The Got? Field Is Doing Three Jobs
Most checklists are binary—you have it or you don't. The Got? field in this template adds a third state: the warning flag. Three options: crossed (missing), checked (owned), and the amber warning symbol. That third state covers the figure that is listed in your collection but with a defect, the one you have on order, or the variant you own in one packaging but not another. Series collectors know this problem well; the Corinthian ecosystem has enough packaging and base colour variants that a figure code alone does not tell the whole story of whether you've truly ticked the box.
Pre-loaded as the default is the crossed state—every new entry starts as missing until confirmed otherwise. At scale, that means when you load the database fresh against the Corinthian Collector Group's BETA 1.0 dataset, you have a ready-to-use want list from the first record.
The Anatomy of a Complete ProStars Record
The figure Code is the anchor. Every Corinthian ProStars regular-sized figure—standard release, retail, Fan Favourites, Club Gold, promotional—carries a unique code that cross-references directly to the Corinthian Collector Group's original spreadsheet compiled by Craig Robinson. That code is the primary lookup key: when you are at a collector fair or car boot sale and a seller pulls out a box of loose figures, you check the code before anything else.
Player identity splits across First Name and Surname, which is not merely cosmetic—it enables surname-only searches, useful when you remember you need a particular defender but cannot recall his first name. Team and Kit are separate fields because the same player at the same club across multiple seasons may appear in different kits: home, away, European. Year makes that explicit. A Shearer in a 1996 home kit and a Shearer in a 1998 away kit are different records, different codes, different objects.
Series is where the Corinthian taxonomy gets granular. Club Gold figures had limited distribution through specific channels. Fan Favourites ran as distinct product lines with different packaging footprints. Promotional releases hit through club shops or magazine tie-ins. The Series field keeps these categories queryable rather than buried in a notes field. When you are trying to complete a specific Club Gold run, you filter by Series and instantly see what remains.
Hunting a Club Gold Owen at a Table Full of Loose Figures
You are at a collectors fair in Birmingham, midday, and a dealer has three large plastic tubs of loose ProStars figures—no packaging, no codes visible on the figures themselves. You remember you need a Club Gold Michael Owen from the 1997-98 season. You pull up the database, filter by First Name: Michael, Surname: Owen, Series: Club Gold. Three records come up. You note the base colours from the Base Colour field on each—one green, two black. You start working through the tub. When you find a candidate, you check the base: it is green. That is a match for one of your three entries. You check the Got? field on that record—it is still crossed. You buy it, toggle it to checked, and move to the next tub.
That is what the Packaging and Base Colour fields deliver in practice. Packaging distinguishes boxed from blister from promotional card. Base Colour differentiates production variants that otherwise look identical on the figure. Without these fields, the transaction above takes ten minutes of uncertainty; with them, ninety seconds.
The Collector Card field tracks whether the figure originally shipped with an insert card, relevant for condition and completeness grading. Notes captures anything the other fields cannot—condition details, provenance, purchase price, the dealer's name.