Author:  Leftoverbricks  Posted:  Mar 4, 2024 10:49  Subject:  Proposal: new organization of magazine sets  Viewed:  116 times  Topic:  Catalog Requests  For: Catalog Associate  Status: Open Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Leftoverbricks (2225) Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel Member Since Contact Type Status Mar 11, 2012 Seller Store: Leftoverbricks

How to better deal with the sets that come with LEGO magazines? situation Currently there are LEGO magazines with added sets (they are glued to the magazine) in 6 countries, each in the language from the country where they are published. - Germany - Czech Republic - Poland - Netherlands - France - Sweden It is painfully obvious that there are no English speaking countries in this list. The frequency in which they appear varies a bit. I have no exact data but 6-8 magazines per year seems to be sort of average. themes The magazines come in 8 themes (not each country get the same themes covered): - Avengers - Batman - City - Friends (this is the oldest one) - Jurassic World - Minecraft - Ninjago - Spiderman current Bricklink coverage The extent to which all these items are included in the catalogue depends on the cooperation of volunteers in different countries. As far as I have been able to determine, the sets are always added to the catalogue, but the magazines in which they appear are not always added - they need a separate entry in the catalogue. how to find these magazine sets on Bricklink? Until recently you could find them by searching for the theme and add 'foil pack' to your search criteria. For example here is the list of Minecraft Foil Packs: minecraft+foil+pack https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=foil+pack+minecraft&tab=S#T=S However, somewhere in 2023 TLG began to replace the foil packs by paper bags glued to the magazine. Accordingly, Bricklink catalogue admins understandably changed the description from foil pack to paper bag. The result is that you now also have to search for the paper bags minecraft+paper+bag: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=paper+bag+minecraft&tab=S#T=S Currently there are about 500-600 sets that are part of a magazine. And there's no easy way to find them all in a single search or a limited search by theme. therefore my suggestion about how to deal with this I looked at the way how Brickset deals with the same problem and they have a very clever and simple solution for it. They just call all the foil packs and paper bags 'magazine gifts'. If you want to search for these items you can do so: https://brickset.com/sets/subtheme-Magazine-Gift My suggestion is to follow this example and change the description of all those sets. For example   *  662308-1 (Inv) Alex, Baby Llama and Bee paper bag 32 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 2023 Sets: Minecraft would become: Alex, Baby Llama and Bee - Magazine Gift Even more nice would it be to make additional changes to the sets catalogue tree: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=S and add a new subtheme called 'Magazine Gift' for each of the 8 themes TLG has magazines with sets. Star Wars already has 45 subthemes so one more wouldn't hurt This way we have several options to search for the magazine sets: by keyword (Magazine Gift) or by browsing/searching for the theme and selecting the subtheme. Martin (And of course I offer to help with this. I have lots of free time.)

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Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets - randyf (442)

[...] How could you forget the United Kingdom? :) (URL) And there are other countries: Hungary, Denmark, ... (3 months ago, Mar 4, 2024, to Catalog Requests)

Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets - iprice (1252)

[...] And the UK (which generally does speak English - only not as well as other countries). :D [...] And Star Wars. The Biggest of the lot (3 months ago, Mar 4, 2024, to Catalog Requests)

Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets - Bonacieux (424)

Here in Germany they all comes from the Contributor Blue Ocean. Any come's monthly (City, NINJAGO ...) , other 6 - 8 Magazine (p.a. Friends) per Year. The [...] (3 months ago, Mar 4, 2024, to Catalog Requests)

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