I can’t believe it’s already December and time to crank up the old Advent Calendar engine once more! This year I purchased two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. Like with last year, I’m doing daily YouTube videos as well as blog posts, so choose whatever medium you like…
Today’s Friends model is Autumn, with a snowball in her hand and a snowboard and helmet. Autumn is part of LEGO’s recent commitment to better representation for disabled people in their sets, and she has an arm difference – a left arm that is not fully developed, without a hand. I’m sure any little girls with a similar body difference would be excited to see this in a set!
The back of the torso doesn’t have any printing, just the usual Friends copyright emboss. The legs are printed on all sides however.
She comes with a hairpiece that you can remove to put on her helmet.
Iron Man starts off the Marvel calendar strong.
The head is double-sided, which you can see the Tony Stark side here with the helmet off:
And here’s the back side showing all the printing on the other side of the helmet and torso.
Like last year I chose not to do all 5 of the Advent calendars LEGO publishes, just these two. But if you want to build the others, here are some links to them on Amazon: City, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. (But please don’t support Harry Potter, due to the transphobic political views of J. K. Rowling.)
