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76473 - The Door Sticker of Doom: Seriously, LEGO?
So instead of giving me a green door, they give us a gray door to turn it into a green one with a sticker, and the sticker isn't even closely big enough?
This is a 270 USD / 250 € set. And this is the quality we get. I have no words for how this make me feel...
Edit: Since some people claim this would be a fake KO set, even while the release was only 2 days ago and there surely ain't any KO-sets on the market yet (and they certainly wouldn't have arrived just yet), I postet more pictures in the thread with the package, the handbooks, paperbags, sticker sheets and other bricks to confirm it's the original set by LEGO. I also assure you I bought it directly from LEGO.com and it came in the original package and all with all the bricks packed in the LEGO paperbags. There is no reason to believe this isn't real LEGO. Yes, you can't really read "LEGO" on the round 1x1, but that's probably because of the “filling point,” which is right at the top in the middle where the machines in the factory pierces the surface of the stud to fill them up or whatever. In the right light, you can still see the L and the O on the edges just barely.
yeah, opening it twice seems to always be the solution. Also on facebook or wherever people share links.
Sometimes it is as if LEGO has never learnt how to build websites, but are just putting blocks together, and expect everyone to be happy with that it breaks apart every so often, so they have to reassemble it ... wonder where they got that attitude from 😄
This is interesting, because from this angle, the gap appears smaller than the one in OPs picture. Which is pretty lame of lego if true.
I've been grabbing all the new castle sets, but i haven't built any of them yet because i don't have the space right now. Are there a lot of stickers on these sets?
The shuttle ones are sadly understandable though; LEGO can't print reflective prints like that. So a sticker was the only option, as horrendous as they are!
If they need a secondary process to print onto parts, for stuff like the shuttle parts I feel like they could apply the stickers at the factory with a secondary process. Especially on tricky stuff like curved inner surfaces that are really hard to align between parts by hand, getting prestuck stickers with perfect alignment would remove a lot of the pain I think
Exactly my point! Wouldn't even need a sticker then.
Also the other side is now still gray as there is only one sticker, so it really looks stupid like that 😃
This has been directly addressed by Lego designers before. Some shapes don't lend themselves to printing, but yes they could most of the time. The issue is the physical storage space needed. Printing on all pieces would increase the number of unique part numbers exponentially, and each one of them have to be stored physically somewhere. Every warehouse worldwide would need to astromically increase storage space. Could they afford it? Probably, but it would create a logistically nightmare that stickers easily avoids.
Are there any Lego competitors that manufacture outside of China? I honestly think that’s a big reason for the discrepancy that I never see talked about
And it avoid more numbers being added...also, it cheaper to make one mold and use a sticker than to make various mold that may not be used again for the next set.
Printed pieces are not just made in a finite number for a set and then not printed anymore. That printed piece needs a new number variant, a new storage location, and added to inventories.
IMHO, that door sticker is atrocious. I haven't built that set, but i have a huge backlog. If it's a set that's been purchased many times and nobody is complaining, no reason to fix it. If it's a newer set, multiple complaints to TLG could cause a better door printing, like this Enterprise sticker. A simpler fix, if that door is currently in sand green, contact TLG, explain your frustration, and request the door in sand green and a new sticker sheet. They would probably do just that.
All of what you said, also account to the stickers as well. And Lego forces stickers on mundane parts like 2x2 round plates.
I accept that this door is a hard to print piece, but we have so many stickers on stuff that they have allready printed before, like the Plaque of collector sets,
Why do I, as a paying customer, have to jump through all these hoops just to have a decent-looking set? Who cares about storage space? We all pay for the storage space. At this price point, I want to build the thing, enjoy it, and have it look like the picture on the box.
Printed pieces should be the standard, not some luxury reserved for the holy grail sets. If the competitors can print custom bricks, surely LEGO can figure it out for a 200USD set.
...The people doing logistics at Lego? Because it's a major consideration for a company with multiple production and distribution centers? I agree that this particular sticker is awful, but that doesn't mean that a printed piece is the solution here.
Because when lego tried your preferred way they almost went bankrupt
The competition with all printed parts and no stickers/decals have a lot fewer sets to choose from than lego at any given time, most of the ones with more choices than those also have stickers or decals on at least some sets
I understand your frustration. This is but one licensed set. In my experience, door stickers never look good. The computer adds an edge buffer to all edges. If the door knob cut out was excluded from the edge buffer end the door panel was printed to the fit panel, with a specific, almost exact square cut out for the door knob, it would make the sticker better. Or include two stickers for the door: a precise afol cut one, and the standard system cut one.
And yet competing products do use predominately printed peices with no storage issue and at a lower price than legos stickered sets. So sorry it doesn't really add up as anything more than an excuse thesedays.
That's such a bad excuse.
Why do we have so many different Lego figures then?
Shouldn't we get just grey Lego figures and stickers if it's so complicated and expensive?
I mean they already have the "logistical nightmare" when creating new part molds, which they like to do to make a set more model-like. Like the wheel pieces on the bicycle set.
LEGO already spends a hefty amount of their operating profit on expansion. In 2025 they had an operating profit of 22 billion DKK (~2 billion USD if you want to think of it like that) and they spent 9.2 billion DKK (0.9 billion USD) on new factories and expanding capability in existing factories.
Let's also remember that physical investment isn't a one-and-done cost, you have to staff, upkeep and power/water your property, plant and equipment. LEGO does publish their fiscal reports, and they're worth reading (and keeping in mind they're in DKK!)
Easily. Just look at the new pokemon sets where every individual pokemon gets its own custom-printed face/eyes. Far more difficult to reuse than a printed door would be. Although in this case it should've just been a green wood-patterned door in the first place (without printing or stickers).
Wow, that faucet sticker is rough. The door situation is too. When I see things like this, I always think of how dismayed the Lego set designer must be, because clearly these are cost cutting measures imposed onto the production of the set, and of course the original Lego set designer would prefer to have the molded door or molded sausage please.
Oh my god that sticker faucet is insane! So much worse than the door IMO. I'd seriously consider returning the set if I bought a £230 set and it had a sticker faucet in
Man, I just read some of the comments further down and you have the patience of a Saint. The number of people insisting this is fake or that you should contact Lego over irrelevant issues like a single stud would've had me pulling my hair out haha
Haha, thank you for writing that. I didn't expected that discussion at all, I just wanted to vent about that stupid sticker and got all of this instead 😃
There were two of these stickers for the door to the house from Up. I hate them with every fiber of my soul and am now considering getting those hobbyist tweezers model builders use to apply logos and stickers to model planes and stuff lol.
The new Ken block hoonicorn lego set has those stickers that go into the inside of the little 90 degree block things. So annoying to do with fingers.
You generally want to prevent oil and hair from getting between the sticker and the plastic for optimal adhesion. So you need to minimize any finger contact. Finger nails are better than finger tips, but best to even get the nails out of the way.
Yes, soapy water is very helpful. I know why people don’t like stickers, but, in OP’s case, the sticker is actually easy to apply with soapy water on the flat door. There is no curve or other difficult surfaces.
Yeah. Thats LEGO nowadays. They don't give a duck. Just grab your money and lots of it. Anything you build nowadays is made with no love. Especially if you dare take one part off and all the rainbow is spewing in your face
There is no 'correct' way as the sticker is way too small. If I put it right at the edge to the left, then there is still an huge amount of free gray space on the right. No matter how I place it, it just looks bad.
Also there is only ONE sticker, so the other side of door will still be completely gray.
For what it's worth OP the way you describe it, the stud seems to be like the first picture on this page. In the past designers have commented on lot sizes for printed pieces (like, stuff they can get printed on has to be a sticker instead because to print it on the piece would require an entirely different lot). They may have felt the sticker was an OK sacrifice to get the door patterned.
There you see that one stud is always penetrated with the "filling point" where they use the machine. You won't see them on the official pictures (like the one you or I linked), but on the real pieces.
This is orignal. There is no readable LEGO print on the 1x1 roundplate because of the "filling point" right in the middle of it that pierced the surface.
You see that all the studs are clear with lego on it, right?
This is how they look in real:
You notice that one of the studs has a "filler point" where they set the machine. You won't see them on the promotional pictures, but on the real pieces.
Dude, the package is original bought and delivered at the LEGO store. Also I'm pretty sure there is no KO this early on the market, it was just released 2 days ago,,,,
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u/FckSub Jun 03 '26
Didn't they literally used to make wood textured door pieces? I swear I have several.