LEGO Employees on Social Media

pxchris

A comment by @Bumblepants in the LEGO Movie discussion thread got me thinking... are there LEGO Employees, especially designers or graphic artists on social media that are worth following?

Post your links!

I just learned of Mark Stafford on Twitter from that comment.

pxchris

There is also of course everyone's favorite former LEGO employee Kevin Hinkle, who I've already been following on Instagram for a while.

Speedman29

Matthew Ashton VP of design is on Instagram and interacts with his followers

CCC

pxchris said:

There is also of course everyone's favorite former LEGO employee Kevin Hinkle, who I've already been following on Instagram for a while.

You can also follow him (or his sales) on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/mrkevinhinkle/m.html?_trksid=p3692

Looking at his feedback he sure had a lot of the NYCC and SDCC minifigures, and minifigures of himself. There must be $20K's worth of Iron Man and Captain America alone.

tomahawker

CCC said:

pxchris said:

There is also of course everyone's favorite former LEGO employee Kevin Hinkle, who I've already been following on Instagram for a while.

You can also follow him (or his sales) on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/mrkevinhinkle/m.html?_trksid=p3692

Looking at his feedback he sure had a lot of the NYCC and SDCC minifigures, and minifigures of himself. There must be $20K's worth of Iron Man and Captain America alone.

Perhaps that's why he doesn't work for TLG anymore...

CCC

^ He left before he started selling. Nice little pension pot though!

SumoLego

CCC said:

pxchris said:

...former LEGO employee Kevin Hinkle...

There must be $20K's worth of Iron Man and Captain America alone.

I have to admit, I got me a value-priced Phoenix minifigure awhile back from him. 

Kevin was pretty high up in the chain in the marketing/public relations area, so I'm sure he has piles of various promotional materials.

TheOriginalSimonB

Marcos Bessa is on Instagram as @vintoito

SprinkleOtter

Since this has transformed into a Kevin Hinkle thread, I feel I should point out that he's still commonly at Brickfairs.

Great dude. I'm not sure a minute has gone by in his presence that someone isn't laughing.

pxchris

Also found Justin Ramsden on Instagram https://instagram.com/justinramsden

Aanchir

There are several who I follow on Twitter! Including both employees and people who otherwise work/have worked on official LEGO stuff, whether as freelancers or employees of another company like WilFilm or Tt Games. They vary in how much of their activity tends to be LEGO-related, of course, but it's really up to you how much of that you need for them to be worth following.

Set Designers:

• Nick Vas: https://twitter.com/PrinceGalidor
• Niek van Slagmaat: https://twitter.com/Toothdominoes
• Matthew Ashton: https://twitter.com/matthew__ashton (personal account) and https://twitter.com/UnikittyPlushie (the one he runs for his custom Unikitty plush)
• Samuel Johnson: https://twitter.com/Spider_Sam_LEGO
• Justin Ramsden: https://twitter.com/justinramsden
• Simon Lucas: https://twitter.com/simonlucas80
• Michael Svane Knap: https://twitter.com/KnapDK
• Marcus Rollbühler: https://twitter.com/Rollbuehler
• Joel Baker: https://twitter.com/JoelDBaker
• Carl Merriam: https://twitter.com/bricklaboratory
  
• Jordan Scott: https://twitter.com/JDezain
  
• Marcos Bessa: https://twitter.com/marcosbessa
• Cerim Manovi: https://twitter.com/CerimManovi
• Wes Talbott: https://twitter.com/WesTalbott
  
• Niels Milan Pedersen: https://twitter.com/MilanPedersen
• Bjarne Tveskov (former LEGO Space designer): https://twitter.com/tveskov
• Chris McVeigh: https://twitter.com/ActionFigured

Artists/Writers:

• Tommy Andreasen: https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen
• Dan Veesenmeyer: https://twitter.com/dveese
• Mike Rayhawk: https://twitter.com/mikerayhawk
• Paul Lee: https://twitter.com/polywen
• Lewis Blythe: https://twitter.com/LewisBlytheArts
• Mark Hoffmeier: https://twitter.com/hoffwrites
• Dan & Kevin Hageman: https://twitter.com/brothershageman
• Bragi Schut: https://twitter.com/bragischutjr
• Tommy Kalmar: https://twitter.com/Tommy_kalmar
• Villads Spangsberg: https://twitter.com/vspangsberg
  
• Christian Faber: https://twitter.com/faber_cph
• Crewnikitty (the crew of Unikitty! at Cartoon Network Studios): https://twitter.com/crewnikitty

CCC

Aanchir said:

There are several

I think you need to redefine "several"!

Great info as always. I am a bit surprised that Alexandre Boudon doesn't seem to be in the public eye so much, given the way he released all his designs for potential CMF so publically before working for LEGO. He seemed to be quite a public person back then.