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Help Us Build the Database / Re: NicholasPrime's Weird & Wacky TF Finds Thread (now all in one place!)

December 30, 2014, 06:36:22 AM

Quite a few puzzles out there, I guess.

MIKE
engledogg

I think there are way more puzzles (and other game type things) out there than we know of. I have the "3D" AoE puzzle as well but I never opened it. Companies have been using the term "3D" to describe the use of Lenticular images a lot recently. When done properly (and depending on the viewer) you can get a pretty good 3D effect... or at least it will look like one layer is above another. This isn't always the case. The best example I have of this is actually a TF notebook (the kind you'd get for school) and it looks really nice.

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Search by most recently added?

December 29, 2014, 11:29:14 AM

Or we could have both...

I use Date Bought all the time, as do other people, so that's not going anywhere.

I do agree that the addition of a "Date Added to Collection" sort (or the reintroduction of as I believe we had it before) is also a good idea.

Come to think of it, I believe that search WAS present on the now-defunct "My Collection" link.

MIKE
engledogg

It was on the old collecton view page. I was originally going to confirm that but I didn't feel it was needed. And for sure, definately have both options!

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Search by most recently added?

December 29, 2014, 07:33:31 AM

Ah, yes so "Date Bought" is not a good indicator for everyone because not everyone puts in the date. "Date Added to collection, newest first" would be better.

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Help Us Build the Database / Re: NicholasPrime's Weird & Wacky TF Finds Thread (now all in one place!)

December 29, 2014, 07:29:54 AM

Anyone have any thoughts?  I'm leaning towards allowing the first one due to the "toyish" nature of the bottle, but not so much the second one.  But then again, I don't know.

MIKE
engledogg

The second one, being the clip-thing? Is it just a newer type of one of these?
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/17607/zipper_clip_wheeljack

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Colors in alphabetical order?

December 23, 2014, 07:02:01 AM

How about we just stick with what we have?  If we have a figure that is actually black, grey, and white, I wouldn't want it described as "greyscale".

MIKE
engledogg

Greyscale, as spliff is talking about, should only apply to printed materials such as instructions, cards, catalogs, etc. It would not apply to a figure.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: I can't view my collection

December 17, 2014, 04:13:43 PM

I'm using the Internet Explorer right now.
I'll check from Chrome again tonight.
I just get:
Hello Tusko
Last login message and blank space.

I get what you see initially, but there is a delay (1-2 sec) before the rest of the page loads. You might be triggering a time-out. I tested in Palemoon and managed to get a screenshot. The page "technically" finishes loading, as in there is no loading animation on the tab any longer, but shortly afterwards is when the profile actually shows up.

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Search sort by In Collection?

December 16, 2014, 07:05:49 AM

You know what? It doesn't matter because I don't need this. I was going about things the wrong way... or maybe the old way?

Anyways, I can accomplish what I want with the new Profile page you recently put in, so you can close this request!

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Search sort by In Collection?

December 15, 2014, 08:24:49 AM

For him, sure. It is an option, he doesn't have to use it. 

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Search sort by In Collection?

December 12, 2014, 04:29:12 PM

When I do a search for an item, it would be neato to have a "Sort by" option in the drop-down to either only show items already added to the collection, or show items in collection first. Would need to be for logged-in users only. Example URL:
http://www.shmax.com/products?q_filters_keywords=1985%20gears&q_pagination_offset=0

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Update 12/10/2014

December 11, 2014, 08:58:19 AM

More developments in the new profile page project:
- As promised a while back, I've added a "Collection privacy" option to the preferences page. You can set your collection to private, protected, or public.

I think this is big (and great) news. You should tweet it. 

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Toys in Oceana Australia

December 10, 2014, 07:55:11 AM

I guess it is a reflection of our changing times. OK fine I have 45 toys from Australia! :p

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED]Toys in Oceana Australia

December 09, 2014, 06:50:43 AM

Looking at my new profile page, I notice that I have 45 toys from Australia!
http://www.shmax.com/tripredacus/collection?q_filters_country=235

This is news to me, I should only have 4 (to my knowledge) which are these:
http://www.shmax.com/tripredacus/collection?q_filters_toyline=1045
As those fast food toys (Specifically the 3 other gang molded ones, as 1 of them did have a US release for McDonalds) were Australian exclusives.

So, the reason why I have 41 other things from Australia is because I have US toys in my collection that apparently had an Australian release prior to their US release. Certainly, they are not Australian toys, they are US toys... Or it could just be because of the alphabetical sort for release date.

Here is the G1 Prowl which only has a release year:
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/1200/prowl

Here is the Generations Frenzy/Ratbat which shows Aus had an earlier release date:
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/10889/decepticon_frenzy_ratbat

I suspect it has more to do with how the countries are arranged (alphabetically) rather than the release date...

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: [RESOLVED]Dates on Collection Items (Using Opera)

December 08, 2014, 07:22:30 AM

A Y2K bug on a site in 19014? 

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: searching for browning

November 14, 2014, 09:33:04 AM

Don't get me started on Google. They have gotten worse over the years.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: searching for browning

November 13, 2014, 10:21:33 AM

Probably too late to be helpful now, but on my site www.maperformance.com we use a search provider called SLI. It is very powerful... but I'm not sure what kind of cost tiers there are.

http://www.sli-systems.com/

Hmmm welp... it seems your site has the same problem.