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| | | Author: | kcanavan  | | Posted: | Dec 5, 2020 12:05 | | Subject: | Alternate Items question | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi, a bit new to BrickLink so wondering on an inventory list for a set, if a
different color appears in the “alternate items” section, does that mean that
when the set was originally purchased, that it could have included alternate
items (like color) in the set purchased?
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 5, 2020 12:22 | | Subject: | Re: Alternate Items question | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Help, kcanavan writes:
| | Hi, a bit new to BrickLink so wondering on an inventory list for a set, if a
different color appears in the “alternate items” section, does that mean that
when the set was originally purchased, that it could have included alternate
items (like color) in the set purchased?
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Yes.
Alternates generally are about variants (type of clip…), but they also cover
change in colour (mostly for Great Colour Shift of 2003 when the old greys were
replaced by the bluish greys (among other colour changes)).
Note that you can also find a mix of the Alternate and Regular in a new sealed
set: LEGO just put whatever they have, they don’t care about variants like BL
does.
So if the BL inventory says N parts of variant a in Regular and N parts of variant
b in Alternate, you may find any combination of variants a and b in your N parts.
There’s a special use for the Alternate section: when a set has been revised
(different versions but still the same set for LEGO). In that case, admins use
the MID (match ID) 99 (rightmost column). And there’s a note at the end of the
inventory.
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