Harry Potter Advent Calendar - Day 8

I think the standard of items in the Harry Potter Advent Calendar has been good, but it has also been rather repetitive, between similar statues, similar tables and similar minifigures.

With that in mind, I hope for something totally different today...

This pair of Christmas crackers are certainly different and make neat use of crowns and cupcake cases. Clearly, they are massively oversized beside the minifigures, but that feels appropriate for the Wizarding World because Wizard Crackers explode with much greater force than the Muggle equivalent! I am not a huge fan of the colours for these crackers, but at least they are vibrant.

Overall - These crackers are cleverly designed and offer something completely new for Harry Potter Advent Calendars.

13 comments on this article

By Gilliebillie in Belgium, 08 Dec 2024 15:03

I don't really like it, at first i thougt it was some kind of christmas decoration.

By WokePope in United States, 08 Dec 2024 15:22

And when you crack them open, a handful of LEGO pieces fall into your hands!

By Wobette in United Kingdom, 08 Dec 2024 16:12

It's a shame they are not in House Colours. But clever all the same

By Yooha in Italy, 08 Dec 2024 16:40

I have never heard of a cracker. Here in Durmstrang we don't know them.

By PurpleDave in United States, 08 Dec 2024 16:44

@Yooha said:
"I have never heard of a cracker. Here in Durmstrang we don't know them."

I’d heard of them some time ago, but immediately assumed they were some type of food, like soup crackers, oyster crackers, graham crackers, or Goldfish Crackers.

By LD_Brickmaster in United Kingdom, 08 Dec 2024 16:50

What a cracking design!

By Binnekamp in Netherlands, 08 Dec 2024 17:25

Gromit! We forgot the crack-

ers

By WolfpackBricks63 in United States, 08 Dec 2024 18:01

I'm American so I have no idea what these even are

By Andrusi in United States, 08 Dec 2024 18:59

I learned about these things from an incredibly awkward Christmas-themed Transformers comic story by a writer who happened to be British.

By BaconKing in United States, 08 Dec 2024 19:13

@Binnekamp said:
"Gromit! We forgot the crack-

ers"

Cheese

By StyleCounselor in United States, 08 Dec 2024 22:30

Christmas fireworks with prizes! Goes great with spilling egg nog.

By TheOtherMike in United States, 09 Dec 2024 01:37

@Andrusi said:
"I learned about these things from an incredibly awkward Christmas-themed Transformers comic story by a writer who happened to be British."

Did that writer happen to be Simon Furman?

By nrith in United States, 09 Dec 2024 02:31

@WemWem said:
"And when you crack them open, a handful of LEGO pieces fall into your hands!"

If LEGO introduced a line of Christmas cracker mini-sets, I'd reuse them every year. The UK wooden puzzle company Wentworth has some.