Advent 2015 Day 3

For the third day of the 2015 Advent Calendars we have a sled for Andrea (the Friends mini doll), ice skates and a tiny rink for our City figure, and either a micro scale tank or a minifigure scale droid for Star Wars. [EDIT: Apparently the Star Wars model is a LIN demolitionmech autonomous minelayer seen briefly in Episode IV, so it is minifigure scale.]
LEGO Advent 2015 Day 3
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Advent 2015 Day 1

Each year LEGO produces several advent calendars, featuring 24 mini-models, one for each day of December through Christmas Eve. For the past few years I’ve posted these entries each day on my blog, and as I write this it’s 11:46 PM on December 1st, so I just barely made it before the end of the day…

Day 1 brings us a Friends minidoll in a festive sweater, a micro scale Star Wars ship that I don’t recognize, and a pair of little remote control cars for City.
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Advent 2014 Awards

3 Advent Calendars.
24 days.
72 models.
14 minifigs.
2 minidolls.
4 animals.
2 droids.
9 mini spaceships.
3 gun emplacements.
2 hearths.
3 Christmas trees (including the droid).

Having built all 72 models, I’ve come up with some winners for the best model in each category. Continue reading “Advent 2014 Awards”

Advent 2014 Day 24

Last day of our Advent Calendar – December 24th, Christmas Eve.

The final entry for Friends seems a little underwhelming to me – a storage box for a camera and some ice skates? Strange combination.

City gives us a nice traditional Santa Claus, complete with chocolate chip cookie.

Star Wars continues with its wacky take on Christmas with Darth Claus. Okaaaay.
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Advent 2014 Day 23

Happy Christmas Eve Eve. Only one more shopping day – are you ready??

Today the LEGO Advent Calendars bring us another Christmas tree (Friends), a trike (City), and a somewhat sinister looking hearth (Star Wars). Along with yesterday’s goofy Christmas Tree droid, I like the way the LEGO Star Wars is approaching the advent calendar with a sense of humor and hope tomorrow’s is even better…

Advent 2014 Day 23

Just one more left!