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Re: Star Wars fixes
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lugnet.admin.database
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Fri, 7 May 1999 01:20:13 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, ffilz@mindspring.com (Frank Filz) writes:
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> There's actually a can of worms here... Why do we have this one count of
> special pieces without any other special pieces counted?
Well, because that's the way Lou started it when he started it. And it's a
very popular thing (as in, it's something that a lot of people care about
for some reason). Something special about minifigs.
> A possible
> solution would be to add a 2nd field for number of large non-human
> figures under which one would count R2-D2, Sebulba, Horses, Sharks, etc
> (but not kittens, birds, snakes, bats etc). Then more complete data for
> a reasonable category of special parts is being presented, and a good
> solid line can be drawn. This is also a reasonable category to count
> since there are standard retail sets which are esentially just
> mini-figs. There aren't any standard retail sets which contain just one
> other type of piece (other than bricks) (well, ok, there is base plates,
> perhaps that category could be included, with a text field for
> description of types).
Was hoping to (very long-term) get all of this data from parts inventories
of the sets. That way, any type of piece can be looked up in this manner,
just as easily as a minifig. This a long way out, though.
--Todd
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| (...) Also, it's important enough at LSI that the count is listed in each set description in the LEGO Shop At Home catalog. This is actually what I suspected to be the original reason Lou tracked them, actually. -- joshua (27 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Star Wars fixes
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| (...) My vote would be to keep the count of figures as the number of mini-figs (of course for Scala this should be the number of dolls, etc). I would not count Sebulba as a figure. There's actually a can of worms here... Why do we have this one (...) (27 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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