When we launched the Brickpoints store, I know many of you were probably thinking, "How the heck can I earn that many Brickpoints?"  There will be plenty of ways to earn points and then be rewarded with picking a set you really want.  There are A LOT of LEGO sets!!  Its hard keeping up with all the data, especially as new sets come along.  Well here is where Brickpicker Members can help and earn points for doing so.  Every set guide page will have a link to take you to a data page where you can enter in values (CORRECT VALUES PLEASE ) of information that we may not have, or maybe we have wrong.  If we are missing the number of pieces or retail values, you can enter it in here.  There will also be an open text box that will allow you to give details as to where your information came from.  If you want to have it reviewed quickly, please provide good information, links, etc so that we can verify easily. We will be notified that a submission is available to be reviewed.

 

You can find the link to add/edit information here:

 

 

There are plenty of options to help find and more on the way.  There are potentially hundreds of thousands of points to be earned, so that could help many of you make great progress towards getting a set that you want.  Every submission that gets approved is worth 10 Brickpoints for sets before 2000, 5 Brickpoints for newer sets.  When you view the form, the items you see listed in green are data points that we already have in the database.  Then you will see plenty of data points in there that are red that we need.  We are really trying to enhance our retail prices and set dimensions.  This will go a long way for the price guide and classifieds.

 

Take a look, let me know your thoughts, give it a shot and let's make Brickpicker even better.

 

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I will update my main post with a few Q&A that I have received.

 

Will we be able to update photos (especially if one doesn't exist)?

Yes, this will be added

 

What happens if many people submit the same information for the same set?

Basically it will be first come first serve.  I have it set that the first person that gets data approved gets the credit and points, all the other submissions get deleted, so I will not have to worry about duplicated approvals

Whoo I like the brickpoint coming in. good stuff.

Grolim is out of control.  I think he has earned over 9,000 brickpoints and I still have over 100 submissions to go yet.  This has been in less than 24 hours yet.

Someone is not too busy evidently. Lol

Grolim is out of control.  I think he has earned over 9,000 brickpoints and I still have over 100 submissions to go yet.  This has been in less than 24 hours yet.

I just noticed that he has over 20,000 brickpoints. Yesterday he had like 9,000. He has been doing a lot.

Well we have hit 3,000 database additions (30,000 brickpoints distributed).  

 

For those of you who have asked me, the things you are helping to update such as retired info and size/weight info, those details will be added in a little bit as I do some work on the price guide template.

Pretty awesome. I got a few approved this morning. Woohoo brickpoints!

Nice, quite a few brickpoints I earned here!

Nice, quite a few brickpoints I earned here!

I noticed that you got more brickpoints. Great job and keep up the good work. Also, your set reviews are amazing, I am still not done reading them.

Whoo - gonna do more when I get home.

So once we enter in information that previously was not on the set information pages, where does it then show up? In particular, I'm wondering about set retirement dates and whether a set is retired or not.

Well we have hit 3,000 database additions (30,000 brickpoints distributed).  

 

For those of you who have asked me, the things you are helping to update such as retired info and size/weight info, those details will be added in a little bit as I do some work on the price guide template.

 

 

So once we enter in information that previously was not on the set information pages, where does it then show up? In particular, I'm wondering about set retirement dates and whether a set is retired or not.

 

I already made a comment about that.

Did you think it would take off like this Jeff?

Well yes and no.  Yes because I know people want to get more information in and make the site better.  Ed and I wanted to get more opportunities for people to collect points for Brick Classifieds as well.  This way the opportunity to list sets for free and have no commission is available.  I know its not the most exciting thing in the world, but this is what I did by myself for a few months before even one thing of code was written for the front end of this site.   I started with my admin area and then spent months digging up data, images, etc.  So this is a big help and the brickpoints will help the members out very soon.  The information that is being collected will be quite useful in many ways for the site as well.

Eventually, will there be an option to put a new set into the BrickPicker database, or should we just notify you of new sets?

I think there will be a lot more options coming with this.  Minifigures could be a huge addition.  The backbone of the site is the price guide and set information.  The investing aspect is also a major component, but if we get the members checking and double checking the basic information and making sure it is correct, it gives us a lot more credibility.  I think once Jeff modifies the Price/set guide page, the EOL information can be a huge improvement and a major site feature.

Yes I like the retired stuff. Didn't make sense for you all to have to do it, but we can look it up fine.

Grolim is out of control.  I think he has earned over 9,000 brickpoints and I still have over 100 submissions to go yet.  This has been in less than 24 hours yet.

 

Yeah sorry about that  Was a shock to see over 1000 notifications waiting for me this morning    When I get on a data entry tear I go a bit nuts.   I already had a lot of the weights and dimensions collected from when I used them in some blog articles so that made it a bit easier. Still have a bit to go...  

 

Will be great having all this info on the site.  The weights and dimensions will be excellent for Brick Classified so we can get shipping prices, plus we can calculate things like Price per Gram in reviews and blogs.  That EOL info will be super useful as well.

 

Jeff - one small thing.  I noticed on the pricing input part that New Zealand was listed but the currency comes up as "DNK" which is Denmark listed twice.  The Weight (kg) also comes up as pounds when it shows in green after approval.

How are the admins going to keep up with reviewing all the entries?  Seems like it's going to grow into a full time job on its own.

We had similar issues on the Marvel Database Wiki, where at a certain point we didn't have enough reviewers to go over all the changes, and had to open it up to public entry, spot checking new members and looking for odd entries.  Of course, getting Spider-Man's height wrong has pretty different reprecussions compared to set dimensions that translate to shipping costs...

One thing I want to note.  I want people to make sure when you are submitting measurements, that it is the box measurements and not the set measurements.

Glad I have done all those right then. lol

Also can we please agree that the width dimension should be the biggest of the three (W x L x H).  I've seen a few where Height was the largest dimension.  To me when you hold a standard box the width is the biggest measure.  There may be a few exceptions to that but for the main it should be consistent.

Also can we please agree that the width dimension should be the biggest of the three (W x L x ****).  I've seen a few where Height was the largest dimension.  To me when you hold a standard box the width is the biggest measure.  There may be a few exceptions to that but for the main it should be consistent.

 

Hmm, I have been doing Length the biggest. I mean really those two are interchangeable - height shouldn't be the biggest.

Yeah, me too. To me I think that length and width can be looked at either way what really matters is that the height is the right number.

Hmm, I have been doing Length the biggest. I mean really those two are interchangeable - height shouldn't be the biggest.

I agree. Those two are interchangable. But one thing is for sure, height should not be the biggest.

Here is how the boxes should be measured, or look at the dimensions to see how they look. If you have a height of 11 inches on a small set, something is wrong.