I actually approve of the way Wave 7 was announced. I am one of the few that does not want every last effing thing spoiled before I can get my hands on the actual expansions.

If I had my way, they wouldn't say another specific thing about this wave until the ships were available for purchase. Then, I could open my new toys like at Xmas, with awe and excitement. Especially since they probably won't be available for purchase until September.

The way things usually go, everything is spoiled, everything is debated and endlessly analyzed, until you get to the point where you almost don't even want to open the **** things.

That's called Blind Buy.

Besides, the initial preview article doesn't tell you everything, it gives you a mechanical blurb on the ships. Very different to full spoilers.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I do not see this as a "Blind Buy" at all. Just because you don't know every last detail to the nth degree doesn't make it a Blind Buy.

I am quite certain that you have purchased many things in your life where you didn't know every last detail about the item you were purchasing. That doesn't make it a blind buy, nor does it invalidate the reason you were buying the item to begin with.

I don't want to have to purchase a ship to find out which upgrade cards are in it, especially as in X-Wing one tends to plan purchases.

You will never have to. Pretty certain that FFG has integrated the smartphone code so you can see the contents in the pack, much like it did with it's LCGs.