Today’s models are a radio controlled sailboat, Pua from Moana, another miniminidoll, and a hot dog cart. Can you believe we’re already 25% through the 24 days of Advent? Time sure flies.
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Advent 2024 Day 5
Five days into Advent, and today´s models are a skier (City), a driedel-type spinner (Disney), a campfire (Friends), and Venom with a hot dog (Spider-Man). With the parts we have thus far, I built a helicopter MOC.
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Advent 2024 Days 3-4
Today we are covering days 3 and 4 of the Advent calendars since I fell asleep on the couch yesterday and didn’t get Day 3 done! Not an auspicious beginning. I really need to start doing these in advance instead of trying to get it done the day of! Anyway, today we get a dog with a bone and a skateboard with helmet (City), the Little Mermaid and her castle (Disney), a snowboard ramp and a bunny (Friends), and some street furniture (Spider-Man).
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Advent 2024 Day 2
Today’s Advent models give us a construction crane with a drill on the tip, a remote island from Moana, a piano, and some webs for Spidey.
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Advent 2024 Day 1
Time for our annual ritual of covering the LEGO Advent calendars! Today we get two minifigures and two mini-minidolls.
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See me at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend
The annual gathering of creative artists, hackers, and all around cool people known as Maker Faire Bay Area is upon us again! Like last year, it’s at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA. Unlike last year, it’s just one weekend.
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Advent 2023 Day 24 MOC Instructions
Sorry it’s taken me this long to put together the instructions to wrap up this series — using all the parts from all 24 days of the 2023 Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. I built an extra large Xmas tree using mostly parts from the two trees we got earlier in the month from those sets: Marvel day 24 and Friends day 12.
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Advent 2023 Day 23 MOC Instructions
This is the penultimate of my MOCs (my original creations) that I built in December, on Advent day 23 made from the first 23 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. This was largely inspired by the 3×3 red plates with a rounded corner which feature in the body and hat. But the main technique featured here is the mixing of odd- and even-width portions on this flat sculpture.
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Advent 2023 Day 22 MOC Instructions
Here’s the 22nd day MOC (my original creation) made from the first 22 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. The green plates from the earlier Xmas tree inspired me to build a green (John Deere style) tractor using the small red train wheels from Friends as the blades in a disc plow.
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Advent 2023 Day 21 MOC Instructions
Continuing with the instructions for the Advent models I built in December, here’s the 21st day MOC (my original creation). Again, I chafed under the range of color in the parts from the first 21 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars that I’d gotten thus far, so I built a small model instead, a little airplane.
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