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View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 70620-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] It’s not a mistake, I also got 9 (5+4) 87994 and 8 (8+0) 61184. Extras are just that, extras, you are not assured to get them, and they can change with [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 14, 2019, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Grays & Browns - SylvainLS (46)
[...] There was a “Great Colour Shift” around 2004. The main colours that were replaced were Light and Dark Grays, and Brown, but the other colours were also slightly modified. [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 13, 2019, to Colors)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Indeed. But what I’m against, and I wasn’t clear, is the use of the term “jumper” for a tile with studs + plate without studs category. For me, “jumper” is specific to [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Well done :D
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] The database won’t allow it. A part can only be in one category. Because they are “categories,” not “tags.” A tag system was asked for, many times.
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Against. I don’t know why “jumper” was chosen. The similarity with electrical jumpers (little wires that “jump” over the main circuits, or little thingies to connect [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Me too. Well, except for the example, as there are plates with grooves (Part 3030a) and tiles/plates variants with and without groove ;) (Part 41740) (Part 92593) [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Me too ;) (I lack the courage.) [...] Well, I’m sure there’s peacockery somewhere (bad, bad pun) but “corne” is a common term in French for angled/folded [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I’ll excuse your French as it so happens that “%^^$%@” could indeed be replaced by “French”. Bicorne = two horns There are tricorne hats too (three horns). [...] [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I’d have said it’s the number of studs (or ratio). Something like 50%+1 of studs missing means it’s a tile, but some “tiles” have 50% of their studs and some [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 8, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Grouping Parts - SylvainLS (46)
[...] You can edit submodels without “breaking” them (“release” in Studio’s terms). You can nest submodels (make a hierarchy of them), copy/paste them as if they [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 5, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Old (classic) light gray - SylvainLS (46)
[...] There’s one reason for discolaration: degradation. (And plastics degrade differently depending on their compositions, as we all know because we all heard about the [...]
(63 months ago, Apr 2, 2019, to Colors)
View Thread Re: List of known part-color-combinations - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Simpler: (URL) , and choose “Colors”. But OP wants parts too. So, on the same page, select “Part and Color Codes”. That’s the table of (Part+Color) = LEGO’s [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 30, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Welcome our new administrator! - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Congrats Marek! I hope you won’t take the opportunity to add chitinous “parts” to the catalogue ;):D
(63 months ago, Mar 27, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store - SylvainLS (46)
[...] You have an inventory for them: They are in a Wanted List. Phisically, either you just picked them first and want to update your inventory, or you just updated your inventory [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 21, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I believe you can. Download your Wanted List. Edit it in a dumb editor (like Notepad, not Word). Replace all “MINQTY” with “QTY”. If you want to add a minus [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 21, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Studio QOL things - SylvainLS (46)
[...] (URL) See the red Studio icon up there? Hover over it, there’s a direct link to it named “Builder Forum”. [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 20, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Tan 16X32 baseplates different shade? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Wasn’t Tan impacted by the Great Colour Shift? If there were more “old Tan” 16x32 in stock, they would have been used alongside “new Tan” 32x32.
(63 months ago, Mar 20, 2019, to Colors)
View Thread Re: Helmet 90392pb01 metallic gold or tan? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I’d say it’s the regular version: Metallic Gold isn’t a plastic colour, it’s coated on another colour (generally Tan). On the other hand, I thought the coating [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 11, 2019, to Colors)
View Thread Re: How should i name this set? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] There are two meanings for the statement. One of them being “I wouldn’t want that movie to be the topic when playing Jeopardy against that guy” ;)
(63 months ago, Mar 8, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: How should i name this set? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Timeo hominem unius movie.
(63 months ago, Mar 7, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 10159-2 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] You say “plate,” OP says “brick.” (I say tomato.)
(63 months ago, Mar 6, 2019, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: paint in studio 2.0? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] We are talking about a format created in the 1990’s. Maybe you aren’t old enough to remember how slow personal computers were at this time. I am :| Drawing a simple [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 6, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: paint in studio 2.0? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Longer answer: soon. [...] LDraw (the underlying format for parts in Studio) is an old format. It’s not a bad thing but it explains why, at the time it was [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 6, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Why is Finch Dallow sw1005 from 2017? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] If minifig dates work the same way than for parts, they are automatically set from the (oldest) set they are from. So, unless the new version of the set gets its [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 20, 2019, to Catalog)

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