Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Brickwilbo  | | Posted: | Apr 30, 2020 01:20 | | Subject: | Re: Organize Want List | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, burghbricks writes:
| | If it's feasible, it'd be nice to be able to organize your want lists
into custom categories. For example, I'd like to be able to have categories
for MOCs, Restoration, and so on. That way I could quickly find lists without
having to change the order or toggle categories to hide them what I don't
immediately need.
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I name my Wantlists for their intended porpose.
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| Author: | burghbricks | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2020 21:05 | | Subject: | Organize Want List | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| If it's feasible, it'd be nice to be able to organize your want lists
into custom categories. For example, I'd like to be able to have categories
for MOCs, Restoration, and so on. That way I could quickly find lists without
having to change the order or toggle categories to hide them what I don't
immediately need.
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| Author: | Jax2 | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2020 19:00 | | Subject: | Re: Find what set you have based on certain piecs | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Well I feel silly now. I've been here a long time now and never noticed this.
Thank you for pointing it out. Already helped find one set I've been wondering
about!
In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2020 18:38 | | Subject: | Re: Find what set you have based on certain piecs | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| here:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?viewMulti=Y
In Suggestions, Jax2 writes:
| | I have no idea if this is something that is doable... (I mean, on this site,
I am sure it CAN be done) but a lot of people who buy large collections often
are faced with an issue of finding a partially built set they cannot identify.
To that end, it would be amazing if there was a search available where you could
pick say, 10 or more pieces (would likely pick the least common pieces you
see on it) and enter those and have the results display only the sets that contain
all of those pieces.
Right now, I am sitting on a large number of partial sets and while some are
much easier than others to identify, others are just impossible.
This would be a massive help!
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| Author: | Jax2 | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2020 18:22 | | Subject: | Find what set you have based on certain piecs | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I have no idea if this is something that is doable... (I mean, on this site,
I am sure it CAN be done) but a lot of people who buy large collections often
are faced with an issue of finding a partially built set they cannot identify.
To that end, it would be amazing if there was a search available where you could
pick say, 10 or more pieces (would likely pick the least common pieces you
see on it) and enter those and have the results display only the sets that contain
all of those pieces.
Right now, I am sitting on a large number of partial sets and while some are
much easier than others to identify, others are just impossible.
This would be a massive help!
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2020 02:50 | | Subject: | Re: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure? | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | It appears that the way I worded my responses irritated you and I apologize for
that. I try to say things as nicely as possible, but sometimes I fail.
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There are some that irritate me though you’ve never been among those that spring
to mind! just some simple differing viewpoints with regards to the direction
we want the site to go but likewise my response was more of a light-hearted somewhat
sarcastic jokey comment hence the grin at the end so no worries 
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2020 00:05 | | Subject: | Re: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | In future I will have to ensure I post in the correct place, Choose the correct
subject heading and make sure I know what I'm talking about before I post
suggestions that I'm told are beyond the realms possiblity?
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It appears that the way I worded my responses irritated you and I apologize for
that. I try to say things as nicely as possible, but sometimes I fail.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2020 15:37 | | Subject: | Re: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure? | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | Personally I don’t think we should lose the term minifigure because it’s very
key to how we and Lego describe the majority of their figures and at the moment
there are talks about Minfigs category being changed to ‘Figure’ and possibly
including everything from Lotso Bear to Baby Groot
I did discuss a solution here:-
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1192727
but I think it may have become a bit lost in the rest of the debate but I would
be interested in others thoughts on this or whether the term minifigure is even
still important or what minifigure should refer to going forward?
Here is my original suggestion:-
“On the subject of categorizing figures in general I think breaking down some
of this stuff might make more sense than renaming Minifigs to Figures and then
piling everything into the same place.
It’s a difficult one but I guess you have to start with defining a minifigure
and at the moment I can only think of two ways of doing this where by you define
it by Size after all a clue is in the word MINIfigure which does unfortunately
leave a lot of ambiguity or better still you define minifig by the fact it usesa
Torso Assembly?
Torso Assembly may be a good clear cut way of defining a minifig because almost
all traditional minifigs from a Dementor to a Lord Garmadon use the all-important
standard Torso design that holds a minifig together and its probably the one
key part that really defines what a minifigure looks like when we think of a
minifigure and with that in mind you could categorise as Follows:-
Minifigure – Anything that uses the Standard Torso Assembly design
Modified Figure – Anything from droids, to brick built Droids, to Skeletons and
stuff like Gollum, Slimer, Unikitty, Scurrier, Scooby etc..
Microfigure – Anything very small consisting of a single or maximum of two parts
such as Baby, Baby Yoda, Palpatine Hologram, Baby Groot, Trophy figures and all
those game figures etc..
You are then left with things like Cave Troll, Big Hulk etc. which can either
go under ‘Modified Figure’ or a separate ‘Large Figure’ Category?
Likewise are animals/creatures separated so that Polar bears, Wargs and Horses
go under ‘Modified Figure’ and stuff like baby dinos, spiders and snakes under
‘Microfigure’ or do they have their own ‘Animal category’?
Lots to think about....”
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As usual, fun and thought-provoking!
When I first read your subject line "When is a Minifigure a Minifigure?" I thought
it to be a Zen riddle, or maybe that you had started channeling Confucius 
No, I like your style, keeps it interesting. Too few here are willing to 'color
outside of the lines' in expressing themselves. That's a shame, IMO
You make salient points on the question of how to view Lego characters beyond
the classic term Minifigure
-Cory
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I always knew I could count on you Cory even if it was'nt quite the Zen riddle
post you had hoped for it to be
In future I will have to ensure I post in the correct place, Choose the correct
subject heading and make sure I know what I'm talking about before I post
suggestions that I'm told are beyond the realms possiblity? 
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2020 13:05 | | Subject: | Re: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | Personally I don’t think we should lose the term minifigure because it’s very
key to how we and Lego describe the majority of their figures and at the moment
there are talks about Minfigs category being changed to ‘Figure’ and possibly
including everything from Lotso Bear to Baby Groot
I did discuss a solution here:-
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1192727
but I think it may have become a bit lost in the rest of the debate but I would
be interested in others thoughts on this or whether the term minifigure is even
still important or what minifigure should refer to going forward?
Here is my original suggestion:-
“On the subject of categorizing figures in general I think breaking down some
of this stuff might make more sense than renaming Minifigs to Figures and then
piling everything into the same place.
It’s a difficult one but I guess you have to start with defining a minifigure
and at the moment I can only think of two ways of doing this where by you define
it by Size after all a clue is in the word MINIfigure which does unfortunately
leave a lot of ambiguity or better still you define minifig by the fact it usesa
Torso Assembly?
Torso Assembly may be a good clear cut way of defining a minifig because almost
all traditional minifigs from a Dementor to a Lord Garmadon use the all-important
standard Torso design that holds a minifig together and its probably the one
key part that really defines what a minifigure looks like when we think of a
minifigure and with that in mind you could categorise as Follows:-
Minifigure – Anything that uses the Standard Torso Assembly design
Modified Figure – Anything from droids, to brick built Droids, to Skeletons and
stuff like Gollum, Slimer, Unikitty, Scurrier, Scooby etc..
Microfigure – Anything very small consisting of a single or maximum of two parts
such as Baby, Baby Yoda, Palpatine Hologram, Baby Groot, Trophy figures and all
those game figures etc..
You are then left with things like Cave Troll, Big Hulk etc. which can either
go under ‘Modified Figure’ or a separate ‘Large Figure’ Category?
Likewise are animals/creatures separated so that Polar bears, Wargs and Horses
go under ‘Modified Figure’ and stuff like baby dinos, spiders and snakes under
‘Microfigure’ or do they have their own ‘Animal category’?
Lots to think about....”
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As usual, fun and thought-provoking!
When I first read your subject line "When is a Minifigure a Minifigure?" I thought
it to be a Zen riddle, or maybe that you had started channeling Confucius
No, I like your style, keeps it interesting. Too few here are willing to 'color
outside of the lines' in expressing themselves. That's a shame, IMO
You make salient points on the question of how to view Lego characters beyond
the classic term Minifigure
-Cory
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2020 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, firestar246 writes:
| | I would consider a minifigure to be an assembly of parts that create some sort
of character.
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So a BrickHeadz model would be a mini-figure?
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