And then I notice the TC said "I can post pictures if you want them." but has neither posted again nor provided pictures, despite people asking.
I think we can call this one dead. He certainly had some good newcomer picks, though!
Well Namco Bandai banned pictures in their HQ, lol.
Also guys, let it be known that the first "leak" happened about 5 months before Brawl's launch, and it went straight to a top Nintendo fan site source (the webmaster of Serebii.net, and it was only for Pokémon playable characters).
After that, in September we got one true leaker (the Dragoon part was the big thing), in October we got a part 2-ish and a new true leaker, and in November we got another batch of stage-related inquiries that were true.
During that whole debacle, we also had a 39 characters vs. 45 characters leak roster thing going. The latter had Krystal instead of Wolf, some retro instead of ROB, and Mewtwo, Roy, Ridley, K. Rool, and 2 characters I don't remember (I think one of them was Midna from Zelda, but I don't remember).
I sided with the 45 character roster, but I never really felt strongly either way. That was one of the few things I was very wrong on in terms of Brawl's roster.
So yeah, eventually, someone is gonna leak major stuff in chunks, like this, but with less backstory, more info on lots of stuff (stages, characters, items, game modes, etc), and it's gonna happen a few time.
Heck, we already got the E3 leak (that was at least a half truth), so there's that, lol.