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| | | Author: | CapnBootle  | | Posted: | May 6, 2022 17:42 | | Subject: | Inventories | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns? 
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| | | | | Author: | McBricks | | Posted: | May 6, 2022 18:34 | | Subject: | Re: Inventories | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, CapnBootle writes:
| | Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns?
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Amen!
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | May 6, 2022 21:24 | | Subject: | Re: Inventories | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, CapnBootle writes:
| | Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns?
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They definitely have renders of new parts, but they aren't always
good, and they don't have images of minifigures that are useful in the catalogue.
The reason we have to wait for inventories to be approved is that someone still
has to review the data that come from Lego, make sure it's been categorized
appropriately, etc.
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| | | | | Author: | TakeAbricK | | Posted: | May 7, 2022 01:33 | | Subject: | Re: Inventories | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, CapnBootle writes:
| | Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns?
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Bricklink adds to inventories:
- Complete Minifigs
- Counterparts
- the correct variants of parts
- alternate variants
- extra parts
This can only be done by submitting inventories, based on sealed sets.
- add the minifigs
- add the counterparts
- check the correct variant
- build the set to determine extra parts
All this has to be checked before approval, to make sure it's correct and
complete.
Diana
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | May 7, 2022 08:54 | | Subject: | Re: Inventories | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, CapnBootle writes:
| | Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns?
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We've had all the available set data and all the part renders for years even
from before LEGO owned the site. However, our catalog is much more complicated
than just this data. Look at a set inventory. How much do you see that is obviously
been created by hand? Photographic images, minifig inventories, names for parts,
extras, alternates, sticker sheets, etc?? If we used the raw data from Day 1,
your part-out would be incomplete, and I bet that wouldn't be what you want
either. 
Jen
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=315060&nID=1320391
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| | | | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | May 7, 2022 09:14 | | Subject: | Re: Inventories | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
| | In Catalog, CapnBootle writes:
| | Why, bearing in mind The Lego Group now own BrickLink, do we still have to wait
for set inventories to be approved? - surely TLG actually have pics of any new
parts and have the capability to provide them to a site it owns?
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We've had all the available set data and all the part renders for years even
from before LEGO owned the site. However, our catalog is much more complicated
than just this data. Look at a set inventory. How much do you see that is obviously
been created by hand? Photographic images, minifig inventories, names for parts,
extras, alternates, sticker sheets, etc?? If we used the raw data from Day 1,
your part-out would be incomplete, and I bet that wouldn't be what you want
either.
Jen
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=315060&nID=1320391
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By the way, which set inventory are you looking for? I do a lot of inventories
and maybe I could help.
Jen
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