LEGO City Advent Calendar
Product Description
Holiday time in LEGO City means 24 days of building fun. Build a different model each day to count down to the holidays. Includes nine mini-figures and everything you need to make all 24 LEGO City surprises. It even includes building instructions for additional combo models. Find a new surprise behind each door – 24 in all.
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Nov 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I see I’m a minority here, but this is my favorite Lego advent calendar yet. True that it’s not very Christmassy at all. It’s city themed. The funniest was the burglar with the chainsaw. No, not Christmassy. (I’m on day 12.) But it’s a great starter set for budding Lego maniacs.
Let’s face it, the blocky christmas gift has been done so many times. The smiley boats and bugs weren’t Christmassy, and I hated the oversized minifigs with Harry Potter wands somewhere around 2003.
How could Lego improve this? Add wintery stuff. Intersperse a Christmas tree, guy with snowshovel, street light post with decorations. I’d love to get a salvation army bucket for Santa for the front of my Lego department store.
I don’t think it would happen in this PC age, but a really cool Advent Calendar would be the traditional manger scene with animals or characters for each day.
Nov 24th, 2009 at 1:04 am
My 3 boys love it (3-6 yrs). They have been taking turns opening the doors and counting down to Christmas. It’s the first thing they want to do when they wake up. This is our first year with the calendar and I plan on doing it again next year. My 3 year old is learning to recognize his higher numbers. My oldest has been working with calendars and dates in first grade so this is just more reenforcement. I have already reccomended it to my friends.
Nov 24th, 2009 at 8:45 am
We used to really look forward to the Lego Advent Calendars. They were always fun and reflective of the holidays. The individual pieces used to always be about Christmas.
So what happened this year? We’re only 10 days into it and there’s nothing at all Christmassy about it. We’ve gotten a welding cart (complete with tanks), a dog (ho ho ho), a wheelbarrow with pick and broom (that’s the Christmas spirit, eh?). I mean what’s next…a shovel? I guess Santa (or Lego) must think we’ve been bad or something. Bah Humbug!