Season’s of Spam 2024: Advent’s Galore Day 4

This has been a quiet year for the site… for some documented reasons for some that will probably be documented later on in this whole thing. But we’ve all been looking forward to doing the Advents, our yearly tradition that still happens to be a thing despite the fact that the internet is dead and it’s just bots talking to bots now. Beep boop.

Originally, we were going to mix it up this year but… things didn’t work out. Scalpers went hard in Dallas and the Star Wars Advent disappeared within a few days and never came back in stock, so Nick’s plan to do the Star Wars calendar fell through. We’re going to go with it just being the universe punishing him by making him do the Marvel Advent yet again. Something that just might finish him off this time.

We’re also going to do the newer tradition of going with non-LEGO calendars, because Advents are the new socks are the new ugly sweaters are the new yearly ornaments. Okay, that joke got away, but the point is that everything has an advent now.

Even Rocks.

That’s a hint, LEGO… bring back Rock Raiders. The world needs them now more than ever.

The scores so far:

• Star Wars: 3 Hits / 0 Misses
• Disney: 2 Hits / 1 Miss
• Marvel: 0 Hit / 3 Miss

Ace: Star Wars Day 4

Yeah this was bound to happen. There’s always a battle droid. ALWAYS. Not impressed. Every time I get one in a calendar, I feel like it was phoned in. Kinda like this review.

Pretty sure this was Ariel’s home under the sea before she made it to the landwalkers domain. That’s an assumption based on the pattern thus far of Disney Princess one day and their home build the next. And I only know it’s called Triton’s Castle because I cheated and looked ahead at what Eric wrote below. I’m gonna have to give it a thumbs down.

Two calendars, two misses. I wonder how Marvel did…

Eric: Disney Day 4 (and Hot Sauces)

I am doing the LEGO Disney Advent Calendar this year. I am not in the target demographic for this advent calendar, and that is okay. I am also eating a hot wing every day, tossed in one of 24 random hot sauces. Enjoy my pain.

WATCH ME EAT AND BUILD THIS ON TIKTOK (18+)

Today’s build is Triton’s Castle! Or…as close as we can get with 14 pieces. To be fair, these advent calendar builds go for recognition over accuracy, so I can’t dock any points for that. Good faith argument and all that. 

Also, turns out there are a few Little Mermaid LEGO sets out there, including this Clamshell that I have never seen before. It’s not the…worst LEGO set I’ve ever seen, but it looks like it was 40% off recently, which is never a good sign for LEGO sets.

There’s also a more accurate Triton’s Castle (or Ariel’s Castle, I guess?) with a much better Ariel figure. I’m jealous.

The sauce of the day is CASCABELLA HOT SAUCE. Cascabella is a type of pepper similar to a jalapeno, and let me tell you: that did not translate at all. This is a weak, thin sauce that taste more like a very acidic lemon pepper than anything else. It poured like water. I’m immensely disappointed. 

LEGO Day 4: 5/5

HOT SAUCE Day 4: 2/5

Nick: Marvel Day 4 (and Rocks and Dice)

What? Just… what? This might just be one of the most confounding builds I’ve ever gotten in an advent calendar. I mean, the whole “Peter hiding a camera to take pictures of Spider-Man” is a thing… but usually not on some old-timey street lamp. Which, for some reason… is gray. Things that are famously green on black in all those old timey photos, because they were always painted green or black.

But why did they include a banana peel? Did this suddenly become a Mario Kart advent… something that I would welcome with open arms and tears? This is not the “what the hell” season, LEGO. And while getting a banana peel I can give to my son for him to use with all his Mario Kart Hot Wheels is cool, that doesn’t change this strange miss of a build.

I’ve bought the Chessex “Pound of Dice” a few times, usually because I have some project, I’m bored, or it showed up on an Amazon sale or something. The thing about those bags is that they’re basically just “leftover crap” or weird batches that don’t match the existing colors. It’s pretty clear that these dice sets are going down that path, because while we get a second pink and purple, it feels like almost a different style than the other one because of how it comes together.

Not gonna lie, I have no idea what this rock is. So I went to the handy-dandy insert on my Advent, which explains what all 24 stones look like…

… and I think it’s Dalmatian Jasper, despite that picture not looking like it, mostly based on the description. Jasper can be orange, and this rock is really orange. So this is clearly the secret faction of our Rock Raiders 2.0 reboot.