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 Author: dcarmine View Messages Posted By dcarmine
 Posted: Jan 12, 2020 15:25
 Subject: Another inconsistency
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dcarmine (7365)

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Inconsistency is a pet peeve of my, so you know it's my last nerve on this
issue.

I haven't parted out much lately, but I got an opportunity to part out 3
of the 2019 Star Wars Advent Calendars

 
Set No: 75245  Name: Advent Calendar 2019, Star Wars
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75245-1 (Inv) Advent Calendar 2019, Star Wars
24 Sets, 2019
Sets: Holiday & Event: Advent: Star Wars

For the last 9 years TLC has included a Winter-ized SW figure in the 24th position
on the calendar. I saw that this last year was a Porg Santa. I didn't look
at the BL inventory to see how the subsets were being handled before I started.
I wanted to preserve the Porg Santa as a complete fig and part out all the other
"parts only" droids.

After finishing the sorting, I went to upload the part-out to BL. And that's
when I found it....Porg Santa was a part out...grrr. But the Gonk and Mouse
droids were left to sell whole...grrrr.

Who decides this stuff? How hard is it to be more consistent? I know there
is a lot of discussion about "What SW Droids are figures" and what are not.
But geesse, SMH.

Just my two cents.
Thanks for reading, no changes are expected.

Donna
 Author: axaday View Messages Posted By axaday
 Posted: Jan 12, 2020 17:12
 Subject: Re: Another inconsistency
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In Catalog, dcarmine writes:
  Inconsistency is a pet peeve of my, so you know it's my last nerve on this
issue.

I haven't parted out much lately, but I got an opportunity to part out 3
of the 2019 Star Wars Advent Calendars

 
Set No: 75245  Name: Advent Calendar 2019, Star Wars
* 
75245-1 (Inv) Advent Calendar 2019, Star Wars
24 Sets, 2019
Sets: Holiday & Event: Advent: Star Wars

For the last 9 years TLC has included a Winter-ized SW figure in the 24th position
on the calendar. I saw that this last year was a Porg Santa. I didn't look
at the BL inventory to see how the subsets were being handled before I started.
I wanted to preserve the Porg Santa as a complete fig and part out all the other
"parts only" droids.

After finishing the sorting, I went to upload the part-out to BL. And that's
when I found it....Porg Santa was a part out...grrr. But the Gonk and Mouse
droids were left to sell whole...grrrr.

Who decides this stuff? How hard is it to be more consistent? I know there
is a lot of discussion about "What SW Droids are figures" and what are not.
But geesse, SMH.

Just my two cents.
Thanks for reading, no changes are expected.

Donna

I'm replying since there is a silent finger pointing me

I didn't decide. When I am doing an inventory and there is a controversial
issue, I ask ahead. Because I don't want to take and edit a picture and
then be asked to redo it. A Catalog Admin with a particular interest in Star
Wars guided me. But the rationale isn't really hard to follow. The mouse
droid and GONK droid in the 2019 calendar are very far from the first Mouse and
Gonk and all the others are minifigs. So they are handled like other minifigs.
But the porg and the mynock are not the first porg and mynock either. They
were both in
 
Set No: 75192  Name: Millennium Falcon - UCS {2nd edition}
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75192-1 (Inv) Millennium Falcon - UCS {2nd edition}
7513 Parts, 8 Minifigures, 2017
Sets: Star Wars: Ultimate Collector Series: Star Wars Other
where they are also listed as pieces and then counter
parted as complete assemblies. Just like the brick built animals in
 
Set No: 75952  Name: Newt's Case of Magical Creatures
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75952-1 (Inv) Newt's Case of Magical Creatures
678 Parts, 4 Minifigures, 2018
Sets: Harry Potter: Fantastic Beasts
and the dragon in
 
Set No: 6007  Name: Bat Lord
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6007-1 (Inv) Bat Lord
11 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1997
Sets: Castle: Fright Knights
. As far as I know, dinosaurs are the only ones
that appear assembled in the main part of inventories. I don't know why
that is, but I think the answer to your question is just why isn't a porg
a minifig, right? I would have been glad to make it one, but the reason that
it isn't is because it is an animal.