Template:Vehicle infobox
 Vehicle Database
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| Rules, info, and guidelines |
| Releases • Vehicles • Series • Cases Photos |
| Development notes |
| Foundation • Configuration |
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| Templates | ||||||||||
| series list • series infobox • poster sort case • case header | ||||||||||
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| Global: name escape • product no. • sortkey • numberSort Row output: m-series • m-segment • m-country • card checker • note checker* • edit shortcut Cases: printContent • storeContent Query tools: col - makeSeriesColumn • getCaseStats | ||||||||||
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| Landing: top • bottom • year nav Search: results-header • results • button text | ||||||||||
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| First series | N/A (unreleased)
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| Origin | TBD | ||
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The vehicle infobox displays basic statistics about every vehicle, and forms the upper section of their page. Compared to the subsequent Releases table, which details every singular iteration of that vehicle, the infobox is meant to "synthesize" their overall history and provide the core, invariable attributes, like what movie they're from and who they represent.
The fields work as follows:
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| Image | |image=
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A loose photo of the titular vehicle. This should always portray their basic vehicle whenever possible; if the character does not have one, but has released in special or non-1:55 lines like the Mini Racers, those respective versions should be used instead.
Generally speaking, the preferred basic vehicle shot is their official "stockbook" render – this referring to the right-facing, angled image traditionally used in pamphlets, cardbacks, and the Mainline posters. However, these are not always available in sufficient quality, and in some rare cases (like certain Final Lap models) may never have been revealed at all. Here, the fallback should be the official photograph used by retailers like Amazon; only at last resort should a collector-taken photograph be included. |
| Origin | |origin=
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Meanwhile, this field tracks what Cars (or Planes) franchise installment the modeled character first appeared in. |
| Screenshot | |screenshot=
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Screenshot of the vehicle's origin (if applicable) |
| Character | |character=
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The corresponding title of the character's in-universe basis, to be linked by the title icon. If left blank, the value defaults to that of |name= (i.e. the page title) on submission. However, it needs to be entered in situations where the traditional Mattel release name differs from their "common" series name (see Tow and his die-cast doppelganger Race Tow Truck Tom), but most often when the model is a unique "version" of a prior character, a la One Eye Mater or Dinoco Lightning McQueen.
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The character input is highly important in relation to the last visible data row, Version/s of, which serves as navigation between all a character's versions. Thanks to some system magic, it does not actually require any manual input &ndash: rather, the list is automatically generated and updated by querying the database table and returning all instances where |name= and |character= are equivalent. Each result outcome returns a bulleted list of versions, but the labels are determined as follows:
- If
|name==/=|character=, the Version of label appears along with the linked title of the "prime" version (the value of|character=) - If
|name==|character=, and at least one other vehicle in the database shares that same|character=value, the Versions label appears along with the total number of results. - If
|name==|character=, but no other vehicles share that same|character=value, nothing will appear at all.