Season’s of Spam 2024: Advent’s Galore Day 9

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: 7 Hits / 1 Misses
• Disney: 7 Hits / 1 Miss
• Marvel: 1 Hit / 7 Misses

Ace: Star Wars Day 9 (and Disney)

As far as micro Falcon‘s go, this one is top notch. And we know this is the Original Trilogy Falcon because of the rounded radar dish instead of that rectangular one in the Worst Trilogy. Methinks the designer tried to make the best looking micro Millennium Falcon one can make regardless of piece count. This one is great.

It’s so nice, I took more than one pic! I wonder if a roller skate used on the top for the gunner station would have been too big / out of scale. The side hatches are forward by one stud but I think that was a compromise that had to be made in order to achieve the look and feel at this scale.

The bottom is disappointing in the same way that the mass majority of LEGO Star Wars ship models are disappointing in that the bottom is completely ignored.There isn’t enough female studs for a proper set of landing gear, nor does it use a round plate or dish like there is up on top. We’re not here to admire the bottom of the ship though but still!

The model is highly swooshable and looks great. So far this calendar is a banger!

Finally another princess game token. No sign of a rule book though. I mean the game isn’t hard to figure out. It’s your basic snakes and ladders game without the snakes and none of  thrilling gameplay. But is there a prize at the end? Does the winner get all the wrapped gifts? I don’t get it.

I’ll give this one a thumbs up because I’m sure there is some collector out there who just wants an easy to get the Disney princesses in baby minidoll form and this calendar is the way to do it.

Eric: Disney Day 9 (and Hot Sauces)

I am also 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

I was 16 when Frozen came out, which means I was genetically disposed to hate that movie. Upon reflection, it’s a pretty darn good movie, but Let It Go is so pervasive in my mind that I…can’t let it go. I also find these minidolls (or whatever they are) really offputting.

The hot sauce – RUSSIA GARLIC – is…really bad. The worst sauce I’ve had so far. It wasn’t hot, and only just barely tasted like garlic. At least the garlic sauces two years ago were overwhelmingly garlicy. If I was a vampire, I would be unphased.

LEGO Day 9: 1/5

HOT SAUCE Day 9: 1/5

Nick: Marvel Day 9 (and Rocks and Dice)

I love Ghost Spider aka Spider-Gwen aka Spider-Woman aka Alternate-Universe Gwen Stacy. It’s a neck-and-neck run on who my favorite addition to the comics has been in the past couple of decades between her and Ms. Marvel. I own every single issue of her comic runs and appearances, including the Spider-Verse issue where she first appeared.

Normally, it’d be great to get a figure of her, and it’s a pretty solid figure… if you only look at the head. The torso, though, is just so strange. Gwen wears a hoodie in her spider outfit, and there’s the hood, but the bottom is an oddly shaped leotard… thing. I’m sure she’s been in some other sets, but I don’t get a lot of LEGO and I really don’t get a lot of Marvel stuff, so even if this managed to have something holiday in it, I’d probably still call it a miss.

But not like the contents of the calendar have anything to do with the holidays.

Our pink and blue dice come back for another one… but it’s odd. The dye isn’t all that great in the dice, with a lot of it just being clear, and the typeset on the face of the dice is different from the other numbers. They’ll look better at the end, when I plan to gather them all up, but this one is weird.

Our rock calendar finally gets on board with the Marvel theme, giving us our first Infinity Stone. And it’s the Reality Stone (if we’re going MCU) or the Power Stone (if we’re going the comics) – and I’m a nerd for knowing that without looking them up. I’m hoping for more of the Reality stone, because this one kind of sucks, so –

– wait, this is a Red Jasper (I think), and we don’t want to sully our Rock Raiders with the taint of Marvel, so this is our main hero faction. Our hero, Buck Hardcheese, harnesses the power of the red stones to operate his giant power mech, and with his allies of the other color stones, the Rock Raiders work to save the universe, one cave at a time.