[...] As peregrinator says, there are often several books that make up the full instructions for a set, so when I visit stores with those listed, there is sometimes a note [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] That would be something like a tag-system, which we do not have. We all want a tag-system, but (IIRC) the site cannot currently accommodate one. 😕 (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] unless those colour abreviations could be used to search but hidden from view in descriptions because I agree they do look messy (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] Just to add how are you getting just 24 Spider-mans on one page as when I search Spider-man I get 139 results which includes everything from Aunt May to all Spider-mans [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] I do agree that this is a bad title, but this is an example of the more general issues with many current figure titles, and of the need for improved standards (which [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] [...] Well part of the reason for giving this idea some thought is because minifgs will apparently need to have their own unique description and cannot rely on using [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] And then people will have to hover over the patch to know the name of the colour because the colours are undistinguishable unless they are side to side and named? :? [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] The only abbreviations I have ever tried to use for colors are LBG and DBG and then only when pressed for character space. Abbreviations are often difficult to read and [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] It's a strong idea that's getting some push back. How about... For color descriptors within the title, just using the color itself as a small box next to the part [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] In truth you'd only need to start including colour references to arms and things like that if your dealing with complex variations of minifigs such as spider-man [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] You'd probably only bother to reference a complex minifig like this:- Bear Custume Guy - Torso-WHT (Heart and Rainbow), Headgear-CRL (Mask Bear Panda), [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] I don't think it was sarcasm as much as a realistic look at what figure titles could look like if color abbreviations were adopted within them. (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] So what is incomprehensible about ... ? :-) Bear Costume Guy - Minifigure only Entry - Torso-WHT (Heart and Rainbow), Headgear-CRL (Mask Bear/Panda), [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] If you don't want to type all of the long name, you can use the asterix (*) to allow partial matches in the part names. This does not catch all situations, [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] Why would this involve any programming? You don't think an accomplished developer as Dan would not have such a configuration setting in the database itself? I would [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] But an incomplete mini-figure can be sold as parts, with multiple instruction book sets there is no other option, There is a market for only book 1,2,3 etc.. especially [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] Some instructions have multiple booklets, so if one or more are missing that would be an "incomplete" set of instructions. For example, if you had only 1 or 2 booklets [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] I don't spend much time search the catalog for instructions, so I'm more curious than anything. Are you saying you are seeing instructions that are torn or missing [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] Interesting because incomplete minifigures can't be listed with the catalog entry - they have to be listed as a custom item. I expect the same rules apply to instructions. [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
We have the option to exclude incomplete sets from searches but I'm coming across a lot of instructions entries that are missing parts and I'd like to filter them out [...] (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)
[...] Using tags would bring the same searchability advantages without cluttering the descriptions with incomprehensible jargon terms. (39 months ago, Mar 12, 2021, to Suggestions)