I don’t think this would hit gizmodo, or that the amount of Lego fans there would mess this up for everyone. To lego, shame on you for not making the most bad ass Advent calender ever available to the public in the US, we have to be a significant customer base, why not release this set everywhere?

There are LEGO fans who occasionally blog about LEGO there.

As it stands, it was–at very least–a “bold” move for Lego to not distribute the set in North America as it was. This “limited distribution” still isn’t a complete fix, as I’m sure there are a lot of kids out there that won’t have access to this set, just because they’re not ‘Net savvy or already involved in some predominantly AFOL community. For those kids, it almost seems fair to at least keep that code up someplace that not only the fan community trusts and turns to, but that some enterprising parent might find (or even already follow), to give some special child an extra surprise for the holiday season.

And, no disrespect to the AFOL community, by any means, but Lego is still a toy; to clamor over keeping a set “exclusive” to only adult fans seems to stab at the heart at what Lego is all about. I may only be a lurker at best–and thus, my words mightn’t bear that much weight–but if running the risk of exposing this information to a few “ebay opportunists” allows just a few kids to even experience a rare set such as this, then so be it. As it is, they’re the ones paying for Lego’s marketing decision, when they should be (if you’ll forgive the turn of phrase) playing for it.

So thanks again, Andrew and co., for opening this up a little more (and, of course, to all the Ambassadors who helped make this possible in the first place). In no uncertain terms, it’s appreciated…