Here in my country ALL City LEGO calendars are SOLD OUT!

Pfft. Opened mine 2 months ago.

Yay!! Can’t wait!

It is always a matter of taste, and each one is different in their own way but I would still say: I really doubt HP will win the advent calendar 'contest' this year. Yes it has more minifigs than usual but all the builds are so basic and in a style that do not fit any other HP structures (minifig scale) - IMO.

I like the advents countdown but I most definitely love the numerous announcements about upcoming sets - even from themes I have no interest in whatsoever (new parts, new recolours).
Eagerly waiting for the new modular news release. Fun time but also wallet-worrying time!

Already looking forward to it!

We still doing contests? I used to run this a few years back in the comments section here on Brickset but in the end I found there to be too much bias involved from both the reviewer and fans. That really runs counter to the Christmas spirit. Oh well, enjoy it all!

He cares not if you've been naughty.
He cares not if you've been nice.
Decorum will not spare you,
From his reign of blood and ice.

Christmas approaches. The penguin awakens. It is already too late.

As they say. You'd better watch out.

@TurtleFinland said:
"Here in my country ALL City LEGO calendars are SOLD OUT!"

No wonder, all of them besides DIsney one are actually great.

Eagerly awaiting the news about the set which contains the Classic Space helmet piece in bright light blue.

@lordofdragonss said:
" @TurtleFinland said:
"Here in my country ALL City LEGO calendars are SOLD OUT!"

No wonder, all of them besides Disney one are actually great."

I thought the Disney one looked neat, personally.

I'm shocked and chagrined by the hate the SW calendar is getting. I'm enjoying the changeup and singular theme.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"I'm shocked and chagrined by the hate the SW calendar is getting. I'm enjoying the changeup and singular theme."

While it didn't interest me enought to get it (I went with the Minecraft one this year, breaking a three-year streak of getting the Star Wars one), if I had more space, I probably would have gotten it. No micro-scale ships in a SW AC is a bit weird, but an all-droid AC *is* pretty cool.

@Matt_Z_ said:
"We still doing contests? I used to run this a few years back in the comments section here on Brickset but in the end I found there to be too much bias involved from both the reviewer and fans. That really runs counter to the Christmas spirit. Oh well, enjoy it all!"

I, for one at least, really enjoyed what you did. If you notice the line-up of those reviewing the Calendars, they are assigned by preferences of themes - so technically, they will be more inclined to appreciate the content and deliver a good review. Your review was not about the attractiveness of the content as it relates to a given calendar but rather a comparison of attractiveness ACROSS themes. I understand it is certainly quite time consuming but if you can, I certainly would read you on a daily basis.

Ive opened last years City one. (I had HP and City in 2024). I bought another City one for extra pieces.

I was VERY disappointed in 2025 City and HP Advent Calendars. The city one is very generic and boring with few interesting builds.

HP normally has great pieces but this time its just a bunch of boring animal builds.

Oh boy my favorite time of year, when the front page is flooded and the genuinely interesting articles are drowned out and hidden by the advent spam.

Just noticed that @TheBrickPal will be doing 21280's reviews. This may be their busiest month on the site yet!

@HOBBES said:
"It is always a matter of taste, and each one is different in their own way but I would still say: I really doubt HP will win the advent calendar 'contest' this year. Yes it has more minifigs than usual but all the builds are so basic and in a style that do not fit any other HP structures (minifig scale) - IMO."

The strengths of the HPAC have been the minifigs (the few Christmas-themed ones have actually been canon), the unique printed elements, and the fact that four of them could be used to create cohesive scenes from the films. The other two had games incorporated into the design, and those two years may have lost points over the shift from film scenes to board games. The problem is, they're running out of scenes to focus on (they've been studiously avoiding the Slug Club party for reasons I don't understand), so they really need to find a new format if the HPAC is going to continue.

I will say two things in defense of the 2025 HPAC. The first is that the minifigs provide two complete sets of matching torsos, which are generic enough that you can repurpose them to make a wide variety of other students (except, ironically, Harry/Ron/Hermione, unless you buy a second HPAC, or at least one extra torso). The second thing requires thinking back to the first years of the Friends calendar, which were widely reviled until the year the format took a sharp left turn. That year, almost the entire calendar was real Christmas ornaments that you could hang on your own tree. This year's HPAC feels very similar to that Friends calendar, except for the fact that they don't appear to incorporate a way to hang them as ornaments.

@Brickchap:
I recently ended up chasing down two copies of the City calendar that were marked down to $24.49, just for the minifigs. The rest of both are just spare parts, as is the case with the few other City calendars I've bought.