I don't know if this has been brought up / discoverd, but today I purchased a couple of Vladek Encounter's while in Target (impulse buy). When I got home & opened the first package 2 sets of octagon shield stickers (official LEGO) fell out.
I have never seen the likes of these before. Even stranger yet, the second package I opened had the standard Danju shield. Anyway, as I mentioned, this is a first for me. I have purchased quite a few of these & this is the only sticker & blank shield I have.
Maybe they were getting complaints about Vladek not having a shield, and decided to remedy the situation, not by including another shield, OH NO!, but by giving the buyer the option?
Maybe they were getting complaints about Vladek not having a shield, and decided to remedy the situation, not by including another shield, OH NO!, but by giving the buyer the option?
Wierd, all the same.
I thought about the oddity of not getting the shield for Vladek in that set, then I actually tried to give him a new shield along with the barding and chamfron and I figured out why - it doesn't fit very well with everything attached while mounted. Though it could just be simply skimping.
The choose your own approach is interesting - what a throughback, though.
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Ugh... I think its a sign that Lego is getting cheaper. Rather than print the shield pattern they just let us sticker it instead. I hope that these stickers will have stronger adhesives than the stickers on the Lego soccer players.
This is...interesting...sounds like the printing machine went haywire and they had to substitute with stickers...I have a feeling this a isolated event, but then, who knows?
Very interesting. The yellow castle came with stickers, though the original tournament had printed sheild. I wouldn't mind this kind of change. Odd to come with no annoucement.
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That's pretty odd and cool because I don't like purple background of the shield, but the wolf is pretty good. Anyways, I would love to have a blank shield like you
Man you're lucky or what
It only proves that TLC is so bankrupt they are trying to cut back everything they can. Of course giving stickers to them is much more easier then priniting since this way they can use the same standard brick. I hate the idea of stickers, and it even worse when it on more then on one brick
As for the shields, if it's going to be like this I glad that I have at least one of each printed. If I'll have to glue stickers on them, I'd probably make ones of my own (or use Anthony, LF ones instead) since those drawings are ridiculous anyway.
I hope this starts a trend.
I'd like to see a set that you could make your own, run them through a printer, and stick 'em on ~ AND it be officially lego.. then our purist friends could play customization too. officially
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