Every year LEGO comes out with an Advent calendar (or two) and most years they include some form of Santa Claus and his sleigh. But usually the sleigh is barely big enough to fit a minifig, much less a load of toys and goodies, and the “reindeer” is actually a single minifig-scale dog with no antlers or anything.
Now Vincent Pace saves the day. He’s come up with a great MOC of Santa, his sleigh, and a whole complement of reindeer – including Rudolph with a trans-red 1×1 round plate for a nose. He’s used white droid arms for antlers, and they’re all harnessed together to an excellent red and green sleigh complete with toys.
And best of all, it can be yours! He’s selling it on eBay with a starting price of about $60 (which is about what it costs to get the parts on Bricklink). There is a link to the auction on his site – use the above link or click the photo.
Thanks for the post! Your reaction to the available Santa’s sleigh sets is exactly the reaction that led to me design this. When my daughter asked me for a LEGO Santa’s sleigh for Christmas, the first thing I did was to see what was out there via eBay, Bricklink, and Google, and, as you said, the best they had at minifig scale was that little sled hooked up to a single LEGO dog pawned off as a reindeer. My daughter appropriately asked, “Where are the reindeer? Why is Santa’s sleigh being pulled by a dog?”
Santa’s sleigh seems to be missing from this year’s advent calendar (which we’re currently working through here as well), so hopefully this can fill the gap for whoever ends up with it!