City Advent Calendar - Day 5
Posted by CapnRex101,
The costumed minifigure from day one is now suitably laden with toys, so I think it is time for our second minifigure to make an entrance on day five.
See what the day brings below...
60436 LEGO City Advent Calendar 2024 contained several minifigures dressed in new festive jumpers and another follows this year. As usual, the knitted graphical style is excellent and the snowman design looks splendid, although the other details are very similar to a minifigure from last year. That is not necessarily a problem, but a little more variety would be ideal.
The minifigure also features an uncommon head, only available in three much more expensive sets before now, so that is a positive. Moreover, the alternative winking face works well with his accessory, as the figure comes with a camera and can look through the viewfinder with one eye closed.
Overall - This is another great minifigure, seasonally dressed and with a new torso.
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As the increasingly less proud owner of a 2025 Star Wars calendar, I feel I made the wrong choice this year.
The same sweater appears in the December gazebo GWP.
I'm not sure how well that face works, though, as if he holds the camera up, won't the viewfinder be in front of his closed eye?
"Don't worry, nobody else is ever going to see these pictures."
*WINK*
I love these festive sweaters. Advent calenders are not in my list of must-buy-sets, but I love the colorful figures in them.
@PurpleDave said:
"The same sweater appears in the December gazebo GWP."
I remember your comment that day. That choice in said GWP still makes no sense.
@Yardsale19X said:
"As the increasingly less proud owner of a 2025 Star Wars calendar, I feel I made the wrong choice this year. "
I got both City and Star Wars this year, and I’m happy with that. I regret passing up certain past calendars, though.
I really like that sweater print.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I'm not sure how well that face works, though, as if he holds the camera up, won't the viewfinder be in front of his closed eye?"
It actually lines up perfectly! I managed to get a nice picture of the eye through the camera.
Man, this dude looks amazing with the camera and sweater.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I'm not sure how well that face works, though, as if he holds the camera up, won't the viewfinder be in front of his closed eye?"
Vertically, the camera was already designed to line up with eye level. Horizontally, you do kinda have to rotate the head to get the perfect angle, but it definitely works. Again, it’s part of the camera design, and I’m sure the graphics department took that into consideration when choosing which eye to show closed. Now the weird one is the CMF Sailor, who got redone with a dark-blue torso for one of those minifig box sets. I didn’t realize for quite a while that they’d switched which eye was closed. I put three Sailors in one of my cars, and switch between the full whites during summer and the dark-blue for winter, and was in the middle of the seasonal switch when I realized the one in the rumble seat was using the wrong eye on the telescope.
@Crux said:
""Don't worry, nobody else is ever going to see these pictures."
*WINK*"
Clark, you told me you erased those! My face is all over that billboard!