Hi James,
First of all: a police and pirate set snuck in there (the re-used number plague) - here's a corrected version.
PlaymoDB List - The_Mad_Hadder's Western collection Apologies about the comment form - it doesn't work as well as it should. Just email to playmodb@gmail.com is better. I don't get to answer emails right away but at least they get to me!
In my experience, the numbers molded in are "mold numbers", the same for all colours of a particular shape of part, and don't have anything to do with the actual part number as it appears on the instructions. I record mold numbers as I find them (and will do so for any you submit), and they are searchable if I happen to have entered them, but they're of limited use.
Colour-your-own sets: oh yes, let's include them. There's not much info about them online now, so let's add to that.
I haven't added to the DB, the 2000- series and other foreign rarities, since all the info I have on them is from the Collector book, from which I don't want to copy pictures. I'll happily add your 2005 and 2008, though.
Instructions: first, a big list of all the sets with yes or no instructions, will be good, so I can take those without, off the wish-list, and find out what I need. I do have quite a few: the
icon means "official downloadable instructions", while
and
mean the colour or black-and-white instructions exist, but without the
I can't offer them for download. The blank icon,
, means, I know for sure it doesn't have any. The question mark icon
marks the ones I don't know!
Also happy to hear about catalogues, other inserts, and posters. Graham and I are working on a catalogue-project, so take note of what you have and we'll get back to you.
First priority: box-pictures where there are none, and instructions status. Let's take it to email and we'll report back in this thread when there are updates for people to look at.
And as Macruran said: let's see some overview pictures - must be an impressive pile!
Cheers, Heather