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 Author: Leftoverbricks View Messages Posted By Leftoverbricks
 Posted: Jan 8, 2024 10:23
 Subject: Catmins: What happened to min094?
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Leftoverbricks (2225)

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Hi,

Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there

Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?

For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M

Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.
 Author: jennnifer View Messages Posted By jennnifer
 Posted: Jan 8, 2024 10:30
 Subject: Re: Catmins: What happened to min094?
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In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
  Hi,

Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there

Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?

For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M

Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.

My understanding is that Catalog numbers are not reusable. If a minifig or part
needed to be deleted for some reason, it is skipped permanently.

~Jen
 Author: Leftoverbricks View Messages Posted By Leftoverbricks
 Posted: Jan 8, 2024 11:03
 Subject: Re: Catmins: What happened to min094?
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In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
  In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
  Hi,

Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there

Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?

For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M

Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.

My understanding is that Catalog numbers are not reusable. If a minifig or part
needed to be deleted for some reason, it is skipped permanently.

~Jen

That would be a nightmare for numberphiles like me! However, I always get happy
to receive a response from you since you are a Minecraft aficionado/catalogue
expert.

Nevertheless similar things happened before.

I think that in 2021 randyf decided that Iron Golems should be considered
a minifig and not a mob, so he added it to the catalogue in 2021 as min093. This
also meant that set 21128-1 from 2016 was updated with a new minifig. (I'm
assuming this rather than knowing because there are no detailed change
logs about set inventory changes.)

If you view the list of minecraft minifigs sorted by date you will see that min093
appears in 2016 while the numbering was still in the 040 range.

My question remains: where was 094 used for initially? If it only briefly entered
the catalogue but was sold never then it could be reused. Basically: if one would
be able to search the entire database of Bricklink - a question only the owner
of the database can answer - would it bring up a result for min094?
 Author: Turez View Messages Posted By Turez
 Posted: Jan 8, 2024 10:44
 Subject: Re: Catmins: What happened to min094?
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In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
  Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there

Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.

This item
 
Part No: minehoglin01  Name: Minecraft Hoglin, Tan Face - Brick Built
* 
minehoglin01 (Inv) Minecraft Hoglin, Tan Face - Brick Built
Parts: Animal, Land
was approved as min159 and then changed to a part. See log:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogReqList.asp?nID=&viewDate=Y&viewType=E&viewStatus=A&q=min094

  And can we fill up the gap somehow?

No. We were told not to use numbers again that were previously used for a different
entry. It can cause problems due to the famous spaghetti code.