[wongarsu]

All printed keys, and a new fabric element. I couldn't believe today's Lego would splurge like this, until I got to the "Includes Note from Chairman Thomas Kristiansen, based on the typewriter of founder Ole Kristiansen". I guess the executive still gets nice models without stickers.

[bombcar]

Printing LEGO is one of the modern improvements that they’ve implemented - it is substantially easier and cheaper to print an element than it was twenty years ago.

[wongarsu]

I should probably clarify that I meant "splurge" as in "spending where they normally don't", not as in "spend beyond a reasonable amount"

[bombcar]

Yeah - just pointing out that in general LEGO has been printing prices that would have been stickers 20 years ago.

Part of is also that they did a study and realized that stickers piss kids off because they’re hard to apply correctly.

[aidenn0]

As a kid, stickers were the bane of my existence for everything; Legos, Transformers, etc.

I had to decide between doing it myself and having it look like crap, or getting my parents to do it and feeling embarrassed that I didn't do it myself.

[bombcar]

As an adult I still have difficulty and often leave them off entirely.

Supposedly the best way is to float them on with a bit of water and use a pin to arrange it before it dries.