I see where you are coming from, but what I put on the survey was that they need to be smarter about what should be a sticker what should be printed. I don’t think it should be either one or the other exclusively, but they are using way too many stickers now where printed bricks would be easier and look better. It’s a subjective matter of course, but a lot of things they use as stickers I think would be better as a printed brick.

One example I used of great stickers that are perfect for making custom models were the fish stickers from the 1990′s Divers line. Tiny fish sticker that are great for making an aquarium or whatever as opposed to just sticking on a rock for underwater. The other nice thing was that if you did use them for underwater, you could stick them on the rocks any way you pleased. This is a great use of stickers.

A recent example of stickers that I might have preferred printed would be the doctor’s car/air mail/police car etc. Having the emblem not centered on the roof of the car is just irritating. I would have preferred these just be printed. It is nice to be able to use the emblem on another piece, but the smaller emblems are good enough for that. The big one could have just been printed on the roof.

So, for me, it boils down to just using better judgement as to where to use a printed brick and where to use a sticker. I also can’t stand getting bent up stickers in the box. Sure, you can call to have them mail you new ones, but it happens frequently enough that I wish they would put the sticker sheets inside the instruction booklets so it would not happen as often.

Regarding people wanting fewer custom bricks, this I just flat out disagree with. What is wrong with custom or specialized bricks? Having different and new elements is a big part of the fun with Lego. I love getting bricks that you just can’t get anywhere else or that really make a model look more realistic or different in a way that wouldn’t look nearly the same using other pieces that already exist or are more common.

Some people call it juniorization, but I don’t see it as being “juniorized” if it is specialized like that. I think it is a narrow way of thinking about bricks and models. We wouldn’t have ship hulls or cranes or the great new car roofs and any number of other things if we eliminated this type of brick thinking. Frankly, I want more specialized pieces. Just because it isn’t a simple standard brick doesn’t mean it isn’t useful in a MOC and it doesn’t make you less of a builder for using it.

LEGO CR-20 CLONE CARRIER
including 40 Clone Troopers & Speeder Bikes
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/97046
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/CR-20_troop_carrier
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/37699
http://www.starwars.com/databank/s

Thanks in anticipation
Kindest Regards

AL
United Kingdom