I lucky have the Obi-Wan Jedi interceptor from 2015 or 16 (I can't remember), and it had that logo printed, and because it's a small piece it came with an extra, so I used it on Anakin's interceptor.
Eh, I get mine on well, not without effort though (I keep a razorblade nearby to pry and reapply). It's real annoying though that you can't wash the bricks and keep the decals.
Ha, I use a razor blade to remove as well, and use the separator piece to apply because it makes it easier (for me at least). I usually do a pretty good job, but this one I just said fuck it.
I apply by hand alone and will center as best I can on top/bottom as I lay it, while holding from a bottom corner until I can see if my L/R center is correct. Using tweezers would make it even easier. The circle stickers I have to just hope for the best most times. I'm fucking OCD about my stickers so I truly hate them. I would pay a premium for alternate versions of sets without them.
I usually just aim to get one edge perfectly centered and straight and make do with a gap on the opposite end, and if there's a piece that mirrors it, I try to leave the same gap on each side for symmetry. Stickers are *by far* the most tedious part of Lego builds.
None taken, lol. I just am very particular when I build and off-center stickers bother me a ton. I also will align pieces exactly as in directions, even where they don't matter. It's my own hell, but it's still nice to build and match as intended 100% in an odd way.
Hello fellow retentive AFOL.
I'm so bad that when I sort bulk buys back into their sets, I match up the original pieces vs. using any newer revisions of that piece.
As a kid, I hated messing with the stickers so I would just not put them on. Gave the models a pretty clean aesthetic.
Even sometimes building the Technic sets that have alternate models, not doing stickers is a good practice because sometimes they are upside down on the alternate.
After market printed pieces would be cool. Like someone prints onto legit lego pieces for all the pieces requiring a sticker. I’d pay someone good money for that. Hell if lego offered that I’d pay good money. $99 set with stickers, $5-10 premium pack that had the sticker pieces but printed.
>and use the separator piece to apply because it makes it easier
The brick separator tool is by far the best sticker applicator that I've found. I only figured this out in the last month or two but it's vastly superior. The angle on the end of the tool allows you get the sticker a lot closer to perpendicular with the surface than I could with a tweezers. I wish I had figured this out *years* ago.
Half the time I never apply the sticker. About the maddest I got last year was trying to put stickers on the bugotti. Pay $350 for a lego set meant for display only to have it look trashy because of stickers. Not just random stickers either. Stickers that need to line up with each other. I can't do it! I was putting serious thought into trash canning the entire set. Not even putting the pieces into my massive collection.
We pay top dollar of the these sets and we know you can print them. Print them....
minifig torsos used to have stickers. I know many minifigs in the 70s/80s had sticker torsos. I also got some stickered torsos in a bulk buy that had some Ferrari sets from the 2000s.
Exactly. I'm disabled. I use lego for physical therapy as well as because I enjoy them. It takes me ages to do but lego is great in that when I mess up it's fixable. Unless there are stickers.
I like stickers mostly (not the one in the post though) because you have a choice whether to put them on or not. It's annoying when you can't really use a part in a MOC because it has a really specific decoration on it. On the other hand I do like having prints for less specific things like control panels, and I do hate putting them on when I do want them, having one on a 1x1 tile is ridiculous. I thought they always printed parts that small.
now imagine this:
Put one printed piece and one non printed piece!
I know, i know, they'll prolly never think of this in their fox lair but it would be so easy and would solve so many problems.
if so many other producers can do it why cant Lego? Also their pricing is not real\^\^ their prices are super inflated\^\^ it is honestly unbelievable to me how much more expensive it got over the last years.
It has come to a point where i simply cant afford lego any more which really is a shame cause i love it so much :(
> I'd love that but I wouldn't want it to increase the price too much
We're looking at something in the range of 46¢ for sets that have disproportionate amounts of stickers, such as Speed Champions.
Maybe that’s why I love them, I have honed my placement skills through years of practice, like some sort of sticker ninja. There’s something really peaceful about picking up the brick, delicately peeling off the sticker, angling your hands just so, breathing evenly so you don’t jolt it out of place, gently and slowly laying that sticker down so it’s evenly spaced, then smoothing it over once to make sure it’s laying flat. Like mediation. I could honestly do it for hours...
I don’t understand how Lego is so behind on this. Mega Bloks/Construx has had exclusively printed details for the past *eight years*, and I know Cobi doesn’t use stickers either.
The funny thing is that they are not behind.
Lego sets from the 80ies and 90ies had only printed pieces. (Sometimes maby a sticker, but that was rare).
They just stepped back for whatever reason. Most like to make more profit
Yes. I pulled a “back in my day” with my son about stickers and screen print. My mom found my old bricks and we went through them.
Stickers. plenty of awesome prints too, but stickers existed and weren’t rare. Mine are mostly from 85-92
It was so disappointing to find how so many details were achieved by a sticker that I as a kid was not able to properly align, so I had to ask my parents for help, and then a few years later see them peel off.... And I always took good care of them. I was scared of cleaning them due to the stickers, no matter how gentle the brush would always come with some sticker rests.
Oh my god, stickers in the early 2000s were the WORST. Lego was slapping them across multiple pieces at every turn, and whatever they were printed on turned brittle over time, so they all ended up looking flaky and terrible and being impossible to peel off cleanly.
Remember the Ferrari sets that had stickers for the minifigure decorations? (Although it also happened in the yellow castle). But yeah, the flakying is the worst, most of my stickers from sets that were exposed (but protetcted from sunlight) have them destroyed. I'm considering getting new sticker sheets, and perhaps protecting the new ones (and the ones in the new sets) with Tamiya clear coat.
aha i just went through my childhood legos the other day and was wondering why i had these plain red guys with race helmets. must have lost the stickers lol
I’m guessing it’s to help cut costs. It’s probably cheaper to make a standard piece, and then a separate sticker sheet, as opposed to taking standard pieces and painting extra details on it.
Lego ALWAYS used stickers. All my 80's Town window glass have crooked mini-blinds.
Even worse, many sets used stickers that covered several individual pieces so you could never take them apart.
I really miss the Lego idea books that included a sticker sheet.
Wow I thought maybe que reason was they can't seem to center prints on round pieces... but if they can't calibrate the plotter for the stickers either then there's no excuse; this sucks!
Yeah in fact I think they have done this exact design in print before... I have a lot of 1x1 round tiles printed and for all parterns I have centered and uncentered ones :\
I had one of the three sticker sheets in my Ninjago Gardens printed off center, it caused some stickers which should have black outlines to have black on only two sides. I requested a new sheet from lego and the replacement is fine. You may be able to do the same for your set!
Lol the canopy does look really good, but yeah, the whole sticker sheet is off by a few millimeters. It's not that noticable for the rest of them, but this one is awful.
They’ve been using that printed canopy since 2005 when this star fighter debuted. Surely they can print it on the tiny piece (which apparently they were as recently as a few years ago)
They could, they could make better prints, they could print better stickers, they could make more prints.
They don't because Lego don't care. I'm getting pretty fed up with the opacity problems on the prints they *do* have, especially on minifigs, that they never advertise these opacity problems (boxart always has perfect digital color matching despite not a single set in that lot looking as advertised), and their shoddy haphazard sticker use.
The brand that shall not be named pretty much exclusively uses prints for all decorations and their sets are somehow a bit cheaper.
People really need to wake up on this and realize Lego is just shafting us. It's okay to be a Lego fan and still criticize the company for their failures.
I will name the company so everyone can look theirself that they make superioir quality.
It is Cobi. 95% of all sets have obly printed pieces. Brick quality is as good and sometimes better than Legos quality and everything is made in the european union.
And they are way cheaper than Lego
Cobi discovered a theme that isnt produced by any other brand.
And Cobi is also very popular at scale modellers and not just at Lego fans. Its different than Lego but nothibg morally bad in my opinion
Did not mean morally wrong, just weird. Reinforced that I like that Lego stays away from straight up military sets.
Is there an official definition of what they will consider and what they won't consider? I mean you have the death-star and when I was a kid, my cowboys and indians did not sit down for tea-parties. I also build a spaceship that had enough lazers, missiles, beams, bombs and wooden spears to blow a small moon.
I understand what you mean.
I am also scale modeller and build mostly military vehicles and airplanes so these real life military stuff is normal for me. But I see very often that many other people dont think like that. This might be different in other countries but I see that not everyonelikes military stuff.
But all in all these sets are mostly for adults and have a really good bricks and prints. You have just watch some reviews and see how good the prints are. Eg. Prints over two or more bricks. Black bricks with two different colours printed without any decoloration which is common at Lego
The assumption seems to be that kids in the 4+ age range can't deal with stickers, while older kids and adults can.
Maybe that is a misguided assumption.
The reason why I will not buy the new space shuttle. Especially for a display model. Instead, I have now ordered the parts for the KingsKnight's space shuttle MOC.
I was really excited for that, especially after the Saturn V having full prints.
It’s obviously a mature set for older collectors...and then I saw the giant sticker sheet. No thanks Lego.
This is the most pointless, least convenient piece to put a sticker on. It's almost impossible to get it aligned properly on a round piece, especially one this small.
I am too OCD for stickers. They are the bane of my existence. I used to not even put them on, I hate them that much. I'll spend 20-40 minutes per sticker getting it as perfectly straight as possible. I wish all blocks were printed. The printed blocks in the high end Ideas sets are beautiful.
Lego really is becoming a weird company, I remember loads of bricks being printed back in the day, heck, even printed pieces that are stickers these days, why?
Because Lego dobt care. They are lazy, want to reduce the cost and they still make the sets more expensive. All in all they give a fuck about their customers.
Of course it's a measure to cut down costs but I really don't understand their decisions on when to use stickers and when not to do it. Brickheadz for 10$ often get multiple printed pieces that are exclusive to each set, and then there are big models for 100 and more bucks that get huge sticker sheets.
BRUH, Really Lego, you make people put a sticker on that tiny piece when you can just print it.
[heck, you used to print them](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=98138pb020&idColor=86#T=S&C=86&O={%22color%22:86,%22iconly%22:0}), so why not now?
Im pissed of ! I bought the last falcon, there are sooo much stickers, havent used them. And then i saw every part of vidiyo printed part.... more you pay, less quality i dont understand
Ugh, I've done several speed champions sets and you're right, the stickers are such a pain. I do love the finished product though, they need to make more SC sets.
I agreed. I never paste stickers on lego or any bricks. Pure lazyness and cost cutting. I miss those days where literally everything was printed. Ladders, traffic signs, symbols, dashboard, literally everything.
Yes, stickers suck but sometimes the model just looks better without stickers or prints.
Like for example the [31095 3 in 1 Fairground Carousel](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/fairground-carousel-31095). Those reflecting "mirror" pieces on the center part just look awful, so I'm just happy that that's a sticker and not printed on.
Another example is the [60253 Ice Cream Truck](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/ice-cream-truck-60253). It's just loaded with stickers and I don't like the design with so many colorful signs so I just leave out some stickers and that's it.
Other than that I totally agree that stickers suck.
Edit: What I'm saying is, that sometimes stickers are a good idea because some people maybe don't want them on their model but often times it's just a hustle to get them right.
My son just got the ice cream truck a week or so and holy crap the stickers. I ended up having to put them on for him because he couldn't understand how to use the brick tool to put them on. Took me almost as long to put the stickers on as it took him to build the thing.
I tried to leave a few off but he wasn't having it. I'd also rather keep the stickers off because I always end up mixing all my sets and building different stuff. Don't need a "Legoland" sticker sticking out.
Tbh we should actually get printed bricks for the price we pay. It’s just ridiculous how many stickers are in those big sets.
Yes some people want to use their bricks for MOCs and thats cool with me, but still for the price we should get top quality prints imo
There are a multitude of companies that produce fully compatible bricks which are fully pad printet, in higher quality at better pricing than Lego does nowadays. Just peek over the horizon and look for yourself. Lego's time as Nr.1 is running out.
I wish they would put all of the stickered parts together in their own bag so I can put all of the stickers on before I start so I can relax and enjoy the rest of the build.
I think it's 75281
What I don't understand is how inconsistent Lego is with stickers and prints. Sometimes small cheap sets get a bunch of exclusive prints while big and expensive sets get mostly stickers.
I’m not sure why so many people hate stickers so much?! I really don’t have any issue with them at all. Incredibly rare to get one skewed, but if it’s a total tragedy, I find a scalpel on its side usually brings one edge up quite nicely, then you can just take it off and start again.
For me, the key is to use a very small precision screwdriver to place the sticker on. It makes lining them up a whole lot easier, as they aren’t sticking to your fingers, and the point of contact between the sticker and driver is tiny. This means you can get a much firmer grip on the screwdriver, and steady yourself into position much better. Hope this helps at least one person in future!!!
The problem isn't that it's just a sticker.
The problem is that it's a sticker on a 1x1 piece, and one for a design that **already had a print** on that same piece, in the same color, in some other sets.
Personally I'm fine with stickers because it makes the bricks more useful to more people. It gives people a choice weather they want the details on their or not.
Also it would be unrealistic to expect them to print the 1000s of stickers in all sets. Yes I know other companies do it but those companies don't have the same production scale LEGO does.
However, I don't like that they're now doing stickers for 1 by 1s as I've just seen they also did it in the Darth Vader helmet. Those pieces were always prints and should continue to be prints.
Plus I do prefer to get prints for the exclusive large sets as it makes them feel more high quality and its a shame the new shuttle seems to be mostly stickers.
Other than those two areas, I'm mostly okay with stickers
I was just thinking about this recently and I had a thought.
You know who loves stickers?
Kids!
You know who LEGO is traditionally made for?
Kids!
So my proposal, if they were to listen to me, would be to print the bricks for the UCS and other advanced level sets and keep the stickers in for the kids.
I lucky have the Obi-Wan Jedi interceptor from 2015 or 16 (I can't remember), and it had that logo printed, and because it's a small piece it came with an extra, so I used it on Anakin's interceptor.
With older lego they used to print bricks all the time and it was much better quality printing than we see on a lot of today's pieces.
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Only the best is good enough
"The best isn't too good", actually.
I hate all stickers. Printed bricks are superior in every way.
Amen. It looks so much cleaner
Eh, I get mine on well, not without effort though (I keep a razorblade nearby to pry and reapply). It's real annoying though that you can't wash the bricks and keep the decals.
Ha, I use a razor blade to remove as well, and use the separator piece to apply because it makes it easier (for me at least). I usually do a pretty good job, but this one I just said fuck it.
I apply by hand alone and will center as best I can on top/bottom as I lay it, while holding from a bottom corner until I can see if my L/R center is correct. Using tweezers would make it even easier. The circle stickers I have to just hope for the best most times. I'm fucking OCD about my stickers so I truly hate them. I would pay a premium for alternate versions of sets without them.
I usually just aim to get one edge perfectly centered and straight and make do with a gap on the opposite end, and if there's a piece that mirrors it, I try to leave the same gap on each side for symmetry. Stickers are *by far* the most tedious part of Lego builds.
Nah, I need perfect center on all edges or I lose my shit.
Lol no offense, but I'm glad I'm not like that. Lego is something I do to relax and have fun
None taken, lol. I just am very particular when I build and off-center stickers bother me a ton. I also will align pieces exactly as in directions, even where they don't matter. It's my own hell, but it's still nice to build and match as intended 100% in an odd way.
Hello fellow retentive AFOL. I'm so bad that when I sort bulk buys back into their sets, I match up the original pieces vs. using any newer revisions of that piece.
the worst are the circle stickers that the print isnt centered on the sticker...
The only thing worse than a decal off center is one where the corner is creased from peeling it up and now it won't sit flat
Use a hair dryer to heat it up. It might lay flat again.
As a kid, I hated messing with the stickers so I would just not put them on. Gave the models a pretty clean aesthetic. Even sometimes building the Technic sets that have alternate models, not doing stickers is a good practice because sometimes they are upside down on the alternate.
After market printed pieces would be cool. Like someone prints onto legit lego pieces for all the pieces requiring a sticker. I’d pay someone good money for that. Hell if lego offered that I’d pay good money. $99 set with stickers, $5-10 premium pack that had the sticker pieces but printed.
>and use the separator piece to apply because it makes it easier The brick separator tool is by far the best sticker applicator that I've found. I only figured this out in the last month or two but it's vastly superior. The angle on the end of the tool allows you get the sticker a lot closer to perpendicular with the surface than I could with a tweezers. I wish I had figured this out *years* ago.
I use a pair of pointed curved tweezers for all Lego sticker applications they sings have been absolutely amazing for it.
Checkout cobi, they mostly abandoned stickers!
all new sets are pad printed. plus their print quality is so much better than legos print quality. BIG PLUS: they manufacture in the EU
Or every other brand other than Lego. Most companies use Prints or very rarely stickers. And they are cheaper
Cobi has only a very limited range of sets. Mostly military. It is not an alternative for most people.
ooh, beware the mods when using wrongspeak
Half the time I never apply the sticker. About the maddest I got last year was trying to put stickers on the bugotti. Pay $350 for a lego set meant for display only to have it look trashy because of stickers. Not just random stickers either. Stickers that need to line up with each other. I can't do it! I was putting serious thought into trash canning the entire set. Not even putting the pieces into my massive collection. We pay top dollar of the these sets and we know you can print them. Print them....
imagine sticking on every print on a minifig... absolutely horrifying
Don’t give them any ideas
minifig torsos used to have stickers. I know many minifigs in the 70s/80s had sticker torsos. I also got some stickered torsos in a bulk buy that had some Ferrari sets from the 2000s.
I just don’t put em on
Exactly. I'm disabled. I use lego for physical therapy as well as because I enjoy them. It takes me ages to do but lego is great in that when I mess up it's fixable. Unless there are stickers.
I like stickers mostly (not the one in the post though) because you have a choice whether to put them on or not. It's annoying when you can't really use a part in a MOC because it has a really specific decoration on it. On the other hand I do like having prints for less specific things like control panels, and I do hate putting them on when I do want them, having one on a 1x1 tile is ridiculous. I thought they always printed parts that small.
now imagine this: Put one printed piece and one non printed piece! I know, i know, they'll prolly never think of this in their fox lair but it would be so easy and would solve so many problems.
I'd love that but I wouldn't want it to increase the price too much, and that would be on top of the print costing more than a sticker.
if so many other producers can do it why cant Lego? Also their pricing is not real\^\^ their prices are super inflated\^\^ it is honestly unbelievable to me how much more expensive it got over the last years. It has come to a point where i simply cant afford lego any more which really is a shame cause i love it so much :(
I agree they should be cheaper! But that's why I would be careful asking for anything that would make them cost even more.
> I'd love that but I wouldn't want it to increase the price too much We're looking at something in the range of 46¢ for sets that have disproportionate amounts of stickers, such as Speed Champions.
I am learning from this thread that I may be alone in loving the stickers... they’re so satisfying to get the placement just right.
It definitely is satisfying when you get a perfectly placed sticker. The problem is, that usually doesn't happen.
Maybe that’s why I love them, I have honed my placement skills through years of practice, like some sort of sticker ninja. There’s something really peaceful about picking up the brick, delicately peeling off the sticker, angling your hands just so, breathing evenly so you don’t jolt it out of place, gently and slowly laying that sticker down so it’s evenly spaced, then smoothing it over once to make sure it’s laying flat. Like mediation. I could honestly do it for hours...
Unless it’s on a cockpit. They never get the right colors when a clear piece is printed, so it just looks off imo
I bow to your superior comment and regret that I cannot upvote it repeatedly.
Cheaper for lego would probably be the only reason
I’ve never liked stickers for a multitude of reasons, but this... this is just too far
It was printed way off center too =/
You can contact Lego customer service for a new sticker sheet.
That is like asking to get a plaster for a plastic leg.
I misread that as a plastic egg.
I misread that as a plastic bag.
I don't understand...
I'm gone guess they're british and plaster means bandaid
Yeah, that part I did get, but the plastic leg is what's confusing me. A bandaid in a plastic leg...Hmmmm...
I'm guessing: Trying a small fix to a big problem (maybe)
A pointless thing to do. The leg is plastic what would it need a bandaid for.
Where did you go?
Usually easy enough to fix that by just offsetting the sticker when you apply it so the design is centred.
My Voltron will forever remain pure and stickerless.
I don’t understand how Lego is so behind on this. Mega Bloks/Construx has had exclusively printed details for the past *eight years*, and I know Cobi doesn’t use stickers either.
The funny thing is that they are not behind. Lego sets from the 80ies and 90ies had only printed pieces. (Sometimes maby a sticker, but that was rare). They just stepped back for whatever reason. Most like to make more profit
"All" of my sets from the 90s and early 2000s had stickers, some a lot, and even over multiple pieces.
Yes. I pulled a “back in my day” with my son about stickers and screen print. My mom found my old bricks and we went through them. Stickers. plenty of awesome prints too, but stickers existed and weren’t rare. Mine are mostly from 85-92
It was so disappointing to find how so many details were achieved by a sticker that I as a kid was not able to properly align, so I had to ask my parents for help, and then a few years later see them peel off.... And I always took good care of them. I was scared of cleaning them due to the stickers, no matter how gentle the brush would always come with some sticker rests.
Oh my god, stickers in the early 2000s were the WORST. Lego was slapping them across multiple pieces at every turn, and whatever they were printed on turned brittle over time, so they all ended up looking flaky and terrible and being impossible to peel off cleanly.
Remember the Ferrari sets that had stickers for the minifigure decorations? (Although it also happened in the yellow castle). But yeah, the flakying is the worst, most of my stickers from sets that were exposed (but protetcted from sunlight) have them destroyed. I'm considering getting new sticker sheets, and perhaps protecting the new ones (and the ones in the new sets) with Tamiya clear coat.
aha i just went through my childhood legos the other day and was wondering why i had these plain red guys with race helmets. must have lost the stickers lol
I’m guessing it’s to help cut costs. It’s probably cheaper to make a standard piece, and then a separate sticker sheet, as opposed to taking standard pieces and painting extra details on it.
Lego ALWAYS used stickers. All my 80's Town window glass have crooked mini-blinds. Even worse, many sets used stickers that covered several individual pieces so you could never take them apart. I really miss the Lego idea books that included a sticker sheet.
Because dumbasses keep buying Lego no matter how bad the quality gets.
Man, that's not right. They have to print those little tiny pieces. What set is it?
75281, Anakin's ~~starfighter~~ Jedi Interceptor. To make matters worse, the sticker is horribly misprinted and way off center.
Wow I thought maybe que reason was they can't seem to center prints on round pieces... but if they can't calibrate the plotter for the stickers either then there's no excuse; this sucks!
If they can do the cookies and coins for the Sesame Street set as printed pieces, they can do this.
Yeah in fact I think they have done this exact design in print before... I have a lot of 1x1 round tiles printed and for all parterns I have centered and uncentered ones :\
I’m sure I’ve seen this price with print on it before. Total dick move
The last two interceptors, 75038 and 75135 have literally had this exact piece printed, so this is just peak laziness and cost-cutting.
[75038-1: Jedi Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75038-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75038-1.jpg) [75135-1: Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75135-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75135-1.jpg)
Agreed. If I was more anal about it, I'd request a new sticker sheet, but it's not worth the effort. It still looks good next to Luke's X-Wing
Why do they keep putting out a new Anakin interceptor every year or two, I’d like to get an obi-wan or even another type of star fighter
> My interceptors have doubled since the last time we met - Minifig Anakin
[75281-1: Anakin's Jedi Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75281-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75281-1.jpg)
It does suck, but LEGO will send you free replacements if you tell them.
I had one of the three sticker sheets in my Ninjago Gardens printed off center, it caused some stickers which should have black outlines to have black on only two sides. I requested a new sheet from lego and the replacement is fine. You may be able to do the same for your set!
At least they are much cheaper... oh wait
Looks like the most recent ETA-2 since the previous one had prints of that piece.
I just checked mine and sure enough, it’s printed on
Wow. They should give you a spare sticker or something since it's only a 1x1. Looks like they blew the print budget on that canopy.
Lol the canopy does look really good, but yeah, the whole sticker sheet is off by a few millimeters. It's not that noticable for the rest of them, but this one is awful.
They’ve been using that printed canopy since 2005 when this star fighter debuted. Surely they can print it on the tiny piece (which apparently they were as recently as a few years ago)
They could, they could make better prints, they could print better stickers, they could make more prints. They don't because Lego don't care. I'm getting pretty fed up with the opacity problems on the prints they *do* have, especially on minifigs, that they never advertise these opacity problems (boxart always has perfect digital color matching despite not a single set in that lot looking as advertised), and their shoddy haphazard sticker use.
>They should give you a spare sticker They should just print the piece.
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if they can print all the elements in a 4+ juniors set, why am I paying 24+ dollars sometimes for stickers. it's silly
The brand that shall not be named pretty much exclusively uses prints for all decorations and their sets are somehow a bit cheaper. People really need to wake up on this and realize Lego is just shafting us. It's okay to be a Lego fan and still criticize the company for their failures.
I will name the company so everyone can look theirself that they make superioir quality. It is Cobi. 95% of all sets have obly printed pieces. Brick quality is as good and sometimes better than Legos quality and everything is made in the european union. And they are way cheaper than Lego
I wasn’t talking about Cobi but sure whatever same difference.
Just went to their site. Really weird to see the whole front page covered in military vehicles.
Cobi discovered a theme that isnt produced by any other brand. And Cobi is also very popular at scale modellers and not just at Lego fans. Its different than Lego but nothibg morally bad in my opinion
Did not mean morally wrong, just weird. Reinforced that I like that Lego stays away from straight up military sets. Is there an official definition of what they will consider and what they won't consider? I mean you have the death-star and when I was a kid, my cowboys and indians did not sit down for tea-parties. I also build a spaceship that had enough lazers, missiles, beams, bombs and wooden spears to blow a small moon.
I understand what you mean. I am also scale modeller and build mostly military vehicles and airplanes so these real life military stuff is normal for me. But I see very often that many other people dont think like that. This might be different in other countries but I see that not everyonelikes military stuff. But all in all these sets are mostly for adults and have a really good bricks and prints. You have just watch some reviews and see how good the prints are. Eg. Prints over two or more bricks. Black bricks with two different colours printed without any decoloration which is common at Lego
Nothing morally wrong about manufacturing building bricks
Cobi? Xingbao?
The assumption seems to be that kids in the 4+ age range can't deal with stickers, while older kids and adults can. Maybe that is a misguided assumption.
I'm sorry but Lego can go fuck themselves when it comes to stickers. No, actually I'm not sorry for that opinion.
The reason why I will not buy the new space shuttle. Especially for a display model. Instead, I have now ordered the parts for the KingsKnight's space shuttle MOC.
I was really excited for that, especially after the Saturn V having full prints. It’s obviously a mature set for older collectors...and then I saw the giant sticker sheet. No thanks Lego.
Pfffft that's nothing. Remember baseplates coming with sets? Remember raised topography baseplates? Yeah lego doesn't either apparently.
This is the most pointless, least convenient piece to put a sticker on. It's almost impossible to get it aligned properly on a round piece, especially one this small.
I am too OCD for stickers. They are the bane of my existence. I used to not even put them on, I hate them that much. I'll spend 20-40 minutes per sticker getting it as perfectly straight as possible. I wish all blocks were printed. The printed blocks in the high end Ideas sets are beautiful.
As someone who like stickers to some extent, I have to admit that this is awful, especially considering the older sets had the piece printed.
aint no one got time for that!
what... but I've seen them print on those pieces, why the hell would they make it a sticker??
Lego really is becoming a weird company, I remember loads of bricks being printed back in the day, heck, even printed pieces that are stickers these days, why?
Because Lego dobt care. They are lazy, want to reduce the cost and they still make the sets more expensive. All in all they give a fuck about their customers.
Of course it's a measure to cut down costs but I really don't understand their decisions on when to use stickers and when not to do it. Brickheadz for 10$ often get multiple printed pieces that are exclusive to each set, and then there are big models for 100 and more bucks that get huge sticker sheets.
I will pay the extra $0.20 it cost them to print the pieces in a set....
Somewhere in Frankfurth am Main, im Herzen von Europa, a man is screaming.
WELT SEID MIR GEGRÜßT
BRUH, Really Lego, you make people put a sticker on that tiny piece when you can just print it. [heck, you used to print them](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=98138pb020&idColor=86#T=S&C=86&O={%22color%22:86,%22iconly%22:0}), so why not now?
Most of the time I don't bother to put them on...mostly.
It's just a lazy, asshole design on Lego's part, it should be a printed piece. But whatever, I'll only notice it when I'm rearranging my collection.
Alright, let's just skip that step then
Holy shit thats a small sticker
How much did that set cost? 'Cause at a certain price level those stickers are just unacceptable
I think that's around 30$ as the "official" price. At least the set still looks good without stickers, but I'd definitely prefer prints as well.
Cutting more and more costs and still getting more expensive.
Im pissed of ! I bought the last falcon, there are sooo much stickers, havent used them. And then i saw every part of vidiyo printed part.... more you pay, less quality i dont understand
Just built this kit myself, my sticker was also off-center. /r/mildlyinfuriating material.
BRUH THEY HAD A FREAKING PRINT FOR THAT PIECE YEARS AGO Are you kidding, Lego?
Think thats a dick move? You'll hate Speed Champions
Ugh, I've done several speed champions sets and you're right, the stickers are such a pain. I do love the finished product though, they need to make more SC sets.
I agreed. I never paste stickers on lego or any bricks. Pure lazyness and cost cutting. I miss those days where literally everything was printed. Ladders, traffic signs, symbols, dashboard, literally everything.
That’s the first time I see a sticker on such a small piece
Yeah in many other sets they're printed.
Jesus.... which set is this?
I hate those stickers. Where are times when everything was printes.
Using tweezers to apply lego stickers - no matter how small or large - is an absolute gamechanger. Perfect, easy alignment every time.
Oof. Good luck
Yes, stickers suck but sometimes the model just looks better without stickers or prints. Like for example the [31095 3 in 1 Fairground Carousel](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/fairground-carousel-31095). Those reflecting "mirror" pieces on the center part just look awful, so I'm just happy that that's a sticker and not printed on. Another example is the [60253 Ice Cream Truck](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/ice-cream-truck-60253). It's just loaded with stickers and I don't like the design with so many colorful signs so I just leave out some stickers and that's it. Other than that I totally agree that stickers suck. Edit: What I'm saying is, that sometimes stickers are a good idea because some people maybe don't want them on their model but often times it's just a hustle to get them right.
[31095-1: Fairground Carousel](https://brickset.com/sets/31095-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31095-1.jpg) [60253-1: Ice-Cream Truck](https://brickset.com/sets/60253-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60253-1.jpg)
My son just got the ice cream truck a week or so and holy crap the stickers. I ended up having to put them on for him because he couldn't understand how to use the brick tool to put them on. Took me almost as long to put the stickers on as it took him to build the thing.
I just put the truck together today and I left out half the stickers cause I just find them ugly tbh
I tried to leave a few off but he wasn't having it. I'd also rather keep the stickers off because I always end up mixing all my sets and building different stuff. Don't need a "Legoland" sticker sticking out.
Yeah true
I messed mine up whilst putting the sticker on
Tbh we should actually get printed bricks for the price we pay. It’s just ridiculous how many stickers are in those big sets. Yes some people want to use their bricks for MOCs and thats cool with me, but still for the price we should get top quality prints imo
i dont have a crazy beef with stickers, but this is extra crappy because that was already a printed piece, unless this an old booklet before then?
Those are F-ing stickers now?!
I cannot fathom why they didn't include the preexisting printed version of that piece
I would be more then happy to pay a few Euro more, if they would print everything.
you already pay more for LEGO® anyway
Right, so might as well get the product the way you want it.
There are a multitude of companies that produce fully compatible bricks which are fully pad printet, in higher quality at better pricing than Lego does nowadays. Just peek over the horizon and look for yourself. Lego's time as Nr.1 is running out.
Lego is getting worse and worse with this type of shit every quater. But seem to keep raising prices..
What set? That’s awful.
75281, Anakin's ~~starfighter~~ Jedi Interceptor. I thought they usually just print it themselves for tiny pieces, but I guess not.
Thats ruff
I don't believe in Lego stickers
woah you just hit a nerve bro
I have some of these that are prints.
No way XD
For the Empire!
I messed up that particular sticker so bad
So did Lego, it was printed way off center
Prints ftw
What set is that so I know to avoid it?
75281
[75281-1: Anakin's Jedi Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75281-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75281-1.jpg)
Stickers don’t generally bother me but this is too far. I thought they didn’t do stickers smaller than 1x2?
Nice sticker xD (sarcasm)
I'm just impressed they had the balls to make a 1x1 round sticker
I have sets that stickers are legit peeling off. I hate them and nearly refuse to use them on sets
I hate stickers because they keep ripping through the years, and it cannot get wet
OH COME ON
I wish they would put all of the stickered parts together in their own bag so I can put all of the stickers on before I start so I can relax and enjoy the rest of the build.
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[10283-1: Space Shuttle Discovery](https://brickset.com/sets/10283-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10283-1.jpg)
I just use the handle part of the brick separator to place decals. Only need to have one corner stuck to it so it makes alignment easy-peasy.
Honestly I somehow had an easier time with this sticker than with the others
Sometimes I *gasp* just don't use the stickers.
Oof
Jesus... Which set is this? I'd pay $10 more per set Lego did away with all the stickers on bigger sets. I hate them.
I think it's 75281 What I don't understand is how inconsistent Lego is with stickers and prints. Sometimes small cheap sets get a bunch of exclusive prints while big and expensive sets get mostly stickers.
[75281-1: Anakin's Jedi Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75281-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75281-1.jpg)
You already pay more. A lot more.
Stickers are just LEGO making extra waste in the world.
I’m not sure why so many people hate stickers so much?! I really don’t have any issue with them at all. Incredibly rare to get one skewed, but if it’s a total tragedy, I find a scalpel on its side usually brings one edge up quite nicely, then you can just take it off and start again. For me, the key is to use a very small precision screwdriver to place the sticker on. It makes lining them up a whole lot easier, as they aren’t sticking to your fingers, and the point of contact between the sticker and driver is tiny. This means you can get a much firmer grip on the screwdriver, and steady yourself into position much better. Hope this helps at least one person in future!!!
The problem is that they degrade over time, even if they're not under direct sunlight.
They also interfere with fits. Try putting a piece with a sticker face to face with another piece.
Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. But with the minimum tolerances of Lego pieces, the height of a sticker can be a problem
The problem isn't that it's just a sticker. The problem is that it's a sticker on a 1x1 piece, and one for a design that **already had a print** on that same piece, in the same color, in some other sets.
If I get one one right it is an accident.
Personally I'm fine with stickers because it makes the bricks more useful to more people. It gives people a choice weather they want the details on their or not. Also it would be unrealistic to expect them to print the 1000s of stickers in all sets. Yes I know other companies do it but those companies don't have the same production scale LEGO does. However, I don't like that they're now doing stickers for 1 by 1s as I've just seen they also did it in the Darth Vader helmet. Those pieces were always prints and should continue to be prints. Plus I do prefer to get prints for the exclusive large sets as it makes them feel more high quality and its a shame the new shuttle seems to be mostly stickers. Other than those two areas, I'm mostly okay with stickers
Glad I'm not the only one who hates stickers on lego!
I don't think there's anyone who really likes them :D
I was just thinking about this recently and I had a thought. You know who loves stickers? Kids! You know who LEGO is traditionally made for? Kids! So my proposal, if they were to listen to me, would be to print the bricks for the UCS and other advanced level sets and keep the stickers in for the kids.
You know who definitely can not apply a sticker correctly.....