Bandai SMP Super Mini-Pla / Shokugan Modeling Project

[bjallen2880]

Could this line be added to the database?   This line includes many different - Super Sentai [Power Rangers], Beast King Golden [Voltron], and Denkou Choujin Gridman [Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad], just to name a few - and may be hard to organize though.    It was also rebranded from Super Mini-Pla to Shokugan Modeling Project.

[KidTDragon]

I don't see why not. We just need you to give us an idea of what sort of categories you need and we'll get them set up so you can start adding products. For example, should they be organized by license? By size class? Should "Super Mini-Pla" and "Shokugan Modeling Project" be separate subcategories?

[bjallen2880]

Great questions!   And I am not entirely sure the best way to approach the schema.
I believe they are all the same "size class," at this time at least.  I've only started collecting this line with the Super Sentai line (Power Rangers).
This is not my sheet, but I did find this Google sheet when I was trying to find a checklist of what all was available for this line from Bandai - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRFaXNlePnBBS9HhTSnG2W6Umn40rv6O4qTmsgU3ctR7QcoinQy2XbbMqWRWIc0SVuusO1qfgiakngm/pubhtml#
Here they have it categorized by the Series, so maybe that would be the best way to approach it.   I see no real advantage of breaking them out between Super Mini-Pla and Shokugan Modeling Project aside from the 'well, technically...' folks.   Maybe since they share the same abbreviation just keep it simple as 'SMP'?
Another issue though is there's technically different releases of the same product.  Some have been re-released/reissued and some may or may not have candy included, depending on which country it was sold in.

[KidTDragon]

I believe they are all the same "size class," at this time at least.  I've only started collecting this line with the Super Sentai line (Power Rangers).
This is not my sheet, but I did find this Google sheet when I was trying to find a checklist of what all was available for this line from Bandai - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRFaXNlePnBBS9HhTSnG2W6Umn40rv6O4qTmsgU3ctR7QcoinQy2XbbMqWRWIc0SVuusO1qfgiakngm/pubhtml#
Here they have it categorized by the Series, so maybe that would be the best way to approach it.

Oo! This is very helpful! Browsing through that spreadsheet, it looks like categorizing by series/license would be the best approach.

I see no real advantage of breaking them out between Super Mini-Pla and Shokugan Modeling Project aside from the 'well, technically...' folks.   Maybe since they share the same abbreviation just keep it simple as 'SMP'?

If you think enough people will recognize "SMP" as both of those lines, we can do it that way. We could also name the line "Super Mini-Pla/Shokugan Modeling Project". We can always split them up later, too, if enough "well, technically..." folks request it.

Another issue though is there's technically different releases of the same product.  Some have been re-released/reissued and some may or may not have candy included, depending on which country it was sold in.

That's not as big an issue as you might think. Each iteration would get a separate product entry in our database. Reissues could get a "(reissue)" in their product name to denote them as such. Releases with candy would also get their own entries separate from the candyless releases.

I'll start making some categories so you can get to entering stuff. One thing to keep in mind: I noticed that spreadsheet includes the MSRP of the toys with sales tax included; we prefer to list the MSRP without sales tax included when possible, since taxes tend to fluctuate more often than prices do.

EDIT: All the categories have been added and you're ready to go (there are even a couple of items there to get you started). Please let me know if anything needs changing.

[shmax]

Nice work, KidTDragon! 

[bjallen2880]

Looks great to me!   I see Voltron has been added already.  I will start working on adding some more as well.
Thank you for adding it!