Topical.

This is weirdly similar to 30286... The bag-ckground is basically the same, even.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Miyakan said:
"It's December. We can have this one."

...It's still either bit early, or whole lot late."

Anytime starting on Black Friday through either the 5th or 6th of January (depending on your tradition) is right on time. Santa should wait until the 24th or 25th (again, depending on your tradition), but the tree goes up well before Christmas Day."

The radio stations start Christmas in September.

Excellent timing, I was just thinking about setting up my tree.

A little early but still very seasonal, gotta love how randomness sometimes works out well

@Lego_lord said:
"Excellent timing, I was just thinking about setting up my tree."

I have to stop by my parents’ house after work and help my dad bring theirs up from the basement.

Sinterklaas has left the building, so the Christmas tree can enter. Excellent timing Huwbot

Remember last year's random set of the day for December 25th?

https://brickset.com/article/88324/random-set-of-the-day-alpha-team-jet-sub

I hope we get a seasonal one this year by coincidence rather than a random set.

Two weeks ago already Mariah Carey, yesterday Wham, the supermarket switched from the Sinterklaas assortment to the christmas stuff already last weekend, and now this.....I wouldn't mind if they wait a bit longer with this terror....

There was a time when supermarkets started selling Christmas related food (especially "Lebkuchen", "Dominosteine" and "Spekulatius", look it up) right after the summer holidays in early September. Come to think of it, doesn't LEGO also reveal the Advent Calendars around that time too?
Anyway, at least the supermarkets in general have now listened to the customer complaints about that absurd timing and pushed back the start date of selling Lebkuchen and the like to after Halloween, which makes it a little more palatable.

I think I got this as a gift with purchase for something (likely Fantasy Era Castle stuff). The gray technic parts are a bit off, but I really liked that clear diamond piece :D

I really wish those light bluish gray 3-bladed propeller pieces came in green!

Hmmm. Grey technic tree.

Went for the same color scheme with my tree this year, but I just went with red and silver. I had considered gold, but I got lazy.

@ozbrickcreator said:
"Remember last year's random set of the day for December 25th?

https://brickset.com/article/88324/random-set-of-the-day-alpha-team-jet-sub

I hope we get a seasonal one this year by coincidence rather than a random set."
7958 was RSotD on the 25th... of November, 2021. So close!

@AustinPowers said: "There was a time when supermarkets started selling Christmas related food (especially "Lebkuchen", "Dominosteine" and "Spekulatius", look it up) right after the summer holidays in early September. Come to think of it, doesn't LEGO also reveal the Advent Calendars around that time too?
Anyway, at least the supermarkets in general have now listened to the customer complaints about that absurd timing and pushed back the start date of selling Lebkuchen and the like to after Halloween, which makes it a little more palatable. "
Was the pun intentional? You were talking about food, and then talked about making things "a little more palatable."

@AustinPowers said:
"There was a time when supermarkets started selling Christmas related food (especially "Lebkuchen", "Dominosteine" and "Spekulatius", look it up) right after the summer holidays in early September. Come to think of it, doesn't LEGO also reveal the Advent Calendars around that time too?
Anyway, at least the supermarkets in general have now listened to the customer complaints about that absurd timing and pushed back the start date of selling Lebkuchen and the like to after Halloween, which makes it a little more palatable. "

Over here we get Sinterklaas products and some christmas products at the end of AUGUST. And complaints don't seem to do anything.

And for once the timing here is impeccable, as it being dec 6th it's no longer Sinterklaas, and therefore Christmas trees can be put up. At their earliest, unless you're a public place.

That doesn't stop many people though. I've already seen one house absolutely glowing nook to cranny with external christmas lights, complete with reindeer and Santa setup.

And on St. Nicholas Day!

My family is Dutch, on my dad's side, though my WWII era grandparents didn't make December 6th a big deal when he was growing up, that I'm aware of--they were of a generation that aimed more to fit in (though... about that...). Anyway, my parents decided to revive the tradition of presents on St. Nicholas day in my childhood, though Christmas remained the big day. I think it was the same impulse as an Advent Calendar: a little something to tide you over and build the anticipation. Of course, we started Advent Calendars TOO a few years later.

The result is that this is a "LEGO Day" in my memory: never anything big, but some important ones to me: 6115 (my first Aquashark), 7110 (my first Luke Skywalker), a Bionicle Turaga--things of that weight class.

If our tree wasn't up yet, it definitely went up on December 6th!

@namekuji said:
"Hmmm. Grey technic tree."

Oh, Technic Tree, oh Technic Tree
How shall we motorize thee?

@Formendacil:
I was well into adulthood when I found out my mom’s family tradition was to open one present the evening of Christmas Eve, instead of having to wait for everything Christmas morning. And it’s not like we didn’t get revenge on our dad by dragging him out of bed half-awake, but we didn’t get to _enjoy_ the fact that it was revenge, since we didn’t know we’d been wronged

Very neat build, I still have that one Christmas tree from that city advent calendar from 2020.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"The radio stations start Christmas in September."

My coworker starts around February/March. Doesn't mean he's right."

We actually had a bet on in my work about when one workers chosen station would play the first Christmas song. I went for November 27th as that would be four weeks to Christmas. They ended up playing Mariah Carey on November 30th.

@Miyakan:
None of these stations play the sort of Christmas songs I listen to, starting with the compilation albums Christmas a Go Go, and A Blackheart Christmas. Because I’m Santa by the Dollyrots is another fun one that’s family-safe.

@Miyakan said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"The radio stations start Christmas in September."

My coworker starts around February/March. Doesn't mean he's right."

We actually had a bet on in my work about when one workers chosen station would play the first Christmas song. I went for November 27th as that would be four weeks to Christmas. They ended up playing Mariah Carey on November 30th."

Sadly, Christmas music starts at 12:01 AM on November 1st here in Missouri. They also play holiday songs in late July to mark 6 months until Christmas on a few channels... It's certifiably insane.

@Murdoch17:
Ah, yes, St. Louis, Misery is also where I got the worst sunburn of my life.

@Murdoch17 I think that’s about the time the local mix radio station starts playing Christmas music in Mississippi. I think the stores will occasionally start playing Christmas before Halloween and the commercials start around September. Don’t even get me started about Home Depot…

@Murdoch17 said:
"They also play holiday songs in late July to mark 6 months until Christmas on a few channels... It's certifiably insane."
What, you've never heard of Christmas in July?

@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17 :
Ah, yes, St. Louis, Misery is also where I got the worst sunburn of my life."

That's where I'm at... Misery is an accurately named state. we had the most powerful 7.0+ earthquakes known to human kind (four in 1811 / 12), we get tornadoes, blistering heat, floods, droughts, thundersnow, and back in the thirties we had a dust storms that blew in from further out west, as in Kansas. (no joke!)

Also, if you don't like the weather here, wait fifteen minutes.... It'll change!