LEGO corrects mistake on Enterprise sticker, but introduces another!
Posted by Huw,
Our friends over at Stone Wars have reported that LEGO has started sending out replacement stickers to those that request them to correct the 'boldy' spelling mistake on the original, which is good news.
Unfortunately, another error has been introduced on the new one: the Starfleet emblem is now missing the oval behind the arrowhead, and also the circles in the corner representing bolts have been removed.
Probably best to wait a bit before asking for a replacement if you've not done so already, in the hope that a third version corrects this error!
You could not make this stuff up, could you...
Replacement:
Original:
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Picard_facepalm.jpg
I think I speak for everyone when I say ...
*sigh*
(watch as the third sticker spells "Starfleet" as "Sarfeet")
It's incredible to me that for a product this expensive, they can't hire a freakin' proofreader. That's not even getting into the print quality of the stickers.
Are they serious????
They should watch ten times more for any errors before releasing "corrected sticker".
Sigh.
LEGO's QA at its finest....
No problem... I can wait for the correction of the captain!
Wow... LEGO need to sack their head of QC if they can't even do something basic like this correctly.
@Zordboy said:
"I think I speak for everyone when I say ...
*sigh*
(watch as the third sticker spells "Starfleet" as "Sarfeet")"
Starfeet
You’d almost think LEGO is doing it on purpose to give the set greater collectible value. In 20 years, people will be talking about the extremely rare ‘Boldy’ set or the ‘ellipsis-less’ set. Yet another reason to order this one quickly…hurry up!
I mean, this version is *inaccurate*, but at least it's now "valid" if that makes sense.
Only the best is good enough!
How cheap can they go...
The print quality of the replacement sticker looks like it's coming out of an HP DeskJet 500 someone found in the basement.
This is hilarious!!
Absolute madness lol
GALXAY
:skull:
"You are made of stupid."
I’d just be happy to receive the set I ordered at 00:11 on the 28th, that’s been “In transit” since the 29th with no updates
@TheOtherMike said:
"Picard_facepalm.jpg"
It's supposed to read "To baldingly go..."
This is the ultimate example of where Lego is at right now. But go ahead. Keep throwing thousands their way. Smh
@Captain_Eugene said:
"In 20 years, people will be talking about the extremely rare ‘Boldy’ set or the ‘ellipsis-less’ set."
The ellipsis isn't missing in either the original sticker or its replacement. However, the ellipse is in the replacement.
@IgelCampus said:
"How cheap can they go...
The print quality of the replacement sticker looks like it's coming out of an HP DeskJet 500 someone found in the basement."
The image of the replacement may be from a low quality scan/photo or degraded from digital copying of copies, or both. The sticker may not be poor quality IRL.
@IgelCampus said:
"How cheap can they go...
The print quality of the replacement sticker looks like it's coming out of an HP DeskJet 500 someone found in the basement."
Don't you dare to insult my printer!
Oh wait, mine was the 550C.
I'll take everything back ;-)
@Zander said:
" @IgelCampus said:
"How cheap can they go...
The print quality of the replacement sticker looks like it's coming out of an HP DeskJet 500 someone found in the basement."
The image of the replacement may be from a low quality scan/photo or degraded from digital copying of copies, or both. The sticker may not be poor quality IRL. "
Look at the g in the last line. It's printed so badly that it overlaps the surrounding line which in itself is so badly printed that it has no constant width.
The 3rd sticker will be ready on Tuesday.
Also has the 4 corner rivets missing that were on the "boldy" version.
I'm starting to think the increasing overabundance of stickers over prints comes from LEGO's inability to provide a premium product anymore, and it's easier and cheaper to replace stickers than printed pieces.
There's really no part of our lives that can escape the enshittification, is there?
Or do request a replacement now, so you can have _both_ misprints, and pick up a couple of the third sticker when it comes out. Apply one copy, and keep a full set of the range of sticker variations, all of which are going to go up in price whenever this set retires.
So this is why the prices of the 2026 sets are so high
Someone has to have put Lord Boldymort in the captain's chair, right?
@mtpelepele said:
"It's incredible to me that for a product this expensive, they can't hire a freakin' proofreader. That's not even getting into the print quality of the stickers. "
CEO: Experience has shown that customers not only prefer well-made products but also will stay loyal to the brand. We must hire a QM-team!
CFO: But QM wants to be paid...
CEO: We mustnt hir a QM tea1m
Another Masterpiece from the so called Premium Toy Manufacturer Worldwide...
Starfox
Quality assurance, anyone?
@jkb said:
" @mtpelepele said:
"It's incredible to me that for a product this expensive, they can't hire a freakin' proofreader. That's not even getting into the print quality of the stickers. "
CEO: Experience has shown that customers not only prefer well-made products but also will stay loyal to the brand. We must hire a QM-team!
CFO: But QM wants to be paid...
CEO: We mustnt hir a QM tea1m"
Brilliant joke hahahaha.
Who do they have doing all the proofreading over at LEGO, ChatGPT? At least reading the sticker doesn't give me psychosis...
What a bunch of Pakleds... "We are smart".
@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"Starfox"
I know you're joking, but that theme can't come soon enough!
"To Badly go everywhere"?
There should be a legit Copy team at LEGO… and why wouldn’t the Designers be catching this? Really bizarre.
Even outside of the second mistake, the newest sticker looks so much worse and of lower quality. The spacing is off, the font looks bolded, there are no longer the screw holes for the plaque, the text at the bottom is running into the boarder. It's just terrible all around. I know some of it is from a blurry image, but still it looks so terrible.
The build of the Lego Ent-D is so much better than the build of the Bluebrixx version, but the stickers and printing ... Just give me Bluebrixx back. Their parts quality isn't quite as good, but at least they seem to *care* about quality.
How much does this shit cost?
Soon, the boxes of the 2026 Star Wars sets will read STAR WNRS
At least Lepin did it on purpose ;-)
Looking forward to version 3 of the sticker sheet. My v2 is in the post. If LEGO are fast enough I might have two different replacements in transit at the same time...
On the plus side, extra stickers in case application of the first (or second) goes awry...
In Unikitty voice:
“Embarrassing!”
About the level of quality we've come to expect from LEGO these days :-)
Did they ever get around to issuing a corrected flag for the Endurance last year?
I'm sure I remember reading it should have been blue rather than red...
Just you wait, they'll correct that but the quote will change to "May the Force be with you, Frodo Baggins."
Ole is rolling in his grave right now...
Either the good people at Stone Wars have fallen for a hoax or TLG is doing this on purpose to keep the buzz around this set going. I can't think of another reason why this is happening... again! QC can't have gotten this bad, can it? Please? Pretty please?
Rushing and giving it to the intern to fix.
That’s on Lego’s management.
Plus no editor/art director checking it.
Yikes…and they think Smart bricks are a good idea…
Maybe the next version will have the Star Trek logo replaced with a Nike swoosh.
In a previous life (and before getting sacked by other people that also got sacked) , the ones responsible for Lego QA were involved with the credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
Only the best is good enough. Unless it cuts into the bottom line. Or is a risk. Or doesn't fit the very rigid bean counter created framework of what fits in the budget.
Or... well... what's the excuse for this again? I don't think proofreading costs all that much, right? Especially when it's a second version. I mean, mistakes happen, but this is a bit silly.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Picard_facepalm.jpg"
You win this comment thread
Couldn't have happened to a nicer set
It's also missing the circular marks on the corners too
All joking aside, how is it even possible ? Don't they have Q.A. team over there ? One would think such an IP is getting sent and approved by many people - from the graphic artist's manager, to the set's product manager all the way to Paramount's representative.
@EtudeTheBadger said:
""You are made of stupid.""
"we purposely printed it wrong, as a joke!"
And who needs rivets either way when you got glue, since it's a... you know, a sticker?
@legoDad42 said:
"Rushing and giving it to the intern to fix.
That’s on Lego’s management.
Plus no editor/art director checking it."
Exactly my thought, only maybe the poor intern is getting a bad rep for no reason. This just looks like it was cobbled together in the space between 11.20pm and 11.25pm, (as suggested above) in some employee's basement on an old printer, the day before shipments began.
A nice rush job. Zero due diligence. They did the same thing with the Orient Express Bucharest sticker. They had the opportunity to correct it, but still re-released a half baked version with the wrong diacritic symbol. A simple Wikipedia check would have been sufficient.
The quote is no longer centered either. They just pushed the text further to the right when they added the missing letter without re-centering it. Who the heck was in charge of this "fix"?
@Cyclones423 said:
"The quote is no longer centered either. They just pushed the text further to the right when they added the missing letter without re-centering it. Who the heck was in charge of this "fix"?"
If you include the quotation marks, both lines of the quote do look pretty well centered.
@Vindicare said:
"Yikes…and they think Smart bricks are a good idea…"
I'm hoping for a bloodbath when that initiative gets fully revealed and released. If any of LEGO's tech ventures deserved to miserably fail, this one deserves the worst failure of all. I want LEGO to finally learn to just be LEGO.
Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing.
How's this even possible? Waiting for the interview with the LEGO sticker designer that says "Well, we have a certain budget, and we have to make considerations based on that budget. We simply can't afford to have a sticker with no errors. If we fix one error, we have to make compromises, and naturally that results in different errors."
Only the best is good enough!
@SmilingCyclops said:
" @Zordboy said:
"I think I speak for everyone when I say ...
*sigh*
(watch as the third sticker spells "Starfleet" as "Sarfeet")"
Starfeet"
You say Space, I say pants!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SnjFQYVcL7o
I am still waiting on
"To Baldly go"
Is Creed Bratton in charge of the quabity assuance?
@the_phasmid said:
"Did they ever get around to issuing a corrected flag for the Endurance last year?
I'm sure I remember reading it should have been blue rather than red..."
Probably not, because that's an error that only nautical buffs and/or obsessive researchers would notice. I wouldn't be surprised if @FlagsNZ was the only reviewer who caught that without already knowing about it.
Only the best is something....something....
@DarthBrickus said:
"Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing."
I'm giving you the internet I won for my zombie comment comment.
@mtpelepele said:
"It's incredible to me that for a product this expensive, they can't hire a freakin' proofreader. That's not even getting into the print quality of the stickers. "
Come on, this is a simple job. Let's give it to the interns.
@IgelCampus said:
" @Zander said:
" @IgelCampus said:
"How cheap can they go...
The print quality of the replacement sticker looks like it's coming out of an HP DeskJet 500 someone found in the basement."
The image of the replacement may be from a low quality scan/photo or degraded from digital copying of copies, or both. The sticker may not be poor quality IRL. "
Look at the g in the last line. It's printed so badly that it overlaps the surrounding line which in itself is so badly printed that it has no constant width."
I can hear the screech, screech as it passess back and forth.
@Zordboy said:
"I think I speak for everyone when I say ...
*sigh*
(watch as the third sticker spells "Starfleet" as "Sarfeet")"
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!
@omnius said:
"Just you wait, they'll correct that but the quote will change to "May the Force be with you, Frodo Baggins.""
Fully agree.
Then again, Dumbledore has always been my favourite Jedi in Star Trek.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Zordboy said:
"I think I speak for everyone when I say ...
*sigh*
(watch as the third sticker spells "Starfleet" as "Sarfeet")"
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!"
Surely you mean
Khaaaaaaaaaaaan!
It's not even as if this is the first time that this has happened. It seems to occur more often than people think. One of the more famous examples is the first release DeLorean, but there have been several other examples over the years.
@Gemini_Phoenix said:
"It's not even as if this is the first time that this has happened. It seems to occur more often than people think. One of the more famous examples is the first release DeLorean, but there have been several other examples over the years."
First misprints, sure. This is the first time they botched the correction as well, that I've heard of.
That's a medium sticker. A medium sticker? Yeah, it's not rare and it's not well done!
Orient Express misaligned prints and incorrect spelling (basic Google search is too hard at TLG headquarters) was a disgrace.
This is beyond belief.
@AustinPowers said:
" @omnius said:
"Just you wait, they'll correct that but the quote will change to "May the Force be with you, Frodo Baggins.""
Fully agree.
Then again, Dumbledore has always been my favourite Jedi in Star Trek. "
Well, Pippin’s always been my favorite wizard in Star Trek.
so... because of this INCREDIBLE mistake we are all doomed!
hey come on... is anybody of you perfect? Did all af you never made a mistake?
@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @omnius said:
"Just you wait, they'll correct that but the quote will change to "May the Force be with you, Frodo Baggins.""
Fully agree.
Then again, Dumbledore has always been my favourite Jedi in Star Trek. "
Well, Pippin’s always been my favorite wizard in Star Trek."
Get your fiction straight! Pippin wasn't a wizard in Star Trek, he was a mutant superhero in Doctor Who. Sheesh.
May the Farce be with you!
This company, who operates their headquarters and global brand in English, is becoming increasingly incompetent! The Bricklink saga the most recent and diabolical example.
@the_phasmid said: "Did they ever get around to issuing a corrected flag for the Endurance last year? I'm sure I remember reading it should have been blue rather than red..."
@TheOtherMike said: "Probably not, because that's an error that only nautical buffs and/or obsessive researchers would notice"
So? Especially given the historic/educational nature of that set, they really should strive to get every detail correct. I believe the very essence of "The best is not too much" is that there's absolutely no excuse for corner-cutting justified by that lazy "kids won't notice" attitude that sadly is so prevalent nowadays.
@waltair said:
"so... because of this INCREDIBLE mistake we are all doomed!
hey come on... is anybody of you perfect? Did all af you never made a mistake?
"
Very few of us - close to none - are multi-billion dollar companies. Very few of us have the inclination or financial incentive to hire a proofreader for our premium product, shipped to stores across the globe, to be sold to millions of people.
EXTREMELY FEW OF US have made "Only the Best is Good Enough" company policy.
Stop apologising for corporate indifference and/or incompetence. Companies are not your friend. TLG doesn't know you exist, and even if it did, it would ignore you.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @omnius said:
"Just you wait, they'll correct that but the quote will change to "May the Force be with you, Frodo Baggins.""
Fully agree.
Then again, Dumbledore has always been my favourite Jedi in Star Trek. "
Well, Pippin’s always been my favorite wizard in Star Trek."
Get your fiction straight! Pippin wasn't a wizard in Star Trek, he was a mutant superhero in Doctor Who. Sheesh."
And I loved the bit where he summoned his Megazord and won the Hunger Games.
@waltair said:
"so... because of this INCREDIBLE mistake we are all doomed!
hey come on... is anybody of you perfect? Did all af you never made a mistake?
"
Like @Crux correctly said, we are not talking about private people here who might indeed make mistakes, it's only human after all.
Here we are taking about a company who claims that they are the quality leader in their field and hence believe they can ask premium prices for their premium products.
Mistakes can happen there too, but here we have the supposed correction of a mistake.
Logic would dictate that in such a case extra care would be taken to ensure that the second attempt was indeed perfect, but in this case the correction was that sloppy that it introduced two new mistakes.
THAT is plain ridiculous and speaks volumes about the quality control at TLG.