{"id":38336,"date":"2022-11-24T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=38336"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:55:15","slug":"the-brick-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-brick-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brick-Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow we've missed this the past three years, but Lego has a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/turkeydragon2.png\" title=\"The Brick-Changer\" width=\"450\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to <a href=\"https:\/\/macysthanksgiving.fandom.com\/wiki\/LEGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade wiki<\/a> (yes, there is such a thing), the float premiered in 2019, and was making its fourth appearance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/turkeydragon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/turkeydragon1-300x200.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\"The Brick Changer\" is a kaiju-sized creature that's part turkey, part dragon, has a construction crane for a tail, and turns plain, boring things into imaginative fun.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians riding it this year were <s>Toots and the Maytals<\/s> Fitz and the Tantrums, because apparently they couldn't get anyone people had heard of?<\/p>\n<p>We want a turkey-dragon set!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spyro the Dragon addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/spyro-the-dragon-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spyro the Dragon addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Safari Ltd. Desert Dragon addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/safari-ltd-desert-dragon-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Safari Ltd. Desert Dragon addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spoilers on toys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/spoilers-on-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spoilers on toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #159\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-159\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #159<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Drawing faces on clouds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/drawing-faces-on-clouds\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Drawing faces on clouds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow we've missed this the past three years, but Lego has a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Transformers BotBots Sugar Breath and Milton reviews Cyberzoic comes to Kickstarter Ultima Online: Ancient Wyrm review Rustin's &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-brick-changer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-38336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego","tag-dragons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38343,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions\/38343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}