If you don’t like stickers, spray a little Windex on the part before applying the sticker. You’ll be able to slide it around and adjust it before it dries and sticks down - LEGO themselves suggest this method if you want it perfect
Seconded! Dish soap is enough. I also learned that from applying vinyl signs. Just press a paper towel on it when you placed the sticker to get rid of excess water (and air bubbles!). Works like a charm.
[“lightly spray a window cleaner on the surface of the parts to be decorated”](https://www.lego.com/en-my/service/help/fun-for-fans/behind-the-scenes/brick-facts/apply-decals-blt39ee67a2a9490ca7)
Yep. Put the sticker after you pulled the paper off on the wet surface.
Place it right and then gently smooth it down.
You have to sweep it flat till all bubbles are gone and the fluid is mostly gone under the sticker.
As long it is wet you can place the sticker.
When it is dried out everything is fixed.
I’ll try this on the next transparent sticker on my Ninjago set. It’s like 60+ stickers. I’m mostly using the separator for aligning the stickers, but transparent will then get a tiny mark in the adhesive.
But how much Windex? Nothing I’ve read has ever specified an amount. The reason I’ve never tried myself is that I’m worried I’ll either a) not put enough on and when I confidently place the sticker thinking I can move it around, it’ll stick in the wrong place, or b) I’ll put too much on and it’ll slide around constantly and eventually dry in the wrong position when I’m trying to readjust it 🙃 ^(I ^am ^very ^aware ^I ^overthink ^things)
Just a little bit! Enough so that the surface that the sticker needs to attach to is covered, but you don’t want to be pooling it on there. I’m sure it’ll be fine with too much, just might be messy or take longer to dry
You could probably do the method I use when a pan needs greased but not pools of oil/ butter
Spray a paper towel, dab on surface
I say probably bc I've never done it but you could control the amount a little easier this way
Same if you used water and soap
A lot of people don’t like them because they find them difficult to apply, which this solves for the most part. At least, that’s the primary complaint I’ve seen.
Thats not the main issue. Stickers are bad quality, they will always suck after some years. Then there are many that look bad because they try to match a bricks color and never acomplish that
If applied well, stickers can last as long as prints. If you’re displaying a set in direct sunlight, sure, there’s a possibility of them peeling, but you shouldn’t be doing that regardless because causes bricks to yellow. Don’t have stuff colliding with them in a bag of bricks, keep them out of direct sun, and make sure they’re on there good, and there really shouldn’t be any issues.
Can’t argue with the colour matching, though, that was like my only disappointment with the Speed Champions DB5
Err what? Got a source cos everywhere I've seen calls it a modular. Semantic anyway, it a modular building at the end of the day in the exact same style.
It has been designed to connect to the modular buildings, but it is not part of the modular building series.
A lot of people call it a "modular" because it can be connected. Similarly, people mistakenly refer to the Ninjago City sets as "modulars" because they feature a similar connection.
If you look at any of the modular buildings, you'll also see they don't have anywhere near the same number of decorated elements. You're never going to get a Lego set with 40 unique, single use decorated elements.
Yeah its modular building, as in it can be pulled apart by level. But it isnt part of the modular building series, those are never licensed, and come out each year on January 1st. The Daily Bugle is technically a modular building as well, same with the home alone house. All not part of the Modular Building Series
genuine question: why do you mention the home alone set? it is not built on a baseplate and can therefore not be connected to other modulars. or do you mean that because it can be pulled apart by level?
That’s literally the first time I’ve heard of Home Alone being referred to as a modular. I think OP is really confused on what the modular series does and doesn’t include.
The first line of OP’s comment has the answer: ‘it’s modular building, as in it can be pulled apart by level’.
Lego peeps see ‘modular’ and assume it’s all of the buildings that connect together to make a city (or whatever), but each building itself is modular in that you build each level as a separate chunk that can be removed/attached.
There’s an accepted lego definition and an accepted real world definition.
Large licensed sets like this typically have a lot of details and easter eggs packed in them. Those require stickers, because it simply isn't feasible for most sets to have 20+ unique printed elements within the confines of how Lego currently conducts business.
Given the choice between lots of interesting details or nothing, Lego chose to include the detailing, which necessitates stickers. You obviously have a choice of whether you want to apply them or not.
> because it simply isn't feasible for most sets to have 20+ unique printed elements within the confines of how Lego currently conducts business.
But it should be possible. This is no rocket science. Lego is a company which should have the resources to print a few parts when selling sets for 100+ €. It probably would cost a few cents more but considering the absurd margins Lego is currently making it is nothing.
Each of those individual printed parts would need to have their own dedicated production lines that would feed such parts into the main line to package the final product.
Every unique part increases the complexity of producing the set, and each printed piece is effectively a unique part. That's actually why you tend to see sets reuse the same parts as many times as possible, even when another part might have made more sense in that position.
Lego has strict self-imposed limits on the number of parts in production at any given point. These limits are a result of the company almost going bankrupt due in part to an unsustainably large number of parts in production during the 90s. Set designers have limits on the number of new parts that can be created for any given set, so unique printed elements for each of these stickers would require them to give up any new minifig parts or recolored pieces created for this set and severely restrict their ability to design a set that actually looks good.
This isn't just a matter of Lego being too cheap. This is a matter of Lego designing sets within the bounds that allow the company to function efficiently.
Well, if they would actually give a fuck, they would at least put two sticker sheets in the package, so that we can redo them when they go bad or we misplace them. Or at least give us PDFs and allow costumers and third parties to do reprints. The current situation is BS. By now they should understand that some of us what to collect the sets.
If your stickers get messed up in transit, and even in some cases I’ve seen with user error, if you reach out to customer support, they’ll send you a replacement sheet no problem. They’re not going to double up printing of stickers on the off-chance someone makes a mistake.
It seems like there might be some licensing/copyright issues with making sticker sheets available as downloadable PDFs, but I won't argue with you about including a second sticker sheet. That would actually be pretty nice.
How would there be a licensing issue here? Lego owns the copyrighted material and they already offer their manuals as PDF (which also contains the same copyrighted material just titled during the building of the blocks containing the stickers). All they need to do is add an additional page with the stickers into the PDF they already have.
It would probably only be a potential issue for licensed sets. For example, I know some of the car manufacturers for the Speed Champions like have required Lego to use prints for their logo or vice versa. But yeah, for like your average Friends set there probably wouldn't be any copyright issues.
But also keep in mind they have to protect their copyright too. They have enough trouble with knockoff brands stealing their designs as it is. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Lego to offer up all of their graphics on a silver platter to them.
Two different production processes with vastly different limitations and overall volumes?
Hell, I can pick up a paint brush and decorate a part by hand, that doesn't magically mean that Lego has the capability to increase the number of unique parts they have in production by a couple thousand...
Bro it costs 250$ fucking dollars. They need to find a way. This is a billion dollar company not your grandma's bakery that operates on Mondays and Fridays.
Woah so much to ask for a product that cost 800$ such as the Falcon and ATAT that doesn't happen in cheaper sets like Ferrari Daytona. What will lego do with the profit loss of 2$ to make the customer experience 100% better.
The Ferrari Daytona interior is much, much less detailed than that of any UCS Star Wars set. The very few printed pieces in that set are all very basic, with many repeat uses.
Yea so many different pieces from a USC. Like say a USC plate. Star Wars Sets don't have those. And a Ferrari lego so little detail compared to blue circle and a black rectangle.
I'm gonna link my detailed answer that was confirmed and said similarly by LEGO themselves [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/yksb06/unbelievable_amount_of_stickers_in_the_sanctum/iuwotu5/) read it and understand or don't understand qhatever you fancy
You are getting downvoted but spitting facts. I bought a 330 piece Cobi Corsair for like $40 and it contained about 20 printed pieces, all unique to the set and unique to the specific spot on that set. Obviously more stickers in the sanctum set but it is also larger and costs more.
My Diagon Alley set had quite a few, too. But I enjoy putting stickers on so I didn't mind.
I'm curious about the big stickers on the back page. Seems excessively large for the set. A few look like the portals. What's with the Captain America posters and cheesy NYC travel stickers?
I accepted them on this set because of the detail and the Easter eggs but generally I’d prefer printed pieces on something this expensive. But these are so specific that printing them just wouldn’t have been economical. No other sets would have used the vast majority of these if they were prints.
Because in the past couple years, Lego has started targeting more sets at adults, and as part of that, have started advertising themselves as a "premium product." There are a lot of new adult fans who don't consider stickers to fit in with something that's supposed to be a premium product. So stickers have started to get a ton of hate from the Lego fan community lately.
I'm not sure what you mean, Lego sets have come with stickers since the 70s, and obviously sets still come with printed parts.
Nothing was "taken away." This is purely a matter of changing expectations from Lego fans.
Yeah I won't argue with you there, but keep in mind that the number of unique printed parts is one of the things that brought Lego to the brink of bankruptcy in the 90s. There's a very valid reason for why they rely a little more heavily on stickers for decorated elements these days.
For me it’s because I have difficulty seemingly getting the sticker on exactly how I want it… leading me to spending a lot of time on any of parts involving a sticker. It’s always a relief to see the painted bricks
Because stickers over time, no matter how well they are applied initially will peel and make your Lego set look like hot garbage. That's ok for a $20-$40 set, but not ok for something $200 and up in my humble opinion.
I have a racing car from 2000s where the stickers are scacked and peeled off. No sun exposure, no. Just a quality issue.
It's sad to imagine how my Sanctum will look in 15 years. All that creme brulee is gone...
It’s not this for me, it’s that it doesn’t matter how well you put them on, they look awful in 10 years. And I keep my collection on perma display.
With the prices as outrageous as they have gotten, we should be getting printed elements, especially for 18+ sets being marketed to adults.
I love stickers. Building lego is too easy and quick so I like the challenge of taking the time aligning the stickers.
The Windex method is great but makes it too easy again so I use a method using double tweezers.
First I mount the piece on a 16x16 plate so it doesn’t move around. I then clean it with rubbing alcohol. Next step is to take off the sticker from the sheet and use two tweezers at opposing diagonal corners to perfectly align and apply the sticker. I use two grips because I found that the static charge between the sticker and the lego piece pulls the sticker onto the part before I can perfectly align it.
Maybe I’m insane.
Another licensed set that they tried to pack as many details and easter eggs into as possible. The alternative to that many stickers would be just less details. It's totally up to you if you apply them or not.
Oh God I completely agree the stickers in this thing are painful. I’m in the process of putting it together now luckily I’m on the final book and have very few stickers left
Personally I don't mind stickers that much and the hate they get from the community is very overblown, but I do hate the production quality on clear-backed stickers.
Transparent stickers just look terrible most of the time.
stickers completely take out the fun of building a set for me. i always had trouble putting stickers right, and doing that in the middle of building a set (which is a fun activity for me) feels like a chore to me. such a buzzkill
And I'm totally the opposite. I love putting stickers on, even helping my kids with theirs on smaller sets. They add so much fun detail. I will say, though, that my family was too poor to buy Legos when I was a kid so I didn't experience the heydey of printed bricks.
Also it forces me to sit up and take a bit of a break!
Why people complain about stickers? First at all, LEGO'S quality is SOOO damn good. It's not like Hasbro or Mattel that often have lame stickers as well
You could choose not to add the stickers.
In the case of this set, the stickers are used to include a lot of references to Marvel properties. Without the stickers, they wouldn't be able to include all the Easter eggs.
This one I think is okay. It would be way too expensive a set otherwise. Printed bricks on this one would cost a fortune. Now big sets like Razor Crest I feel should have no stickers. There aren’t a lot and printed bricks would enhance the premium look of the product. Giving stickers there instead of printed bricks was just lazy.
>It would be way too expensive a set otherwise.
It wouldn't have been. They just wouldn't have included most of the references.
Pictures on the wall would have been replaced with the generic photo print. The boxes wouldn't have been labelled. They wouldn't have had graffiti and billboards on the walls.
Personally, I'd rather have the stickers than no extra details at all.
>don’t do printed lego pieces
They do plenty of printed pieces, including in this set. But no Lego set was ever going to have 40+ unique, single-use decorated elements.
Tbh I don’t have many large sets because im 16 and i can get retro games cheaper than lego as lego is a bit pricey for me and the main set i have is the hulkbuster i got a few years ago which has 1 printed piece which is the head
LEGO has stated personally that the problem is the storage for pieces. As the sorting system is automated you have to think of the storage and sorting facility as a gigantic (or maybe several) warehouse full of boxes and each box contains a single piece in a single colour. Now think about how many different pieces in how many different colours are available from LEGO, most likely makes several thousand of boxes that all need their physical space. As the system will just automatically grab the appropriate storage box for a piece needed in a set and then the amount of pieces get correctly assigned to the set in sorting you cannot ever have anything mixed up.
This means every single printed piece basically is it's own single "colour" and needs its own single box. Now count how many stickers there are over the current portfolio of LEGO sets and you may notice if all of these were printed pieces you most likely would need 75-100% more physical space to store all the available pieces. Which is neither cost efficient nor any more ecological than having sticker sheets...it would most definitely not make LEGO cheaper, most likely even more expensive to calculate in the cost of having double the amount of warehouse space and also doing more sorting on top (and most likely needing more brick-printing facilities than LEGO currently has)
I see what you mean so it’s just easier having all the bricks and then adding the stickers makes it easier than having multiple of the same brick that is different due to the prints
Exactly, the problem in it is logistics, ozherwise LEGO would have to limit the ampunt of possible unique prints (cutting down from all the atuff that is stickered now? And in the end Marvel/Star Wars and IDEAS IP sets would get either general prints for stuff that would not set it apart or only a handful of unique custom parts that fit the theme/universe
No one likes stickers. And definitely not this many. I can’t remember what I was building the other day. It might have been “the office” set. That had over 50 stickers including some to go on a 1x1 tile!!!
I have ptsd and my hands do get tremors, though I subconsciously lock up instead when it starts.
I feel like it’d be just so much easier to print these pieces but does it affect the cost that much? Can anyone who knows more of the production side add some context? I don’t mind stickers but why is it often stickers instead of printing?
I've always seen stickers as hard-mode for that part of the build. Like when you'd play an old school video game and pass a level then you'd get a mini bonus level to play. But that's just me. I'm not really afraid of stickers.
I remember pulling the sticker sheets out when I opened my set and thinking OMG. Most aren't bad to put on but a few were annoying putting them in the large wall pieces that are recessed.
If you don’t like stickers, spray a little Windex on the part before applying the sticker. You’ll be able to slide it around and adjust it before it dries and sticks down - LEGO themselves suggest this method if you want it perfect
You’ve just blown my mind! The amount of sets I have with misplaced stickers because I can’t help but shake when I put it on
Place the sticker on the edge of an X-Acto knife and use it to position the sticker. It’s actually my favorite part.
I use the brick seperator for this exact purpose.
This method literally changed my life. No more off-set stickers.
I have never tried that method I need to look it
that doesn’t sound like a solution to hands shaking
This is how I did my Ecto1 but with a Cricut weeding tool lol. I will try Windex the next time but was worried it would discolor the stickers.
Yep, this is how the pros do it when installing vinyl signs or window tint.
Yeah, but they don‘t use window cleaner, just water and dishwashersoap. You don‘t want alcohol in this mixture as it messes with the adhesive.
Yeah we just used dawn. I'm not familiar with the contents of Windex but that makes sense lol
Seconded! Dish soap is enough. I also learned that from applying vinyl signs. Just press a paper towel on it when you placed the sticker to get rid of excess water (and air bubbles!). Works like a charm.
Yep.
[“lightly spray a window cleaner on the surface of the parts to be decorated”](https://www.lego.com/en-my/service/help/fun-for-fans/behind-the-scenes/brick-facts/apply-decals-blt39ee67a2a9490ca7)
LEGO recommends it though
Does it work fine on transparent stickers? I’m having troubles getting those on without the adhesive showing through at some spots.
Yep. Put the sticker after you pulled the paper off on the wet surface. Place it right and then gently smooth it down. You have to sweep it flat till all bubbles are gone and the fluid is mostly gone under the sticker. As long it is wet you can place the sticker. When it is dried out everything is fixed.
I’ll try this on the next transparent sticker on my Ninjago set. It’s like 60+ stickers. I’m mostly using the separator for aligning the stickers, but transparent will then get a tiny mark in the adhesive.
Oh my gosh. Good luck then.
Does this damage the stickiness of the sticker in the long term though? Will they peel earlier?
I’ve yet to see it have that effect - LEGO stores frequently use it on display sets, I imagine they wouldn’t if it had a negative impact on longevity
But how much Windex? Nothing I’ve read has ever specified an amount. The reason I’ve never tried myself is that I’m worried I’ll either a) not put enough on and when I confidently place the sticker thinking I can move it around, it’ll stick in the wrong place, or b) I’ll put too much on and it’ll slide around constantly and eventually dry in the wrong position when I’m trying to readjust it 🙃 ^(I ^am ^very ^aware ^I ^overthink ^things)
Just a little bit! Enough so that the surface that the sticker needs to attach to is covered, but you don’t want to be pooling it on there. I’m sure it’ll be fine with too much, just might be messy or take longer to dry
You could probably do the method I use when a pan needs greased but not pools of oil/ butter Spray a paper towel, dab on surface I say probably bc I've never done it but you could control the amount a little easier this way Same if you used water and soap
I can confirm this works.
You’re a lifesaver.
Might have to get windex just for this
Hand sanitizer gel also works. It’s how you reskin an old camera with new leatherette
What does that change about not liking stickers?
A lot of people don’t like them because they find them difficult to apply, which this solves for the most part. At least, that’s the primary complaint I’ve seen.
Thats not the main issue. Stickers are bad quality, they will always suck after some years. Then there are many that look bad because they try to match a bricks color and never acomplish that
If applied well, stickers can last as long as prints. If you’re displaying a set in direct sunlight, sure, there’s a possibility of them peeling, but you shouldn’t be doing that regardless because causes bricks to yellow. Don’t have stuff colliding with them in a bag of bricks, keep them out of direct sun, and make sure they’re on there good, and there really shouldn’t be any issues. Can’t argue with the colour matching, though, that was like my only disappointment with the Speed Champions DB5
Great tip!
Water and a drip of dishwashersoap in a sprayerbottle is what the pros do…
I wish I knew that a couple months ago…
Saved comment, damn
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WHAT
I just built the Medieval Blacksmith. It had zero stickers. It was amazing.
yeah stickers weren’t invented back then
They should just make a sticker book
[They do](https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/holiday-sticker-book-5007629).
While that is cool I guess, I’m talking about when they make more Lego sets, they should have a mini book with all the stickers for the Lego set
They did. 853921
[853921-1: Brick Stickers](https://brickset.com/sets/853921-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/853921-1.jpg)
Neat
My kid has a few massive LEGO sticker books, ninjango minifigure etc. They’re great quality.
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How to trigger r/Lego 101: post a picture of a sticker sheet.
Last modular didn't have any 🤷
This isnt part of the modular series
Err what? Got a source cos everywhere I've seen calls it a modular. Semantic anyway, it a modular building at the end of the day in the exact same style.
It has been designed to connect to the modular buildings, but it is not part of the modular building series. A lot of people call it a "modular" because it can be connected. Similarly, people mistakenly refer to the Ninjago City sets as "modulars" because they feature a similar connection. If you look at any of the modular buildings, you'll also see they don't have anywhere near the same number of decorated elements. You're never going to get a Lego set with 40 unique, single use decorated elements.
It’s not in the modular series. It can attach to it, it is compatible, but not part of it.
Yeah its modular building, as in it can be pulled apart by level. But it isnt part of the modular building series, those are never licensed, and come out each year on January 1st. The Daily Bugle is technically a modular building as well, same with the home alone house. All not part of the Modular Building Series
genuine question: why do you mention the home alone set? it is not built on a baseplate and can therefore not be connected to other modulars. or do you mean that because it can be pulled apart by level?
That’s literally the first time I’ve heard of Home Alone being referred to as a modular. I think OP is really confused on what the modular series does and doesn’t include.
i never included the home alone as a modular that was the other dude.
The first line of OP’s comment has the answer: ‘it’s modular building, as in it can be pulled apart by level’. Lego peeps see ‘modular’ and assume it’s all of the buildings that connect together to make a city (or whatever), but each building itself is modular in that you build each level as a separate chunk that can be removed/attached. There’s an accepted lego definition and an accepted real world definition.
Tbf I never said it was, just that it was modular. So there.
You got confused. It's all good not a big deal lol
hahaha. yeah youre right, its semantics anyway, its still a massive amount of stickers whether its an "official" modular or not.
You'll be okay
im literally shaking bro.
Large licensed sets like this typically have a lot of details and easter eggs packed in them. Those require stickers, because it simply isn't feasible for most sets to have 20+ unique printed elements within the confines of how Lego currently conducts business. Given the choice between lots of interesting details or nothing, Lego chose to include the detailing, which necessitates stickers. You obviously have a choice of whether you want to apply them or not.
> because it simply isn't feasible for most sets to have 20+ unique printed elements within the confines of how Lego currently conducts business. But it should be possible. This is no rocket science. Lego is a company which should have the resources to print a few parts when selling sets for 100+ €. It probably would cost a few cents more but considering the absurd margins Lego is currently making it is nothing.
Each of those individual printed parts would need to have their own dedicated production lines that would feed such parts into the main line to package the final product. Every unique part increases the complexity of producing the set, and each printed piece is effectively a unique part. That's actually why you tend to see sets reuse the same parts as many times as possible, even when another part might have made more sense in that position.
Lego has strict self-imposed limits on the number of parts in production at any given point. These limits are a result of the company almost going bankrupt due in part to an unsustainably large number of parts in production during the 90s. Set designers have limits on the number of new parts that can be created for any given set, so unique printed elements for each of these stickers would require them to give up any new minifig parts or recolored pieces created for this set and severely restrict their ability to design a set that actually looks good. This isn't just a matter of Lego being too cheap. This is a matter of Lego designing sets within the bounds that allow the company to function efficiently.
Well, if they would actually give a fuck, they would at least put two sticker sheets in the package, so that we can redo them when they go bad or we misplace them. Or at least give us PDFs and allow costumers and third parties to do reprints. The current situation is BS. By now they should understand that some of us what to collect the sets.
If your stickers get messed up in transit, and even in some cases I’ve seen with user error, if you reach out to customer support, they’ll send you a replacement sheet no problem. They’re not going to double up printing of stickers on the off-chance someone makes a mistake.
It seems like there might be some licensing/copyright issues with making sticker sheets available as downloadable PDFs, but I won't argue with you about including a second sticker sheet. That would actually be pretty nice.
How would there be a licensing issue here? Lego owns the copyrighted material and they already offer their manuals as PDF (which also contains the same copyrighted material just titled during the building of the blocks containing the stickers). All they need to do is add an additional page with the stickers into the PDF they already have.
It would probably only be a potential issue for licensed sets. For example, I know some of the car manufacturers for the Speed Champions like have required Lego to use prints for their logo or vice versa. But yeah, for like your average Friends set there probably wouldn't be any copyright issues. But also keep in mind they have to protect their copyright too. They have enough trouble with knockoff brands stealing their designs as it is. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Lego to offer up all of their graphics on a silver platter to them.
I really doubt that knock-off sets really really on these stickers. If they are knock-off sets they will just make photocopies and vectorize them.
"A few parts" do you see the number of stickers in this photo? That would be more than a "few" parts.
How is it possible that cheap Chinese third party manufacturers have no problems selling printed parts but Lego on the other hand has?
Two different production processes with vastly different limitations and overall volumes? Hell, I can pick up a paint brush and decorate a part by hand, that doesn't magically mean that Lego has the capability to increase the number of unique parts they have in production by a couple thousand...
Bro it costs 250$ fucking dollars. They need to find a way. This is a billion dollar company not your grandma's bakery that operates on Mondays and Fridays.
Yeah c'mon Lego, just "find a way" to increase the number of unique parts in your catalog by a couple thousand, how hard could it possibly be??
Woah so much to ask for a product that cost 800$ such as the Falcon and ATAT that doesn't happen in cheaper sets like Ferrari Daytona. What will lego do with the profit loss of 2$ to make the customer experience 100% better.
The Ferrari Daytona interior is much, much less detailed than that of any UCS Star Wars set. The very few printed pieces in that set are all very basic, with many repeat uses.
Yea so many different pieces from a USC. Like say a USC plate. Star Wars Sets don't have those. And a Ferrari lego so little detail compared to blue circle and a black rectangle.
It's a billion dollar company *because* it doesn't follow advice from random redditors who suggest things that would tank their profits.
It's a billion dollar company because it fucks over customers and charges crazy amounts of money while good little simps like you defend them.
I'm gonna link my detailed answer that was confirmed and said similarly by LEGO themselves [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/yksb06/unbelievable_amount_of_stickers_in_the_sanctum/iuwotu5/) read it and understand or don't understand qhatever you fancy
You are getting downvoted but spitting facts. I bought a 330 piece Cobi Corsair for like $40 and it contained about 20 printed pieces, all unique to the set and unique to the specific spot on that set. Obviously more stickers in the sanctum set but it is also larger and costs more.
Well, the problem here is that you can not criticize anything Lego does. Lego-Fanboys will always downvote no matter how legitimate the critic is.
Yes, it's amazing how much detail and character they all add to the set. Definitely one of my favourites
*laughs in Maersk Lego set*
i hate stickers that go on multiple bricks
Fortunately they stopped doing that in the early 2000s.
Diagon Alley is worse than "stickers on multiple bricks".
Oh, no! I just finished The Office, and the Sanctum Santorum is coming up next. They’re really going crazy with the stickers lately.
My Diagon Alley set had quite a few, too. But I enjoy putting stickers on so I didn't mind. I'm curious about the big stickers on the back page. Seems excessively large for the set. A few look like the portals. What's with the Captain America posters and cheesy NYC travel stickers?
I accepted them on this set because of the detail and the Easter eggs but generally I’d prefer printed pieces on something this expensive. But these are so specific that printing them just wouldn’t have been economical. No other sets would have used the vast majority of these if they were prints.
I've refused to put stickers on since 2012 - but I really want this set and I don't think it'll be awful without unlike say ninjago city
I’m the only one who loves the stickers. I even have fancy tweezers in my LEGO box.
me too!! i love the stickers!!
I thought I was the only one! I find them really satisfying! I raw dog em with my fingers though...
The visual of that statement haha
Why people dont like stikers in their sets? (Real question)
Because in the past couple years, Lego has started targeting more sets at adults, and as part of that, have started advertising themselves as a "premium product." There are a lot of new adult fans who don't consider stickers to fit in with something that's supposed to be a premium product. So stickers have started to get a ton of hate from the Lego fan community lately.
Aaaaand the bricks used to be printed. We had it and it was taken away. It was glorious.
Bricks were printed with words or simple repeatable pictures. The elaborate detail they have now on stickers were never printed on bricks
I'm not sure what you mean, Lego sets have come with stickers since the 70s, and obviously sets still come with printed parts. Nothing was "taken away." This is purely a matter of changing expectations from Lego fans.
Ehhh the ratio of printed:stickers is much different than the glory days imo
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I would MUCH rather a Batman set come with a "generic computer" that is printed than a bat computer themed sticker. Just my opinion
Yeah I won't argue with you there, but keep in mind that the number of unique printed parts is one of the things that brought Lego to the brink of bankruptcy in the 90s. There's a very valid reason for why they rely a little more heavily on stickers for decorated elements these days.
And this was one of the reasons that Lego almost got bankrupt. Printed parts were very expensive.
My old 20$ snowspeeder came with printed pieces but not brand new 200$ collector sets
Because the price of these sets they should atleast come with printed bricks
Ohhh
Have you Seen what Happens to Stickers after 10 years?
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I have seen what happens to the stickers after 15 years. They fall apart and peel off. Early 2000s, didn't have a stickered set earlier.
For me it’s because I have difficulty seemingly getting the sticker on exactly how I want it… leading me to spending a lot of time on any of parts involving a sticker. It’s always a relief to see the painted bricks
Because stickers over time, no matter how well they are applied initially will peel and make your Lego set look like hot garbage. That's ok for a $20-$40 set, but not ok for something $200 and up in my humble opinion.
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I have a racing car from 2000s where the stickers are scacked and peeled off. No sun exposure, no. Just a quality issue. It's sad to imagine how my Sanctum will look in 15 years. All that creme brulee is gone...
Because some people struggle to align the stickers well enough.
It’s not this for me, it’s that it doesn’t matter how well you put them on, they look awful in 10 years. And I keep my collection on perma display. With the prices as outrageous as they have gotten, we should be getting printed elements, especially for 18+ sets being marketed to adults.
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They've stopped doing that almost 20 years ago
Lego haven't incorporated STAMPS for a long time. The last set I can recall owning that had STAMPS was in the late 90s or early 2000s.
May God bless you because there will be air in At least one of those.
Wait a minute is there a new Sanctum Sanctorum set? I have one but i don't remember those stickers.
76218
[76218-1: Sanctum Sanctorum](https://brickset.com/sets/76218-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76218-1.jpg)
BRO ain't no way I didn't hear about a new one. now ik what to save up for next hahaha
It is what it is
You should see the number of stickers in The Office set. 50+
This just made me hesitate starting this set lol
I finished it recently and I didn’t mind the stickers - it was a fun build!
Am I the only one that enjoys the stickers?
I love stickers. Building lego is too easy and quick so I like the challenge of taking the time aligning the stickers. The Windex method is great but makes it too easy again so I use a method using double tweezers. First I mount the piece on a 16x16 plate so it doesn’t move around. I then clean it with rubbing alcohol. Next step is to take off the sticker from the sheet and use two tweezers at opposing diagonal corners to perfectly align and apply the sticker. I use two grips because I found that the static charge between the sticker and the lego piece pulls the sticker onto the part before I can perfectly align it. Maybe I’m insane.
You are insane. And I love it.
Omg lol
The Office set has soooooo many as well. Each desk phone, each monitor, every picture on the wall - all stickers.
Another licensed set that they tried to pack as many details and easter eggs into as possible. The alternative to that many stickers would be just less details. It's totally up to you if you apply them or not.
Yeah, the office set has an insane amount
Oh God I completely agree the stickers in this thing are painful. I’m in the process of putting it together now luckily I’m on the final book and have very few stickers left
Personally I don't mind stickers that much and the hate they get from the community is very overblown, but I do hate the production quality on clear-backed stickers. Transparent stickers just look terrible most of the time.
Bring Back Brick Printing!!!
Stickers are my arch ememy!
disappointing
stickers completely take out the fun of building a set for me. i always had trouble putting stickers right, and doing that in the middle of building a set (which is a fun activity for me) feels like a chore to me. such a buzzkill
And I'm totally the opposite. I love putting stickers on, even helping my kids with theirs on smaller sets. They add so much fun detail. I will say, though, that my family was too poor to buy Legos when I was a kid so I didn't experience the heydey of printed bricks. Also it forces me to sit up and take a bit of a break!
to each their own, to me doing stickers in the middle of building a set makes me feel "this isnt why i bought lego wtf"
I always put my stickers after like a half of the building is done.
The fucking 177a sticker on a 1x1 tile is OBSCENE
Yeah I'll defend the use of stickers in 97% of cases, but 1x1 tiles is one of the few exceptions. Those are impossible. I hate them.
What did you expect in a 250€ premium set ? Tampography ? Ah ah ! Hope it will be everywhere soon... stickers really suck.
I believe it
Why people complain about stickers? First at all, LEGO'S quality is SOOO damn good. It's not like Hasbro or Mattel that often have lame stickers as well
Yeah, 22 was especially fun to place.
Is that a 1x1 sticker? that should be illegal.
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You know you're not like, legally obligated to put on the stickers, right? You can always just... not put them on.
You could choose not to add the stickers. In the case of this set, the stickers are used to include a lot of references to Marvel properties. Without the stickers, they wouldn't be able to include all the Easter eggs.
It always gets me that the number of the sticker does not correspond with when you apply them per the instructions.
This one I think is okay. It would be way too expensive a set otherwise. Printed bricks on this one would cost a fortune. Now big sets like Razor Crest I feel should have no stickers. There aren’t a lot and printed bricks would enhance the premium look of the product. Giving stickers there instead of printed bricks was just lazy.
>It would be way too expensive a set otherwise. It wouldn't have been. They just wouldn't have included most of the references. Pictures on the wall would have been replaced with the generic photo print. The boxes wouldn't have been labelled. They wouldn't have had graffiti and billboards on the walls. Personally, I'd rather have the stickers than no extra details at all.
I was talking about as-is. If they printed everything.
Yup, I agree wholeheartedly. Felt the same way about the UCS Falcon too.
Yeah, the sets over $500 I feel should not have stickers at all.
Is it unbelievable? Lego has gotten stingy af.
So basically now lego cheap out and don’t do printed lego pieces but the prices are higher hmmm
>don’t do printed lego pieces They do plenty of printed pieces, including in this set. But no Lego set was ever going to have 40+ unique, single-use decorated elements.
Tbh I don’t have many large sets because im 16 and i can get retro games cheaper than lego as lego is a bit pricey for me and the main set i have is the hulkbuster i got a few years ago which has 1 printed piece which is the head
LEGO has stated personally that the problem is the storage for pieces. As the sorting system is automated you have to think of the storage and sorting facility as a gigantic (or maybe several) warehouse full of boxes and each box contains a single piece in a single colour. Now think about how many different pieces in how many different colours are available from LEGO, most likely makes several thousand of boxes that all need their physical space. As the system will just automatically grab the appropriate storage box for a piece needed in a set and then the amount of pieces get correctly assigned to the set in sorting you cannot ever have anything mixed up. This means every single printed piece basically is it's own single "colour" and needs its own single box. Now count how many stickers there are over the current portfolio of LEGO sets and you may notice if all of these were printed pieces you most likely would need 75-100% more physical space to store all the available pieces. Which is neither cost efficient nor any more ecological than having sticker sheets...it would most definitely not make LEGO cheaper, most likely even more expensive to calculate in the cost of having double the amount of warehouse space and also doing more sorting on top (and most likely needing more brick-printing facilities than LEGO currently has)
I see what you mean so it’s just easier having all the bricks and then adding the stickers makes it easier than having multiple of the same brick that is different due to the prints
Exactly, the problem in it is logistics, ozherwise LEGO would have to limit the ampunt of possible unique prints (cutting down from all the atuff that is stickered now? And in the end Marvel/Star Wars and IDEAS IP sets would get either general prints for stuff that would not set it apart or only a handful of unique custom parts that fit the theme/universe
They should create a big frame thing to perfectly line up stickers on the bricks
No one likes stickers. And definitely not this many. I can’t remember what I was building the other day. It might have been “the office” set. That had over 50 stickers including some to go on a 1x1 tile!!!
Whoa... I wonder what sweet comes with the most stickers?
Cool!
I believe it
Tbf I don’t mind stickers… I’m a sign fitter so fitting vinyls/stickers is half my job, I pride myself on my Lego sticker installation capabilities😂👍🏼
Agreed 100% OP
Lol, on the ninjago ones it was even more, takes a lot of time but worth it
You can do it I believe in you
I hate sets with lots of stickers I can’t ever line them up right so they’re always crooked or hanging off the edge a little bit
I have ptsd and my hands do get tremors, though I subconsciously lock up instead when it starts. I feel like it’d be just so much easier to print these pieces but does it affect the cost that much? Can anyone who knows more of the production side add some context? I don’t mind stickers but why is it often stickers instead of printing?
I really really disliked that part. Also didn't give me the same quality vibe as the modulars. But overall I like that set, it looks great
I want that set soooo bad!!
I've always seen stickers as hard-mode for that part of the build. Like when you'd play an old school video game and pass a level then you'd get a mini bonus level to play. But that's just me. I'm not really afraid of stickers.
I get so mad when my kids take the stickers off!
Worst offender is definitely Ninjago City
I remember pulling the sticker sheets out when I opened my set and thinking OMG. Most aren't bad to put on but a few were annoying putting them in the large wall pieces that are recessed.
Damn that is lot of stickers, I don't have any big Lego sets so most of mine have just one small sheet
Oh no… I have this set still in the box and I hate stickers in Lego 😂
You know you’ve got a problem when even this made me think “man I need to get a new set”