Season’s of Spam 2024: Advent’s Galore Day 13

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: 11 Hits / 1 Misses
• Disney: 10 Hits / 2 Misses
• Marvel: 2 Hit / 10 Misses

Ace: Star Wars Day 13 (and Disney)

Kinda like yesterday’s model, I had no idea what this is. Well I kinda do. I remember seeing the LEGO set on store shelves, the cockpit is stable while the entire wing rotates around it kinda like the B-Wing but way less awesome. It was just a giant flying wing that rotates. That’s what I remember. I can’t remember the name or the source material. Clone Wars? I don’t know but I decided to put just a little bit of effort into this post and so I googled “Star Wars half circle ship” and after scrolling for a bit I find out it’s a “Jedi T-6 Shuttle”. Meh. Not impressed. I think the quarter plates were the wrong choice. While the rounded corner does hint at a half-circle shape, it’s not and the more I look at it the more it bothers me. I don’t think a rounded corner plate exists in a 3×3 so this is probably the best that could have been done. Still, I don’t like it.

Continuing our Frozen Advent Calendar journey, today we have a sleigh. I actually kind of like it and would argue that it’s enough to stand on its own. And I just love the hockey sticks for the skis. Winner winner chicken dinner!

Eric: Disney Day 13 (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

Now’s as good a time as any to bring this up – the bags are all messed up on this calendar. This has never happened to me before, but I’m getting two bags in some days, or nothing at all in some days. It adds an extra level of mystery to this – will I even get a build at all?

This sled is…fine. It doesn’t really fit the Disney theme and feels like they pulled it from a Friends advent calendar. It is inoffensive at best.

I have matured and changed and I am no longer even mad that THAILAND SRIRACHA is yet another “hot” sauce that is not remotely spicy. It’s totally fine. And it’s fine that most of the sauces taste the same. It’s FINE!

LEGO Day 13: 4/5

HOT SAUCE Day 13: 5/5 (i guess)

Nick: Marvel Day 13 (and Rocks and Dice)

Why do I tolerate these terrible calendars every year? For the wonderful Christmas Sweater minifigs. They’re so simple and fun and… somehow, inexplicably, LEGO has still managed to half-ass it. I want to say this is a hit because, the upper half of it, is mostly fantastic. The headphones are a weird color (Mile’s are black or blue normally), but I assume that’s just the color they had on hand. A teenager is incapable of letting go of their phone or they’d suddenly and violently explode (I say this as the father of a pre-teen).

And then… we get light gray pants. I guess because it’s close to the dark gray that he wore in his school uniform? And not the black pants that he see him in in every other case. They didn’t even need to print them… it would have been fine to just go with simple black legs. I want to give this a hit, but those gray legs are just so bad and lazy I’d give it a half hit at best. And we round down here, so it becomes a reluctant miss.

The number of dice each day in this calendar is just odd… with most being a single die and some days being 3. If they’re going to complete any sets, there’s going to be some day that has a whole bag full of dice.

I’m pretty sure this is Green Aventurine, and again we’re back to our sage derby cheese rock. Do not eat cheese rocks.This is clearly going to be the power source that our Rock Raider heroes and the diabolical villains will be fighting over.