Question about "variants" and the Database

[Bent Wookie]

Ok, I don't know if anyone actually checks the Q&A area anymore, so i'm going to go ahead and repost here. Maybe it will be noticed more. If the post needs to be deleted, please let me know and I'd be happy to oblige. :)

Has anyone noticed the lack of a "legend" at the Collectors Database? Or is everyone seeing it but me? I click on the link, and then it brings up a blank window. Is this a work in progress or does this have to do with my computer? If it is my computer, what could be the problem? And what's in the legend?

Also, it would be great to see pictures of the all the variants/running changes/whatever you want to call them. Reading "tray label" "thicker stripes" "eyes looking up"and "smaller visor" is all well and good, but a picture would give the database so much more and avoid confusion for everyone.

Anyone else agree?

Finally, concerning those #'s showing rarity (i assume anyway), are they numbered from most common to most scarce? (0-6) or is it the other way around? And what are you using as a basis for reference? Is a #3 only slightly more rare than a #2? Is a #5 much much more rare than a #3? and so on.

Sorry for my use of the word "rare" I know none of the figures are rare,and I know lots of people hate to talk of toys as "rare" (visions of scalpers dancing in their heads and all), but I know there are also lots of people who like to chase after variations and it's good to know what you have for collecting purposes.
Thanks to anyone who can answer. :)

P.S. Not to give anyone the wrong idea, I enjoy my toys as much as the next guy. So please keep it civil ok? :p :D

Bent

[Jerjerrod]

Well, it worked just now on my computer at work. I just clicked into POTF2, for example, and all the abbreviations showed up, and most of your questions are answered there.

The legend won't work until you choose a "line" (series).

The collector's database is actually filled with the most pictures, more than a lot of other sites. I asked SirSteve once, and he says the C.D. will be even better in time.

The higher the rarity number, the more rare that variation is.

Jerjerrod

[Bent Wookie]

Jerjerrod: How are you able to access Legend? Mind walking me through exactly how you did it? This is what I do:

Go to Saga 2002 > Basic Figures > Legend

This is what opens up: "Sorry help not available for this page"

Now when I go into each figure's listing, I do get something, but it's only: "Buy and Sell and Collect Help" Just that listing and a long bar running under it. Nothing else. Weird.

Is this what you're doing?

[Jerjerrod]

I clicked on:

-"Collector's Database" on the top of the page,
-then "1995-2000 - Power of the Force 2"
-then "Legend"

and voila, everything's there.

(When you press "Basic Figures", you've gone too far.)

[Bent Wookie]

LOL! Well, the POTF '95 listing is working. Same for Ep 1. But not Saga, not EU, not Shadows of the Empire, or probably some others.

Mind checking to see if you can get into Saga?

[JediTricks]

Since this thread has a 2nd comment, I felt it would also work in the Comments/Suggestions section even though I moved your other thread with the legend issue there only a few hours ago.


BTW, the 'How Do I' section is more like "How do I use the CODE command in a post?" and other forum-related questions.

[stillakid]

Criminy, there are only 30 people logged on to SSG right now and I keep getting a message saying that the server is too busy. I know that you've been adding stuff today, but why is that affecting the forums so badly? :confused:

[JediTricks]

Apparently, the Hasbro show was a biiiiiig draw. Steve and I were working on the coverage pretty much all day since even before he left Hasbro and when the pics went up it was just very popular.

[SirSteve]

For our next show, we will make changes so this does not happen again.