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Box Cover Art Being Used For Some Sets In The Database
As I was looking through my owned sets, I noticed that there seems to be a few of large sets that are using the front box art as the main image in the database rather than the standard picture of the set on a white background. Most notably the Pet Shop, Diagon Alley, Maersk Train, Hogwarts Castle, and Re-released Maersk Ship (just a quick search of the first page of the 2010/2011 sets). I guess I'm just bringing this up as I tend to be an organized person and these kind of stick out like a sore thumb when going down my set lists. I figured someone here might know why the box art is being used when there are the "normal" photos readily available on LEGO
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I'm sure he updates them periodically in batches once the waves of sets are released...
Most of the images of newer sets come straight from LEGOs own servers (the 'image cache' that will sometimes be mentioned - this is done with LEGO's permission), or from scans/photos of an original box/bag where the sets aren't available from LEGO Shop Online. For the D2C (Direct to Consumer) sets (e.g. Maersk train, Diagon Alley, Pet Shop, etal) we usually get sent a 'press pack' with images a day or two before the official announcement; these come with an embargo date & time, before which LEGO don't want us to mention the details, which we honour.
^^^^^ The 'standard' Brickset set image has traditionally been the scan of the front of the instruction booklet; for many sets we use the box image where we don't have a good quality image of the instructions (especially difficult for older sets). More recently, since LEGO have started using larger & higher quality images on their website, we've used the 'white background' built-set images (obviously these don't exist for older sets). Where we're using box images for newer sets it will be because they were the first ones available from LEGO. When Huw & I were invited to visit the Vault in 2009, to fill in many of the gaps in The Database, we took photos of the (sealed) boxes ... e.g.
http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=497-1
(the previous set image for this was a fairly tatty instruction book scan).
Here's an example of a 1955-70 Garage set... it came in 8 different box types, and underwent 4 different model changes... here's just one (1960-65)...
Thanks