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Several items in Super Mario are not yet attributed to sets, the 'Minifigures' are in the database but are attributed to 0 sets. Despite clearly being the Blind Bag Build-A-Figures.
The DK Books of old, Brickmaster mostly, no longer have Minifigure listings for Castle (Fantasy Era), Pirates, Ninjago or indeed most of the Brickmaster Books with Bricks releases. If they ever had them to begin with. And some of the DK Books with Minifigure Exclusives such as the NEXO Knights Character Encyclopedia have them listed in the database, but attribute them to 0 Sets meaning they are not currently counted in my collection unless I add them manually. (But if they ever get attributed to the sets/books they came with I'd have two then, so I'm holding off on adding them manually until I know if they will never be attributed to sets.)
Certain Themes include Minifigures twice, ones with stickers and ones without or other accessories omitted but attribute them to 0 sets so they don't inflate the count... I suppose that's one reason, I can't understand why Bricklink would list Minfigures by separate codes like that, either you apply the stickers or you don't, but it's still the same basic minifigure. Seems odd for them to do that, but it's nice that we can view them in the database. Just an observation.
Other Minifigures that do this though are mysteries to me, I can't figure out, for example, who or where some of these 0 set Minifigures and Minidolls come from. There's one listing in Disney Princess for a 'Girl' character, seemingly generic, attributed to 0 sets. Who is she, where did she come from? Is it some kind of make-and-take at the parks or something that I never heard about before?
One final observation, did some of these Minfigure Descriptions really go into so much detail before? It seems LEGO may have been updating details or something over on Bricklink because there is an awful lot of words to describe a Minifigure compared to simply just using a generic name or term. Like Pete and Yve over in Ideas from the Exo-Suit... I seem to recall them only being listed as Pete and Yve before, but now they describe their entire look and then put Pete and Yve in brackets at the end. Just seems like an overly convoluted way to label Minifigures. What is LEGO doing over on Bricklink???
The DK book issue will be similar, but it seems BrickLink regularly renumbers them and we have no way of automatically knowing when, and what to. We should sort it, but it's not a priority. If anyone wants to lend a hand, get in touch!
The sticker issue, we can't do much about. Until recently we excluded all figures that occur in 0 sets to hide this problem, but that upset some collectors/completests.
All the 0 set minifigs can be seen here: https://brickset.com/minifigs/excluded.
Also, remember BS and BS Forums have different credentials.
I'll get it sorted, thanks.
Well, that IS a pretty cool set...but your point is a good one.
I disagree completely that the links should be removed. I think that linking back to old sites such as Peeron and LUGNet are important from a historical point of view. Perhaps it shouldn't be the first link in the list, but there is still value in having it present.
I'll remove a few others while I'm tidying up. BrickPicker's price guide is dead now, too.
Thank you. It's been just short of a year and I don't think the picker is coming back. There has been some dead weight floating around for a while. That said there is still some reverent information on sites like Peeron and Lugnet. It might be useful to new members/collectors to have a single historic links pages that mention the past significance of the sites, but explain that they are cyber rotted.
A platform filter in addition to the category one is now available.
Anyone else noticed this? It's been there a while. Updating video drivers hasn't helped.