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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: | 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 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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