Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 03

What's behind The Lego City Advent Calendar day 3?


It's a sled! An easily put together sled consisting of 5 small pieces. I guess that's a compliment to Lego's overriding ability to be Lego. Although if I'm not getting a minifigure I'd like the day's gift to be more than 5 pieces, mostly because the Advent Calendar is pretty expensive. Still it compliments the nice winter scene.


Boy, sure hope nothing disrupts this cheery moment.

DUN DUN DUH!

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 02

Let's open up Day 2 of the Lego City Advent Calendar!


Hey, it's a snowman! Complete with pure white mini-figure head in case you want to eventually make a horrific looking pale faceless creature. But for now: it's a snowman. Let's set him up next to the helmeted youth throwing snowballs.

Not a bad winter scene. Not bad at all. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 01

It's December 1st, which means it's the perfect time to break out the advent calendars! And I don't even know what Advent means. I think it's Latin for "25 days of small prizes."


I picked up the Lego City 2009 Advent Calendar. Partially because I enjoy Lego, but also because Lego only released the Pirate themed advent calendar in Europe. That's okay, this is Christmas themed wheras the Pirate one is not. That means this is more appropriate for the season.

So let's open Day 1!

Oh my god, the kid in the helmet. A KID in a HELMET. Anyone see the Clerks Animated Series? Because this is now an apt reference to drop. And it looks like you put him together yourself. That's the best part of LEGO!

Not bad. I like that that they used a normal leg piece and not the stunted no-articulation short person piece.

I've suddenly realized that this is the same advent calendar they're exploring this year on X-Entertainment. Hmm. I better step up my game.

Commadant Cobra

Commadant what now?

Hey look, Tuesday Morning had cheap French Canadian GI Joes! You can tell because they have both English and French printing on them. Even on the cheap paper file card that comes with the generic packaging!

And I do like that Cobra Commander's laser blaster just fits into a groove in his back. Was that how it was in the cartoon? Because that'd be awesome.

Otherwise, it's a typical GI Joe figure. But now I've added the Commander to my collection.

Okay, up on the 3.75" shelf for you.

Black Friday Haul

So on Black Friday I went to the Lego store and a comic book shop, both of which were having sales, and picked up this...



Although those Star Wars Legos were just so I could get Lego magnets.

Marvel Minimates Wave 28

Hey, you know how people never read the character descriptions on the back of toy boxes? Well most people... if they're not buying the toys. Hell, I don't read them, not unless I get bored in the store.

But I did read the backs of the Marvel Minimates Wave 28 boxes. They're pretty neat, partially because it seems like they stopped caring about being accurate and just started having fun with it and leap frogging details. Which isn't a problem unless you're a fanboy.

SO FANBOY AWAY!



Actually I'm pretty sure that deciding to join the X-men isn't what made him a hero, it was the heroic stuff he did with the X-men. If all it takes is deciding to join the X-men to be a hero then that means dude could have been heroic if he had spent all his time watching hockey on the television rather than saving people. Also, fanboy note: he joined the X-men to get away from the control of the Canadian government, which in itself isn't very heroic.

I like how they gloss over the body swap bit. Mostly because no one gave a damn about the character until she became a Japanese woman wearing a swimsuit. And how they included the Omniverse stuff in a nod to all the reality travelling the character did which no one gave a crap about and tries to froget because it really doesn't matter.

And of course they throw a joke into the Deadpool profile. Which is fair enough, although I'd lvoe it if they put jokes in all the profiles. I mean really, it'd make the whole thing a lot more entertaining.

AT-ST & Chewbacca

My collection of Lego interpretations of walking vehicles just got closer to being completed.

The AT-ST or "chickenwalker" is part of the Battle of Endor set which retails for around $100. But damned if I'm paying $100 for a AT-ST Lego set. So I totally e-bayed this sucker.

$15 for the AT-ST and Chewbacca. I could do without the Chewbacca, (I'm not a huge wookie fan, i mean seriously, what use is a crossbow that shoots lasers. Why is the bow part necessary?) but what the hell, I'll take him if you're offering him. I'm not a fan of the design, which restricts head movement as a trade for looking a tiny bit more like the character. Hilariously, the guy who sold this to me included the instructions to construct the AT-ST, but since they were middle pages in the instruction book he accomplished this by tearing the pages out of the book. I'm sure there's a bit of genius there, buying a big Lego set and selling off the pieces one by one, but that's the Gray Market for you.

Whatever, I totally got a Lego AT-ST for a reasonable price and that makes me smile a smile of a collector who is temporarily sated.