This year's Creations for Charity fundraiser has begun
Posted by Huw,
Creations for Charity, the annual fundraising event, has just begun.
Organiser Nannan Zhang writes "The 12th annual Creations for Charity is now live on our newly designed website! From now until the end of November, you can donate or buy a creation to raise money to give LEGO to underprivileged children across the world. We look forward to another successful fundraiser and continuing the LEGO fan community's annual tradition of giving back during the holidays!"
Head on over to the website to donate an MOC or to buy one, and view a selection of the items available after the break.
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That Last Word handcannon from Destiny moc is incredible but a tad outside my budget.
This is a really cool concept. But 2 questions; 1) Why is everything sooo expensive? I know its a fundraiser and all, but $30-40 bucks for a minifig? 2) Are there generally more submissions as the event goes on or is the store going to pretty much stay what it is?
Edit: Thought about it more an Im retracting my first question. It makes sense to me. $5 for the fig, $5 shipping, leaves a $20 donation. That's fair. It is a fundraiser after all.
A great cause!
Although I'm somewhat distracted by "an MOC." I didn't forget that it's an acronym, but I pronounce MOC like "mock" rather than "em oh see." Both totally valid pronunciations, but I wonder what the split is
@Oregondete81 said:
"This is a really cool concept. But 2 questions; 1) Why is everything sooo expensive? I know its a fundraiser and all, but $30-40 bucks for a minifig? 2) Are there generally more submissions as the event goes on or is the store going to pretty much stay what it is?
Edit: Thought about it more an Im retracting my first question. It makes sense to me. $5 for the fig, $5 shipping, leaves a $20 donation. That's fair. It is a fundraiser after all. "
Hi there, I'm the organizer for the fundraiser. The minifigs donated by Paul Janowski are more expensive than your average minifig because of the production work that goes into making them plus like you said a part of it is the fundraiser. There are more creations being donated until the end of the fundraiser at the end of November so check back often to see what is being added!
@fakespacesquid:
I've met people who actually spell out "Em, Oh, See", and I've met people who pronounce it as a monosyllabic word. I've done both, but usually limit my usage to text, and only within the AFOL community. My LUG does a ton of shows (2020 excluded, of course), and at times the questions come so fast that you can barely keep up with them. "Mock" is a single syllable, but it's much faster to say "original design" because it saves you the trouble of having to explain what "MOC" means. If the crowd has thinned out, or the other people there are just more interested in looking at the display than asking questions about it, I have no problem having a deep discussion with anyone who comes to see our layouts, but sometimes you might have to be able to repeatedly provide a satisfactory answer in ten seconds or less just to keep up with all the questions. In particular, one show we do is the annual Home for the Holidays concert for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (except this year), and our interaction with the public is generally limited to three sessions per concert. The doors open about an hour before the curtain rises (but most people show up during the last half hour), then we get slammed during intermission, and again after the final bow. I've had times when I was the only person behind the rope, I could see at least three people trying to get my attention, and I was still having to watch for young kids trying to grab the trains as they go by. I've been doing shows with this LUG for, I think, 17 years now, and there are certain questions that I've answered hundreds of times (is everything glued, how many parts, how do you get the display here, how long did it take to set up, etc.). If I don't have time to get in-depth, it's real easy to rattle off a standard answer. Some I can basically repeat word-for-word without even having to think about it, while others vary from one show to the next, but none of them include the term "MOC".
In terms of the "split", though, it's worth noting that MOC may be accepted universally across the AFOL community because it's something that The LEGO Company came up with, but it really only makes sense in English. So while I suspect "mock" may be more common in North America and "Em, Oh, See" may be preferred in Europe (no proof, just a gut instinct), I'm more curious how people who are less fluent in English use the term. Do any of them translate "My Own/Original Creation" and then use an acronym based on the results? Do people who spell it out still use the English pronunciation, or does a Spaniard say, "Eme, Oh, Say", or a Russian say "Em, Oh, Es" because that's how those characters would be pronounced in their native languages?