neil - it is
>    similar to Chrononauts and I also have a link with details to help run this
>    event).
>    - Also on Back to the Future, I asked her about a Universal contact
>    that might okay us showing the movie in tandem with the event. She said they
>    might ask for a fee there...but then they might also comp it and support the
>    event. She asked if we want her to talk to them or just run the event
>    ourselves and perhaps run the movie 'under the table'. I think we should
>    have her contact them. It would be awesome if they support it! And if they
>    don't - well, we can't show the movie...
>    - Pirate Fluxx - They'll be doing playtesting for it, which is also
>    being done at Origins and GenCon.
>    - Fluxx and Are You The Traitor events - She gave me some terrific
>    links for ways to run these events.
>    - Special promo card - Kristin has promo Fluxx cards that we can get
>    for the attendees. She could provide a thousand if we want to give them away
>    to everyone. She also said a marketing message could be out on the back
>    (it's a postcard) if we wanted to pay for the printing. These would be nice
>    to hand out to everyone - she asked if we do a bag (maybe we should consider
>    that...again)
>    - Andy versus Everyone (as you RJ mentioned) - We should host this on
>    Saturday and I think this would be fun to have in the foyer. Kristin said it
>    works best in nice, visible spot. Talk about Play With The Creator!
>    - Kristin loved the idea of doing a Looney-a-thon - like we've done
>    with RGG, Z-Man, and others.
>
> She did want to make sure that the retailers stock plenty of their games.
> She said their events really drive sales (and all their games are pretty
> much impulse buys.
>
> Still working with Tom on which events we'll run for him.
>
> ...ERB
> www.boardgamebabylon.com
> www.strategicon.net
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM, RJ <the1ring at the1ring.net> wrote:
>
>> I hear they are having a cool Exhibitors Hall at the convention... but I
>> may be mistaken (I saw no mention on the flier!)
>>
>> OK... just kidding...  but if there is room...
>>
>> And I think Looney is going to do his "Everyone Against Andy" events,
>> where he plays 10-20 games against all comers at the SAME TIME...
>>
>> Do we have an official contact person for the Looney's... ?
>>
>> RJ
>>
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