Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “LTX is BACK BABY!!”.
Oh there we go oh there. It is LTX, 2023, baby July 29th and 30th 2023 at the Vancouver Convention Center. I will see you there. Yeah, I’m actually super excited, because it’s been a long time since I’ve been to a convention. This has been the longest.
In my life, since I ever went to a convention that I haven’t been to a convention, yep um, so it’s weird I’m excited LTX is coming back uh we are. We are branding the land whale land that is official cool like it is so stupid how some of our branding comes to be uh. Was it by that one? Your suggestion, I can’t remember yeah, I don’t remember. I can’t remember who suggested whale land anymore um, but it was just based on like a silly conversation.
A lot of them are off the cuff yeah um and Sarah just did such a bang-up job of The Branding for it, the artwork that it’s just like. How could we possibly stop bringing back like the whale with the chain? Well, yeah! That’S one of my favorite things. The chain is never going anywhere. Anything we’ve like ever had yeah it’s actually very stupid, whether it’s, whether it’s at LTX or whether we do more Standalone Lan events uh.
I believe we are going to stick with whale branding for for our lands. I think we’re going to continue to offer whale perks. So, like you know, five thousand dollar, ten thousand dollar tickets and just like build packages around it that no actually hopefully make sense, which is insane but yeah and for everyone else like just normal like normal pricing.
But for you know, whale land. I don’t know whale land, sure, yeah, um, general admission. We have pricing up single day is 35 bucks. Two days is 60 bucks. The byoc is a hundred dollars, so that will be the whale land as well as uh. Two days of admission, oh or is that an addition? It might that be, might be an addition? Oh don’t don’t quote me, usually those are done.
In addition, I think that’s in addition, so it’s 100 bucks for two days of Will and that actually makes way more sense, 50 bucks a day, uh there’s add-ons, so you can do office tours merch packs, uh, either LTX or whale land, merch packs, and look at That we’ve got VIP packages, including the whale ten thousand dollars. Oh, my goodness, multi-day access, dedicated byoc seat, five thousand dollar customized computer reserved main stage seating Express line, punch card, that’s right! You can skip lines, VIP, meet and greet session whale merch pack office and Labs tour with transportation and lunch hotel room Friday to Sunday, food provided during the event special thanks on ltxxo.com and more the whale package. People were asking if there was going to be whale merch. I’Ve already seen questions about that. Okay, oh yeah, yeah ticket sale.
Wait list is uh right down here. You guys are going to want to jump on that. I have questions uh. They might be answered on the site and I might have questions yeah.
I have answers and they might be wrong because I’m not the one organizing it Jason Colton are on top of that, so whale lifter was was overnight. Yes, uh uh, it looks like it is: um wait hold on yes, because, usually in Expo halls and stuff, this appears to be overnight to me. What’S so sick, exciting you’re, not sleeping now, probably not, let’s go dude that whale land.
My dad was up until, like your dad’s hardcore, he’s an absolute mad lad. He was up until like. I think it was like six or something, and then he had to teach a class the next day, and he just did it and then came back kept winning one of my buddies.
That was, there stayed there until super super late drove home noticed. There was something wrong with his truck wrenched on his truck until the morning got his truck working and then came back like half the people. We were with didn’t even sleep if you noticed one of them just started doing push-ups before we played left for dead.
I didn’t notice that you know him. I could say his name. It was Darris yeah, yeah yeah. He started doing push-ups for a left dead because he’s trying to get his blood flowing because he hadn’t slept. So he was trying to get amped up before he played us, because we were like the team to beat right.
So I love my my like old school group of friends from high school and my dad go who’s like part of that group of friends to be completely honest, go go pretty hard, we’re used to going to packs and we’re always frustrated because Pax closes the land. Like pretty early yeah, to be honest and like I get why yeah there’s a lot liability concerns and lots of things, absolutely yeah, but it’s way cooler. If you don’t have to do that, so I I am stoked, I hope, to see uh some of the people from the last whale land at this one. That would be really cool, there’s no way they don’t show up, because that was a good crowd yeah. It was a good crowd that was a blast. It was a lot of fun, yeah yeah and if you miss them, maybe it’s time to disclose this. If you missed them at the LTX whale land, I might be working on access to a location that could potentially result in like quarterly land parties. Do you not know about this? No, oh, that’s cool! I like this.
How did I not know about this uh here? Let me just give you a hint um. Look at that now. Oh okay, I did sort of know about this. I didn’t know it was like actually happening.
It’S happening cool um. I had heard the the grumbles of it potentially happening. It’S happening. Okay, that’s wicked! Yeah! It’S happening very cool, it’s one of those things where probably like.
As long as we don’t lose money on it like we did with whale land um from a business standpoint. I think it’s great for Community engagement. It’S just a lot of fun. I like fun.
It was, it was a really fun week. What’S the point of being a successful business owner, if from time to time, you don’t just take some of that money and just do something fun, and we only want to I. I can say this now as like a we know how, as in we have done it instead of a we know. How is it we have the concepts yeah, but we know how to run a good land yeah. It was fun yeah. It was like really fun, there was activities to do a lot of time and the people that showed up – and we pressed people about this – a lot yeah because we said like don’t even bother showing up if you’re not going to want to engage age. Yeah group activities and we’re going to have a bunch of events and group activities, but people did that it was great like the the basically everyone I didn’t, really notice. Anyone there that was just being like super anti-social, total wet, blanket yeah. Everyone was engaging with stuff. We would do like non-computer gaming activities like we did, chair curling, yeah and, like the whole place, was up. Oh yeah, it was wild and hanging out yeah, it’s throwing chairs around and stuff like it was.
It was uh. It was very entertaining I’m excited about this. One and I’m excited about the potentiality of quarterly ones. Hob sultoff asks, if you’re going to do it quarterly. Can you sell a lifetime ticket? No, no.
I mean the cost is like of running it every single time. It’S not like software um. You know where, like you develop, it once sell a Perpetual license for it, and then you know people have to like buy new versions of it later or whatever it’s like. No, no, no, the actual cost is like every time, and I can tell you right now, like at at a typical land admission.
You know, like 30 to 50 bucks a day, there’s actually not as much margin as you would probably think uh, especially here in Vancouver, where uh rental rates are so so expensive. When you’re taking a dedicated space that big up um, there’s things, other people could do to make more money using it, which means it’s going to cost a certain amount. Exactly I mean yeah sure if it was a million dollars or whatever yeah fine, but like that’s, not what I’m sure.
That’S not what you guys are talking about a 69 000 lifetime Bass. I mean tell you what if you’ll pay that much I will. I will personally sign your golden ticket that gives you admission to every future. Linus Media Group and Associated companies event all right with a regular level ticket. You don’t get the you, don’t get the whale ticket every time. I think you’d actually lose money on that really quickly. Yeah. It took like two years: oh man uh.
I I’m gon na confirm that the byoc is extra there. I did it, I’m I’m pretty darn sure uh. Oh actually, you know what I have notes holy crap. There’S a whole bunch of notes: I’m supposed to be talking through. There is um, so it’ll be in the west building, so a different building than last time.
It’S a newer building with more control over the lighting, the ability to do more with signage we’re going from 78 000 square feet last time to a hundred twelve thousand square feet to accommodate all the improvements we wanted. It’S gon na be huge uh. There will be the Expo itself office tours giveaways local activities, as well as the overnight whale land. There you go confirm, let’s go, all ticket prices are in USD on-site, purchases will be in CAD, but that price will just be converted from USD.
So the price will be the same uh you can sign up to be notified ahead of when tickets are scheduled to go live. If you are an LTX 2020, remember the one that didn’t happen. Vip ticket holder, you will be contacted by our team before tickets. Go live with the email you used to purchase the 2020 ticket. We want to make sure that you, if you, if that was what you wanted, you don’t just get scooped by someone else and you don’t get a chance to get it. That’S cool ticket sales are expected to go, live around the end of January and will update ticket info on the website before sales.
If any major changes occur, we are going to need volunteers. You can sign up on the site to get notified when we start going through applications shout out to the awesome volunteers from LTX: 2019 uh. Oh, if you want to know about booths and activations, we actually have some confirmed booths and activations uh. We have tidbits of info on those currently listed and we’ll add more as we get closer to the event okay well hold on a second.
I want to know what we have confirmed. What’S what’s confirmed, what’s going on here, uh Expo uh! Oh, oh here we go returning Classics: the Retro Lounge, so it’ll have more retro games, arcade machines, phone charging stations, comfy, seating and more the case toss an LTX classic, that’s good. The goal is the same as always throw a computer case as far as possible.
We’Re going to add additional Lanes to help reduce wait times. Lttstore.Com will be there, so you can buy merch in person. Uh, CPU, d-litting and GPU re-pasting will be making a return.
Ltx is not liable for any damage that may be caused as a result of your teardown or modification of your components, uh and the build a PC Workshop. We will be allowing people to learn the basics of computer building with real working Hardware. It might not be working, but it’ll be real um. We might have to get that fixed by the end of the workshop. You should have a computer that actually boots and runs except you don’t get to keep it. I really don’t think we should do it that way.
I think we shouldn’t know yeah. You should just take broken Hardware Broken Hardware well anyway, we’ll figure that out clearly there’s still internal discussions to be had. We have some new stuff gaming at different frame rates. So you can like really feel uh the difference, so we’re going to have uh since Minesweeper was getting a bit stale.
This year’s high score challenge will be 3D pinball, so get practiced up. Cool and you’ll be able to do your first 3D print if you’ve never done. One we’re gon na have like an HDR experience. Booth, it’s one of those things. That’S really hard to describe, but really easy to experience.
Uh we’re gon na have like keyboard and switch testers, so you guys can try all that kind of stuff out all the windows is pretty cool, yeah yeah, that’s cool, see how computers have evolved, so you’ll be able to just like sit down in front of them And like try and do stuff, which is pretty cool uh, we’ll include games that were prominent on each OS, so you can kind of go through that that Evolution for yourself lots of lots of stuff to interact with is really the goal. Do we um this? This might maybe I shouldn’t I don’t know, do it or uh is, is Bob and Rod coming uh? I don’t know if we’ve explicitly reached out to them yet, but if they’re not there I’ll be disappointed yeah, so we’ll have to get that uh sorted out sooner. Rather than later, yeah uh Bob and Rod are our friends from BS mods, yeah, uh Rod’s, probably watching uh Rod.
Consider this your formal invitation, yeah. Whatever we got to do to get you there, you just let me know yeah because they did and they did like. Bob out of they did like a Hardline Tube Bending yeah thing last time. Yeah, those guys are utterly amazing. Yeah they were awesome. Yeah, yeah, raw, okay, Rod’s in the float plane, chat yeah.
I figured it hey there. He is there. He is all right, good, stuff, good stuff, we’ll see you there, man, uh man, I haven’t seen them three years.
It’S been a long time, yeah what the crap yeah it’s ridiculous. Yeah go yourself covid for real, though yep, all right, um special guests. Ah, yes, if you are part of the media or a content creator, and you wish to attend LTX, please email info, ltxexpo.com um. As with last time, we have a I’m not going to say blank check, but a huge budget for flying out creators. It was a really really cool element of LTX 2019 that there were just so many creators there lots of collab opportunities. So, even if you know meeting up with fans, isn’t necessarily your favorite thing: um, it’s just a ticket plane ticket hotel and Expo ticket with really no strings attached. You can come and do it. However, you want, if you just want to get together and hang with other creators. You know obviously we’d prefer if you spent some time with the with the attendees as well um, but we’re not going to have any kind of commitments or anything like that.
Just come on out and uh: we just want to get as much of the Tech Community together as possible. Um. We won’t be able to accommodate everyone. You know, obviously, if you’ve got like 400 subscribers um and someone with 40 000 or 400 000.
Subscribers also want some of that budget. We’Re gon na have to try to you know make it make sense, have as many people there that people want to do, meet and greets with and stuff like that, as we can, but uh we’re gon na try to accommodate. As many as we can that’s, when it comes to trying to like help people travel there, um financially, but like yeah, you can get, you can get media tickets, no prob um. Also, if your company wants to partner with us go to ltxexpo.com Partners, you can follow LTX Expo on Twitter.
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