BrickStix/Axe Cop

[Ogre]

Heard about this product via a newsletter from 'Lasting Toys' in Mississauga, Ontario.

Checked out the website and took a look at their 'zombie' mod pack.

I can't recall who it is on EB that wants to make an 'Axe Cop' minifig but, you REALLY SHOULD check out this product...ESPECIALLY the 'zombie' pack.

BrickStix mod packs

*edit* Oops. I mis-labelled the link...it takes you directly to the zombie mod pack.

Edited September 26, 2011 by Ogre

[Aanchir]

Heard about this product via a newsletter from 'Lasting Toys' in Mississauga, Ontario.

Checked out the website and took a look at their 'zombie' mod pack.

I can't recall who it is on EB that wants to make an 'Axe Cop' minifig but, you REALLY SHOULD check out this product...ESPECIALLY the 'zombie' pack.

BrickStix mod packs

*edit* Oops. I mis-labelled the link...it takes you directly to the zombie mod pack.

I've seen these at a Books-A-Million one time. They're a pretty cool idea for a product, and I remember reading a news article about how these were dreamed up by a young kid, whose family became entrepreneurs for this idea. That's the kind of initiative I wish I had when I was still a KFOL!

The face with sunglasses and a mustache is cool, although it's not what I need for an Axe Cop minifigure (I'd need one with a thick black mustache). I wonder whether the stickers fit well on parts like minifigure heads. Seeing as they have curved surfaces it can be more difficult to measure out the size a flat sticker needs to be on those parts.

I'd love to see a review of these sorts of products here on Eurobricks, but I'm not inclined towards getting them and I have a hard time imagining too many AFOLs who are. I would assume most AFOLs interested in customizing their models' decorations beyond "purist" TLG-made stickers would probably prefer to make their own decals or stickers, as opposed to buying a pack of heavily-stylized and imprecise-looking stickers from another company (unless it's a trusted third-party customizer).

Looking at some of the stickers like the guitar and oil can, I can only picture them being used on large bricks with flat sides, to be hanging on a wall or something like that. And I think that would be too "duplo-ish" for many AFOLs' tastes. Don't get me wrong; the designs are nice and better than many amateur designs you see on Brickshelf (I've never uploaded any of my own awful decoration designs from way back when, which is probably for the best). But I think anyone interested in customizing their bricks that heavily would rather have more control over the custom designs, even though that likely doesn't allow for the glossy, removable material that these seemed to when I saw them in a store.

[CMP]

That's a pretty decent idea. If they were transparent and, though I know it's for kids, a bit less cartoony, I may even consider getting one. Upside of stickers: you can make them yourself.