The new LEGO Helicarrier set features stickers and no printed pieces to improve the minifigure selection, repeating the usual process.
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"These are stickers; we would rather put the additional stuff into the minifigures and make sure those are good, rather than print an element or two," said designer Mark Stafford.
The last two full LEGO Helicarrier sets have also opted for stickers over printed pieces for the runways and other necessary details. This made it more challenging to line up the patterns on the runway, and you'll be facing that challenge once more in
This statement is similar to other quotes we've heard regarding stickers over prints in LEGO models. The budget for each set means that not everything can be printed, and some sacrifices have to be made based on the design team's judgment. That means many new minifigure prints in the exclusive selection of
LEGO designer Jordan David Scott shared more details on the budget behind LEGO models with The Verge regarding
"We can’t make everything decorated. We can’t change every brick into every colour,” Jordan explained. “Otherwise, the portfolio would just explode in complexity, so we have teams that manage the complexity level.
“If I have five products or 10 products coming out, I need to allocate where those frames go. When someone puts in an order for a particular colour change, we can see it showing up in the library of digital bricks.
“If NINJAGO are making something we could use, we kind of have a dialogue and say, ‘Oh, we can use this as well, that would be great, so maybe we need to get you a frame or something to share it.’”
The stickers in
The answer is unlikely to be simple, given the nature of the partnerships, though we as LEGO fans can only hope for bigger budgets in these equally huge and expensive models.
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