Season’s of Spam 2024: Advent’s Galore Day 11

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: 9 Hits / 1 Misses UPDATE
• Disney: 8 Hits / 2 Misses
• Marvel: 1 Hit / 9 Misses

Ace: Star Wars Day 11 (and Disney)

The Venator-class Star Destroyer looks pretty good. Probably one of the better things to come out of the prequels. Feels like it should be a bit longer but until LEGO makes a 1x1x5 slope, this is probably as good as it gets. Nothing else to really nitpick here as it captures the shape pretty well.

Elsa’s castle. Hard I think that space in the middle there is for the baby minidoll to actually stand in. Why else would it have that arch there? I’m a little slow to the party but honestly, I try and look at these things on a day to day basis. In my opinion, its bad product design to have one day be dependent on another. It’s probably passable as a singular build as a micro representation of the castle but just barely. I’ll begrudgingly give this one a thumbs up.

Eric: Disney Day 11 (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

Another cool Frozen build! I love all the spikes on this, most of which are pieces that I have never seen before. That’s really exciting. I do feel like LEGO has a tendency these days to make specific pieces for every occasion, like this cake topping piece. That feels like stifling creativity by taking a shortcut, but that’s a rant for another time. I have nothing bad to say about this castle!

GARLIC HOT SAUCE is…garlicy. A lot more than Day 9’s sauce. Still bad, still not spicy, but definitely garlicy.

LEGO Day 11: 5/5

HOT SAUCE Day 11: 2/5

Nick: Marvel Day 11 (and Rocks and Dice)

Okay, after seeing what the Disney calendar gave yesterday with their little not garbage catapult, I’m starting to feel like the Marvel calendar is just what you get when you monkey paw “what if it was the Disney Calendar, but just Spider-Man” and then cheaped out and bought the resulting product on wish.

This is a failure on every single level you can imagine. The 1×1 gifts feel like they’re just leftover parts tossed in here (and you do get leftover bits to build extras if you want more of those crap things). Why can’t we have the nice big plate, and get the catapult part that’s sucked in every single set its ever been included? It’s not even fun to play with, because that catapult is designed for round bricks, not these square things, and they don’t sit in there square.

I would have rather seen just full gifts in here, like 2×2 boxes in previous years. We finally get a day of holiday theme, and this calendar, inexplicably, finds a way to still make it terrible. Big miss. Usually the Marvel calendar ends up at “about 50%” but it’s now dug a hole that I doubt it’s going to get out of by the end of the year.

Our blue/pink die is back, and we’re getting close to the full set. There’s no such thing as too many dice, and the quality issue of the d6 isn’t here. Not bad, still pretty, but wish the numbers were black instead of white.

More countertop material, and kind of at a loss as to where this fits with the key, since nothing is like this. There are ton of blue stones on there, but none in a bunch of mixed colors. So obviously this is the shape-shifter rock spy that pretends to be part of our Raider friends, but really is on the side of D.I.R.T., our villainous faction, seeking to ground all the rocks out there to… well, dirt.