Shadowstream wrote:Last time I got fobbed off with something along the lines of 'this is the way I do things, if you don't like it then lump it', so forgive me for not being hopeful.
I apologize if you felt that you were given a confrontational answer pertaining to any concerns you had expressed previously. That is not my way of handling things normally and that's not how I like my business to be operated. I've got a pretty thick skin after running this site for 12 years. Perhaps you caught me on an off day or perhaps someone else answered and that response was misinterpreted as a response from me. If that was how I responded to you, again, please accept my apology.
Shadowstream wrote:What I'd really like is a more straitforward system that categorizes figures solely by named line and not mish-meshed based on (perceived) continuity or whatever. I know a few things may end up in odd places either way, but at least this way things are narrowed down.
There appears to be some confusion somewhere. The toys
are organized by named lines and there are no
perceived continuities with my galleries. If you feel this is incorrect, please provide some
specific examples so that I may address your concerns or provide an explanation about why some galleries are organized in a certain manner.
During the beginning years of Seibertron.com's galleries, I used to have the original G1 years organized by their Japanese series titles simply for the fact that since G1 every series has had a name. About three years ago, the galleries were at the point where there was enough content that I could have the Japanese series be separated from the US series. The American G1 series is currently broken down by year (examples:
G1 1987,
G1 1990) and the Japanese series continued to keep their distinctive titles (examples:
Headmasters,
Masterforce,
Victory).
Is it perfect? Not at all, but all of the figures should be able to be found that way. I acknowledge that some US exclusive figures show up in
both the Hasbro and Takara sections (and vice versa), but I would rather have them show up in more places than not enough so as to avoid confusion about where to find galleries of interest.
One exception to the rule off the top of my head is the "
Hunt for the Decepticons" movie universe subline. I know some fans call it "Transformers 2010" and lumped in all of the other non-movie figures that came out that year with the movie-verse figures. It seemed more logical to stick with the "
Hunt for the Decepticons" since there was a sticker on just about every movie figure that year that said "
Hunt for the Decepticons". Not only was I confused about that "series", but I think Hasbro was also ... it was obvious that they were just keeping SKUs active that year.
Shadowstream wrote:Sub-sections, especially for convention figures (a few of which get repurposed for other botcon sets) might be too confusing in the long run.
All of the BotCon, Convention, and Club exclusives would still fall under the parent "
Convention and Club Exclusives" section, they would just be further divided into more organized segments, which seems like it would be more organized like you proposed in your original post to which I responded.