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| | | Author: | bb1158246  | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2018 19:32 | | Subject: | Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don't know if there have been suggestions on this before, but I couldn't
help wondering if there's a way to implement this suggestion.
In uploading Legos to my store that's opening soon (hopefully!!  ), I see
that there are two ways to upload minifigs. Either, you can find complete minifigs
and upload your minifig as such (such as Dr. Charles Lightning in Adventurers),
or you can upload each individual piece (such as Left Robot Arm).
I'm uploading Legos that I bought from an ebay bulk lot, so all the minifigures
are just randomly put together. So somehow, I'm supposed to find out if any
of my minifig parts can make up an actual minifigure that belongs in a category,
or if I have to individually upload each piece.
That probably sounds confusing, so let me put it another way. Say, for example,
that I have 3 pairs of red, blue, and green pants. I also have 3 pairs of red,
green, and blue shirts. I have 5 different faces, and 3 different hats. If you're
an expert at knowing what kind of minifigs there are out there (which I am completely
and totally ignorant about), you'll probably be able to tell if there are
any combinations of the minifig parts that I have that make up an actual minifigure
that is in a category. But I have no idea about these things. Yes, if I didn't
want to spend hours looking in each category to see if there are any minifigures
that I could create using my pieces, I could just upload each individual piece.
But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
Now, this is probably wayyy too complicated, and can't be done without a
lot of hard work, and the Bricklink staff already put a lot of work into this.
But if not, and this is possible and easy to do...what do you think? Would this
be a useful addition? Is there already something like this? Or am I just being
stupid, and no one else would find this helpful? 
Sorry for such a long post!
C.
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| | | | | Author: | Cob | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2018 20:03 | | Subject: | Re: Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cupcake27 writes:
| | I don't know if there have been suggestions on this before, but I couldn't
help wondering if there's a way to implement this suggestion.
In uploading Legos to my store that's opening soon (hopefully!! ), I see
that there are two ways to upload minifigs. Either, you can find complete minifigs
and upload your minifig as such (such as Dr. Charles Lightning in Adventurers),
or you can upload each individual piece (such as Left Robot Arm).
I'm uploading Legos that I bought from an ebay bulk lot, so all the minifigures
are just randomly put together. So somehow, I'm supposed to find out if any
of my minifig parts can make up an actual minifigure that belongs in a category,
or if I have to individually upload each piece.
That probably sounds confusing, so let me put it another way. Say, for example,
that I have 3 pairs of red, blue, and green pants. I also have 3 pairs of red,
green, and blue shirts. I have 5 different faces, and 3 different hats. If you're
an expert at knowing what kind of minifigs there are out there (which I am completely
and totally ignorant about), you'll probably be able to tell if there are
any combinations of the minifig parts that I have that make up an actual minifigure
that is in a category. But I have no idea about these things. Yes, if I didn't
want to spend hours looking in each category to see if there are any minifigures
that I could create using my pieces, I could just upload each individual piece.
But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
Now, this is probably wayyy too complicated, and can't be done without a
lot of hard work, and the Bricklink staff already put a lot of work into this.
But if not, and this is possible and easy to do...what do you think? Would this
be a useful addition? Is there already something like this? Or am I just being
stupid, and no one else would find this helpful?
Sorry for such a long post!
C.
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Have you tried?
https://brickstock.patrickbrans.com/
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| | | | | | | Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2018 21:29 | | Subject: | Re: Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cob writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cupcake27 writes:
| | I don't know if there have been suggestions on this before, but I couldn't
help wondering if there's a way to implement this suggestion.
In uploading Legos to my store that's opening soon (hopefully!! ), I see
that there are two ways to upload minifigs. Either, you can find complete minifigs
and upload your minifig as such (such as Dr. Charles Lightning in Adventurers),
or you can upload each individual piece (such as Left Robot Arm).
I'm uploading Legos that I bought from an ebay bulk lot, so all the minifigures
are just randomly put together. So somehow, I'm supposed to find out if any
of my minifig parts can make up an actual minifigure that belongs in a category,
or if I have to individually upload each piece.
That probably sounds confusing, so let me put it another way. Say, for example,
that I have 3 pairs of red, blue, and green pants. I also have 3 pairs of red,
green, and blue shirts. I have 5 different faces, and 3 different hats. If you're
an expert at knowing what kind of minifigs there are out there (which I am completely
and totally ignorant about), you'll probably be able to tell if there are
any combinations of the minifig parts that I have that make up an actual minifigure
that is in a category. But I have no idea about these things. Yes, if I didn't
want to spend hours looking in each category to see if there are any minifigures
that I could create using my pieces, I could just upload each individual piece.
But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
Now, this is probably wayyy too complicated, and can't be done without a
lot of hard work, and the Bricklink staff already put a lot of work into this.
But if not, and this is possible and easy to do...what do you think? Would this
be a useful addition? Is there already something like this? Or am I just being
stupid, and no one else would find this helpful?
Sorry for such a long post!
C.
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Have you tried?
https://brickstock.patrickbrans.com/
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Brickstock is a little unrelated to exactly what you are trying to do but super
useful for entering parts to be unloaded and a great pricing tool. Check it
out for sure if you haven't. Just plan to spend some time on youtube understanding
how to use it.
Second part, identify 1 unique part either using bricklink or goatleg.com (amazing
resource) and use that to check against complete figs available. I go for torso's
and heads mostly. When you open the page to that part you can click in the upper
right to see all the minfigs that contain this part.
Now neither of these suggestions is exactly what you want, but it is what most
people use to identify and list used figures. I also voted for your suggestion
because it does sound like a good idea. I would want to know if I had all the
parts from xxxXXX fig in my inventory and could assemble it from there (besides
the ones I parted out of course).
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| | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2018 20:07 | | Subject: | Re: Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cupcake27 writes:
| | But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
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I'm not sure if you'd find this useful, but we already have something
like this:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?utm_content=subnav
You can search for up to three items at a time so long as you know the item number.
I like your idea, but it would add an extra inventory addition step for people
who already know what they want. I think it would work better as a standalone
feature similar to the one shown above (but improved and figure-specific).
What would be amazing is if we had an image-matching system where you showed
BrickLink a picture you took of the minifigure you have and the system told you
what parts or figures matched your minifigure.
Many members have requested easier tools for finding minifigures and their parts.
Unfortunately, BrickLink has for several years focused its efforts on new ventures
instead of perfecting the good thing it already has.
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| | | | | | | Author: | bb1158246 | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2018 08:56 | | Subject: | Re: Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cupcake27 writes:
| | But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
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I'm not sure if you'd find this useful, but we already have something
like this:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?utm_content=subnav
You can search for up to three items at a time so long as you know the item number.
I like your idea, but it would add an extra inventory addition step for people
who already know what they want. I think it would work better as a standalone
feature similar to the one shown above (but improved and figure-specific).
What would be amazing is if we had an image-matching system where you showed
BrickLink a picture you took of the minifigure you have and the system told you
what parts or figures matched your minifigure.
Many members have requested easier tools for finding minifigures and their parts.
Unfortunately, BrickLink has for several years focused its efforts on new ventures
instead of perfecting the good thing it already has.
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Oh wow, I'd never heard of this before! This will make it a lot easier! Thanks!
Wow, that would be nice! But I suppose that some things are just too good to
become true 
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| | | | | Author: | BrickpartsMone | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2018 04:36 | | Subject: | Re: Uploading minifigs made easier | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hello I think each of us has this minifigure problem. There are so many and you
have to look carefully. Sometimes they differ only minimally from each other.
But if you are looking for green legs, you can show at the top right how many
figures have green legs. That makes it a bit easier. But I also sit there evening
after night, looking for pieces together of several thousand pieces. In principle,
children always have to disassemble all the figures. laughing. but that will
probably never change. So you continue to enjoy searching and building. Oh, do
not be angry, the winter is coming soon, you have a lot of time. ))
Oh yes, in German it is much harder because sometimes I just do not know what
the words are called in English, but then I ask my children and google
In Suggestions, Cupcake27 writes:
| | I don't know if there have been suggestions on this before, but I couldn't
help wondering if there's a way to implement this suggestion.
In uploading Legos to my store that's opening soon (hopefully!! ), I see
that there are two ways to upload minifigs. Either, you can find complete minifigs
and upload your minifig as such (such as Dr. Charles Lightning in Adventurers),
or you can upload each individual piece (such as Left Robot Arm).
I'm uploading Legos that I bought from an ebay bulk lot, so all the minifigures
are just randomly put together. So somehow, I'm supposed to find out if any
of my minifig parts can make up an actual minifigure that belongs in a category,
or if I have to individually upload each piece.
That probably sounds confusing, so let me put it another way. Say, for example,
that I have 3 pairs of red, blue, and green pants. I also have 3 pairs of red,
green, and blue shirts. I have 5 different faces, and 3 different hats. If you're
an expert at knowing what kind of minifigs there are out there (which I am completely
and totally ignorant about), you'll probably be able to tell if there are
any combinations of the minifig parts that I have that make up an actual minifigure
that is in a category. But I have no idea about these things. Yes, if I didn't
want to spend hours looking in each category to see if there are any minifigures
that I could create using my pieces, I could just upload each individual piece.
But here's where the suggestion comes in: When you're uploading different
minifig parts, Bricklink looks for a match. So, say you upload a used green pair
of pants, a used shirt with suspenders and a tie, a used white-bearded face,
and a used explorer's hat all separately. Bricklink knows that Dr. Charles
Lightning is made up of these parts. So something pops up saying something like,
"These pieces make up Dr. Charles Lightning. Do you want to turn these individual
pieces into a complete minifigure, or leave them as individual pieces?"
And then you can decide whether or not to leave them as separate pieces.
Now, this is probably wayyy too complicated, and can't be done without a
lot of hard work, and the Bricklink staff already put a lot of work into this.
But if not, and this is possible and easy to do...what do you think? Would this
be a useful addition? Is there already something like this? Or am I just being
stupid, and no one else would find this helpful?
Sorry for such a long post!
C.
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