Tracking your collection
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Tracking your collection
- Motto: ""If you think I'm crazy, you should see the people I'm locked up with.""
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How do you keep track of which figures you already have or what accessories you are missing on that one particular figure?
Excel spreadsheet? Text document? Hand-written list?
I for one really wished there was something like what BoardGameGeek does for board-, video- and roleplaying games: An easy way of tracking your collection, including comments, rating, sorting by different criteria ... only for action figures in general and for Transformers in particular.
Excel spreadsheet? Text document? Hand-written list?
I for one really wished there was something like what BoardGameGeek does for board-, video- and roleplaying games: An easy way of tracking your collection, including comments, rating, sorting by different criteria ... only for action figures in general and for Transformers in particular.
Currently looking for:
- the projectile for Cybertron Supreme Class Starscream's arm cannon
- a gun barrel for Classics Jetfire's (the little black thingy that plugs onto the front of his swing-out shoulder cannons)
- the rotor for Micromaster Tracer (from the Military Patrol)
If you have one of the above and want to part with it, please PM me!
- the projectile for Cybertron Supreme Class Starscream's arm cannon
- a gun barrel for Classics Jetfire's (the little black thingy that plugs onto the front of his swing-out shoulder cannons)
- the rotor for Micromaster Tracer (from the Military Patrol)
If you have one of the above and want to part with it, please PM me!
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Re: Tracking your collection
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I used to do it on Crave, but they're gone.
May have to try out Shmax.
May have to try out Shmax.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Shmax is definitely the way to go.
it has streamlined my data for future purchases and i can see the gaps in lines of what i am missing.
the only other alternative was a service that Cybertron.ca has offered, forgot the name, but it started as a beta test with an integrated recommendation and price grading scale.
i never pursued it because i was happy with Shmax but could be worth a look.
it has streamlined my data for future purchases and i can see the gaps in lines of what i am missing.
the only other alternative was a service that Cybertron.ca has offered, forgot the name, but it started as a beta test with an integrated recommendation and price grading scale.
i never pursued it because i was happy with Shmax but could be worth a look.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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I've simply been using a text document, which I then copy and paste on my collection thread: http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/va-al-s-bi-national-collection-t80445.php
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Flux Convoy wrote:Shmax.com
Sweet!
Didn't know this existed.
Currently looking for:
- the projectile for Cybertron Supreme Class Starscream's arm cannon
- a gun barrel for Classics Jetfire's (the little black thingy that plugs onto the front of his swing-out shoulder cannons)
- the rotor for Micromaster Tracer (from the Military Patrol)
If you have one of the above and want to part with it, please PM me!
- the projectile for Cybertron Supreme Class Starscream's arm cannon
- a gun barrel for Classics Jetfire's (the little black thingy that plugs onto the front of his swing-out shoulder cannons)
- the rotor for Micromaster Tracer (from the Military Patrol)
If you have one of the above and want to part with it, please PM me!
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Noshrok Grimskull - Micromaster
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Re: Tracking your collection
- Motto: "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
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Nt adding much, but yep... Shmax.com can hold most of the info you'd wish to keep tabs on. And it's user fed, so it's always about 99% up to date at any time.
I'm so meta, even this acronym...
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Re: Tracking your collection
- Motto: "The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."
My method is two-fold:
- an Excel sheet of all releases, per line, per company
- a Word document detailing what spot a certain figure takes or what "group" he belongs to
Simple, but works wonders.
- an Excel sheet of all releases, per line, per company
- a Word document detailing what spot a certain figure takes or what "group" he belongs to
Simple, but works wonders.
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Looking for:
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- Jelze Bunnycat =:3
Looking for:
- TR Furos (Hardhead's head) and Crashbash (lost him

- PotP Punch head
- TR Galvatron right arm (the gun one)
- CW Brake-Neck/UW Wildrider, CW Offroad
- TR Twinferno & Grotusque
- Greenlight, Lancer and PotP Elita-1
- Legacy Core Slug, Sludge & Snarl
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Signed up for Shmax a while back and couldn't get the damn thing to work properly. Wasn't very user friendly for me. Maybe thay changed it since then, i don't know.
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Re: Tracking your collection
- Motto: "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
- Weapon: Vibro-Force Gun
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Signed up for Shmax a while back and couldn't get the damn thing to work properly. Wasn't very user friendly for me. Maybe thay changed it since then, i don't know.
I have no problems with it, really... It does however use an autosave function on every value you put in: this can take a little time to kick in, so maybe that gave you trouble.
Browsing could also be improved, I have to say. It's sometimes hard finding the link to the Optimus Prime or Bumblebee toy you just bought among the 100's of different versions of these characters (with the same name) in the database.
I'm so meta, even this acronym...
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Shmax here, not perfect but works pretty well for me ^^
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Re: Tracking your collection
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I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!

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Re: Tracking your collection
WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Same, for the most part. I've only messed up and bought a dupe twice and considering I have 180-ish figures I think my memory is doing pretty well. haha.
I do have a written list though. I just rarely use it for anything beyond a figure count.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Ah, this is great!
I was going to ask about something like this soon, thanks!

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Re: Tracking your collection
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I haven't bought nearly enough TF's to need any advanced cataloging. A trusty old notebook and pen are all I need for now.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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LOST Cybertronian wrote:Signed up for Shmax a while back and couldn't get the damn thing to work properly. Wasn't very user friendly for me. Maybe thay changed it since then, i don't know.
I just started Shmax not too long ago. I think it takes some trial and error in finding the right figures, and sometimes the interface isn't very intuitive. However, I liken my issues as lack of experience.
I will say that it seems the site owners are responsive towards issues and if I could learn more about WHY I'm having problems in making in a better experience for myself, I can better indicate to the owners what should be tweaked.
Beforehand, I was just using a wordpad document and adding things by date of purchase. It was not very utilitarian.

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Re: Tracking your collection
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You accidentally bought a duplicate? I don't need to consult my list to see if I already have it!Erailea wrote:WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Same, for the most part. I've only messed up and bought a dupe twice and considering I have 180-ish figures I think my memory is doing pretty well. haha.
I have an Xcell spreadsheet. It's just to keep count of the figures in all lines, I don't bother accessories lists. My wish list is a separate text file as I have all the older figures I really want so it's just a list of upcoming toys.
I considered setting up a MySQL database but it's not really needed.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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SKYWARPED_128 wrote:I haven't bought nearly enough TF's to need any advanced cataloging. A trusty old notebook and pen are all I need for now.
That's what my electronic document is, too!
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Re: Tracking your collection
- Motto: ""Give me a piece of break" - my 3 year old son"
I was using shmax to keep up with things, but they redesigned some stuff a few months back & it deleted my account when they did. I still haven't gotten around to setting it back up since it's a huge pain in my ass to add all my figures back in. I have a folder where I save pictures I take of all my TFs(for insurance reasons) that I can consult for now.

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Re: Tracking your collection
Mykltron wrote:You accidentally bought a duplicate? I don't need to consult my list to see if I already have it!Erailea wrote:WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Same, for the most part. I've only messed up and bought a dupe twice and considering I have 180-ish figures I think my memory is doing pretty well. haha.
Considering 95% of my purchases are made in stores, not online, it's not like I can look around my room before buying every figure.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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All by memory, I can remember every TF I own, and where I got them from/ who gave it to me.
I have about 350+ now I think... So it's still easy to track.

I have about 350+ now I think... So it's still easy to track.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Indeed, my passion is fare in the way of numbers and details compared to others. But so far things are nicely stored in my neural net until the day comes when


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Forgotten wrote: I have a folder where I save pictures I take of all my TFs(for insurance reasons) that I can consult for now.
you should ask Counterpunch about his insurance escapade when he got robbed, pretty enlightening
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Re: Tracking your collection
- Motto: "If I win again I'm still the champion. If you win HAH! that's just impossible.
Weapon: tea cup."
True, but I'm still surprised that you'd need to!Erailea wrote:Mykltron wrote:You accidentally bought a duplicate? I don't need to consult my list to see if I already have it!Erailea wrote:WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Same, for the most part. I've only messed up and bought a dupe twice and considering I have 180-ish figures I think my memory is doing pretty well. haha.
Considering 95% of my purchases are made in stores, not online, it's not like I can look around my room before buying every figure.
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Re: Tracking your collection
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Mykltron wrote:True, but I'm still surprised that you'd need to!Erailea wrote:Mykltron wrote:You accidentally bought a duplicate? I don't need to consult my list to see if I already have it!Erailea wrote:WolfDawg wrote:I do it all pretty much by memory. I've yet to have any trouble with that method!
Same, for the most part. I've only messed up and bought a dupe twice and considering I have 180-ish figures I think my memory is doing pretty well. haha.
Considering 95% of my purchases are made in stores, not online, it's not like I can look around my room before buying every figure.
Same here, actually. I can understand buying something you don't really want on impulse, and to appease the plastic crack addiction. But do you really not remember what you have and what you don't?
Not trying to be rude, just curious!
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