Bill Ward's Brickpile

Day 17 is PARTS. Friends gives us dog foot and related items, and a slew of bonus parts. Marvel gives us a cape. Just the cape, not even in a little plastic bag! So I put the cape on the dog and a sausage into the hole in his head, and the results are the newest Marvel hero: Super Sausage Dog Unicorn Guy. Enjoy.

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Day 16 gives us a bunch of festive furniture: table and chairs in Friends and a rocking throne in Marvel, and I designed a weird dog+cat sled for Spider-Man.

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Day 15 gives us an oven for baking dog biscuits (Friends) and an arc reactor (Marvel). My original model is a helicopter.

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Day 14! Two whole weeks down, 10 days to go. We get a kitty in Friends and some hockey equipment and gifts in Marvel.

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We’re now into the second half of Advent. My how time flies. Today we get some dots (I like to call them “cookies”) from Friends and a Okoye minifigure from Marvel.

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Can you believe we’re already at the halfway point? Yup, it’s 12 days down, 12 to go. Here we get an undecorated Christmas tree from Friends and a workbench from Marvel. And I built a wreath.

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Our 11th models from the LEGO Advent calendars this year are the second Friends minidoll, Leo, and a fireplace with Thor’s hammer on the wall above it, from Marvel.

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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.

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The 9th day of Advent in Friends is a dog and in Marvel is a captain.

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