For the 10th day of the 2023 Advent season we get a seesaw (teeter totter) from Friends and a jetpack for Captain America from Marvel.
The Friends model is a fixture of playground equipment from when I was a kid, the seesaw (or teeter-totter if you prefer). However like the pushed merry-go-rounds we also had, these are mostly gone now, due to safety and liability concerns. How is any human minifigure or minidoll supposed to ride on this? I suppose the animals can, but no LEGO people can just fit on a single stud. Well, maybe the baby minifig?
Marvel gives us a jetpack. I didn’t know what it was just from opening the door…
Here’s what it looks like from the other side…
Anyway once I put the it on Captain America, it made sense.
Here’s a reverse view of it on the minifigure.
With the parts received thus far from these 10 days of both calendars, I built a Bobcat skid-steer bulldozer, piloted by a snowman.
Here it is from some more angles.
I tried for at least an hour to get the jetpack’s neck mount piece to attach somehow to this and serve as the canopy for the cockpit, as I think it would look really great, but I was just not able to figure out a way to attach it using the parts we got so far. Maybe I could using my full range of LEGO parts in my collection, but that isn’t the brief for this challenge I’ve given myself.
This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. 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 politics of J. K. Rowling.)
