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Metal Pieces from MBS

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  1. #1
    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    I thought one of the best things would be, to catalogue the Mattel Brick Shop (MBS) sets first. They are easy to get and would create immediate benefit knowing what is in them. And then we can work backwards.
    But I have an issue with recording the metal parts, what color are they? Especially the plate that is included into every set.

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    Sometimes time helps, we basically have two kind of metallic pieces in the Hot Wheel cars. The kind of metallic also used by Lego which is on top of the ABS pieces. And real metal pieces.
    The most difficult thing is, they don't match the usual format for pieces.

    The listing for most of these parts looks like this:
    "AS-77583-SLV01" so based on the other codes, I'll say "SLV01" is the color code and indicates is this silver metallic.

    On the other side we have the metal plates you can fix under the car. They are real metal and codes look like
    HWW25: "AS-82618-PLT01"
    JHF61: "AS-82947-PLT01"

    The HWW25 has 2 more real metal pieces:
    AS-82611-PLT01
    AS-82612-PLT01

    Likely the best color to choose would be "PLT01"

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    I tried to add the metal pieces as "PLT01" and "SLV01" but colors are only allowed to have 4 letters....

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    ShimkuShimkuOld GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.AdminBlokBlok administrator.

    Hmmmm it’s an interesting case. If SLV01 and PLT01 are recurring and consistently indicate something then I guess we can treat them as colours (and I need to fix the colour uploader then).

    I did find AS-82753-PLT01Metal Plate that we already have and its listed under KJ (Silver, Metallic) colour, which I assume is not fully correct then since PLT01 are actual metals? Looking at other KJ parts especially

    So we have 2 options I'd say:
    1) List the parts u mention as MUL colour and include full IDs with SLV01 / PLT01 and state their properties in item name. I think I saw many parts that don't have colour code but are pretty homogenous in colour - they would be listed as MUL
    2) If the SLV01 / PLT01 are consistently recurring then we can add them as colours and strip ID of that suffix

    Lemme investigate more

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    So, I can confirm all Metal Plates in the Hot Wheels cars are listed as PLT01 at least until now. I think a black metal plate is coming, so not sure what they are doing there.... if it will stay as PLT01 or not.
    And as said the metal parts from both Premium cars are listed as PLT01: and they also have a plastic part to connect them to bricks. So they are kind of dual moulded.

    The same applies to SLV01, from my understanding they are plastic parts, but they are have a layer of color on them in this case metallic. Comparable to Legos Metallic Gold & Silver.

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    Just checked the instructions for JKG42’83 Chevy Silverado it has the black Hot Wheels metal plate (& added the instructions), this one has the color code: BLK02, which is matching for another color.
    I'm wondering if the "02" is for the 2nd color, so another one would get the 03.

  7. #7
    ↩ in reply to 5N00P1
    ShimkuShimkuOld GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.AdminBlokBlok administrator.

    Alright, I added SLV01 and PLT01, and the colour parser should accept longer colours in general now. Thanks for this report.

    So in a nutshell, for the parts you mentioned the suffix becomes the colour code, but I’ll go through them in a bit to add a full ID as Alt ID to ensure they are searchable, since these colour suffixes are not as obvious as the usual ones 🫡

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    So BLK02 should also be added when adding JKG42?

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    ↩ in reply to 5N00P1
    ShimkuShimkuOld GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.AdminBlokBlok administrator.

    Yup, I can add BLK02 - what would be the appropriate colour name? Black metal, right?

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    It was more a general question, but likely yes. Let's wait for photos.

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    ShimkuShimkuOld GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.AdminBlokBlok administrator.

    Added BLK02 just so it’s easier to log stuff - can always change later. Thanks!

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    5N00P15N00P1Old GuardHere since the early days – one of BlokBlok's first members.ModCommunity moderator.

    The warthog seems to come with new metal pieces, green for it's wheel covers, color code GRN01.

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