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Categorizing your instructions.....

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Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby NTESHFT » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:19 pm

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I've seen on the forums where some collectors have their instructions in binders and it gave me the notion to do the same. Now I got a question- how do you categorize them? For some reason or another I'm kind of stuck on how to do so. Can anyone shed some lite on my subject?
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby S4_NE » Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:13 pm

I do mine this way:
G1 bots and then cons
secound one is classics/generations/TFA
3rd is Armada and miss...

Hope this helps.
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby NTESHFT » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:16 pm

Motto: "60% of the time, it works every time!"
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I started with my G1 reissues, and then moved on to my third- party and club and con exclusives. The problem i'm having is figuring out how to place all the classics, RTS, generations, etc. I think I have found a solution, though. Thanks....
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby SJ21 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:34 am

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I try to keep them by how they are displayed.

My G1's,Classics/Generations/RTS,Movie figures are together, Alternators/Binaltech, and Animated are together. Any other figures that don't fit in those categories go in the misc. pile.
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby Skyfire77 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:04 pm

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I've been scanning (or collecting scans from others if I don't have them) instructions and card art and Tech Specs. The hard copies are going into my filing cabinet more or less unsorted, but the scans are sorted thusly:

Series - Faction - Sub-Faction (Seekers, Triple Changers, Leaders, etc.) OR Pricepoint (Legend, Scout, Voyager, etc.)
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby robofreak » Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:50 pm

I fold all of mine out as far as they can be to take up as much room as possible in a plastic archive sheet which then goes into a binder.

After that, they are all sorted by set.

I also have archive storage binders that store all of the cardbackers, packing inserts, and cut up boxes.

And to top it off, a spreadsheet organized by series telling me everything that I have.

Yes... I'm that anal-retentive.
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby alternator77 » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:04 pm

Motto: "we choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them"
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robofreak wrote:I fold all of mine out as far as they can be to take up as much room as possible in a plastic archive sheet which then goes into a binder.

After that, they are all sorted by set.

I also have archive storage binders that store all of the cardbackers, packing inserts, and cut up boxes.

And to top it off, a spreadsheet organized by series telling me everything that I have.

Yes... I'm that anal-retentive.


you may be but i like that method ill be working on that during my spring break.
thanks for the spreadsheet idea that should help me keep it updated in the future. ;)^
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby G1 Smoketreader » Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:05 pm

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I go by alphabetical order, one Autobot file, one Decep file. Whenever I have repaints or customs, I repaint the photo as well and change the name on the sheet, and stick to alphabetical order again.
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby Editor » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:14 am

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One Bot binder, One Con one. Each one is first arranged alphabetical, then multiple versions of the same name are arranged G1/classics/generations then BW/A/E/C/Animated/sublines.
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Re: Categorizing your instructions.....

Postby RK_Striker_JK_5 » Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:35 am

Motto: "'Til All are One!"
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By series, mostly.
Not caring about scale since 1984. Just like Hasbro.
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