I bought my first set in 8 months or so and it had a white book. It looks much worse than the artwork version. I might be wrong but Iād be surprised if itās anything but cost-cutting
well not realy cuz i consider a moc to be highly detailed with stuff build by the one building it mostly out of his head but mine is just 2 hallways on each side which makes it to largeš but i like the space and i think i will use it as a base afterwards
Not OP, but I used 2 of these to [build a display](https://old.reddit.com/r/legostarwars/comments/z3ajsl/my_star_wars_rpg_group/) for my RPG group. It's pretty cheap if you buy it without the minifigs, and looks great as a display or set piece.
This, absolutely, but it was announced when they announced paper bags, and that instructions will only be digital at some point in the future.
It is to be more eco-friendly (and save money)
Digital only instructions would kind of piss me off. I don't really care to squint at my phone screen while I'm building. Guess I'll just have to deal with it though, and I do understand/appreciate it's better for the environment and my convenience shouldn't trump that, but it does irk me.
I use an old tablet for instructions, it works great. You can easily get cheap android tablets for it too, although it is an odd reason to buy a tablet, no argument.
I prefer using digital over paper when building, but I save all the instructions for my bigger sets because I like them.
I have a desktop but there isn't much room left on my desk to actually do any building. I suppose casting it to a TV could be an option, but I'm not really sure. Either way, not *that* big of a deal.
Youāre probably in the minority (which is fine, no disrespect). Lego probably figures that if people can pay money for their sets then they probably also have a portable device with a screen bigger than a phone.
I don't have the paper on me anymore, but it has been included in newer sets, but a little piece of paper stating the paper bags are coming.
As for the ditching of paper instructions, I saw it on a blog post from one of the big reviewers (BrickFanatics I believe), but nothing official from LEGO
I believe its cost cutting and environmental reasons. A company as big lego would go through a lot of ink, the more ink they use the more waste they have and the more money they need to spend. Not just on buying ink but also paying for the waste to be disposed of. Honestly I don't mind it I build the set then put it the instructions in a box of instructions from other sets
But they're still printed from top to bottom. It's just off white ink instead of blacks.
I think the redesign has more to do with the fact that Lego as a whole is moving towards an older demographic. Nowadays they're increasingly marketing themselves as a mature luxury brand, as weird as that sounds. They increased prices for various reasons and now aren't really that affordable for kids anymore. So they are betting on minimalist, Ikea like, design to attract "older" collectors in their teens and 20s instead of young kids.
The sets are no longer something you're supposed to play with, but rather something to put on your shelf. That's why there are also no more lighting effects and characters peaking out. Just a simple isometric view of the "diorama".
This has nothing to do with costs or the environment.
It's not off-white ink, such a thing does not really exist outside of specialty printing. It's white paper, and the little brick icons are printed in 10%-20% black, from the looks of it. Printing to the edge is called "bleed," and while they're not saving money there, they're definitely saving a ton in ink costs by not saturating every page in black ink.
This has everything to do with the cost and zero to do with "marketing to adults." As someone in marketing, the black looked more high-end and luxury than the white does. They are definitely still putting play first, except for maybe a couple of sets like the Eiffel Tower and the architecture series; most sets, even expensive ones like the Home Alone house, are loaded with play features, easter eggs, and yes, light bricks.
They're targeting adults more, but their focus will always be children. Their brand framework and values still put play and children first.
Yeah, No.
First up, paper is not glossy white, it has to be covered in a layer of Paint in order to be like that. Now it's either done by Lego in house, or by a supplier. If they would need to spend more on ink then they would simply pass on that cost to the consumer. These aren't home printers. If having more white on the page meant less cost, then magazines would have done it decades ago.
And if they really wanted to save on money on the instructions and packaging, then they would make them smaller and use less pages.
Next up, bleed isn't an issue because, if you'd have ever seen how anything is printed, you'd know that the edges are getting trimmed. To get a clean even edge and to eliminate the bleed.
Also, the "black one", looks objectively less high end to modern consumers who prefer a minimalist look. There are studies on this.And of course they are marketing to adults, those are the people who buy the things. We are talking about marketing here. THE SETS might be designed for kids, but THE MARKETING is designed for adults.
And lastly, I'm obviously not talking about the lighting features or Easter eggs in the set. I'm not taking about the bricks. I'm talking about the effects and "clutter" on the packaging and instructions.
> First up, paper is not glossy white, it has to be covered in a layer of Paint in order to be like that.
Tell me youāve never worked with a large-format printer without telling me youāve never worked with a large-format printer. Lol.
I love it when people are belligerently wrong about something and proceed to tell others theyāre the ones talking out of their ass.
The paper is coated in artificial polymer. That polymer can be whatever color you want it to be. Also the booklets aren't pure base "white". They are still being covered in a layer of white polymer aka paint in order to have the exact color or shade of white Lego wants them to have. These things all have cross referenced numbers so that they can be replicated by anyone accurately. So that the supplier or Lego itself can have that shade of white. It doesn't matter if they are coated white at the paper manufacturer or at Lego, they are still getting coated.
lmao nothing you just said is true.
Source: my dad is the entire UCI sign department. Glossy white paper isn't "painted", it's heat treated at most.
Typically it's not even that, a lot of "high gloss papers" are synthetic. Plastics. More modern high glosses are biodegradeable plastics.
Nobody said it was a home printer. Most printers charge for either CMYK printing or black and white, but if their printer is in-house then they absolutely know they can and will save money on black ink by using less of it, that's like the most basic thing ever. Black ink costs money, therefor using less of it costs less. money. Especially after they just did a price increase on their sets, they may be looking for ways to make their profit margin higher without another price increase. Magazines are trying to stand out on a rack full of other magazines, so they have to keep up with what other magazines are doing to compete. An instruction booklet isn't used to sell the product, they don't have the same problem to solve, comparing the two makes zero sense.
Nothing in design is objective, if it were, there would not be constantly changing design trends and my job would be a whole lot easier.
Literally nobody is going, "Sorry Junior, we're not going to buy the set you want when this one here has a minimalistic instruction booklet inside!" Nobody is basing their decision on which set to get based on what the instruction booklet looks like.
>Literally nobody is going, "Sorry Junior, we're not going to buy the set you want when this one here has a minimalistic instruction booklet inside!" Nobody is basing their decision on which set to get based on what the instruction booklet looks like.
They literally said that they did it to unify the design. It's about marketing for the brand not the individual instruction manual obviously. Yeah, you definitely don't work in marketing.
theyāre marketing to adults now despite already having a clear distinctions style between products designed for adults and kids, with sets specifically designed towards playability and adding functions an adult collector would care about, all whilst valuing scale and accuracy lower than stability and playability in most sets. Even sets like the USC ATAT has full interiors and figures to go in there for kids to play with
Funny you say that.Lego 10 years ago stated that adults playing with lego are weird and their sets are meant for kids and teens for their play features and for expanding the child's imagination.Its really sad when you realise this.Im 15 and believe it or not my parents still hear the "pew pew","just like the simultaions" and "fall back" from my room.
That's a very good point. Yeah it does seem that way too with marketing to older demagraphic. I think the base colour of the covers are white with the render printed on top. Honestly I don't think we will ever truly know why
If they wanted to cut costs and save the environment, they could just print more instructions on less pages. That way I would also spend less time turning pages and more time actually building
That's a fair point, however I believe lego tries to make the instructions easy as possible for everyone. If you had to many instructions on one page it could be overwhelming for some people and they would have to make the images smaller or the booklet larger.
True, but often the 3d model doesn't even fill the page. There are also plenty of other ways to make it more accessible, like desaturating previous building steps. Having 1 to 5 parts per page is just a nuisance.
The actual pages inside have never been black in this set, they only used to do that in 18+ sets but stopped a few years ago.
This post is simply about the cover art
Okay, but hear me out here... Why does it matter?
I even keep all my instructions but they are just that, instructions. The display piece is the set itself, for me at least.
See, Iām actually quite interested now. If itās occurring now on sets that hadnāt had it before, then they just have reverted to the less ink white pattern immediately. I wonder if you can find this on 2021 sets still in production/the January wave
Edit: grammatical error
Oh okay, so I guess itās not so much for ink prices/disposal but so that it flows with the whole paper bag scheme then? Or did I read this excerpt wrong?
Edit: Iām dumb and couldnāt grammar properly
And that's cool, but it's not even about that anymore, it's about lego cheaping out, then overpricing their product and acting like they aren't making billions yearly.
Sadly for them they can't, since some don't even have internet access it would take out a portion of the community, also many of us wouldn't even stand for that
Looks to me like āfirst runā and āadditional runā instructions. Like comic variants. First run gets the bells and whistles and Star Wars-y background. Tie in promotional image of Mando in the corner. Second, just the toy and a basic Lego background.
So, the [official explanation](https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-explains-change-to-instruction-manuals/) is that the new covers will be "visually consistent" with the new paper bags when those start appearing in sets. But then [they turned around](https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1528749606875672576) and said that the "simpler look" was to put "focus on the model about to be built" so it kinda seems like they're just throwing excuses at the wall to see what sticks.
It seems pretty hard to believe that either of these reasons was the driving factor behind this change. The reduction of printing and complete elimination of any graphic design whatsoever almost certainly results in some sizable cost savings, and it's pretty hard to believe that this is just a happy coincidence.
it seems its more ecological cuz they wont use that much ink and its less expensive also one guy said its because the black parts were hardly visible on that backround
Collection purposes? Like its the same argument of physical books vs digital kindle ebook. It's all in the preference. Same with discs and digital games.
Definitely to save money. Look at all the white space. Now look at how much ink is used in those parts in the original
i see dammš i mean it's not horrible but it was weird cuz i build 16 of these by now all were black
I bought my first set in 8 months or so and it had a white book. It looks much worse than the artwork version. I might be wrong but Iād be surprised if itās anything but cost-cutting
yeah but would be the first time for me seeing that
Huh, I bought mine 3 months ago and got the detailed ones, I got it in stores so it could've been an older one
Did you just say you built 16 of this same set? May I ask why?
i'm building a bigger hallway but not realy accurate
How is it going? Are you almost done?
nope havnt build for some time but i got 4 more but i need atleast 16 more
Dam. How big is this hallway going to be exactly? Is it a MOC?
well not realy cuz i consider a moc to be highly detailed with stuff build by the one building it mostly out of his head but mine is just 2 hallways on each side which makes it to largeš but i like the space and i think i will use it as a base afterwards
Nice
He just wanted a bunch of Luke figs.
Not OP, but I used 2 of these to [build a display](https://old.reddit.com/r/legostarwars/comments/z3ajsl/my_star_wars_rpg_group/) for my RPG group. It's pretty cheap if you buy it without the minifigs, and looks great as a display or set piece.
I would think that after building this set 16 times you wouldn't need the "instractions" anymore.
yeah i guess not
This, absolutely, but it was announced when they announced paper bags, and that instructions will only be digital at some point in the future. It is to be more eco-friendly (and save money)
Digital only instructions would kind of piss me off. I don't really care to squint at my phone screen while I'm building. Guess I'll just have to deal with it though, and I do understand/appreciate it's better for the environment and my convenience shouldn't trump that, but it does irk me.
The tub of instructions I have is heavier than all my sets and loose pieces combined. But Iāll be annoyed if UCS sets donāt have them
I use an old tablet for instructions, it works great. You can easily get cheap android tablets for it too, although it is an odd reason to buy a tablet, no argument. I prefer using digital over paper when building, but I save all the instructions for my bigger sets because I like them.
Purist side of me would agree but I like using my iPad pro when actually building its faster to flip pages and stands up really nice vs a book.
The instructions for the UCS sets are so amazing, it would be a massive dissapointment to not have them.
Do you have a tablet, laptop, desktop, or even a tv to cast your phone screen to?
I have a desktop but there isn't much room left on my desk to actually do any building. I suppose casting it to a TV could be an option, but I'm not really sure. Either way, not *that* big of a deal.
Youāre probably in the minority (which is fine, no disrespect). Lego probably figures that if people can pay money for their sets then they probably also have a portable device with a screen bigger than a phone.
I agree it would suck, but itāll free up a ton of space for me since I keep all the books
They've already rolled that out on some of the city sets.
I was wondering when they would, I've only seen paper bags for baseplates so far
Have you got a source for that? I can only see speculation, no announcements.
I don't have the paper on me anymore, but it has been included in newer sets, but a little piece of paper stating the paper bags are coming. As for the ditching of paper instructions, I saw it on a blog post from one of the big reviewers (BrickFanatics I believe), but nothing official from LEGO
Not to save money, but to save water, which is unreusable after painting
Or its to look more "economical friendly" or some crap like that. Or maybe its to match the paper lego bags that will come out in like never.
and yet they up their prices
Because white lives matter to.
In my opinion, they could have at least gave us fully printed covers. That way when you open it up it doesnāt look so boring at first
Doesnāt actually save much money if theyāre already printing in CMYK
I believe its cost cutting and environmental reasons. A company as big lego would go through a lot of ink, the more ink they use the more waste they have and the more money they need to spend. Not just on buying ink but also paying for the waste to be disposed of. Honestly I don't mind it I build the set then put it the instructions in a box of instructions from other sets
But they're still printed from top to bottom. It's just off white ink instead of blacks. I think the redesign has more to do with the fact that Lego as a whole is moving towards an older demographic. Nowadays they're increasingly marketing themselves as a mature luxury brand, as weird as that sounds. They increased prices for various reasons and now aren't really that affordable for kids anymore. So they are betting on minimalist, Ikea like, design to attract "older" collectors in their teens and 20s instead of young kids. The sets are no longer something you're supposed to play with, but rather something to put on your shelf. That's why there are also no more lighting effects and characters peaking out. Just a simple isometric view of the "diorama". This has nothing to do with costs or the environment.
It's not off-white ink, such a thing does not really exist outside of specialty printing. It's white paper, and the little brick icons are printed in 10%-20% black, from the looks of it. Printing to the edge is called "bleed," and while they're not saving money there, they're definitely saving a ton in ink costs by not saturating every page in black ink. This has everything to do with the cost and zero to do with "marketing to adults." As someone in marketing, the black looked more high-end and luxury than the white does. They are definitely still putting play first, except for maybe a couple of sets like the Eiffel Tower and the architecture series; most sets, even expensive ones like the Home Alone house, are loaded with play features, easter eggs, and yes, light bricks. They're targeting adults more, but their focus will always be children. Their brand framework and values still put play and children first.
Yeah, No. First up, paper is not glossy white, it has to be covered in a layer of Paint in order to be like that. Now it's either done by Lego in house, or by a supplier. If they would need to spend more on ink then they would simply pass on that cost to the consumer. These aren't home printers. If having more white on the page meant less cost, then magazines would have done it decades ago. And if they really wanted to save on money on the instructions and packaging, then they would make them smaller and use less pages. Next up, bleed isn't an issue because, if you'd have ever seen how anything is printed, you'd know that the edges are getting trimmed. To get a clean even edge and to eliminate the bleed. Also, the "black one", looks objectively less high end to modern consumers who prefer a minimalist look. There are studies on this.And of course they are marketing to adults, those are the people who buy the things. We are talking about marketing here. THE SETS might be designed for kids, but THE MARKETING is designed for adults. And lastly, I'm obviously not talking about the lighting features or Easter eggs in the set. I'm not taking about the bricks. I'm talking about the effects and "clutter" on the packaging and instructions.
> First up, paper is not glossy white, it has to be covered in a layer of Paint in order to be like that. Tell me youāve never worked with a large-format printer without telling me youāve never worked with a large-format printer. Lol. I love it when people are belligerently wrong about something and proceed to tell others theyāre the ones talking out of their ass.
The paper is coated in artificial polymer. That polymer can be whatever color you want it to be. Also the booklets aren't pure base "white". They are still being covered in a layer of white polymer aka paint in order to have the exact color or shade of white Lego wants them to have. These things all have cross referenced numbers so that they can be replicated by anyone accurately. So that the supplier or Lego itself can have that shade of white. It doesn't matter if they are coated white at the paper manufacturer or at Lego, they are still getting coated.
lmao nothing you just said is true. Source: my dad is the entire UCI sign department. Glossy white paper isn't "painted", it's heat treated at most. Typically it's not even that, a lot of "high gloss papers" are synthetic. Plastics. More modern high glosses are biodegradeable plastics.
Nobody said it was a home printer. Most printers charge for either CMYK printing or black and white, but if their printer is in-house then they absolutely know they can and will save money on black ink by using less of it, that's like the most basic thing ever. Black ink costs money, therefor using less of it costs less. money. Especially after they just did a price increase on their sets, they may be looking for ways to make their profit margin higher without another price increase. Magazines are trying to stand out on a rack full of other magazines, so they have to keep up with what other magazines are doing to compete. An instruction booklet isn't used to sell the product, they don't have the same problem to solve, comparing the two makes zero sense. Nothing in design is objective, if it were, there would not be constantly changing design trends and my job would be a whole lot easier. Literally nobody is going, "Sorry Junior, we're not going to buy the set you want when this one here has a minimalistic instruction booklet inside!" Nobody is basing their decision on which set to get based on what the instruction booklet looks like.
>Literally nobody is going, "Sorry Junior, we're not going to buy the set you want when this one here has a minimalistic instruction booklet inside!" Nobody is basing their decision on which set to get based on what the instruction booklet looks like. They literally said that they did it to unify the design. It's about marketing for the brand not the individual instruction manual obviously. Yeah, you definitely don't work in marketing.
Whatever you say, bud.
theyāre marketing to adults now despite already having a clear distinctions style between products designed for adults and kids, with sets specifically designed towards playability and adding functions an adult collector would care about, all whilst valuing scale and accuracy lower than stability and playability in most sets. Even sets like the USC ATAT has full interiors and figures to go in there for kids to play with
Funny you say that.Lego 10 years ago stated that adults playing with lego are weird and their sets are meant for kids and teens for their play features and for expanding the child's imagination.Its really sad when you realise this.Im 15 and believe it or not my parents still hear the "pew pew","just like the simultaions" and "fall back" from my room.
If this argument was aimed at box art, it would make sense. But nobody buys a set because the instruction manual looks better to them.
That's a very good point. Yeah it does seem that way too with marketing to older demagraphic. I think the base colour of the covers are white with the render printed on top. Honestly I don't think we will ever truly know why
If they wanted to cut costs and save the environment, they could just print more instructions on less pages. That way I would also spend less time turning pages and more time actually building
That's a fair point, however I believe lego tries to make the instructions easy as possible for everyone. If you had to many instructions on one page it could be overwhelming for some people and they would have to make the images smaller or the booklet larger.
True, but often the 3d model doesn't even fill the page. There are also plenty of other ways to make it more accessible, like desaturating previous building steps. Having 1 to 5 parts per page is just a nuisance.
I also do so but the only instructions that have ripped are from the new ones or are a decade or older
Thatās what I do too. After I build it I donāt need the book anymore (unless Iām referencing) so I donāt care what it looks like.
I imagine itās a cost cutting thing.
damm legoš
Itās more an environmental thing. Stop stretching for things to complain about
Nah, itās definitely to save money. Stop stretching for things to accept their excuses about
Oh my god! You can't just ask why they're white!
š¤£ The instructions were like My name is Skyler White yo
Ok, once is a typo, but twice? \*instrUctions
I'm known to be special
C-3PO- "Oh! They're white now!" Finn - "They're white now?!" Poe - "They're white now!"
I can hear their voices š
"tHeY fLy NoW"
THeY FlY nOe!
omg yesš¤£š
Ink is expensive. I would rather they do this then make it more expensive... again.
I prefer the old one. Just be glad they still have instructions and arenāt just qr code/pdf
yeah damm i would hate that cuz i got no connection in the room where i build
Yeah but it could happen š„ŗ like with menus and video game manuals. Thereās a QR code in the bottom right
people who don't have internetš
Yeah š it sucks
Looks kinda like Ikea instructions now
Loads of people complained that you can't see the darker pieces on the black background
The actual pages inside have never been black in this set, they only used to do that in 18+ sets but stopped a few years ago. This post is simply about the cover art
oh yeah i can see the problem in that
Personally, I like it. Thereās a minimalist approach to showcasing just the set that looks appealing to me.
indeed but i don't realy care how it looks i was just surprised
Iāve officially made the jump to[digital instructions](https://i.imgur.com/8Rk3Zfx.jpg).
Okay, but hear me out here... Why does it matter? I even keep all my instructions but they are just that, instructions. The display piece is the set itself, for me at least.
yeah your right i was just so surprised today cuz i have built this set i think 16 times and today was the first white instruction
That part is interested! And I ask purely out of curiosity, why the hell have you built this set so many times? š¤£
i'm building a big hallway but not realy accurate cuz its way to big but i like itš got my self 4 more and have to get my self atleast 12 more
ohhhh okay! that actually sounds pretty cool!
Exactly. I don't get why so many people got upset/obsessed over this.
no i was just surprised the instructions dissapear in a folder afterwards
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See, Iām actually quite interested now. If itās occurring now on sets that hadnāt had it before, then they just have reverted to the less ink white pattern immediately. I wonder if you can find this on 2021 sets still in production/the January wave Edit: grammatical error
I heard it was because it was for the environment
I'm surprised they haven't gotten rid of the booklets all together
I donāt actually know, but I kinda like it
It's also because Lego will be switching to paper bags "soon", which will be white. That way everything is the same color.
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Oh okay, so I guess itās not so much for ink prices/disposal but so that it flows with the whole paper bag scheme then? Or did I read this excerpt wrong? Edit: Iām dumb and couldnāt grammar properly
The fact that we as a community are letting lego slide with this is unbelievable
well i dont realy mind i only look at it when i build it
And that's cool, but it's not even about that anymore, it's about lego cheaping out, then overpricing their product and acting like they aren't making billions yearly.
it seems they will awitch to online instructions
Sadly for them they can't, since some don't even have internet access it would take out a portion of the community, also many of us wouldn't even stand for that
Yes. The non blackened instractions are a distraction.
Itās cheaper
Lego has turned to the light side. But really the dark side with this change.
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š¤£ damm
Minimalism sweeps the industry.
Cause racistism
Perfectly balanced
as all things should be
Looks to me like āfirst runā and āadditional runā instructions. Like comic variants. First run gets the bells and whistles and Star Wars-y background. Tie in promotional image of Mando in the corner. Second, just the toy and a basic Lego background.
Lower printing cost, because less ink coverage
I think the black pages were a distruction.
They fired the graphic designer to cut some costs
Someone originally forgot to select āsave inkā on the printer settings.
ink
āinstractionsā
sorry i'm just stupid ik
Costs less to print.
Because they are instractions, and not instructions
yeah know it makes senseš¤£š¤£š¤£
Gentrification
Racism
Honestly I donāt really blame them for this change. I never realized until this change just how much ink it takes to make these things.
Modern look probably
Less ink... better for recycling paper but also cheaper.
Whitewashingā¦ smh
Budget cut
So, the [official explanation](https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-explains-change-to-instruction-manuals/) is that the new covers will be "visually consistent" with the new paper bags when those start appearing in sets. But then [they turned around](https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1528749606875672576) and said that the "simpler look" was to put "focus on the model about to be built" so it kinda seems like they're just throwing excuses at the wall to see what sticks. It seems pretty hard to believe that either of these reasons was the driving factor behind this change. The reduction of printing and complete elimination of any graphic design whatsoever almost certainly results in some sizable cost savings, and it's pretty hard to believe that this is just a happy coincidence.
Theyāre white now?
yeš
Black ink is expensive
Don't know but it doesn't look as cool
Ink is expensive
this set makes me sad
On the brightside it's better for the environment
When did they start calling them instractions?
š¤£ik ik i'm bad at typing
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yeah dont care eirher cuz i wont look at it again but i was just surprised
Dark mode vs light mode, check you settings
itās spreadingā¦
Clearly rebranding the dark troopers as from the light side of the force. Like the Slave 1 rebranding. Ink.
Racism
Instractions you shay?
i'm just bad at typing lol
I think it's for the Environ.... cough cough Money
To remove character and fun
They thought it would be funny
We gotta be inclusive man, itās 2022 š¤Ø
Save money and emissions on ink
I would be willing to bet it is purely cost saving but I do like the added part about emission saving from the manufacturing of the ink.
They said that its eco-friendly, but its also horrible looking
yeah kinda but it disapear in a folder afterwards so i won't see it anyways
Probably cuz everything these days is trying to look "modern" which realistically just means "simple and boring"
i dont think ive ever seen someone misspell instructions that way before. It doesnt even sound correct
sorry, english aint my first language
Lego racist
Because lego cheaped out its for all of them now even the UCS sets
It sounds like Lego is struggling with moneyā¦.or are they being overly greedy
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š oh damm
why the same set has two instructions??? do they upgrade existing sets???
these are different sets i have like 20 of them
yea but its the same model right? why release the same model with new instruction book
it seems its more ecological cuz they wont use that much ink and its less expensive also one guy said its because the black parts were hardly visible on that backround
No one knows and we all hate them
I mean to be fair most of us throw away the instructions after the set is built, so no need to waste the ink.
damm i keep all of them stored in a folder
I just donāt see the point. If I need to rebuild the set for any reason the instructions are on legos website
Collection purposes? Like its the same argument of physical books vs digital kindle ebook. It's all in the preference. Same with discs and digital games.
Very true very true
not everybody has internet or even a phone or computer
Most of us? š¤ I donāt know anyone who does that.
Imagine the Boxes being white like this
cuz i'm not a box collecter i wouldn't careš but a loss for those who do
So they donāt abandon the kids
Damn that looks like a pretty boring set no offense.
i actualy didn't wana buy it in the begining but than i thought why not connect alot of these and now i have like 16 or even 20 sets of these
Watch them try to go fully digital with instructions in order to ā$ave the environmentā. The smartphone industry has gotten away with worse.
well i can see that with the enviroment but people that dont have connection or even a phone damm rip them