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So untrue, yet totally legit at the same time.

That entire scene sort of embodies what every AFOL feels.

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"The box for this one said ages eight to fourteen!"

I'm not sure if I was supposed to be laughing during this part, but I was anyway.

Dude did not get all those from just the toy store; he must've been purchasing a lot of bricks from the secondary market.

 

Also must memorize this speech to use to describe my hobby.

 

I fail to understand how AFOL's enjoyment of a Lego toy and kid's enjoyment of a Lego toy are mutually exclusive propositions. This is a false dichotomy and should be eliminated.

I fail to understand how AFOL's enjoyment of a Lego toy and kid's enjoyment of a Lego toy are mutually exclusive propositions. This is a false dichotomy and should be eliminated.

Well, yeah, that's what the movie was making fun of — the lengths some AFOLs go to to treat their LEGO hobby as something serious rather than just play.

I fail to understand how AFOL's enjoyment of a Lego toy and kid's enjoyment of a Lego toy are mutually exclusive propositions. This is a false dichotomy and should be eliminated.

 

Aanchir got it kinda right, but I want to expand here: the reason this entry is called afols.png is because this is a lot like what I see with AFOLs on a lot of sites like Eurobricks and Brickset and even here, where LEGO becomes this super serious adult thing to them, and I feel like the message of the movie is to not be that kind of LEGO fan. If you see yourself in Will Ferrell, ask yourself what it is about a man who berates his child for playing with LEGOs that you relate to, and if that's necessarily a good thing.

 

I fail to understand how AFOL's enjoyment of a Lego toy and kid's enjoyment of a Lego toy are mutually exclusive propositions. This is a false dichotomy and should be eliminated.

Aanchir got it kinda right, but I want to expand here: the reason this entry is called afols.png is because this is a lot like what I see with AFOLs on a lot of sites like Eurobricks and Brickset and even here, where LEGO becomes this super serious adult thing to them, and I feel like the message of the movie is to not be that kind of LEGO fan. If you see yourself in Will Ferrell, ask yourself what it is about a man who berates his child for playing with LEGOs that you relate to, and if that's necessarily a good thing.

 

Agreed 100%. Shockingly, even non-AFOLs here on BZPower have often been guilty of this kind of thinking. I remember the way some people here (many of whom were probably only in their early teens themselves) used to get angry at the "seven-year-olds in the focus groups" for any changes that they felt reduced the quality of the sets and story. They're just dumb kids! They're not as smart as us! Their opinions aren't as important as ours! We're the REAL fans!

 

Even now you see all sorts of comments on how either BIONICLE was or should have been aimed at an adult audience. Never mind that for a lot of people here, it might never have been such a formative childhood experience if younger kids had been excluded from the target demographic. Never mind that some of the greatest pieces of storytelling in the theme, like the Mata Nui Online Game, were thoroughly kid-friendly.

 

The worst part is that this almost seems to have gotten worse as the years go on, perhaps because many older fans who remember the earlier, lighter years have drifted away, while those who have stayed feel like they have to embrace or exaggerate the theme's more "mature" aspects just to legitimize their continued interest in it.

 

Every time I read a comment about how Mask of Light would have been better if Takanuva and Makuta got into a brutal physical confrontation with gratuitous robot carnage rather than a Kolhii match, I have to suppress my gag reflex. Some people's idea of "maturity" can be pitifully juvenile.

god i loved this scene so much

It was pretty perfect. I was the only one laughing in the theater, and I regret nothing.