News & updates tagged 'lego'

This is the CLZ News for July 2024, brought to you by CLZ Alwin.

TWO big updates for the Add Comics screen of the CLZ Comics mobile app this month, one a complete re-design and rename of an existing feature (Pull List tab is now called “NCBD”), the other a change that is hardly even visible, but has huge benefits (smarter barcode scanner).
And.. we’ve got another Add screen update coming up next week!

For the Connect web-based software, we’re also focussing on improvement of the Add screen, starting with 2 small Game Connect tweaks this month, but with several other Add screen improvements coming up for Game, Movie and Comic Connect next week.

Then, there’s our endeavours for the mobile apps, to try and reach a bigger audience, by replacing our “free 7-day trial” with a “100-item free mode”.
The short story is “it failed big time” 🙁 We are back to our tried and tested “free 7-day trial”. Read on below for the long story.

The CLZ Content Team has been busy too. The comic guys Rowdy, Justin and Taco got swamped with huge NCBD’s in the past few weeks, combined with a flood of SDCC exclusives (still working to get the last ones covered).
Martin and Kelvin have been focussing on the barcode coverage of our Core for Games, so adding more barcodes and the correct cover images for them. Our Core is now recognizing over 99% of game barcodes worldwide!

Finally, we are still enjoying building big Lego projects together. After building the Lego Barad-dûr tower, we also finished the Avengers Tower!
Next up, the Hulkbuster 🙂

Today’s topics:

• CLZ Core mobile apps:
  • CLZ Comics 9.4: Re-design of Pull List feature (and now called “NCBD”)
  • CLZ Comics 9.5: Improved barcode scanner, no more AUTO/EXT toggle!
  • CLZ mobile apps: back to “7-day free trial”, no more “free mode”
• Connect web-based software:
  • Game Connect: New platform picker in Add Games screen
  • Game Connect: re-design of “Unrecognized Barcode” screen
• CLZ Core updates:
  • Core for Games: “Check Covers” project, 94.4% cloud coverage!
  • Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 72.0% cloud coverage!
  • Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
• Building the Lego Avengers Tower!
• Come join the Club CLZ forum (4,200 members now!)

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It’s me again, CLZ Alwin, with your CLZ News for June 2024.

Big changes for the CLZ mobile apps this month, as we replaced the 7-day trial with a 100-item “Free Mode”. Maybe not that interesting for you as an existing user, but then again, it *could* be. Read on below!

The implementation of the Free Mode took most of the time of the dev team this month, so only one other update went live, a cool new way to search comics in Comic Connect.

Of course, our 6-man Content Team (Rowdy, Martin, Justin, Taco, Kelvin and Senno) has been working full-time on our Core online databases. Their first priority always is the adding of all weekly new releases. When that’s done, they’ve always got some big projects going on, to improve the quality and completeness of the existing Core database.

Don’t worry, there’s time for fun too! We started building Lego projects at the office 🙂 First up was a big one: the Lego Barad-dûr tower!

Today’s topics:

• CLZ mobile apps: New “Free Mode” for small collectors
• Comic Connect: Search box top right now allows “Issue Search”
• Still coming up: CLZ Comics 9.4, with completely revised Pull List features
• CLZ Core updates:
  • Core for Games: “Check Covers” project, 92.2% cloud coverage!
  • Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 62.8% cloud coverage!
  • Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
• Building the Lego Barad-dûr tower!
• Come join the Club CLZ forum (4 thousand members now!)

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Most of the CLZ team members love building Lego projects in their spare time. So we decided to a big build together, at the CLZ HQ:

The Lego Barad-dûr tower.

40 bags of bricks for 40 build stages, a total of 5,471 bricks!

The CLZ team is taking turns building this huge tower. Follow our progress here!

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