Dragonscavern

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We discovered today that the site search facility that we have installed on the website seems to be giving returns with no site results on them!!
We've looked into this, and cannot see why this is happening; the code is all correct, the settings are correct, but only WWW results not site results are listed.
We are trialling a new search function on the website at the moment. Please let us know how the new search bar works.
We've also put one onto the blog to search directly, but we need to tweak this more.

Luck of the draw

If you were at the annual Myth and Magic Extravaganza last weekend, you'll have seen that one of the members only prize draw prizes was a prototype of the 2007 One Year piece - Amethustos. This piece is a one off as it has been remodelled since. The prize winner has kindly sent an image of this study, and it can now be found in the prototypes section of the website.

The Sea Goddess

The last ever 'Design a Model' winner - The Sea Goddess - is now available on the website in the Design a Study section, following the presentation of the study at this years Extravaganza.

Another year, another extrav...

So, another May weekend passes and another Extravaganza comes and goes.
Again, it was the West Midlands Safari Park, and again it was held in the big 'tent'
The difference this year was the weather - speaking to some of the Tudor mint staff, the overnight deluge caused something of a panic when the 'tent' was flooded in the small hours. Fortunately for us attendees, the rain had passed and the sun eventually emerged to make it a pleasant day.

The tombola seemed to be light on prizes, but this could be due to early visitors seemingly buying up the entire ticket box!! Maybe in future TM might think about setting a limit on how many tickets can be bought at any one time...

The new independant study - Titananos - is amazing (and there is now an image of it on the website), and 100 of them went on sale. There were also examples of the new studies coming out later this year. Crystals embedded within wings seems to be a new favourite for upcoming larger studies. The 2007 year piece - Amethustos - also looks good, although the example shown has since been remodelled.

Some of the silent auction studies were popular, and The Burglar Steals Smaug's Great Cup attracted a very high bid.

Members had a good chance to get a prize in the draw this year with at least 16 (although it seemed like a lot more studies) being put up for grabs. And talking of members, the day seemed to be quieter, but looking around by 2pm it seemed to be as full as last year.

Outside on the lawn there were traders again, seemingly ticking over with sales during the day.

For us here at DragonsCavern we were handing out our website business cards to anyone who would take one, and it was nice to hear lots of people saying that they use the site often to check on studies. We're glad you like us :-)

As Graham said at the end of the day, we'll see you again next year - but the question we are wondering (as there was not the usual 'Do you want to come back here again?') is.....

where?

Land of the Dragons collectors...

We are still looking for images for some of the original Land of the Dragons range of studies.

If you can help us, please visit the site, and use the submit option to send us any missing images.

Your help is gratefully received.

Mobile Site demonstration

Want to see what our mobile website looks like, but don't have a device to view it on? Try our bitty browser powered demo;

If this demo won't work, you can see it on our mobile web information  page.
Note: the advanced search function will NOT work with bitty browser

(We had to remove the previous post about this as it was configured incorrectly and caused problems in RSS feeds)

eBay Direct

Do you use eBay? We have set up a page on the website that displays the 25 most recent (it's now been increased to 50!!) eBay sales that match with the search term 'Myth and Magic' and 'Tudor Mint'.
From this one page, you can add auctions to your watch list, or make a bid. Check out the eBay page here.

Faster load times

For some time now we've been using a little script that allows us to pull the latest posts from our blog and put the headlines onto several pages (main page / sitemap page / news page). However, on occassions this script has slowed the loading of these pages which we were not happy with. Well, there is a solution and now these pages are loading much faster, causing no delay to the rest of the page.
If you still experience a delay, please do contact us.

Reading time

More new copies of the Methtintdour Times - issues 25 and 26 - have been added to the subscribers section for you to view and enjoy using our Flash 'Flipviewer' feature. To view these, please subscribe to the monthly newsletter feature.

May Vote

This month we are asking;

The new 'Fortune Finders' trilogy is exclusive to H Samuels. Should further trilogies be available everywhere ?

Vote here