Thread:Scrooge200/@comment-43797581-20200118004122/@comment-43797581-20200118012619

Scrooge200 wrote: I responded to DJ MC CJ's post, and here's what I said:

"I noticed a few days ago that the special was scheduled to go up on the 17th instead of the 20th. I decided I'd check it out in the morning, but it wasn't there. I just checked again and it says it'll be up between the 20th and the 31st. Seeing how quickly they took it down, I think this was an accidental leak."

And if so, then that means I got to be part of something rare.

I wonder how many other people got to see it ahead of release, like I did. At least I wasn't the only one who noticed the early release.

I don't know if spoilers are allowed on the chat or not, because I had told User:WillTheArthurandBusterFan5050 about something that appears in the special about an hour or so after I had watched it. The thing that appears is a Railroad Crossing, during the song "I'm bored," which is the first song of the special (D.W. and Mr. Read sing it).

Now, most people probably won't care about this (I don't really either), but a Railroad Crossing that Will has been wanting to see for a long, long time. It was even the way he had wanted it to look, with the red-and-white striped crossing gates.

He sent his idea to WGBH in a letter around 2014, but they never responded back. When Will found out from User:Orion001 that he should've sent his idea to 9 Story (who was the Arthur co-producer at the time before Oasis Animation took over), he sent drawings of his artwork to them and a long detailed letter explaining why he would like to see a Railroad Crossing on the show.

Then, around May 21, 2014, he got an email from the Arthur producer at 9 Story, Christine Davis, and Davis said that she would forward his ideas to WGBH.

If you want to see the full details, see Will's User blog posts about it:

User blog:WillTheArthurandBusterFan5050/The Struggle to Submit an Idea for Arthur the Series (this is the first one, so I recommend reading this one first)

User blog:WillTheArthurandBusterFan5050/I Got A Letter From 9 Story Entertainment! (this is the follow-up after he received Christine Davis' email)

As you can see, this is something that Will has wanted for a long time, so when I saw the Railroad Crossing, I wanted to be the bearer of good news and tell him that his idea made it into an Arthur episode.

Should I have done this, or was I in the wrong to do this? Does the spoiler policy apply to the chat in addition to actual pages, or does it not?

-Arthur Read fan