{"id":445,"date":"2006-12-04T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/04\/6500-holiday-village\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:50:00","slug":"6500-holiday-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/04\/6500-holiday-village\/","title":{"rendered":"#6500  Holiday Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.lugnet.com\/set\/200\/new\/upload\/6500-1-912528814.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img.lugnet.com\/set\/200\/new\/upload\/6500-1-912528814.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Been reading through blogs, catching up on LEGO news, when I saw that an image of this set was added to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peeron.com\/inv\/sets\/6500-1?guid=20440023.0\">Peeron<\/a>&#8230; Looking on <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.lugnet.com\/set\/6500\">Lugnet<\/a>, it might only have been released in the UK; or it might have had a limited release.  Some parts that I think are totally out of character for 1996, aren&#8217;t, which is surprising.  These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/catalogItem.asp?P=3297p04\">slopes<\/a> are in red in the #6500 set, but they were released in purple in a Freestyle set back in &#8217;95.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/catalogItem.asp?P=30056\">fence<\/a> piece shows up in red in the #6500, but was also release in green and white that same year in a freestyle set and a pirate set.  The use of a palm tree, bush, tree foliage, and flowers just seem out of character for a set.  Then throw in the 2&#215;2 gray bricks to connect the baseplates together seems strange as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying this set is a hoax, but there are elements to the set that seem just out of character&#8230;  Look like someone took a FreeStyle bucket, a roadplate pack, and a minifig pack and created their own  town set.  Stickers provided by an Idea Book&#8230; except I can&#8217;t place the graphics on the pizza delivery truck.<\/p>\n<p>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.lugnet.com\/general\/?n=47359\">post<\/a>, the set may never have been released&#8230; and after analyzing it for a little while, I can see why.  I&#8217;m wondering if stuff like this should be given it&#8217;s own LEGO &#8220;urban legend&#8221; page somewhere&#8230; looks like questions about this set pop up every year about why it&#8217;s in the catalog.<\/p>\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>Been reading through blogs, catching up on LEGO news, when I saw that an image of this set was added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,454,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego","category-mystery","category-sets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}