{"id":291,"date":"2010-06-10T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/10\/set-spoiler-rant\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T04:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:29:44","slug":"set-spoiler-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/10\/set-spoiler-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Spoiler Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/uploads\/\/1275345299\/gallery_2351_21_84016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/>I told a friend yesterday that I&#8217;d rant about this, so here I go&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>&lt;rant&gt;<\/b><br \/>\n<i><i>Like many of you, I love it when LEGO releases new sets. I look forward to Christmas time, awaiting the release of next year&#8217;s line, sometimes just in time for Christmas&#8230; And in a similar line of thinking, I look forward to going to LEGO conventions &#8212; I have been for the past 8 years &#8212; and it&#8217;s always nice to see a set premiered by The LEGO Group at a fan convention, before the &#8220;official&#8221; online announcement&#8230; We get to see it, touch it, and examine it up close.<\/i><\/i>Now with a few days before<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickworld.us\/\"><i>Brickworld<\/i><\/a><i>, I&#8217;m starting to HATE <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/index.php?s=aec5a972c11eea155489377f4b19365a&amp;showtopic=42877\"><i>sets<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/index.php?s=aec5a972c11eea155489377f4b19365a&amp;showtopic=42897\"><i>leaks<\/i><\/a><i> that <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/index.php?s=aec5a972c11eea155489377f4b19365a&amp;showtopic=42871\"><i>show up<\/i><\/a><i> days\/weeks before a LEGO convention &#8212; the magic is gone in the name of being &#8220;the first&#8221; to announce it online. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks information like this is held back just long enough to spoil it for everyone.<\/i><br \/>\n<b>&lt;\/rant&gt;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the meantime, enjoy a video of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33771331@N06\/4688629470\/\">LEGO War Machine<\/a> costume in the process of being built!<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told a friend yesterday that I&#8217;d rant about this, so here I go&#8230; &lt;rant&gt; Like many of you, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,47,621,254],"tags":[620,606],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brickworld","category-community","category-convention","category-crafting","category-rant","tag-costume","tag-craft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}