MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:So outside of their bio-cards, what exactly is different about each of the Sharkticons enough to warrant 3 galleries for them, besides the fact you were crass enough to splash water on one of them?
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Each character regardless of toy gets its own gallery. Despite the fact that the three toys are completely identical, each represents a different character or drone type if you wanna get technical. Same thing with the BotCon 2009 Sweeps. The BotCon 2005 Virulent Clones however represent clones of a single being, so only one gallery for them.
Think of it this way, the three galleries combined give us a far more detailed look at the toy.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Each character regardless of toy gets its own gallery. Despite the fact that the three toys are completely identical, each represents a different character or drone type if you wanna get technical. Same thing with the BotCon 2009 Sweeps. The BotCon 2005 Virulent Clones however represent clones of a single being, so only one gallery for them.
Think of it this way, the three galleries combined give us a far more detailed look at the toy.
Quite frankly you're the last person I wanted an answer from in regards to criticisms about the galleries, and furthermore I'm not swallowing that as an excuse for more than 1 gallery.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:So my opinion is moot and I have no place to judge? Typical.
Shadowstream wrote:Quite frankly you're the last person I wanted an answer from in regards to criticisms about the galleries, and furthermore I'm not swallowing that as an excuse for more than 1 gallery.
DISCHARGE wrote:The splashes of water are a nice effect.
Sodan-1 wrote:Woah! Someone's a mean drunk.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:Double standards like that are the primary reason I feel the whole gallery section is a cluttered mess. Don't think I don't appreciate the effort put into the galleries and the pics themselves, they are brilliant. I just think it could be organized with a greater degree of professionalism, and excessive gallery numbers for what is essentially the exact same figure only serves to exacerbate things.
Seibertron wrote:If you mean something different, I am always up for suggestions and would welcome your elaboration about what makes you feel like this is a cluttered mess and that it could be organized with a greater degree of professionalism. The figures are organized by series, then by characters. I've even got the Hasbro and Takara galleries separated out (though there needs to be some database updates to make sure that a Japanese exclusive figure isn't showing up in the US side of the database).
Seibertron wrote:Seibertron wrote:If you mean something different, I am always up for suggestions and would welcome your elaboration about what makes you feel like this is a cluttered mess and that it could be organized with a greater degree of professionalism. The figures are organized by series, then by characters. I've even got the Hasbro and Takara galleries separated out (though there needs to be some database updates to make sure that a Japanese exclusive figure isn't showing up in the US side of the database).
On this note, I've been thinking that I should organize the Convention galleries by breaking out the BotCon sets into a sub-category. Instead of the Sky-Byte and Sharkticon galleries being part of the Convention series, they would be part of the BotCon 2012 sub-series (with the Convention and Club exclusives category being the parent category). This works well for anything since 2005, but for the previous years, it'll leave a lot of content to be desired because there will only be one or two figures in each BotCon year in some of those. Unless I do a "BotCon pre-2005 Exclusives" which covers all BotCon figure exclusives from 1994 to 2004. Any suggestions?
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
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.
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.
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.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:I admit it's been awhile since I looked at the list, so I may have missed a few changes. What gets me is some of the more overarching categorized listings, such as Classics and Movie Universe, and most annoyingly how RtS has been split between them. That's the kind of sub-categorization that annoys me when I'm looking through the listings.
Shadowstream wrote:It really doesn't help that there are so many categories and subdivisions on such a long list, and a few of them are still mish-meshed with counterpart lines, like how there are Classics and Universe galleries under the Henkei listing, or how Car Robot and RID are nearly the same no matter which list I select.
I think just having the galleries based only on the line name they come from, with some possible, simple sub-categorization within would make it easier than the other way around. As for lines that retain the same name on both sides of the pond... Iunno.
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