Bill Ward's Brickpile » hillel http://www.brickpile.com Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:15:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Ignite: Hillel Cooperman – “The Secret Underground World of Lego” http://www.brickpile.com/2009/06/05/ignite-hillel-cooperman-the-secret-underground-world-of-lego/ http://www.brickpile.com/2009/06/05/ignite-hillel-cooperman-the-secret-underground-world-of-lego/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:25:30 +0000 Bill http://www.brickpile.com/?p=414
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    • ]]>     Hillel Cooperman gave an “Ignite” presentation on the adult LEGO community recently. You can see it here on Youtube:

    I found this through a post on Facebook by Felix Greco (I don’t think I can link to that because of the way Facebook works). The comments were not entirely positive, mostly around the way he talks about the adult LEGO fans, implying that they are so nerdy that they don’t date. It does sound to me like Hillel is not entirely comfortable with his AFOLishness. If he hadn’t had a kid and a wife who was enthusaistic about Harry Potter LEGO, do you think he would’ve rediscovered LEGO? Somehow I doubt it. However, most of the presentation was pretty positive. I do think he needs to take more pride in LEGO as a hobby and not denigrate his fellow AFOLs. But all in all, it’s a pretty good overview of the LEGO scene, told in an engaging and lively manner.

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