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View Thread Re: Dimensions 10507 - mfav (174)
[...] That's true if the stud size dimensions are accurate; but when something is really 1 x 1.4 but is labeled 1 x 1...not so much.
(51 months ago, Feb 27, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Dimensions 10507 - mfav (174)
[...] It makes no sense to have stud size dimensions for anything in the dimensions field. Having some dimensions being mm and others being studs makes all of them useless. [...]
(51 months ago, Feb 27, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Dimensions 10507 - mfav (174)
[...] Sorry, dyslexia kicking in 15070 (Part 15070)
(51 months ago, Feb 27, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Dimensions 10507 - mfav (174)
Why is 10507 listed as 1x1 in studs? 10507 is x: 7.9mm y: 11.2mm z: 11.1mm making it 1 x 1.4 in studs. Is this just another one of those places of inconsistency madness?
(51 months ago, Feb 27, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Yo StormBluser, for the roadmap? - mfav (174)
[...] There's a lot to consider. 1. should a piece be restricted to its original part number? If 3713 is superceded by 6590, which is superceded by 42798, should those [...]
(51 months ago, Feb 26, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Yo StormBluser, for the roadmap? - mfav (174)
I did note there would be pain associated with the proposal. Thus the question mark in the title. We’re finally getting three asp pages rewritten, so maybe the logjam on the [...]
(51 months ago, Feb 26, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Yo StormBluser, for the roadmap? - mfav (174)
(URL) I know, there'll be pain with the renaming and whatnot, but it would be nice if all the axle holes on all the pieces were named consistently and were referred to in [...]
(51 months ago, Feb 25, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 9610-1 - mfav (174)
[...] I got grandpa’s desk, because it was magic. Later I discovered the desk wasn’t magic. The magic was in grandpa.
(51 months ago, Feb 24, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 9610-1 - mfav (174)
In Inventories Requests, axaday writes [...] No, sadly my grandparents couldn’t afford such luxuries.
(51 months ago, Feb 24, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 9610-1 - mfav (174)
[...] Okay, so my webcam hasn’t been hacked. What a relief.
(51 months ago, Feb 24, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 9610-1 - mfav (174)
Where'd you get this picture?
(51 months ago, Feb 24, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Alternate Images (Rant) - mfav (174)
[...] For pity's sake. Can't BrickLink afford a ConstantContact or MailChimp account? I know, you're not the person to ask. This is a rhetorical question. ...and [...]
(51 months ago, Feb 17, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 4758-1 - mfav (174)
[...] I couldn't say without seeing the setup. It could be a diffuser, but it needs to be positioned correctly. I'm seeing hard white highlights on the tiger figure [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 8, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Description standardization note - mfav (174)
[...] Aren't you the fella to talk to to get that changed, Mister Site Manager? [...] While that is undoubtedly true, it's not particularly helpful in any way. If [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 8, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Description standardization note - mfav (174)
It would be good for consistency in the catalog description if all instances of numbers were either integers or words, not arbitrarily some of each. So: Three eyeballs, Three [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 8, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 4758-1 - mfav (174)
[...] mfav thinks he's not interested in the pics once they've gone through the bricklink imagemangler mfav thinks he'd like to see a wide shot of whateverthehell [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 8, 2020, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: February Roadmap Project: Old and New - mfav (174)
[...] I'm content to let the mad geniuses of catalog control sort out the catalog. I'm just documenting the differences I can find in the handful of hats I have. Regardless [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: February Roadmap Project: Old and New - mfav (174)
On further inspection, I find I have four variants. Page updated. (URL)
(52 months ago, Feb 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: February Roadmap Project: Old and New - mfav (174)
[...] I don't know which number to ascribe to which hat, but there are hat differences. (URL)
(52 months ago, Feb 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 30374 Bar 1x4 Frosted Variant - mfav (174)
[...] ...and an unnumbered version... pic updated.
(52 months ago, Feb 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 30374 Bar 1x4 Frosted Variant - mfav (174)
(URL)
(52 months ago, Feb 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Identifying minifigures - mfav (174)
[...] Note "nougat/flesh" hasn't been updated since the apocalypse, and Anders is away for a week.
(52 months ago, Feb 5, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Nougats reference - mfav (174)
[...] Yup. Please let me know if this is now corrected to your satisfaction. (URL)
(52 months ago, Feb 4, 2020, to Colors)
View Thread Re: 3626cpb1788 Will Still Say Flesh - mfav (174)
[...] The problem is with cognition: Is this a Container or a Container Lid? Container 1 x 2 x 3 Lid ...is it a 1 x 2 x 3 container or is it a 1 x 2 x 3 lid? The tile example [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 3, 2020, to Colors)
View Thread Re: 3626cpb1788 Will Still Say Flesh - mfav (174)
I'd suggest, if you're going to "standardize" the conventions, please remove all the withs, withouts, ands, ons, throughs and other useless terms. Stick to nouns wherever [...]
(52 months ago, Feb 3, 2020, to Colors)
View Thread Re: We have a new Catalog Associate! - mfav (174)
Ahh. The two instruments of the Nougat Armageddon are peas in a pod.
(52 months ago, Feb 3, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Nougats reference - mfav (174)
(URL) And. It's not funny.
(52 months ago, Feb 3, 2020, to Colors)
View Thread Re: Dark red - mfav (174)
(URL)
(52 months ago, Feb 3, 2020, to Colors)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] [...] Seems fine now. Might have been a first-time thing finding the server or something. No issues subsequent to that initial load. I'd guess nothing to worry about. [...]
(52 months ago, Jan 29, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] That is correct. It's a bad result set. It is returning blue arms, sand blue arms, medium blue arms, etc. Not just blue arms.
(52 months ago, Jan 25, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] My first take. Took a long time to load for me. I don't necessarily attribute that to whatever code you have going on, but just saying. Search for Yellow Head, Any [...]
(52 months ago, Jan 25, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Have A Heart - mfav (174)
[...] [...] Ok. After tomorrow.
(52 months ago, Jan 25, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Have A Heart - mfav (174)
[...] You know, sometimes you seem to misinterpret the stuff I put in the comics as a personal point of view. That is not the case. The comics stuff is made to be funny...well [...]
(52 months ago, Jan 25, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Have A Heart - mfav (174)
Maybe familiarizing yourself with this information will clear up many of your questions about Blusers and cookie screens having priority over things like being kind and being [...]
(52 months ago, Jan 24, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 2FA or some other additional login security - mfav (174)
(URL)
(52 months ago, Jan 24, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] PM me.
(52 months ago, Jan 23, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] Respectfully, Yeah, no. That happens, I’m going to have issues with two of you. Andrsv, you want to take the two hours to write yourself your version based on the instructions [...]
(52 months ago, Jan 23, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Attack of the Blusers - mfav (174)
[...] [...] Blusers = BL Users
(52 months ago, Jan 22, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: goatleg - mfav (174)
[...] What's it worth to you?
(52 months ago, Jan 22, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Catalog Policy Issues - mfav (174)
(URL)
(53 months ago, Jan 7, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Remove image - mfav (174)
[...] I know it's daft of me to think this, but can't you just call up the mothership and get an answer? Then definitively tell us what it is? I mean instead of questioning [...]
(53 months ago, Jan 6, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Analysts Ruin Everything - mfav (174)
[...] Yep. Equally despised and, you know, exactly the same people. But new and improved with a fresh name! To make us think they're not pundits. Or analysts. Or abjectly [...]
(53 months ago, Jan 6, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Analysts Ruin Everything - mfav (174)
[...] Pretty much every pro football/TV/media talking head "analyst" in the US is an example of why there's open hostility towards that term. Less accurate than weathermen [...]
(53 months ago, Jan 6, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Analysts Ruin Everything - mfav (174)
[...] Well, first this: (URL) Second: Oh, good grief. You can't solve this problem alone, Robert. You can't. You don't have the requisite tool set. Bill suggests [...]
(53 months ago, Jan 6, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Part number 4494 in black - mfav (174)
(URL)
(53 months ago, Jan 5, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Show item quantity on catalog item page! - mfav (174)
This isn't it?
(53 months ago, Jan 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Experts - mfav (174)
(URL)
(53 months ago, Jan 2, 2020, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Policy change - Undetermined versus Unknown a - mfav (174)
While I champion the desired functionality change, I question the means to get there. The underlying catalog database needs to be reenvisioned from the ground up to effect the [...]
(53 months ago, Jan 2, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: hope for the new year - mfav (174)
[...] Well...they don't tell you anything the most often.
(53 months ago, Dec 31, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread hope for the new year - mfav (174)
(URL)
(53 months ago, Dec 31, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: part number 62696 Dark Tan Bride Hair - mfav (174)
[...] I have at least 10 of this piece, various colors, interior matching what you show. FWIW. Only the bright light yellow has the "full circle" with LEGO stamped in it.
(53 months ago, Dec 24, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian News Article - mfav (174)
[...] The requested implementation of the font styling in the forum for sarcasm is still pending.
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian News Article - mfav (174)
[...] Wasn't suggesting that you spun it this way or that. Just that the same data can be interpreted in various ways.
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian News Article - mfav (174)
[...] All hail the spin doctors.
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian News Article - mfav (174)
[...] I disagree. If you're including them in the sheet, then they're valid data points. [...] That's not in question either. Their position is wait-and-see. [...]
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" - mfav (174)
How does (113 not negative) to (47 negative) come up as the majority being negative?
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" - mfav (174)
(URL)
(53 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig sw1030 - mfav (174)
[...] Dude, check this out. (URL) See if you can audit some courses.
(54 months ago, Dec 16, 2019, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Parts Category Tree - mfav (174)
[...] [...] Nope. It won't be improved. It will be different. This is just rearranging the content on shelves in the supermarket. If the last couple deployments of "site [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 14, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Parts Category Tree - Update - mfav (174)
[...] ...if you're properly educated... [...] 1. Again, seemingly some confusion on your end between the database and how it is accessed via an html form. 2. No. Database [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 13, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Parts Category Tree - Update - mfav (174)
Responses to the two related posts included below. [...] Bill is looking at the bigger picture. You seem to be more concerned about the catalog specifically. Understand that [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 13, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Parts Category Tree - mfav (174)
There seems to be some conflation or confusion regarding the data and the database structure and how those things relate. The structure is how it's built and the data is [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Parts Category Tree - mfav (174)
The category tree is not really the issue. There needs to be an understanding of the difference between classification and identification. Browsing probably takes place against [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: BL search with Goatleg fail - mfav (174)
(URL) You can roll your own search interface in about 2 hours. Make it do whatever you want.
(55 months ago, Nov 15, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Sticky/ oily vintage wheels...trash? - mfav (174)
[...] (URL) Page 15. If they're SBS and the plasticizer is leaching from them, you probably ought to handle them with nitrile gloves, double-plastic-bag them, and take [...]
(55 months ago, Nov 5, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Undetermined 3183 - mfav (174)
(URL)
(56 months ago, Oct 11, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Comics - mfav (174)
I keep getting asked for these, so... (URL)
(56 months ago, Oct 8, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread 32064 variants - mfav (174)
(URL)
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Inviting trouble - mfav (174)
(URL) I promise not to have a conniption if anyone takes the initiative.
(57 months ago, Aug 28, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread That Randy Color - mfav (174)
I want to further the discussion at (URL) but under an appropriate thread. In regards to color. The comments below go to the use of color labeling in the context of being functional [...]
(61 months ago, May 5, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - mfav (174)
Yep. Newbies to this site are told they can find everything here, but the reality is they're like corpulent bodies with raw meat strapped to them, thrown into the deep end [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: List of known part-color-combinations - mfav (174)
From the color search popup on the search page: Aqua Black Blue Blue-Violet Bright Green Bright Light Blue Bright Light Orange Bright Light Yellow Bright Pink Brown Coral Dark [...]
(62 months ago, Mar 30, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: find nearby stores, based on my ZIP code? - mfav (174)
Sellers could simply put their coordinates on their splash pages, no programming needed, if they thought it a good idea. The zip locator is an over complicated solution to a [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 10, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: find nearby stores, based on my ZIP code? - mfav (174)
BL has said on more than one occasion they're not going to do it. So, it isn't going to happen unless, say, you want to build it yourself. All you need is latitude and [...]
(63 months ago, Mar 8, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread 48729 variations (3 not 2) - mfav (174)
So, this.
(63 months ago, Mar 1, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: search box repeated problem - mfav (174)
[...] Not a browser issue. The search box which appears at the top of most pages, when set to "All Items", has a script attached to it. What follows here is observation, not [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 23, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Aren't these differences ridiculous? - mfav (174)
[...] Loupe, not loop.
(64 months ago, Feb 14, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Why is 4746 categorized as Tail? - mfav (174)
All similar pieces are categorized in Aircraft. Seems to be a distinct outlier in this group. (URL)
(64 months ago, Feb 1, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig rsq004 - mfav (174)
[...] You know, somebody asks for something, then somebody else takes an hour out of their day to provide it, then it's unappreciated. If you don't want to use those, [...]
(64 months ago, Jan 28, 2019, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig rsq004 - mfav (174)
004 and 008
(64 months ago, Jan 28, 2019, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code - mfav (174)
[...] (URL) Knock yourself out.
(65 months ago, Jan 15, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code - mfav (174)
[...] Cool idea, but difficult to implement. And there are privacy issues. The Canadian zip code database runs over 760,000 records; most of them geolocate to stationary moose, [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 14, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, WTH images 2 - mfav (174)
[...] I think some value is not being consistently passed to the javascript controlling that display, especially when the page loads. The image shows up more consistently if [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Catalog Guidelines: Minifig Heads - mfav (174)
[...] One solution: suggest that this piece get its own category where it is neither minifig nor utensil. 3626 has its own category. [...] Minifig, head is a BL designation. [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 7, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Catalog Guidelines: Minifig Heads - mfav (174)
I would like to suggest the following catalog guidelines for minifig head part 3626. issues 1. Need to distinguish between 1-sided print and 2-sided print 2. Need to distinguish [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 7, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, what's with the images? - mfav (174)
Thank you for taking the time to respond. [...] Oi. That makes for some busywork for somebody. [...] Woo-hoo management! Good call. [...] I don't know what the [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 7, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, WTH images 2 - mfav (174)
Thanks for the input. I don't envy you the task of manually addressing every image in the catalog, but suspect that's what it's going to take in the long run to remedy [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 4, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, WTH images 2 - mfav (174)
[...] Yup. The old system. Which for all its inadequacies functioned consistently and as expected. [...] If they're meaningless, why are they included? I know you don't [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 4, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Admin Russell, WTH images 2 - mfav (174)
Happy New Year. This image discrepancy thing does appear throughout the catalog. It looks like any time there was a condition where the large image contributor and the small [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 4, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, what's with the images? - mfav (174)
Well, now I can understand why the StormChaser is confused. If the large image slot is going away, and the large images are going to then slot into what now is the small slot... [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 3, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Admin Russell, what's with the images? - mfav (174)
[...] It has to be one or the other or both. It may occur in the underlying programming which does whatever it does when an "old" image gets replaced (or bumped, or set [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 2, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Admin Russell, what's with the images? - mfav (174)
I'm noticing my "large" images for these items are showing up as being credited to other contributors. Kevin1990 - 970c00pb099 - 970c34pb01 swrbricks - 970c10pb01 - 970c09pb01 [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 2, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Move header buttons to the left side screen - mfav (174)
Possible kludge workaround is to go into the browser preferences, find where you can adjust the fonts and sizes. Increase the font size. Then there should be an option to override [...]
(65 months ago, Dec 26, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
This do?
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
[...] Do you need this?
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
okay, thanks.
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
[...] Nope. Not a criticism. This also not a (negative) criticism. An observation: I am concerned that you can't maintain the frenzied pace you've set for [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
so much for that attempt at humor
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
[...] [...] Yup. All instructions on Lego's web site show stubble on the figure. If there was a stubble-less head, then which sets would it belong to? Oh, well. We can [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Is there actually a 3626bpx28? - mfav (174)
will follow up off-forum m
(66 months ago, Dec 20, 2018, to Catalog)

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