Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | randyf  | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 16:26 | | Subject: | Re: Dimensions of tires | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | I would like to provide a Catalog dimension for
Plus the various part assemblies that include that tire. The change page suggests
that the numbers are in studs. Is this correct, or should I be entering in cm
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According to my caliper the tire really does measure 30 x 30 x 14 mm.
When entering the dimensions for the assemblies, do I do that with the wheel
inserted in the tire, or with them side by side ? example
Nita Rae
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It sounds like you are measuring the packaging dimensions for the part. In that
case, you would post them to the Packaging Dimensions forum topic in centimeters.
The dimensions entry on the catalog change request form is to be used for adding
stud dimensions for width and length and brick dimensions for height to standard
parts that can be easily measured in those terms (such as bricks and plates).
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 14:23 | | Subject: | Dimensions of tires | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| I would like to provide a Catalog dimension for
Plus the various part assemblies that include that tire. The change page suggests
that the numbers are in studs. Is this correct, or should I be entering in cm
?
According to my caliper the tire really does measure 30 x 30 x 14 mm.
When entering the dimensions for the assemblies, do I do that with the wheel
inserted in the tire, or with them side by side ? example
Nita Rae
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 09:40 | | Subject: | Re: where does this go in the catologue? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, SurplusParts writes:
| | I have this poster that i received with the VIP program from Lego when i purchased
the new Ghostbustern ECTO-1.
I wasn't sure where it goes in the catalogue. I looked in Gear osters for
it. I wasn't sure if that is where it goes?
If yes, i am happy to add to the catalogue if it is not already there.
Thanks
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I don't see it in the catalog either. I would add it as: Gear, Poster. Check
to see if it has a 7 digit number code on it to use as the item number.
Jen
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| Author: | SurplusParts | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 07:12 | | Subject: | where does this go in the catologue? | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| I have this poster that i received with the VIP program from Lego when i purchased
the new Ghostbustern ECTO-1.
I wasn't sure where it goes in the catalogue. I looked in Gearosters for
it. I wasn't sure if that is where it goes?
If yes, i am happy to add to the catalogue if it is not already there.
Thanks
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| Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 21:17 | | Subject: | Re: Jek-14 sw475/sw475a | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| From an employee or out of the factory. Like this
Obviously not from a set.
In Catalog, davidschweer writes:
| | In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:
I have one in my collection and have been confused for years. I have been searching
for information about it but have found none. I originally thought it was a
head to another minifigure completely but it pops up on bricklink under jek.
You have to piece him out and look up just his head but the white variant is
present.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=3626cpb1012&colorID=1
Does anyone know any information on this head or where it came from?
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| Author: | davidschweer | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 20:42 | | Subject: | Re: Jek-14 sw475/sw475a | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:
I have one in my collection and have been confused for years. I have been searching
for information about it but have found none. I originally thought it was a
head to another minifigure completely but it pops up on bricklink under jek.
You have to piece him out and look up just his head but the white variant is
present.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=3626cpb1012&colorID=1
Does anyone know any information on this head or where it came from?
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 13:57 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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Everything on that page is tentative at this point. But I can confirm that all
the ones that currently are marked APPROVED will approved April 1. The other
ones are still under review.
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Thank you for the reply, Russell. Who does the reviewing? Would it be possible
to put a small paragraph or two briefly describing the review process on that
page so we can be a little more informed as to what exactly happens?
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| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 13:01 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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Everything on that page is tentative at this point. But I can confirm that all
the ones that currently are marked APPROVED will approved April 1. The other
ones are still under review.
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Dear Russell,
Thanks for this info. But can you elaborate on this review process? Who is doing
the review, why, and what kind of criteria are taken into consideration?
I think this kind of information would really help us understand and hence be
more understanding about the delays or the way things are done.
Best regards,
Hans-Peter
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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Everything on that page is tentative at this point. But I can confirm that all
the ones that currently are marked APPROVED will approved April 1. The other
ones are still under review.
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If that is the case, could you change it to say "UNDER REVIEW" rather than "NOT
APPROVED" then? There is a big divide between those two sets of words.
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| Author: | skvely | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Super Heroes | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | The Spider-Man sets were back in the early 2000s and were branded as LEGO Spider-Man
and LEGO Spider-Man 2 for the early Sony films. (Technically, some of them were
a subtheme of LEGO Studios, but the decision to include them in Spider-Man was
made a long time ago.)
The Batman I sets were back in the late 2000s and were branded as LEGO Batman.
Both of these themes were way before LEGO Super Heroes came along, so they have
a special place in the catalog hierarchy.
Cheers,
Randy
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I guess it depends on what the purpose of the categories is. If it is to mirror
the "series" as defined by Lego, or give Bricklink users logical groupings of
items so they can find sets they want. But even if it's the former, unless
there's some official Lego categories I don't know about, Marvel sets
are branded "Marvel" not "Super Heroes", and "Marvel" is a distinct Theme on
the website, as is "DC".
Just seems dumb to have arbitrary distinctions in some instances, but not in
others, and both in ways that are not intuitive or helpful for buyers.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:54 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | I'm curious as to Stormchaser's view on this. Most of the edits to that
page were done by Stormchaser, but the last update was by Russell... so it seems
to me Russell is behind the sudden "not approved" items; was Stormchaser in agreement
though?
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Well, I hope there will be an announcement about what is and what is not being
approved instead of finding out on the forum via a curious BL member. Unfortunately,
we won't hear a thing about all the juicy details involved in BL's office
politics on the forum. Stormchaser's view will be the company's view
if he wants to keep his job. But perhaps our new community engagement officer
can let the community know what's going on.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Stellar writes:
| | In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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Oh, seems all the work was for nothing, a big shame for the Bricklink Catalog,
the strength of the BL Community and its future...
Seems evolving is not seen as good and Management want to get BL stuck in time.
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I wouldn't go that far. Some changes were approved, so things are moving.
I'm just disappointed as to how all these "changes" got put on the list,
then 24 hours before they go into effect, a bunch get denied.
I'm curious as to Stormchaser's view on this. Most of the edits to that
page were done by Stormchaser, but the last update was by Russell... so it seems
to me Russell is behind the sudden "not approved" items; was Stormchaser in agreement
though?
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:34 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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I, for one, would like to know how changes brought forward and discussed by the
community, and then reviewed and decided upon by our volunteer admin are somehow
not 'approved' by BrickLink. Is this really what happened?
If BrickLink is, in fact, taking such specific control of the catalog away from
the volunteers, then we need to know about it. BrickLink has only 1 contributor
and no sellers on its entire staff. I don't trust them at all.
Jen
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| Author: | Tracyd | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:28 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Teup writes:
| | In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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When Russell posted that very confusing message (to me as well as to the catmins
themselves) saying things may or may not get approved by April 1st, I realised
it'd be a mess... :/ The idea was that the 6 things directly listed in the
newsletter would certainly be approved, and the rest was going to be decided
sometime later on and may or may not make it in the April update.
If I recall right, for some reason Bricklink believes it is better to do little
bits at a time, so the other things will be approved later. Don't really
understand this logic, it just sounds like a recipe for confusion to me. IMO
it's way better to do major updates in one go...
Actually I wish the entire catalog revamp (this project started last year, will
last maybe another year) was just released in one update once it is properly
finished (and announced properly in advance). After so many years of working
with the catalog as it is, what is a few more months working with it? Just my
2 cents.
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Maybe they are worried about the spaghetti code becoming so corrupted it would
bring down the site if they changed too much at once? Even when Daniel was alive
and made some changes it would break things and he wrote the original code.
Smaller changes means less to check and figure out if something goes wrong.
Yes it would be nice to have everything changed at once, but if it brought the
whole site down, well that might upset 1 or 2 people. Maybe 3 if it was the
right day.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:18 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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When Russell posted that very confusing message (to me as well as to the catmins
themselves) saying things may or may not get approved by April 1st, I realised
it'd be a mess... :/ The idea was that the 6 things directly listed in the
newsletter would certainly be approved, and the rest was going to be decided
sometime later on and may or may not make it in the April update.
If I recall right, for some reason Bricklink believes it is better to do little
bits at a time, so the other things will be approved later. Don't really
understand this logic, it just sounds like a recipe for confusion to me. IMO
it's way better to do major updates in one go...
Actually I wish the entire catalog revamp (this project started last year, will
last maybe another year) was just released in one update once it is properly
finished (and announced properly in advance). After so many years of working
with the catalog as it is, what is a few more months working with it? Just my
2 cents.
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 11:03 | | Subject: | Re: Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
|
Oh, seems all the work was for nothing, a big shame for the Bricklink Catalog,
the strength of the BL Community and its future...
Seems evolving is not seen as good and Management want to get BL stuck in time.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 10:38 | | Subject: | Why so few changes approved? | | Viewed: | 122 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Since it was only a couple days before April 1st, we decided to start organizing
the pieces by the new changes that were going to be done April 1st. https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Now today, I notice that a ton of them say not approved, including many that
made sense. So is there a reason?
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 22:58 | | Subject: | Re: Super Heroes | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| The Spider-Man sets were back in the early 2000s and were branded as LEGO Spider-Man
and LEGO Spider-Man 2 for the early Sony films. (Technically, some of them were
a subtheme of LEGO Studios, but the decision to include them in Spider-Man was
made a long time ago.)
The Batman I sets were back in the late 2000s and were branded as LEGO Batman.
Both of these themes were way before LEGO Super Heroes came along, so they have
a special place in the catalog hierarchy.
Cheers,
Randy
In Catalog, skvely writes:
| | Forgive me if this has been asked before, but why do "Batman I" and "Spider-Man"
get their own top-level categories under Set, when all similar categories are
under "Super Heroes" (including another "Spider-Man", I assume another generation)?
"DC Super Hero Girls" is also a top-level category. I understand that more since
it uses the minidolls instead of minifigures, but I would still consider it Super
Heroes.
Also, it bothers me that "Super Heroes" isn't subdivided into "Marvel" and
"DC" (the categories "Buildable Figures", "Sculptures", "Mighty Micros", and
"Super Heroes Other" could also be at that level to avoid fracturing things too
much).
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| Author: | skvely | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 22:37 | | Subject: | Super Heroes | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Forgive me if this has been asked before, but why do "Batman I" and "Spider-Man"
get their own top-level categories under Set, when all similar categories are
under "Super Heroes" (including another "Spider-Man", I assume another generation)?
"DC Super Hero Girls" is also a top-level category. I understand that more since
it uses the minidolls instead of minifigures, but I would still consider it Super
Heroes.
Also, it bothers me that "Super Heroes" isn't subdivided into "Marvel" and
"DC" (the categories "Buildable Figures", "Sculptures", "Mighty Micros", and
"Super Heroes Other" could also be at that level to avoid fracturing things too
much).
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| Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 13:59 | | Subject: | Re: Image requested for set 40443-1 sticker sheet | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, paulvdb writes:
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The person who submitted the pending inventory for this set did not take a photo
of the sticker sheet before using it. So I would appreciate if anyone who has
an unused sticker sheet can supply an image for it.
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| Author: | paulvdb | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 13:48 | | Subject: | Image requested for set 40443-1 sticker sheet | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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The person who submitted the pending inventory for this set did not take a photo
of the sticker sheet before using it. So I would appreciate if anyone who has
an unused sticker sheet can supply an image for it.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 13:27 | | Subject: | Re: Our First Additional Note Link | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | Today we added our first link to another website in an additional note:
Thought that was kinda cool and worth sharing.
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I like it! There are lots of great websites in our community, and it's smart
to share the knowledge. 
Jen
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2021 13:04 | | Subject: | Re: Our First Additional Note Link | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | Today we added our first link to another website in an additional note:
Thought that was kinda cool and worth sharing.
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It is!
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