Category talk:Mold templates

Template threshold

How many uses should a mold have before we set up one of these templates? We normally set 7 as minimal content for a category, would that be appropriate here? More? Less? --Khajidha (talk) 19:56, 14 August 2016 (EDT)

First of all, hello from the future.

Second of all, the future SUCKS. Third, when I went through and did templates for the Armada Mini-Cons, I set my cap at five uses, even though some of them are kind of dicey (Thunderwing's Universe release, the first Micron Booster guys that are just slightly blue clear plastic or whatever...) Five seems like a good number, although that would technically bag us JUST the G2 Hooligan mold and not the others, lol. -hx (talk) 21:26, 10 July 2020 (EDT)

International releases & you

I realized that with all the retools, keychains, etc. over the years, the Bumblebee tooling (and probably most of the '84 minibot toolings) qualify for templates - the question I have for y'all, before I spend the better part of a day building one, is how "different" do the releases have to be? For example, I don't think we distinguish between rubsign/no rubsign, but I imagine the retooling to place an indent for the rubsign WOULD be significant.

Right now, I've broken it down into Hasbro US G1 yellow & red 'Bee, US G2 'Bee, ; Takara FSRLT 'Bee; IGA 'Bee; Estrela Volks (yellow, silver) & "Optimus" Volks (red, orange); Antex Volks (red, orange); Rubiplas 'Bee (yellow, red); Lynsa 'Bee (yellow, red, peach) - then a breakout for the Fun4All keychain retool (Fun4All Bee, 3H Glyph) and the Takara release (Bee, Black Bee); the Takara Collection retool (Bee, Bug Bite, Encore Bee) and the US Walmart "Vintage G1" 'Bee.

Does that sound about right? Three "core" versions of the toy (the original tooling, the keychain version, the Encore version with the cartoon face) and then the different releases... by year? By manufacturer? By year and manufacturer? The G1 molds that saw use overseas are such a weird case... -hx (talk) 08:31, 4 December 2020 (EST)