City Advent Calendar - Day 2
Posted by MeganL,
Yesterday's child was dressed for the weather, and even had a snowboard and helmet for some winter adventures. Since the placemat shows an indoor scene, I expect today's build to be something that encourages indoor activities.
This is certainly indoor - it's a construction toy! Considering the history of this calendar including scale models of sets, I wonder if this is a representation of 60420 Construction Excavator. Regardless, this is a nice little build, although not very holiday-like.
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I thought it's more of an auger than an excavator. Either way, we played with it for a bit.
My toddler wondered where the person was today and I explained we don't always get a person. He then told me that a monkey was locked inside the machine and driving it!
Needless to say, we're looking forward to the next minifigure!
Someone's taking snowfort building very seriously! :)
Meh. Nothing to riot about here, move along please.
Vroom
Kind of reminds me of 952202
Z-Blob’s angry…
Ho Ho Ho
Now I have a power drill.
Nice build, recognisable, a mini mini figure would be chuffed to get that under the tree
@Ridgeheart said:
"Oh. Well, this was unexpected. Having seen the preliminary images of the sets, I thought... I thought we would be able to rest easy for one year.
We've seen the rise of Dreadflipper, of course. Those of us who survived, still bear the scars. We still wake, screaming. When the boiling seas closed over his head and rime began to form, we took it as warning - and rightly so, for last year, we saw him ascend once more as Frostflipper, Terror of the Frozen Depths.
We were fools to believe ourselves safe, but in fairness, who could have predicted that this would be the year of Mechflipper? In hindsight, with the rise of AI, it makes so much sense. The Singularity is here, and it is a monstrous mechanical penguin.
And we are, all of us, already dead."
Apparently, I was grievously in error. Probably on account of the horrific, flipper-related contusion I just realized I'm suffering from.
This looks weirdly dangerous for a toy.
Unless... it's not a toy! Maybe it's something else. Something more... dreadful.
Not quite Rock Raiders but I’ll take it!
@Binnekamp said:
"This looks weirdly dangerous for a toy.
Unless... it's not a toy! Maybe it's something else. Something more... dreadful."
A remote-operated, robotic tattooing machine is a pretty terrifying thought.
In suprised ninjago and minecraft dont have advent calendars.
@Capybara554321 said:
"In suprised ninjago and minecraft dont have advent calendars. "
A Minecraft one would allow for the possibility of some nice new skins.
I think the annual comments sections on the advent calendars comes closest to the random weirdness that made the forum such fun. I’m doing City and HP this year plus a Celebrations one for chocolate input.
I like this. It's not a "boring" "bit" of this year's Advent calendar!
@Capybara554321 said:
"In suprised ninjago and minecraft dont have advent calendars. "
I say this every year, because it's always true.
We are well overdue for a Ninjago advent calendar.
Just think, the calendar days could be a small-scale Ninjago-season with their own villain characters, and the final couple of days (aside from an obvious Christmas tree build) could be the bad guy's final mecha, I don't know, maybe a gigantic death penguin, or something.
C'mon Lego. I'd buy twenty of them.
@Freezerr said:
"I thought it's more of an auger than an excavator. Either way, we played with it for a bit.
My toddler wondered where the person was today and I explained we don't always get a person. He then told me that a monkey was locked inside the machine and driving it!
Needless to say, we're looking forward to the next minifigure!"
I had that same conversation with my kids :-D
@Zordboy said:
"...maybe a gigantic death penguin, or something."
As iff Dreadflipper wasn't bad enough.
Just chased down what might have been the last one at retail in Metro Detroit. Last night Meijer showed two locations that had at least one in stock, and Walmart showed one (didn’t think to check B&N, but Target showed nothing in the area). Hit all three stores and came up empty. But then in the third store, I started poking around more than I had at the other two, and found that someone had stashed a copy behind some Disney sets, probably hoping to score a massive clearance discount right after Christmas. Anyways, the box was cut by the stockers, but all I really cared about were Mrs. Claus (I have a _lot_ of Santa minifigs already, but now I also have every minifig of the missus) and the Sweater family (including the stroller), which are all going in a layout this weekend.