One of May’s new LEGO Editions sets seems to be a spiritual successor to
Remember when Gringotts dropped in 2023 and finally answered the longstanding prayers of LEGO Harry Potter fans everywhere? Good times. Apart from the stickers above the doors, which left an unfortunate gap in the letters, so that they read ‘GRINGOT TS’ rather than ‘GRINGOTTS’ as you’d expect. Some of the blame was laid at the feet of stickers at the time, but it turns out prints might not have helped much either.
43032 FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Emblem lands on store shelves in May alongside a full wave of football-themed LEGO Editions sets, and carries on the tradition of awkward breaks in characters even while all its decorated pieces are printed. The lettering on the base of the brick-built trophy reads ‘WORL DCUP’ at first glance, splitting the eight letters in half across its two printed slopes.
Some fans picked up on that unfortunate flaw when the 298-piece logo was first revealed, but it’s even more obvious in early review images, such as this one from Brickset.
The LEGO Group has previously shown that it can print right up to the edges of pieces, so it’s a bit weird that there’s so much space to the right of the ‘L’ and the left of the ‘D’. Even the ‘I’ in FIFA is closer to the edge of the slope than the ‘L’, so this feels less like a technical limitation and something that might have been remedied at the graphic design stage with a little more testing.
Who knows, though? Maybe the print can’t go all the way up to that area of the 2x3 slope for whatever reason. Either way, the end result is a level of kerning imbalance you might never unsee, and is maybe even worse than GRINGOT TS given you can’t solve it by cutting stickers.
If you can look past this printing quirk,
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