Earlier this week Brickset reported on a survey featured in the LEGO® Insiders Rewards Centre asking about the physical instructions featured in LEGO sets. The survey, which was soon removed, suggested the LEGO Group were considering reducing paper use by switching to digital instructions. As expected, this has caused quite a stir and now the LEGO Group has provided an official statement via the Ambassador Network:
“We would like to reassure fans that we have no plans to stop using physical building instructions in our products.
We conducted this survey to understand more about our adult fans’ preferences regarding our products and building experience, something we do regularly across a range of topics.
We would like to thank our LEGO® Insiders members who took the time to respond to the survey – your feedback is important to us and helps us make our LEGO experiences even better.”
Digital instructions are already provided for almost all new LEGO sets and they are useful for some builds. Still, the process is sluggish and nowhere near as user-friendly as a simple instruction booklet. As it currently stands, despite the survey, there are no plans to phase out paper instructions.
