Friday, July 27, 2012

SWMinis Update for Summer Wave

I just posted an update that includes most of the summer 2012 wave of sets (except two that will follow shortly after - Palpatines Arrest and the Mandalorian one).  Edit that - I killed the update and submitted a new on on Aug 1 with those sets as well.  These minifigs are some of the best designs ever made, especially the new version of Boba Fett and the really wicked looking Darth Malthus.  Also we finally have a Queen Amidala figure which is equally well done, as well as new models like the three wheeled R2 droid, T7-01, and the bright green R3-D5.  A new Jabba and the best Darth Maul so far round it out.

A lot of folks wanted to see totals for how many figs they own and so these features were added. Thus, new tally features in this update (v1.0.8) include:
  • On the listing by name tab there is a banner at the top that shows the total number of minifigs you own, and the total number of all the figs that exist in the appt.
  • On the years tab, for each year in the header for that year, you can see the total that you own for that year and the total that exist for that year.
  • On the favorites tab, you ca see how many you have marked for each favorite, ie how many five star figs, 3 star figs and so on.

One more feature that was added was this one:
  • On the figure detail screen, the bricklink code is now a button with the bricklink code as the label. If you click on it you can see the sales prices on bricklink for the last six months for that particular figure. Note that almost all the figures in this app are no longer produced so you must by them used. Obviously the newer figs for 2012 and 2011 are all available from lego.com and in stores. Thus, it seemed the right time to add this feature since the collection goes back to 1999.
The only downside is that review times are heading over 11 days from date of submission so this might take a while, and hopefully its gets approved by August 12th. Here are some thumbnail of some of the figs. There are 44 total new ones in this update.