So another year, and mostly the same format: Ace handling Star Wars, Eric looking at Harry Potter, and in a shocking turn of events, Nick not having to deal with a Marvel calendar dedicated to causing physical pain – he’ll be handling City this year because while his kids may be into Minecraft he decidedly is not (and also that thing was impossible to find in his area). As always, there will be some extra special bonuses, a lot of cheeky writing, tons of typos and things we miss that someone will demand we go and hire an editor to fix.
We will not do that.
Day 1 gave us Frik, a kid in a costume, and our contractually obligated Harry Potter minifig.
Ace (Star Wars) – 0 Hits / 1 Miss
Eric (Harry Potter) – 0 Hits / 0 Misses / 1 Harry Potter
Nick (City) – 1 Hit / 0 Misses
Nick (Star Wars) – 0 Hits / 1 Miss
Ace – Star Wars
I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut. I was joking about getting Babu Frik’s workshop and here we are on Day 2 getting Babu Frik’s workshop. I mean what else could it be? Because by itself it is meaningless. I’ve complained about paired or mutli-day builds before. They’re still a giant cheat. If you look at other calendars, like the Lindt chocolate calendar I did…. omg was that last year? Anyway, you don’t get a chocolate shell in one day and the truffley goodness another. You get one whole piece of chocolate candy. Why can’t LEGO with their mostly talented design team come up with an awesome calendar instead of this b.s. I hate this build. I hate it so much I decided to take two more pictures of it.
Because a targeting computer printed tile totally makes sense here. Maybe it’s a spare part pulled from a wreck. Who knows. Who cares. The worst thing of all is that there hinge brick. Are we going to get more of his workshop in later days? Or other similar crappy builds that will connect? I am dreading this year’s calendar.
Am I doing this right?
Eric – Harry Potter
It’s always fun to see the vibe of each year’s advent calendar. In the past, HP’s given us wonderful micro builds, a wholly complete setting for the Yule Ball, and somewhere north of 6 dining tables. This year’s theme is…stuff. I’m not kidding. Here’s what the LEGO website says is in this set: 10 fun, collectible mini builds, 6 buildable figures, and 8 LEGO® minifigures. I’m not really sure the distinction between those first two, and it seems like LEGO isn’t either.
So here is our first bnuildable figure. Or maybe fun, collectible mini build. Not sure. An owl!
I like him.
I do wish there was some way to rotate his head just to give it a bit of interactivity. But the mixture of slopes on different axes makes a really great silhouette. Not a bad start.
Nick – City
City gets right to the little micro builds, and the first one is an absolute banger, a lovely bulldozer that just hits all the great things about microbuilds even in a limited number of parts. Great hit and seems to point to some great things to come.
When we get to… whatever this thing is, I’m going to just assume Star Wars is going hard on a droid theme. It’s not like looking at the box is going to really make that all clear, since it’s illustrated with so much Christmas stuff and… not all that much else. I look forward to not liking any of it. I’m of two minds of this one… it has a good number of parts in there, but, I mean… look at it. It’s fugly and boring, just slapped all together. I’m going to call it a miss and wait for this thing to pick up.
Okay, this calendar is going full on adorable and my oldest has been frequently coming out to my desk to ask if they can take them yet (I’ve said not until the pictures are done). If someone could actually make this product, it’d sell like… well, not hotcakes, burgers, but would anyone actually eat it? The most fun thing about these is the printing and labels on it, just absolutely loaded with puns.
