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.
Ace (Star Wars) – 3 Hit / 9 Misses
Eric (Harry Potter) – 7 Hits / 4 Misses / 1 Harry Potter
Nick (City) – 10 Hits / 2 Misses
Nick (Star Wars) – 1 Hits / 11 Misses
Ace – Star Wars
Your guess is as good ours. Nick has no idea but I do like his idea of a soap box derby racer. There’s an obvious gap in the thing. I’d guess a minifig is supposed to stand in there and grab on to those handles. Assuming I’m right about that, it still doesn’t make any sense or give any clue as to what this could be. Or why it would need the same number of wheels as a Clone Turbo Tank. Whatever, LEGO, you got us good on this one.
Eric – Harry Potter
The rate at which we’re getting minifigs is astounding. This is our fifth minifig in 13 days. Talk about bang for your buck, if these minifigs were worth anything.
This is Angelia Johnson, who I remember played Quidditch and that’s all I got for you. Same torso as Day 1’s Harry Potter, same head used in two other minifigs, not a whole lot to love here.
Nick – City and Whatever
Yeah, don’t want to break the illusion that we open and take pictures each day for this, but somehow my pictures for day 13 all got corrupted and I had to go and just crop one out from my summary pictures. No one wants to know how the sausage is made, unless you’re one of the weirdos who likes to know how things are made and owns a sausage maker attachment for your Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I can’t imagine who I’d be talking about (quickly hides his stand mixer). Anyway, this is another great Christmas sweater figure, and even though I’m not a Classic Space person (line is fine, just wasn’t what I was in to as a kid), I absolutely want this sweater.
Star Wars gives us a… bad soapbox derby cart or something? It’s turd colored so I assume it’s something from Jawas or the like. While it’s a substantial build compared to most of the things we’ve gotten, it’s just… a big turd brick.
Everything in this picture is accurate. They are McCuties and who could possibly munch them. But there are some rather disturbing philosophical ramifications of nuggies that smile and wink at you when they put ketchup on themselves. It’s like the cow from Douglas Adam’s Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Just would be hard to enjoy a meal like that…
