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 Author: Warden View Messages Posted By Warden
 Posted: Dec 16, 2021 13:10
 Subject: Separate Grouping Category for Animals
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 Topic: Catalog Requests
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Warden (0)

Location:  USA, Indiana
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I would like to suggest a better way to organize animals/creatures. From this
point forward when I say creature I mean animals as well. When searching for
creatures I find it very difficult to find what I am looking for. When I was
trying to find a certain horse it was difficult because of all the accessories
and pieces that were related.


I Think it would be better if creatures had were organized in their own category
as mini-figs are. The category would include a wide variety of creatures. Such
as the friends animals,the Large trolls from Fantasy Era, dragons, the leopard,
lion and centaur from harry potter. That is just a basic list for example. Some
of the creatures may be included in the mini-fig organization. I do not think
they should be removed from it, just also added to the suggested creature organization.


I find it very hard to find things like this when I want to find something
that is not a mini-fig. Please consider the suggestion, I would really love to
see this added. Thanks for reading!
 Author: randyf View Messages Posted By randyf
 Posted: Dec 18, 2021 18:23
 Subject: Re: Separate Grouping Category for Animals
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In Catalog Requests, Warden writes:
  I would like to suggest a better way to organize animals/creatures. From this
point forward when I say creature I mean animals as well. When searching for
creatures I find it very difficult to find what I am looking for. When I was
trying to find a certain horse it was difficult because of all the accessories
and pieces that were related.


I Think it would be better if creatures had were organized in their own category
as mini-figs are. The category would include a wide variety of creatures. Such
as the friends animals,the Large trolls from Fantasy Era, dragons, the leopard,
lion and centaur from harry potter. That is just a basic list for example. Some
of the creatures may be included in the mini-fig organization. I do not think
they should be removed from it, just also added to the suggested creature organization.


Animals can be easily found by looking in the appropriate catalog categories:

Animal, Air - https://www.bricklink.com/catalogListOld.asp?catType=P&catString=146

Animal, Dinosaur - https://www.bricklink.com/catalogListOld.asp?catType=P&catString=184

Animal, Land - https://www.bricklink.com/catalogListOld.asp?catType=P&catString=147

Animal, Water - https://www.bricklink.com/catalogListOld.asp?catType=P&catString=145

You can get to these categories by browsing the main page for Parts (hover over
the "Market" tab in the header of any page and select "Parts" from under the
"Catalog" side):

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=P

Once you bring up one of those categories listed above, run a search from the
"Find:" text box to narrow your results. So, for horses, go to the Animal,
Land
category, and then narrow your search by "horse" in the "Find:" text
box.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Randy