Marvel Advent Calendar - Day 14
Posted by CapnRex101,
Okoye's appearance on day thirteen opens the door for items inspired by Wakanda during the next few days, which would mark an interesting change in the calendar.
I hope for such an item today...
Sadly, the opportunity for something creative has been missed. Instead, we receive a selection of ice hockey accessories and a couple of presents. Some of these elements are nice, including the bunny soft toy and the 2x4 windscreen forming a goal. However, only the colours of the wrapping paper on the present identify these accessories with Marvel at all, which I find quite disappointing.
Overall - Although today's items are not bad, they lack any proper association with Marvel and fail to take the opportunity to include something from Wakanda.
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I kind of like the design for the present. Simple but effective.
That said... a bit random, but it fits the season I suppose
The bunny might be from Thor Love and Thunder.
Backhander forever
(yes I did have to google ice hockey terms)
Today's offering deserves time in the penalty box.
Don't get me wrong, I like the bunny. But it just seems so random.
Were they really running out of ideas, this early in the calendar? There's still ten days to go.
@Zordboy said:
"Don't get me wrong, I like the bunny. But it just seems so random.
Were they really running out of ideas, this early in the calendar? There's still ten days to go."
I'm noticing that Marvel's big problem is that it lacks iconography--that is, recognizable imagery that captures the whole feel of the enterprise. Star Wars has a bunch of ships with recognizable shapes, so you can put a few wedge plates into an Advent Calendar and bam, you have a simple but recognizable Star Destroyer. Marvel, right now, runs out of ideas after a Quinjet.
(I think Harry Potter Advent Calendars can get away with this because Harry's world is all about the surrounding environment. Lego designers can make little play scenes from Hogwarts or Hogsmede Village or whatever and not really run out of ideas as quickly.)
Now, on the off-chance Marvel does an X-Men '97 calendar next year (no idea if they will, but that's my hope), there might be room to do a lot more recognizable creative builds. Six minifigures, sure, but you could do a festive Xavier hoverchair (people would recognize it), a mini-mansion, a mini-Blackbird, and a bunch of Danger Room battle traps on 4x4 plates.
But yeah, X-Men notwithstanding, there isn't the same fleet of ships (Star Wars) or recognizable play environments (Harry Potter) that Lego can get away with, and so we're left with "weird gifts for Okoye to play with." I'd be okay with Lego retiring the Marvel Advent Calendar after next year (IF it's an X-Men calendar).
Iron Present
The bunny is supposedly a reference to Cassie Lang's birthday present in the first Ant-Man film. Marvel has plenty of iconography, LEGO is just struggling to capture any of it in a meaningful or logical way.
@Isj_rocks said:
"The bunny is supposedly a reference to Cassie Lang's birthday present in the first Ant-Man film. Marvel has plenty of iconography, LEGO is just struggling to capture any of it in a meaningful or logical way."
Wow, that is such a reach for them to make
@Isj_rocks said:
"The bunny is supposedly a reference to Cassie Lang's birthday present in the first Ant-Man film. Marvel has plenty of iconography, LEGO is just struggling to capture any of it in a meaningful or logical way."
Marvel has iconography, but it's more centered on their characters and/or their accessories. Their iconography is the Spider-Man mask, Iron Man's helmet, Cap's shield, Thor's hammer. What Marvel lacks is readily identifiable vehicles or locations that translate well into mini Advent builds. (In that sense, I wish GOTG had quit swapping ships and just kept the Milano as their Millennium Falcon for all three films.)
What a joke!
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"inb4 Kang's boyfriend be like "everything is Kang, lul!""
Bold of you to assume I could ever compete with Kang's true love ... Kang.
Sadly my extensive knowledge of the Kangvel Cinematic Universe leaves me wanting on today's particular entry, unless this happens to be a reference to Avengers 420: Kang v. Kang At The Kanglympics. At the one hour, twenty-eight minute, eleven second mark, in the upper third of the frame, you can see Rabbit Kang practicing his fighting technique with a stick in anticipation of a hockey match. If so, this is quite the bold easter egg for the designers to include in this calendar, as it only rewards the most diehard of fans who have an eagle eye for this sort of detail.
Brilliant!
Aw, cute. They handed Robert Downey Jr’s corpse off to the goons from Pixar’s Cars 2 to cube so they could place him under the Christmas tree. Or use him as a hockey puck. It’s a bit unclear at the moment.
I wouldn't mind random stuff if it was at least more obviously Marvel themed random stuff. Like, the hockey goal stuff could just as easily be from the City calendar (we've had a hockey guy from there after all), and that rabbit could be from Friends. The only thig remotely Marvel is a single small present in roughly Iron Man colours
I'll agree that this is an overall disappointing entry, but I do like that they were able to get a recognizable present with only three pieces.
@Isj_rocks: "He's so ugly! I love him!"
@Isj_rocks said:
"The bunny is supposedly a reference to Cassie Lang's birthday present in the first Ant-Man film. Marvel has plenty of iconography, LEGO is just struggling to capture any of it in a meaningful or logical way."
No one would be disappointed to get an actual new print for the bunny. Oh man, I'd consider buying this advent calendar with that ugly thing.
@Isj_rocks said:
"The bunny is supposedly a reference to Cassie Lang's birthday present in the first Ant-Man film. Marvel has plenty of iconography, LEGO is just struggling to capture any of it in a meaningful or logical way."
They have a decade's worth of sets they've been putting out for Marvel based on movie and comic content. They should be mining those concepts and make micro-builds of those sets, beyond just quinjets like was mentioned previously. Micro Daily Bugle, or Sanctum, or any number of Wakanda vehicles.
MR. ROBOT has a box today.
Look, there's not much to work with here. I'm trying my best.