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 Author: jenso View Messages Posted By jenso
 Posted: May 24, 2021 08:11
 Subject: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure hol240
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 Topic: Inventories Requests (Entry)
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jenso (39)

Location:  Germany, Bayern
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Please make changes to the following inventory:
 
Minifig No: hol240  Name: Bow Tie Bear
* 
hol240 (Inv) Bow Tie Bear
Minifigures: LEGO Brand: LEGO Brand Store: Build-A-Minifigure

* Add 1 Part 3626cpb0368 Yellow Minifigure, Head Dual Sided Huge Grin, White Pupils, Eyebrows / Sad with Tear, Convex Eyebrows Pattern - Hollow Stud

Comments from Submitter:
I bought this figure in the Lego store in Munich already assembled, but this variation has a different head. Otherwise, the figure is the same. So type is alternate.
 Author: starbeanie View Messages Posted By starbeanie
 Posted: May 24, 2021 09:06
 Subject: Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure hol240
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 Topic: Inventories Requests
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starbeanie (10818)

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Minifigs can't have alternate parts.

In Inventories Requests, jenso writes:
  Please make changes to the following inventory:
 
Minifig No: hol240  Name: Bow Tie Bear
* 
hol240 (Inv) Bow Tie Bear
Minifigures: LEGO Brand: LEGO Brand Store: Build-A-Minifigure

* Add 1 Part 3626cpb0368 Yellow Minifigure, Head Dual Sided Huge Grin, White Pupils, Eyebrows / Sad with Tear, Convex Eyebrows Pattern - Hollow Stud

Comments from Submitter:
I bought this figure in the Lego store in Munich already assembled, but this variation has a different head. Otherwise, the figure is the same. So type is alternate.
 Author: Turez View Messages Posted By Turez
 Posted: May 25, 2021 08:09
 Subject: Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure hol240
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 Topic: Inventories Requests
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Turez (43)

Location:  Germany, Niedersachsen
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In Inventories Requests, jenso writes:
  Please make changes to the following inventory:
 
Minifig No: hol240  Name: Bow Tie Bear
* 
hol240 (Inv) Bow Tie Bear
Minifigures: LEGO Brand: LEGO Brand Store: Build-A-Minifigure

* Add 1 Part 3626cpb0368 Yellow Minifigure, Head Dual Sided Huge Grin, White Pupils, Eyebrows / Sad with Tear, Convex Eyebrows Pattern - Hollow Stud

Comments from Submitter:
I bought this figure in the Lego store in Munich already assembled, but this variation has a different head. Otherwise, the figure is the same. So type is alternate.

As Bret said, minifig inventories cannot have alternate parts. Therefore this
request cannot be accepted.

The real question is, how should we continue with this minifigure entry? It looks
like it is often available with the head which is currently in the inventory
(although this is a "strange" head). But from time to time it comes assembled
with a different head and we don't know which is the intended head or if
there is one indended head at all.
We could keep the inventory and add a note that the figure has been found with
different heads in some stores.
Or we could delete the inventory and mark the figure for deletion because there
are too many possibilities in regards to the head and we don't know which
one is correct.

What does the community think about this?
 Author: axaday View Messages Posted By axaday
 Posted: May 25, 2021 08:58
 Subject: Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure hol240
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axaday (7301)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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In Inventories Requests, Turez writes:
  In Inventories Requests, jenso writes:
  Please make changes to the following inventory:
 
Minifig No: hol240  Name: Bow Tie Bear
* 
hol240 (Inv) Bow Tie Bear
Minifigures: LEGO Brand: LEGO Brand Store: Build-A-Minifigure

* Add 1 Part 3626cpb0368 Yellow Minifigure, Head Dual Sided Huge Grin, White Pupils, Eyebrows / Sad with Tear, Convex Eyebrows Pattern - Hollow Stud

Comments from Submitter:
I bought this figure in the Lego store in Munich already assembled, but this variation has a different head. Otherwise, the figure is the same. So type is alternate.

As Bret said, minifig inventories cannot have alternate parts. Therefore this
request cannot be accepted.

The real question is, how should we continue with this minifigure entry? It looks
like it is often available with the head which is currently in the inventory
(although this is a "strange" head). But from time to time it comes assembled
with a different head and we don't know which is the intended head or if
there is one indended head at all.
We could keep the inventory and add a note that the figure has been found with
different heads in some stores.
Or we could delete the inventory and mark the figure for deletion because there
are too many possibilities in regards to the head and we don't know which
one is correct.

What does the community think about this?

As soon as it hit the catalog, I bought the first one on BrickLink, but I did
not inventory it because I could not determine if there was a “correct” head.