Worst building TLC's techniques

[xwingyoda]

Guys, I'm in the process of building the Crawler and those treads are killing me !!!!!

I wanted to create a poll on what are the worst TLC's "building techniques". The Crawler has them all !!!!!

Unstable structure: if you put parts and press them correctly, some of the main structure collapses yeayyyyyy

All those treads are a pain to build: 34 X 8 = pain and suffering !!!

At least there aren't that many stickers (for once !!!!): definitly not the Ferrari truck ;)

Cast your vote and lest enjoy the fun of worst building techniques !!!

[SuvieD]

Stickers are awful. They fall off, look stupid if not perfectly applied and have little to no added value to a set.

The one redeeming value of stickers is that one doesn't have to put them on leaving the piece blank. Which is perfect for a castle builder like me. Having them in a set I want to part out is fine but if they ever start putting stickers on castle buildings I will not be happy >:( .

[snefroe]

stickers are terrible! it's alright if you apply them very well, but i'm not a big fan, so i'll go for stickers!

[ApophisV]

*raises hand* Stickers! |-/

[Deinonychus]

Definatly stickers...

The stickers on my two Gunships and Reble Blockade Runner began to crack and peel upward after a couple years, and that was just from slight, indirect sunlight filtering through blinds!

I contacted LEGO about the problem and they nicely sent me replacement stickers for my Blockade Runner (without me even asking for them :D ) but they sadly didn't have stickers for the Gunships anymore.

I mean, we pay enough for these sets already, just go ahead and print the bloody designs on the bricks :P

[Lost Viking]

That happened to me to Deino on the Gunship, it is so annoying >:( !

[JINZONINGEN73]

Not to feel left out, I must impart upon this discussion my very own

STICKERS SUCK!

I am very happy that they don't F*** up the bricks much by printing patterns on them, but especially in licensed sets, such as the expensive gunship... it MIGHT be a good idea to go ahead and make the images timeless by imprinting them.

I'm a Lego builder who NEVER buys Lego sets to actually build the (ugly, poorly designed) intended models.

All those old Alpha Team sets I bought would've sucked hard if the geeky AT logo was painted on all the pieces instead of optional with stickers.

I will never put stickers on top of Lego bricks. It's unfathomable.

But if I paid over $60 for a licensed character-specific type deal, sure, why not? Just paint it straight on.

[MattZitron]

STICKERS!!!

To me, they're the epitamy of NON Lego parts.

[Legoman]

stickers suck *sick* threads suck *sick* unstable sets suck *sick*

why lego why *sing* *sing*

[jonfett]

I see so many sticker complaints.. whats th big problem with them?

*avoids screwed up sticker sheets being thrown in my direction* :P

Of course, these are a pain.. but I find even worse unstable structures.

When you have part of a model you need to press firmly to apply it to a model and you end up caving in half of the model.. that really bugs me as you have to go back through it all again! |-/

Jon.

[ApophisV]

There is some truth in Jon's words.... Actually stickers aren't a real building technique, more a technique to achieve a particular look (greebles, details, etc)...

But I think the reason why so many vote for is that stickers are in most cases a bigger annoyance than silly building structures, because they will go along the whole brick's life instead only one modell's life!

[DoubleT]

Yes but stickers aint bricks... and have "work" in them..

[Kikuichimonji]

I dislike all of them actually, but stickers aren't that much of a problem since I don't use them (only on my SW sets because they're display only and will never be used in MOCs). The threads in the Sandcrawler were a pain too, but the effect is really neat ( a lot better then it would've been if TLC would have been using the 6573 threads...). I'd go with technic pieces...I'm a pure System builder, and I want only system parts when I buy a set...technic just doesn't belong there. I mean, Viking were a great series, but omg...all the technic...that was hell. I stink a technic constructions too; have to do them three times or so because I always mess up...

[Sting]

Technic? Not too bad.

BIONACLE PIECES >:(

Although they are usually for look/addons... so are stickers so this fits...

[KimT]

I hate stickers, but I can't stand unstable structures. I've never been as dissapointed as when I got the new Millenium Falcon. Putting a minifig inside the Falcon resulted in the bottom collapsing. And as I was turning it over to study what the h*** happened - the entire top/roof fell off *devil* Thanks TLC for that crappy construction :| :(

KimT

[Kikuichimonji]

The new Falcon isn't all that bad...the ULD is a lot crappier...but it's a pretty crappy set anyway ;)

[Vader]

Gotta go with stickers also im afraid, i understand why lego uses them but boy do they suck.

[KimT]

Oh I forgot - hate those new instructions where one can't tell dark gray from black. It's a pain in the *** >:(

I always seem to end up with pieces in the wrong colours due to the impossibilty to decipher the damn instruction *sick*

KimT