What about a Be My Shadow contest? Whatever band you are promoting, the winner gets to travel either with the band for 5 shows or you'll fly the winner to five different cities for the five shows with backstage passes.

Another idea is Take Me Under Your Wing. If a band is being promoted the band takes the winner under their wing, showing them the ins and outs of the music biz, the winner gets to watch them practice as well as going to the show. They spend a week with their favorite band.

Another idea is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The winner travels to LA and stays in a beach front house for a week or two. They have maids and butlers. They travel everywhere in a limosine. They get a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive. If doing this during times of the Emmy's or other awareds then the winner gets invited to a big star filled party. Etc.

Or do a year of weekend blasts. The winner gets to fly to a different city in the continental US for a weekend of fun once a month for a year.

These are just a few ideas that I have.
[This message was edited Thu Sep 26 5:14:33 PDT 2002 by InfinitiesHeaven]

InfinitiesHeaven said:

I want to win that one for the maid and butlers alone!

Hey now! Thanks for the responses, albeit most of these have been done over the past 20 years. Done Machu Pichu, Shopping in Tokyo, Vegas concert and $, SXSW, Glastonbury, QE11 (just doing the maiden voyage in 2004 now), MIG, Lamborghini (tried this but couldn't get the sponsor to front the $), Direct a Video (tried few years ago but bands wouldn't allow), Oscars (did that until the Academy prohibited consumers, especially after 9/11, now we just do private Oscar Parties). Did Swim with Dolphins, Whales, Polar Bears. Just did Golf in Antartica, eco trips, deep south, home reno (this is always a good one), movie screening party, Be a Band Roadie (although the bands really hate this one). Gravity Free Environment & Space Shuttle ($100K plus), Your own Star (did it). Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous (done many times, but as you can imagine, one of the top 10).

Love the 'Cuss Jar' 2the9's...hehe. Transplants, Botox and Cyrogenics - LOL...think the sponsors may have some legal issues with this one. Cold Water Diving in Canada (good one, but not sure it has much mass appeal); Travolta (would want mucho dollaro), Lord of the Rings (not bad, especially since the 2nd movie will surface), your own life-sized statue (interesting). Raspberry's 'Around the World in A Month' - have done versions of this, but what I like about your suggestion Raspberry is how you titled it - good one.
Also like the Elephant Reserve idea (love to do this one myself).

Aaron - Middle East. Suit up baby and don't 4get your BIG GUN; U would be in heaven over there with all those boys, wouldnchanow .

Keep going guys...this is good. Think outside the box.

As for rewards, checked the Vault and found:
- 1st 6 issues of the old Uptown
- Prince T-Shirt (P and Gun Mike)
- Prince T-Shirt (P and yellow cloud)
- The First Illustrated Prince Biograhy by John Duffy
- Dance Music Sex Romance Book
- 10,000 Magazine (sheitty mag, but I guess if you collect)
- 1st & 2nd NPG Mags
- Collection of Controversy Mags
- Prince Unauthorized Video ('92)
- Prince in Japan video (boot, I think it's Lovesexy)
- Original Graffiti Rags (91 I think)
- Prince Commic Book ('91 - Leather Jacket & Cloud guitar)
- Diamonds & Pearls Holograms (8.5" x 7.5")

Love it - keep going!

off the top

i would really - like to

-be a judge on the next american idol for a day

-be on a survivor/bachelor episode***

-detox (too much caffine in the system)

-can u hit me off with a nanny for a month!! ~

-hey call those people i wanna be on the NEW beverly hillbillies, can i be the secretary

-fuck it, CASH baby

-new JeeP Liberty

Focus groups are awesome. You get a bunch of people to feel important because someone's asking their opinions and genuinely listening, and you let them do all your creative work for free! Whoohoo!

SensualMelody said:

Er--that fantasy didn't include one controversial virtual sand dollar...did it?

Just joking SensualMelody...

Tommy

Your picture scares me. And...your comment isn't fair. Whooohoo!

Actually, I really like topics like these ... I can indulge my fantasies while feeling I'm contributing to something

But Red, girl ... you're a hard taskmaster! ... ok, here's my attempt at thinking "outside the box":

- Enough travel tickets for the rest of my life to visit every country on the planet
- To be in a computer game
- To launch a ship
- To be a Mardi Gras queen
- Car-lot supermarket grab
- F1 pit crew training
- To have someone like Richard Branson/Bill Gates/Alan Greenspan give me personal business advice
- A week on Necker Island
- To have 10,000 t-shirts made with my wording or pic of my choice, and given out free to the citizens of a town or city, just for the hell of it (it'd be cool to bump into someone wearing one)
- To design a dinner service, bed linen or something similar that is sold in a large department store
- To have a building, road or something similar named after a family member
- An observatory in my garden (with someone to show me how to use the telescope!)
- To demolish a building (I know this has been done, but I'd still like to press the button)
- To have 100 copies of a book published privately
- To be the first to do something, eg tightrope walk across the Thames, abseil from the London Eye etc.

My creative juices are no longer running ... I'll be back if I think of any more. Actually, I've been surprised how difficult it is to think of things that might not have been done before ... I have a feeling that each and every one of my suggestions had been tried, probably many times. Sorry Red - think I failed ya!

oh yes, I'd quite like speech therapy too, so that I can learn to talk with a different accent, or a distinctive one like Audrey Hepburn

Raspberry said:

Well actuall Rasp...you've come closest to some good new ideas. U worked hard girl - so I crown U 'The Incentive Queen of the Org'. Is there something from the Red Vault you would like here? Pop me your address in an org note and we'll get it out pronto.

- 1st 6 issues of the old Uptown
- Prince T-Shirt (P and Gun Mike)
- Prince T-Shirt (P and yellow cloud)
- The First Illustrated Prince Biograhy by John Duffy
- Dance Music Sex Romance Book
- 10,000 Magazine (sheitty mag, but I guess if you collect)
- 1st & 2nd NPG Mags
- Collection of Controversy Mags
- Prince Unauthorized Video ('92)
- Prince in Japan video (boot, I think it's Lovesexy)
- Original Graffiti Rags (91 I think)
- Prince Commic Book ('91 - Leather Jacket & Cloud guitar)
- Diamonds & Pearls Holograms (8.5" x 7.5")

Everyone else, thanks for the effort; it is a hard task trying to come up with fresh; I know. Thanks to all of you for throwing out your 2 cents.

MoLuv