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 Author: FigBits View Messages Posted By FigBits
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 00:28
 Subject: Weirdly short part number for a minifig head?
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FigBits (3554)

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Why does this part have such a strange item number?

 
Part No: 3626cps8 Name: Minifigure, Head Alien with SW Darth Maul, Red Face Pattern - Hollow Stud
* 		3626cps8 Minifigure, Head Alien with SW Darth Maul, Red Face Pattern - Hollow Stud
Parts: Minifigure, Head {Black}

Other minifig heads have 4-digit numbers to identify the print. This one is a
single digit?
 Author: novabrick View Messages Posted By novabrick
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 02:43
 Subject: Re: Weirdly short part number for a minifig head?
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It is a leftover from the early days. There are numbers with "p", "px", "ps"
and "pb" I think it's something about the origin of the listing or something.
like p for printed and pb for printed, bricklink. There was a bit of chaos in
these days.
For legacy reasons this probably wont change now.

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Christian

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In Catalog, FigBits writes:
  Why does this part have such a strange item number?

 
Part No: 3626cps8 Name: Minifigure, Head Alien with SW Darth Maul, Red Face Pattern - Hollow Stud
* 		3626cps8 Minifigure, Head Alien with SW Darth Maul, Red Face Pattern - Hollow Stud
Parts: Minifigure, Head {Black}

Other minifig heads have 4-digit numbers to identify the print. This one is a
single digit?
 Author: jbroman View Messages Posted By jbroman
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 04:54
 Subject: Re: Weirdly short part number for a minifig head?
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In Catalog, novabrick writes:
  It is a leftover from the early days. There are numbers with "p", "px", "ps"
and "pb" I think it's something about the origin of the listing or something.
like p for printed and pb for printed, bricklink. There was a bit of chaos in
these days.
For legacy reasons this probably wont change now.

Regards

Christian

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pb - BrickLink pattern constant
px - Peeron.com pattern constant
p - Ldraw.org pattern constant
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 09:08
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In Catalog, jbroman writes:
  […]
pb - BrickLink pattern constant
px - Peeron.com pattern constant
p - Ldraw.org pattern constant

ps: pattern StarWars

LDraw still uses this scheme: https://www.ldraw.org/part-number-spec.html