{"id":2900,"date":"2017-12-11T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:37:04","slug":"25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-11-dinosaurs-elephants-and-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-11-dinosaurs-elephants-and-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Holiday &#8220;Trainvertising&#8221; #11: Dinosaurs, Elephants and Bears&#8230;Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-11-dinosaurs-elephants-and-bears-oh-my\/lego-christmas-catalog-1998-us\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?fit=3131%2C2494&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3131,2494\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon MX470 series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LEGO Christmas Catalog 1998 &amp;#8211; US\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?fit=474%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?resize=474%2C378\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?w=3131&amp;ssl=1 3131w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?resize=150%2C119&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?resize=768%2C612&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?resize=1024%2C816&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s piece of advertising comes from the front cover of a 1998 preschool Shop-at-Home catalog. It features a Duplo steam engine pulling a load of classic &#8217;90s Duplo animals, including a bear, giraffe, elephants and even a dinosaur! Due to the target market, this is not an easy catalog to track down and does not even appear in BrickLink&#8217;s catalog. Sadly, someone took some &#8220;artistic license&#8221; with the cover, drawing dashes through the title lettering, sketching over some bits of snow and drawings spots on the cat (to match the dog, of course).<\/p>\n<p>The cover art for this is truly unique and fun to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s piece of advertising comes from the front cover of a 1998 preschool Shop-at-Home catalog. It features a Duplo steam engine pulling a load of classic &#8217;90s Duplo animals, including a bear, giraffe, elephants and even a dinosaur! Due to the target market, this is not an easy catalog to track down and does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-11-dinosaurs-elephants-and-bears-oh-my\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 Days of Holiday &#8220;Trainvertising&#8221; #11: Dinosaurs, Elephants and Bears&#8230;Oh My!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":2901,"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":[420,417,418,353,422,371,391,354,421,423,419,376,78,229,424],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1990s","tag-417","tag-catalog","tag-christmas","tag-dinosaur","tag-duplo","tag-elephant","tag-holiday","tag-nineties","tag-preschool","tag-push-train","tag-shop-at-home","tag-steam","tag-vintage-advertising","tag-x-mas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Catalog-1998-US.jpg?fit=3131%2C2494&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-KM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}