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| | | Author: | Huw  | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 08:48 | | Subject: | General question about Super Mario 'minifigs' | | Viewed: | 132 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Could someone explain why the mushroom in sets such as https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=71366-1
is not counted as a 'minifig'?
There is presumably some logic to it but, given it has eyes and appears to be
as sentient as the other two in that set, I'm not sure I understand why.
Are the 'rules' concerning what constitutes a minifig explained anywhere?
Thanks
Huw
Brickset.com
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| | | | | Author: | BulbaNerd4000 | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 08:55 | | Subject: | Re: General question about Super Mario 'minifigs' | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Huw writes:
| | Could someone explain why the mushroom in sets such as https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=71366-1
is not counted as a 'minifig'?
There is presumably some logic to it but, given it has eyes and appears to be
as sentient as the other two in that set, I'm not sure I understand why.
Are the 'rules' concerning what constitutes a minifig explained anywhere?
Thanks
Huw
Brickset.com
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Well, in the games they are not really a “character”. They are an item. In the
games, they don’t really do anything but move side to side and Mario just eats
them.
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| | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: General question about Super Mario 'minifigs' | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Huw writes:
| | Could someone explain why the mushroom in sets such as https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=71366-1
is not counted as a 'minifig'?
There is presumably some logic to it but, given it has eyes and appears to be
as sentient as the other two in that set, I'm not sure I understand why.
Are the 'rules' concerning what constitutes a minifig explained anywhere?
Thanks
Huw
Brickset.com
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The super mushroom is not a character. It is just an item in the game like a
coin or a power-up star. Also, the LEGO descriptions do not refer to it as a
"figure", whereas the others are.
Cheers,
Randy
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| | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 15:01 | | Subject: | Re: General question about Super Mario 'minifigs' | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Huw writes:
This is a good question, Huw. For most of BrickLink's history there were
no written definitions of figures and thus no criteria for categorizing them
or even what they were.
We're in the middle of trying to make sense of all that right now and the
Mario figures have been a good test of our standards and how well they work.
| | There is presumably some logic to it but, given it has eyes and appears to be
as sentient as the other two in that set, I'm not sure I understand why.
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Although a mushroom is just an object in the Mario games, it is similar to what
we would consider a figure in this set. It has a scanner code like other figures,
a name, a face, and doesn't appear to be just an object. So this one should
probably have a figure entry on BrickLink.
| | Are the 'rules' concerning what constitutes a minifig explained anywhere?
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Now there are, yes. They were created (not just edited/updated) a few months
ago:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=170
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| | | | | | | Author: | Huw | | Posted: | Sep 10, 2020 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: General question about Super Mario 'minifigs' | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| Thank you. I don't envy you having to decide what's a figure and what
isn't.
In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, Huw writes:
This is a good question, Huw. For most of BrickLink's history there were
no written definitions of figures and thus no criteria for categorizing them
or even what they were.
We're in the middle of trying to make sense of all that right now and the
Mario figures have been a good test of our standards and how well they work.
| | There is presumably some logic to it but, given it has eyes and appears to be
as sentient as the other two in that set, I'm not sure I understand why.
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Although a mushroom is just an object in the Mario games, it is similar to what
we would consider a figure in this set. It has a scanner code like other figures,
a name, a face, and doesn't appear to be just an object. So this one should
probably have a figure entry on BrickLink.
| | Are the 'rules' concerning what constitutes a minifig explained anywhere?
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Now there are, yes. They were created (not just edited/updated) a few months
ago:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=170
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