Massive TMNT Archive Idea

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Lordmylar06

This project sounds killer! I can't wait to see what you guys put together!

edit: btw Vaughn, your flickr archive is fantastic.

Thanks so much, I'll be adding more once my move to California is over with.

[saiyan_monkey]

Originally Posted by Lordmylar06

Don't you pass out the memberships in that club? Seriously though, Archon would be a good guy to have on this project, he's ultra knowledgeable.

Yeah anyone can help. Archon posted 3 minutes before I done my last post and just wanted to wait so it didnt look like I double posted. More knowledge the better then we can cover more items. My knowledge only covers a certain amount of cards so everything else is really up to everyone else that knows what they're talking about.

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

heeeeeey I wanna be part of the cool kids club tooooooo!

Hell yeah jump aboard Archon

[Krang]

Originally Posted by saiyan Monkey

Krang; no problem but the only concern I have is that a topic on the techno board only allows 10,000 characters and most of the card sets have around 12 to 15,000, fleer will be up to 20,000 unless if I take out the bold and colour code im sure it will cut it right down, maybe below the topic limit.

Feel free to use multiple posts if you can't fit a collection into one post. You can even post several placeholder posts in a row to reserve them for future use. Also, although colors need to be within the URL tags, bold can be outside, so you can remove all the bold tags and just put a [B] at the beginning of the list and a [/B] at the end to save some characters.

Originally Posted by saiyan Monkey

Well I'll do the cards but we still need someone to do the comics and other stuff.

You're welcome to link to our comics section for that part. Speaking of which, if anyone would like to help fill in any of the blanks in that section, please contact Bebop.

[Dark 5cythe]

Vaughn where in cali are you? Any other Southern Cali people around?

So where and how will this be set up? I think the easiest way of doing this is to have the Site Admins create a Toy Archive section Forum section. Then it can be sub divided by either types (figures, vehicles, playsets, collectibles) or by years. And we can just post a thread for every figure and link them all to main index or something.

Maybe something like this (from my site, the OTHER TD )
http://www.theterrordrome.com/forums...orum.php?f=134

And a thread for each figure looking like this:
http://www.theterrordrome.com/forums...hp?f=141&t=784

We can keep it very neat, very comprehensive thanks to Vaughn and archon, and monkeyman here seems to know the cards very well.

[saiyan_monkey]

krang: that will work. Doing it that way will take out up to 4000 characters just for the 1st movie.

Dark 5cythe: that looks good and will work but wouldnt 1 good photo be enough? or maybe mspaint or photoshop pics together like Ive done with the front and back of the cards to have multiple photos in 1 pic which I can help out with. Deciding how it should be layed out would be the hardest part. Everything is basicly a collectable so I dont think a collectable forum would work. Up to you guys.

What about someting like,

Toys - including everything and I know this will be a massive part. Maybe done in the years of production might be easier to catagorize
DVDs - ranging from the original toon to the present one
Comics - maybe done in series
Playsets - im not too sure what that means exactly but if theres heaps then maybe having its own part would be needed.
Other Collectables -like cards, badges/pins, stickers etc.
Misc - being like cups, chairs/bean bags, watches etc.

Other collectables and misc is a bit iffy but im sure we could figure something out.

[Dark 5cythe]

Im just thinking we need to buckle down and start one first and do it well. The most popular being toys. If we can pull it off we can expand it to all the other stuff. When i mean collectibles i mean non toy stuff like media, clothes, tmnt frisbees, etc etc.

1 photo is a no go man. If we try to cram multiple pictures into one image using PS, we would have to shrink down the image substantially so it fits. and the whole point of us doing this is so we can have GOOD high quality pics unlike the archive at ninjaturtles.com

Either we do it right and go all out or whats the point? We wanna be the best right?

[saiyan_monkey]

For sure. Im just putting ideas out there. Im gonna redo and delete most of the code part for the sets Ive already done then im going to continue doing the scannig of what I own. I understad now what you mean for the collectables. I had a look on ebay and I wasnt that suprised for some reason on the amount of stuff there really is.

[Dark 5cythe]

Yeah there isnt a single product besides condoms that didnt get made with a tmnt logo on them back in the 80's lol.

[saiyan_monkey]

lol for sure. Does the ninjaturtles.com toys section not go before 2003?

[Dark 5cythe]

Yeah it does, check it out though. IT really needs alot of work. It seems like a relic compared to other archives.

Doesnt list varients of color, or packaging, or other years the figure was released. Pictures mostly small low res. Some stuff missing. etc etyc

[Bigfoot]

Wow, I totaly agree with you guys about ninjaturtles.com.

I like what you have done with the other TD.

Some of these ideas sound really freakin awesom.

I believe I have every single cardback and figure from the 2k3 series, fast forward, 07 movie and tons of old carded figs that I have in no particular order. I would like to know how I could help out.

[Dark 5cythe]

Originally Posted by Bigfoot

Wow, I totaly agree with you guys about ninjaturtles.com.

I like what you have done with the other TD.

Some of these ideas sound really freakin awesom.

I believe I have every single cardback and figure from the 2k3 series, fast forward, 07 movie and tons of old carded figs that I have in no particular order. I would like to know how I could help out.

Well I dont totally want to put down the hardwork that ninjaturtles.com has done. After all, theyre somewhat the inspiration and the predecessor. They blazed a trail for sure. But now its time to build a better mouser, so to speak lol.

I dont have any figures besides the 4 turtles from the 2k3 series. I dont know about the rest.

Any help you can give is appreciated. The easiest thing to do is if you have a scanner, place them all one by one on it and scan the cardbacks in at 250-300 dpi and save the images as jpegs. And Just take pictures of the front of the figure MOC or loose too.

for loose figures, we dont really need a million poses. I think just one front and back view and a layout of the weapons should do it.

Ideas anyone?

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Dark 5cythe

Yeah it does, check it out though. IT really needs alot of work. It seems like a relic compared to other archives.

Doesnt list varients of color, or packaging, or other years the figure was released. Pictures mostly small low res. Some stuff missing. etc etyc

Yeah that's all on them, I've sent them large files and they shrink them down.
Dan also doesn't want to include variants besides ones like collector cards or coins.
Box changes really don't count to them, I guess it's just us crazy collectors that care eh?

[Bigfoot]

Yeah, someone at work, 30 yo male, never even heard of the word "Technodrome". My jaw dropped and I was just stunned. To never even have heard the word until now astonished me.

Well anyways, I will start scanning tomorrow night. For continuity, some questions...

Where should we dump the files as we make them?
For the cardbacks, what size should the final .jpg be?
Pics of the fig should be well lit and up close!
Loose weapons and accessories included in the same pic as fig, or by themsleves?
MOC items should take up the entire maximum pic size. (No border)

I'm sure there will be more as you find everyone is going to be submitting different sizes, formats, etc... Let me know where these are going and I will start uploading them...

[saiyan_monkey]

Bigfoot: your help would be very much appreciated and sounds like you have a good collection that could help out alot. Different sizes would only matter if the pictures are going to be posted straight to the topic instead of linked up list like on ninjaturtles.com

krang & Dark 5cythe: what do you reckon would be best?

Just so people know I had no idea there was already a type of archive of TMNT on ninjaturtles.com. Bonus being I didnt find any cards there

[Dark 5cythe]

Originally Posted by Bigfoot

Where should we dump the files as we make them?
For the cardbacks, what size should the final .jpg be?
Pics of the fig should be well lit and up close!
Loose weapons and accessories included in the same pic as fig, or by themsleves?
MOC items should take up the entire maximum pic size. (No border)

You all can just call me D5, its shorter to type

I think for now hold on to the pics bigfoot. I would say dump em into a photobucket. Maybe we can start a group one for just this. But, Doesnt photobucket automatically resize your pics to way smaller? That would be bad.

As for the size, since the forum doesnt seem to autofit pictures with the option to click on them for a larger one, I think we should keep cardback and card fronts at no smaller than 871 x 1163. I know it looks large, but any smaller and you wont be able to read file cards. I scanned mine in at 300 dpi.j

The actual picture of the figure or weapons can and prob should be smaller. I think a seperate group shot of accesories would prob look nicer, just lay them out on white paper.

If your taking pics indoors, be aware that light bulbs dont produce white light like the sun, so the colors will be a off. Natural light works best.

Originally Posted by saiyan Monkey

Bigfoot: your help would be very much appreciated and sounds like you have a good collection that could help out alot. Different sizes would only matter if the pictures are going to be posted straight to the topic instead of linked up list like on ninjaturtles.com

krang & Dark 5cythe: what do you reckon would be best?

Just so people know I had no idea there was already a type of archive of TMNT on ninjaturtles.com. Bonus being I didnt find any cards there

Even if all we have is a linked up list, each page for each character should be uniform. not all kinds of crazy sizes. thats what makes the other archive looks a little sloppy.

I guess the format is really up to Krang. We cant really start till he creates the sections for us. So I think that should be our first step. to determine categories and sub divided them properly.

Vaughn i understand about emailing them. I tried to email them and go no response. Its a big undertaking and alot of work.

[saiyan_monkey]

As far as im aware photos stay the same size after they've been loaded into photobucket. Photobucket also only allows 2500 photos max for the free accounts and im not sure how much the upgrade cost or how much photos you can load into it..

[Krang]

Originally Posted by Dark 5cythe

So where and how will this be set up? I think the easiest way of doing this is to have the Site Admins create a Toy Archive section Forum section. Then it can be sub divided by either types (figures, vehicles, playsets, collectibles) or by years. And we can just post a thread for every figure and link them all to main index or something.

Actually, I had been hoping that the toy archive would be part of the main site, similar to the comics section I linked to above. That way, we wouldn't have to worry about storage or bandwidth for the pics since they would all be on the server, and we would have much more flexibility for the layouts of the sections and pages. Plus, it would be easier for people to find, not to mention it would tie in nicely with our upcoming 10th anniversary.

Of course, the choice is up to you. If you would prefer to have it on the forums, I'd be glad to set up a section for it here instead.

The same offer applies to your project as well, saiyan Monkey. If you would like to have it hosted on the main site instead of the forums, I'd be glad to do so (hopefully that wouldn't involve you having to redo any work you have done so far). Whichever you prefer would be fine with me.

Both of you, please let me know which you would prefer, and we can discuss the details of setting things up from there.

[saiyan_monkey]

Either way im happy with which ever way you want to go. I do like the set up for the comics though. Re-doing any work isnt a problem for this place so it would really come down to what D5 wants to do. My main goal was to put the idea out there for every body and get the ball rolling and for me personally getting all the cards done to go online was something I had to do for myself and everyone else for some reason. Im sure that the 4 sets I have in my libary at the moment would maybe be the most TMNT cards pictured online but who knows I could be wrong.

[saiyan_monkey]

Badly need scans of the front and backs of these if anybody has them

Emerald Edition Insert Set
-- Michelangelo
-- Donatello
-- Leonardo
-- Raphael


Thats all I need to complete the 1st Fleer set