Harry Potter Advent Calendar - Day 23
Posted by CapnRex101,
We are now in the final three-day group of the Advent Calendar, consisting of a minifigure, a creature and a magical artefact. The second of the group is expected today.
Let's catch our final creature...
Harry Potter's jumper on day one featured an owl, which followed on day two. I thought creatures from those Christmas jumpers might continue to follow the minifigures and that has finally proven to be the case for our final figure. This rendition of a Mandrake is delightful, making perfect use of plant stem elements for its roots and including a frowning expression, appropriately.
Overall - I thought the Monster Book of Monsters showed great improvement in these creature models on day twenty and the Mandrake is superb as well.
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The Mandrake is like the chocolate frog: animal, artifact, or is it both?
Oh, better watch out. Only juvenile mandrakes have wails that are weak enough to survive. This one’s grown a full mustache!
@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"The Mandrake is like the chocolate frog: animal, artifact, or is it both? "
Is it even an animal or a plant?
@Garyslaw said:
" @ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"The Mandrake is like the chocolate frog: animal, artifact, or is it both? "
Is it even an animal or a plant?"
YES!
Looks more like a beard-moustache than a mouth flap. And it looks like it snorted something from another plant from a hidden chamber...
Eh, I dunno, I’m not as sold on this one as the good Cap’n is, think it ranks with Hedwig and the Sorting Hat as fairly low effort. A shame after the more recent ones looked so good
Now this is another great model.
@Garyslaw said:
" @ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"The Mandrake is like the chocolate frog: animal, artifact, or is it both? "
Is it even an animal or a plant?"
It's a plantimal, just not as colorful as the ones from TLM2.