{"id":2786,"date":"2017-12-04T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2017-12-04T02:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:39:42","slug":"25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-4-a-very-spielberg-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-4-a-very-spielberg-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Holiday “Trainvertising” #4: A Very Spielberg Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s catalog comes to you straight from 2000. The cover art of this U.S. holiday catalog prominently features the engine from “Freight and Crane Railway” (set 4565), originally released in 1996.\u00a0 This time, Santa takes charge of the controls and ditches Rudolph in favor of everyone’s favorite little astromech droid, R2-D2.<\/p>\n

A lot of memorable characters are here, including Johnny Thunder (aka: Joe Freeman & Sam Grant). Emperor Palpatine uses force lightning to shake a package, while Darth Maul is left with nothing but coal to sort through. The Sith may be causing trouble, but Steven Spielberg is calling all the shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s catalog comes to you straight from 2000. The cover art of this U.S. holiday catalog prominently features the engine from “Freight and Crane Railway” (set 4565), originally released in 1996.\u00a0 This time, Santa takes charge of the controls and ditches Rudolph in favor of everyone’s favorite little astromech droid, R2-D2. A lot of memorable … Continue reading 25 Days of Holiday “Trainvertising” #4: A Very Spielberg Christmas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":2784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[367,370,353,239,354,357,369,368,229],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-367","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-history","tag-holiday","tag-santa","tag-star-wars","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-vintage-advertising"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-2000-US_20171203_0001.jpg?fit=2488%2C3118&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-IW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}