Friends Advent Calendar - Day 22
Posted by MeganL,
Yesterday's hearth moved us into cosy festive territory. Hopefully Santa likes chocolate chip cookies, since that's what the Friends have prepared and left for him. With only three days left in the calendar, I expect another Christmas themed build today.
Yes, you can't get much more Christmas-themed than a Christmas tree! This is a good Christmas tree, and I like that there's a gold star on the top. However, this calendar seems to have taken a page out of the Disney advent calendar, with this unadorned tree. I'm a little disappointed that there are no ornaments included. Maybe Jonathan has just felled this tree with that handy axe of his.
I wonder if this should go on the outdoor or indoor portion of the place mat.....
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Indoor. It's got a base-thing at the bottom, like Christmas trees usually do.
Or maybe it's dirt.
Had to watch as Johnathan chopped down all its dendrine brothers and cast them into a fire, it’s too traumatised to be decorated
I mean, it is decorated with a star. I think this is decent for what it is, as this kind of build doesn't really allow for much decoration. The cross-shaped stand feels quite authentic. The only thing I can fault it with this that the colors are a bit basic compared to its nearly-identical Harry Potter equivalents which used dark green and white to depict partial snow. I don't expect anything with the suffic 'dark-' besides dark bluish gray in Friends, so that just leaves a lack of white.
Ah, I'm just nitpicking at this point. If anything it's nice that the green is matching for once.
@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"Indoor. It's got a base-thing at the bottom, like Christmas trees usually do.
Or maybe it's dirt."
Besides, it's got a star at the top. Which is a bit unusual. Isn't the star usually how the trimming is finished, rather than begun?
@TheOtherMike said:
" @alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"Indoor. It's got a base-thing at the bottom, like Christmas trees usually do.
Or maybe it's dirt."
Besides, it's got a star at the top. Which is a bit unusual. Isn't the star usually how the trimming is finished, rather than begun?"
Whoever owns this tree could only afford the star. Baubles are too expensive.
Or maybe this tree is part of a Shadow Group cult ritual
@TheOtherMike said:
" @alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"Indoor. It's got a base-thing at the bottom, like Christmas trees usually do.
Or maybe it's dirt."
Besides, it's got a star at the top. Which is a bit unusual. Isn't the star usually how the trimming is finished, rather than begun?"
Maybe that's the point. Maybe someone is trying to avoid decorating the tree by claiming that you can't add any decorations once the star has been placed.
There aren't a lot of studs on this tree, making lower decorations difficult, but you could take a string with studs on it (or even one with just handholds), load it up with 1x1 trans plates or tiles in festive colors on it, and wind it around the tree. That's a technique for decoration I first noticed in the Winter Cottage, and it's appeared in many other sets as well. Not that we're likely to get the necessary pieces in the last few days of an Advent Calendar (and people would grumble if we did), but it makes a fun extra project for those wanting (or needing) one....
Missed opportunity to add ornaments
@sklamb:
Or just print them, but that would require a complex two-sided print. They did it for R2-Tree2, but that’s a minifig. This is just a tree, and a print they’d be almost certain to never use again. And stickers aren’t even in consideration, because they don’t do those in regular advent calendars (technically, Home Alone qualifies as an advent calendar, and it came with two sticker sheets, but I specifically meant these with a standardized 6x4 chamber box).
@PurpleDave said:
" @sklamb:
Or just print them, but that would require a complex two-sided print. They did it for R2-Tree2, but that’s a minifig. This is just a tree, and a print they’d be almost certain to never use again. And stickers aren’t even in consideration, because they don’t do those in regular advent calendars (technically, Home Alone qualifies as an advent calendar, and it came with two sticker sheets, but I specifically meant these with a standardized 6x4 chamber box)."
They also don't use stickers on cones, outside of that one time they used a sticker in the inside of a half-cone element. But that was years ago, and Lego's sticker policies. have changed since then. I'm pretty sure that they were still doing STAMPs at the time.
@TheOtherMike:
Most recent set to include a stickered cone was…40712, released in 2024. True, that was a GWP, but the cone interior you were thinking of was probably 76387, from 2021. 41685 also had a stickered half-cone (exterior) in 2021. 76391, also from 2021, had a full cone with a sticker. 41687, yet again from 2021, had _two_ stickered cones.
Pretty sure they’re fine doing stickers on cones, depending on the shape and size of the stickers. Radar dishes, on the other hand, have compound curves that make it nearly impossible to get stickers to lie flat.