|
 |
| | | Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Jul 3, 2015 19:28 | | Subject: | Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list! 
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
|
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | Author: | goshe7 | | Posted: | Jul 3, 2015 20:45 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| | | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
Does the Brickset database year filter apply to New elements, or just elements
that were released in sets in that year?
http://brickset.com/parts/year-2015
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 04:46 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, goshe7 writes:
| | | | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
Does the Brickset database year filter apply to New elements, or just elements
that were released in sets in that year?
http://brickset.com/parts/year-2015
|
Awesome, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!
This would be great in Bricklink...
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 05:15 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, goshe7 writes:
| | | | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
Does the Brickset database year filter apply to New elements, or just elements
that were released in sets in that year?
http://brickset.com/parts/year-2015
|
Awesome, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!
This would be great in Bricklink...
|
Hmmm 
Seems it does include parts that already existed.. not just the new ones..
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Huw | | Posted: | Jul 10, 2015 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| | | Seems it does include parts that already existed.. not just the new ones..
|
The list linked to in the thread will show parts that have been added to set
inventories added to LEGO Customer Services in 2015.
If LEGO renumber old parts, which they often do, if moulds change slightly, for
example, then they will appear in the list.
|
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 3, 2015 21:33 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 04:44 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:08 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| | (Cancelled) |
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
(cancelled for bad link)
You can take advantage of the fact that when a part is added in a new color a
new small image is usually created. You can browse new small images from the
main catalog page and filter them to limit only to parts and remove sticker sheets
and new patterns.
The bad thing about this method is that it appears to be limited to just the
past 30 days. If you checked it once a month, though, you'd be current. Also,
it counts updated small images as "new" - so if someone updates an old part color
with a better small image, it will show up.
One potential problem which might be an advantage, too, is that small images
are allowed for colors not yet in inventories. That means you could get a heads
up of a new color even before the part has been inventoried. Or you might get
your hopes up when really someone has just guessed the wrong shade of purple...
So for example, using this method I found that
has a new small image in yellowish green but has not been inventoried in that
color.
But there is a lot of good info there, too. For example in the last few days
these new colors for existing parts have been added:
in lavender,
in medium lavender and medium azure,
and in olive green
Here's the link to the last 30 days of new small images for non-patterned
parts: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&q=-pattern+-sticker&catLike=W&viewImg=Y&imgType=S&sortBy=D&sortAsc=D&catType=P&v=1
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:33 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
(cancelled for bad link)
You can take advantage of the fact that when a part is added in a new color a
new small image is usually created. You can browse new small images from the
main catalog page and filter them to limit only to parts and remove sticker sheets
and new patterns.
The bad thing about this method is that it appears to be limited to just the
past 30 days. If you checked it once a month, though, you'd be current. Also,
it counts updated small images as "new" - so if someone updates an old part color
with a better small image, it will show up.
One potential problem which might be an advantage, too, is that small images
are allowed for colors not yet in inventories. That means you could get a heads
up of a new color even before the part has been inventoried. Or you might get
your hopes up when really someone has just guessed the wrong shade of purple...
So for example, using this method I found that
has a new small image in yellowish green but has not been inventoried in that
color.
But there is a lot of good info there, too. For example in the last few days
these new colors for existing parts have been added:
in lavender,
in medium lavender and medium azure,
and in olive green
Here's the link to the last 30 days of new small images for non-patterned
parts: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&q=-pattern+-sticker&catLike=W&viewImg=Y&imgType=S&sortBy=D&sortAsc=D&catType=P&v=1
|
Nice! Even though it's obviously unreliable, it comes closest so far
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:45 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
Nice! Even though it's obviously unreliable, it comes closest so far
|
Yes, but even if you see some old parts in there, that's not such a bad thing.
Look at all those nice Scala 3 x 6 tiles that were until recently not in the
Tile category. I can see that part (especially in those colors) as being "New"
to almost everybody and being very attractive items.
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:50 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
Nice! Even though it's obviously unreliable, it comes closest so far
|
Yes, but even if you see some old parts in there, that's not such a bad thing.
Look at all those nice Scala 3 x 6 tiles that were until recently not in the
Tile category. I can see that part (especially in those colors) as being "New"
to almost everybody and being very attractive items.
|
Absolutely. I myself was happy to see several older parts with new small images
because it tells me we have people working to shore up the historical item data
as well as keep up to date with the newest stuff.
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 08:54 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
(cancelled for bad link)
You can take advantage of the fact that when a part is added in a new color a
new small image is usually created. You can browse new small images from the
main catalog page and filter them to limit only to parts and remove sticker sheets
and new patterns.
The bad thing about this method is that it appears to be limited to just the
past 30 days. If you checked it once a month, though, you'd be current. Also,
it counts updated small images as "new" - so if someone updates an old part color
with a better small image, it will show up.
One potential problem which might be an advantage, too, is that small images
are allowed for colors not yet in inventories. That means you could get a heads
up of a new color even before the part has been inventoried. Or you might get
your hopes up when really someone has just guessed the wrong shade of purple...
So for example, using this method I found that
has a new small image in yellowish green but has not been inventoried in that
color.
|
Cool. Good idea. Incidentally, according to Brickset that one is in several of
this year's Ninjago sets.
--
Marc.
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 09:21 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
(cancelled for bad link)
You can take advantage of the fact that when a part is added in a new color a
new small image is usually created. You can browse new small images from the
main catalog page and filter them to limit only to parts and remove sticker sheets
and new patterns.
The bad thing about this method is that it appears to be limited to just the
past 30 days. If you checked it once a month, though, you'd be current. Also,
it counts updated small images as "new" - so if someone updates an old part color
with a better small image, it will show up.
One potential problem which might be an advantage, too, is that small images
are allowed for colors not yet in inventories. That means you could get a heads
up of a new color even before the part has been inventoried. Or you might get
your hopes up when really someone has just guessed the wrong shade of purple...
So for example, using this method I found that
has a new small image in yellowish green but has not been inventoried in that
color.
|
Cool. Good idea. Incidentally, according to Brickset that one is in several of
this year's Ninjago sets.
--
Marc.
|
Great - So this is an example of where watching the small images gives you information
in advance of the inventories. It would be nice if there was a way to add these
to the "known colors" list without waiting for them to be inventoried so buyers
(and other sellers) can have some confidence that they actually exist. When the
small image is just a render in the new color it's kind of hard to be sure
without looking for outside verification. Maybe if the small image were a photo,
or submitted by a well-trusted contributor it could be made "known?"
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 09:32 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
You mean something more detailed than the current Year search in the advanced
search function? That will currently allow you to browse parts by the year Bricklink
says they first appeared in a set (with the usual caveat on the reliability of
that information).
|
Yeah but that's only new molds and new decorations, I was referring to everything
that's new this year, including for example:
in blue
in green
Currently there's just no way to know this, even though it's fairly essential.
Imagine you made a MOC with some second choice kind of part because the part
you needed did not exist, and then it was released the next year. How do you
find out on Bricklink? You stuble into it by accident. Or you don't.
You will want to replace the parts you used by the parts you really wanted. Buyer
happy, seller happy
Of course, you can add it to your wishlist, but that'd be tedious to do if
you want to know about many new parts.
|
(cancelled for bad link)
You can take advantage of the fact that when a part is added in a new color a
new small image is usually created. You can browse new small images from the
main catalog page and filter them to limit only to parts and remove sticker sheets
and new patterns.
The bad thing about this method is that it appears to be limited to just the
past 30 days. If you checked it once a month, though, you'd be current. Also,
it counts updated small images as "new" - so if someone updates an old part color
with a better small image, it will show up.
One potential problem which might be an advantage, too, is that small images
are allowed for colors not yet in inventories. That means you could get a heads
up of a new color even before the part has been inventoried. Or you might get
your hopes up when really someone has just guessed the wrong shade of purple...
So for example, using this method I found that
has a new small image in yellowish green but has not been inventoried in that
color.
|
Cool. Good idea. Incidentally, according to Brickset that one is in several of
this year's Ninjago sets.
--
Marc.
|
Great - So this is an example of where watching the small images gives you information
in advance of the inventories. It would be nice if there was a way to add these
to the "known colors" list without waiting for them to be inventoried so buyers
(and other sellers) can have some confidence that they actually exist. When the
small image is just a render in the new color it's kind of hard to be sure
without looking for outside verification. Maybe if the small image were a photo,
or submitted by a well-trusted contributor it could be made "known?"
|
It's an issue of trust. Do you trust the person submitting the image? Do
you trust the person doing the inventory? The known colors list is actually populated
by all inventories whether they are approved or not, and if an unapproved inventory
has an item in a new color, that new color will show up in the known colors list
before its approved. Sometimes I'll change a line I know is wrong immediately
so people don't get the wrong idea.
|
|
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | Author: | therobo | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:20 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
As mentioned here:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=926268
You can look up the newest parts and filter out stickered parts (or whatever
you want).
The information for old parts in new colors is already available and displayed
in inventories.
Any part with "New" flag in inventories is either a new part or an old part in
a new color.
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=75918-1
I have not yet found a way to get a list of old parts in new colors but we can
ask the developers if they can implement it somewhere.
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 07:32 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
As mentioned here:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=926268
You can look up the newest parts and filter out stickered parts (or whatever
you want).
The information for old parts in new colors is already available and displayed
in inventories.
Any part with "New" flag in inventories is either a new part or an old part in
a new color.
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=75918-1
I have not yet found a way to get a list of old parts in new colors but we can
ask the developers if they can implement it somewhere.
|
Thanks, I remember those "NEW" tags were a bit freaky and bugged in the beginning
but they seem to work better now
Yeah I guess it's a site interface thing rather than a catalog thing. The
data is already in there.
I think it would be a great way for Bricklink to increase business. Once Bricklink
rubs all those fancy new parts and colours under your nose, it's hard to
resist buying them And, for sellers who want to have a broad range of parts
to offer it's useful info as well.
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Author: | Kinggregus | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2015 08:00 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to see what's new in a certain year | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Though I'm no longer a MOCer, I feel a strong urge to suggest this simply
for the fact that its absense seems to be a hole in the catalog's functionality:
The ability to see everything that is released in a certain year.
(So not just new molds and decorations, but new part/colour combinations included)
I remember that on LUG forums AFOLs eagerly compile and share lists of new part
releases they discover. It's pretty vital and exciting info if you're
a builder, because if something is new, good chance you wanna know about it instead
of discovering a few years on "wow does that part come in that colour....?"
It seems like BL has making some kind of rudimentary attempt at this with the
"NEW" tags, but they are bugged, incomplete as well as vague and inflexible.
I think it's a bit awkward that AFOLs do their best to scrape this info together
while BL is just sitting on all that info, it's already there in the catalog,
all it needs is a door into it!
I think BL posted a little list about 2015 parts on Facebook not too long ago,
even I thought it was interesting even though I'm only selling. Would love
to see the full list!
(It would be a nice bonus if peripheral items could optionally be filtered out,
such as weird useless parts with 1 appearance or stickered/decorated items as
they tend to make up the bulk of what's new. But not strictly necessary.)
|
As mentioned here:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=926268
You can look up the newest parts and filter out stickered parts (or whatever
you want).
The information for old parts in new colors is already available and displayed
in inventories.
Any part with "New" flag in inventories is either a new part or an old part in
a new color.
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=75918-1
I have not yet found a way to get a list of old parts in new colors but we can
ask the developers if they can implement it somewhere.
|
Thanks, I remember those "NEW" tags were a bit freaky and bugged in the beginning
but they seem to work better now
Yeah I guess it's a site interface thing rather than a catalog thing. The
data is already in there.
I think it would be a great way for Bricklink to increase business. Once Bricklink
rubs all those fancy new parts and colours under your nose, it's hard to
resist buying them And, for sellers who want to have a broad range of parts
to offer it's useful info as well.
|
You are spot on. For instance, as my collection is fairly big, I tend to buy
mostly parts that were recently made. If I could have an easy access to see which
parts have recently been created, no doubt that it will be very hard for me
not to buy those.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Netherlands, Utrecht
USA, Ohio
United Kingdom, England
Canada, Ontario
Germany, Berlin
France, Île-de-France