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The main reason I like the Cozy House is because it looks like a Friends house. It's a cuter design and cuter colors than most City or Creator houses. But it comes with normal minifigs! That's pretty much what I want out of City. Friends, but with standard minifigs.

Not to worry friend, see Debunking the freedom of choice myth a few posts up. This will never be a problem. Talking about Lego's internal logistics doesn't make anyone look cool or knowledgeable. It just makes people look like corporate excuse peddlers and know-it-alls. Who care more about the power they get over fellow fans by pretending to be insiders with special knowledge than actually wanting to get better Lego products. Lego already makes sets with prints and no stickers so they obvious have the ability to do it. You put on your engineers hat to not fix problems and accept things for how they are? You don't need an engineers hat to do that. Of course it is. Because prints are better than stickers. Why wouldn't they align properly? I'm sure as heck not trying to get two stickers to line up perfectly 40+ times in a single set. You've gotta be crazy to think anyone prefers that over printing.

This. You are so money right now.

Debunking the freedom of choice myth Myth: "Stickers are better because I can choose not to put them on!" Why would you prefer an un-stickered part to a printed piece? You need the part without the print for a MOC How often does a part exist with a print (or sticker) that isn't available otherwise? This is very rare. The only thing I can think of are rounded windscreens, and stickers aren't an option there anyway. When I'm MOCing, I've had parts in wrong colors, or not enough of a certain part, or perhaps even not a single one of a part I need. But I've never had the right part in the right colors and in the right amount, but with unwanted stickers/prints on some of them. This is just an incredibly contrived problem. I've used parts with random prints all the time when MOCing. It's just extra detail. As long as it isn't super out of place, like a Fire emblem on a space ship -- although I do remember using a fire print on a space ship as a kid, and pretending it had fire-based weapons. I kinda want a set because it would be really cool except the prints ruin it This just isn't believable for parts like consoles, computers, etc. You want the set but not with the controls? No way. Not believable. This doesn't make sense for stickers that really make the set. Like the face print on Yoshi. "I want to build Yoshi but without his eyes." No you don't. Not believable. Nobody hates graphical details like stripes, panel lines, etc. They might not be strictly necessary, but most people generally like these. They aren't ruining any sets for anyone. This might be a good argument for things like rust on the Ecto-1. Stickers make the rust optional. I'd rather have a pristine Ecto-1 than a rusty one. Still, they could include optional prints for rust/battle damage type graphics. You don't need stickers to make things optional. This might be a good argument for faction logos. "I want the Jurassic Park jeep because it's cool, but I don't like Jurassic Park. I'm buying the set for the jeep and I'm going to leave off the stickers so I can use it as a generic jeep." Sure...but you're paying for the dinosaur, the bubble thing, and some Jurassic Park minifigs. That's not something many people are going to do if they don't like Jurassic Park. Is buying the set any better than bricklinking the parts just for the jeep, where you can also get whatever colors you want? The Jurassic Park jeep is a pretty rare example of a generically useful vehicle with a factional logo. This argument doesn't make sense for, say, a fire truck. "I want a big red truck with a fire hose, but NOT a fire fighter logo." No you don't. It might be a cool to have a bad guy X-Wing, stolen by the empire. You want to leave off the Rebel logo sticker and put on an Empire sticker. Okay, but where are you getting the Empire sticker? From another set? You could do the same thing by swapping printed parts if everything was printed. So, the freedom of choice argument is, mostly, silly. It really only applies to the RARE graphics that are designed to be optional, like rust/battle damage. Which can also be solve by optional printed parts. "It's good to have options! So I want to have a guy around that is good at punching my face. Because I can then ask him to punch my face, but only if I want to." No you don't. Because nobody is going to choose that. It's just better to not be punched in the face.

Is that headlight on the Porsche a new piece? I really hope you can stick a bar into that brick!

The Cozy House looks awesome! I want it.

Debunking the sticker utility myth Myth: "Stickers are better because you can slap them on any brick you want!" Can you though? Not really. Stickers have colored backing. It's going to look really weird putting, say, a sticker with white backing on a red brick. I guess you can. But how is that any better than just using on the white piece it was designed for? Also, stickers have a shape generally matched to a brick. You can put it on a larger brick, but not a smaller brick, unless you cut it (you monster!). A sticker not going to look good on a larger brick of a different color, that's for sure. On a larger brick of the same color, it might look okay, despite the outline. But you're going to have to design around having a big enough part to fit your sticker. How is that any better than designing to incorporate a printed part? The sticker utility argument seems to be philosophical/theoretical only. It really breaks down in reality.

So what is your favorite printed piece? For me it might have to be this: The definitive "what's wrong with stickers" list: Applying a sticker is, quite literally, gluing/Krageling a piece of paper to your Lego brick Putting them on perfectly straight is a challenge They will inevitably get dust/lint/hair etc around the edges Air bubbles They peel The background color/finish might not match the brick Visible edges They wear They feel and look cheap 12. Water damage. You can't wash stickered parts. And you have to make sure they don't get wet. 13. Sometimes sticker sheets will literally come out of the box with a giant CREASE through them. Good luck getting that out of your sticker. You can't crease a print. 14. Fingerprints. 15. You have to put them on yourself! It's a pain. And stressful since you can't easily fix a poorly placed sticker. I came here to stack bricks together, not to fiddle with sticky stuff.

INTRO: A large contingent of Lego fans prefer stickers over prints. And that may be an understatement. Many of us cherish prints and despise stickers. I am one of them. I'd like to have a thread where I, and other print fans, can explain why we love prints. And safe space where we can talk about why we don't like stickers. And just maybe, try to figure out how to get Lego to actually give us prints instead of stickers. The reason for this is that I got into a debate in the Unpopular Opinions thread. "Nothing is wrong with stickers" they said. A truly unpopular opinion. I passionately listed reasons to dislike stickers, but then realized: that thread is not the place. People need a thread where they can express such heresy freely. So I gave sticker lovers the last word. But this thread? Hopefully this thread can be for us printed part lovers and sticker haters! QUICK LINKS: List of reasons why stickers suck Stickers are not easy to reuse on other bricks Stickers are not better than prints because they're "optional" Lego fans VASTLY prefer prints to stickers "Too many boxes" Part 1 - How Lego uses insider trivia to get know-it-all fans to do PR for them "Too many boxes" Part 2 - The debunkening "Too many boxes" Part 3 - Solutions A sticker merder! My list of recent cool sets with no stickers/cool prints CLOSING: For me, when opening a new Lego set as a kid, printed pieces were magical. They were the parts that made our sets come to life. Whether a control panel, a computer console, stony wall, or an emblazoned battle shield, just a handful of these sprinkled in could make a vaguely pleasant configuration of bricks into a real set. The were only second to minifigs in that regard, IMO. Imagine a space ship without these? A spaceship would spin out of control with just a plain slope in the cockpit! Or a castle set without these? Lego knights wouldn't know who the enemy was. Orderly battles would turn into free-for-all melees! But with prints, we have order and goodness.

Agreed, this is super cool! The triangular builds look like they were a challenge to figure out.

Hi there! Late reply. But does your mod require extra pieces, or can it be done with just the pieces in the set?

Very cool! More windscreens are always welcome. But I'm a little tired of trans yellow on blue. I kinda like that this MOC is rocking FX Star Patroller colors.

Is it unpopular to think the large Galidor figures were pretty cool? I like the whole concept of swappable action figure body parts. The old Technic figures were awesome too.

Um, hello? Did we just become best friends?

Is that how it's supposed to work? I just thought it was fans of the licenses buying licensed CMFs, not random people. The only licensed CMFs I've ever bought were Simpsons because my wife was super into the Simpsons. Marvel CMF? No interest, never bought any. Harry Potter? Don't care. But a TON of people like those licenses, apparently, so I can see them selling. Muppets and Looney Tunes? Who the heck is buying those? There is simply not a large fandom for those, I don't care what anyone says. I grew up with the Muppets and Looney Tunes but I wouldn't spend money on them. But anyway back to the "obscure" question. I guess one argument is that the more popular figures are going to be in the main sets anyway. So that could be one reason to put more side characters in the CMF series.

Not into Sonic but I know of Knuckles and Dr Robotnik. I think I've seen at least a few other main characters but I can't name them. And probably lots of bad guys. Obscure to the general public and obscure to Sonic fans are presumably two very different things.

I'd like to see a pic of the back of the figure while wearing an air tank. Hopefully enough printing shows around the edges to look like something. Why is the control panel in the cargo hold gray? I'm just now learning that the original Invader's main thruster is gray though.

I meant an actual space ship set. :)

This reminds me we haven't gotten a Classic Space themed Creator set yet. Maybe they should have done Blacktron this year, then they would have had prints for the Blacktron GWP.

I went and looked at pics of people's used 6894 sets and I'm not seeing any issues. I'm actually amazed at how great they look despite being yellow on black. I need to dig out my own Blacktron sets, but I've been feeling lazy...although 6894 is the only original Blacktron set I don't have. Any chance the sloped computer piece is a print? Just remembered we haven't had a Classic Space themed Creator set yet. In some alternate timeline, they did a Blacktron Creator set this year, and this GWP set also got the same prints.

Very cool, I like the tandem cockpit.

And now for something different and fun. Some of you may already know about the director and designer for the Lightyear movie being a Lego Space fan, and that he designed his spaceships to have yellow windscreens because he loves Classic Space. Because of this hero, we now have the yellow windscreen that is used in the upcoming Blacktron GWP set. The question is, how many other heroes are out there, working on the inside, trying to get us more windscreens? Well, I couldn't help but to notice things in multiple other Sci Fi movies. Back when I watched Dune in the theater, this popped out at me: What is this? Another yellow windscreen? Was a secret hero trying to get us this or this piece in trans yellow? But that's not all. When watching Avatar, I noticed this: Wait, is that a yellow windscreen? I can't find a better screenshot, but yes, it's a big yellow windscreen on a new vehicle called the Seawasp! Obviously we didn't get any Dune Lego sets, and we didn't get the Avatar Seawasp in Lego form. But that doesn't mean we don't have people on the inside, a league of secret heroes, infiltrating the highest levels of movie concept design, trying to get us cool new Lego pieces! And I thank these brave heroes for their efforts!

This is great! Would love to see more of that giant Exporiens mech!

I looked at the pics again that shows how the tail is attached. Yeah, there is no mechanism there. I think they just didn't clip the tail in completely for the box pic!

After seeing the leak I was shocked at the seemingly positive response on reddit. Came here to see if the response was similar. This is my take as well. I have no idea what Bionicle fans want or are willing to accept, but based on the reddit responses, it sounds like they'll take anything. Even with the limitations, seems like they could have done better. I've seen some actually good brick built Bionicle MOCs out there.