Board Thread:Club Penguin/@comment-15305799-20140318012815/@comment-4500149-20140318025441

You can find information about a current pin by looking at the JSON files. Specifically, you can look at paper items to find a pin's ID and name and search for "pin" in the rooms JSON to find the pin's location without even having to log on.

As for finding information about pins and items before they are released, the only way to do this would be if Club Penguin adds the item to their JSON and SWF files before the item is released, which happens occasionally.

Looking at the JSON and SWF files is how information is usually obtained about anything yet to be released.

In the Pinata Pin's case, it was revealed in an episode of the The Spoiler Alert, which, along with the What's New Blog, Twitter, and YouTube, is another way of finding information about things before they are released.