A new LEGO Harry Potter build has called attention to stickers in a Star Wars: Ahsoka set, providing an opportunity to explain internal processes.
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It's something that we highlighted in our review of the Ahsoka set and makes the building experience somewhat annoying for needing to line up those curved stickers perfectly, which is a challenge that could have been avoided with a single new print.
Meanwhile, as discussed in our review of the new Harry Potter model, the intricate printed floor tiles are appreciated, especially in a smaller set in which it would not have been as challenging to align stickers. While this might be seen as the LEGO Star Wars team not putting the effort or time in, that's simply not the case.
Each design team in the LEGO Group have a limited number of slots for new parts, part colours and prints for the entire theme over a set period, and not per set as you might initially expect. For Star Wars, this means that the printed piece slots are simply used elsewhere and sacrifices have to be made, such as in
It's an unfortunate outcome of Star Wars being a bigger theme compared to LEGO Harry Potter but helps to explain why the smaller
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