Friends Advent Calendar Review: Day 1
Posted by LostInTranslation,
Happy Advent to all!
Before I kick off with a few comments on the first day's offering from the Friends Advent Calendar, I took a couple of pictures of the front of the box and the scene on the inside of the flap cover.
The front shows a nice festive scene inside a cabin or chalet, with 2 minidolls exchanging gifts.
The inside depicts more rooms in this building, all festooned with Christmas decorations, and a delicious Christmas meal waiting to be eaten in the kitchen. Outside in the garden there is a frozen pond on which the Friends seem to have been skating. I think it forms a nice backdrop for displaying the models from the Advent Calendar.
That brings me to our first 'model': today we actually get a minidoll, Mia, in jeans and a lovely lavender jacket with a blue scarf, and this figure is exclusive to the calendar. I guess it makes sense to include a figure on the first day so that all the models which follow can be used and played with straight away. It did feel a little bit of an anticlimax to spend about 5 seconds building the minidoll after the anticipation of waiting for 1st December to open a door, but I suppose you have to start somewhere!
Fingers crossed for more building tomorrow!
Overall - 4 - It is great to get another exclusive minidoll in a Friends Advent Calendar and I look forward to seeing what she is provided with over the next few days.
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Hmmm...my daughter got something else...guess i'll have to go back and check to see if she opened the right day :)
^Or if you have a previous years calendar?
Interesting that both the Friends and City have started with a figure - I suspect that Lucy hit the nail on the head, it makes the playability easier for other days to already have a figure.
Two of these were opened in our house this morning, and each had something different. I wonder if they've been randomly placed this year?
interesting, presumably the box would have to be different (either on the inside where instructions etc are printed or the outside with the door numbering). Does this mean no more reviews?
No, its definitely 2014 calendar....after work i'll verify which one she opened.
This is odd (the comments - not the review!). Perhaps they have been randomly packed. That would make everything a little more fun though! That's the bright side! :-)
I got this doll in mine today!
We got the Mia figure today. Very nice! *Surely* those people saying they got something else have made a mistake (old calendar or wrong window opened)? The idea that LEGO has gone all random seems somewhat fanciful (!).
It wouldnt be random, it would make the printing/boxing rediculously difficult. Must be wrong doors or wrong calendars in some way.
It would not be unheard of for the plastic tray inside to have been inserted the wrong way around so the wrong gift is behind each door. I think that happened to somebody on Brickset last year.
Yeah LEGO needs to fit all 24 little bags in the right tray and then make sure it's not in backwards. It wouldn't surprise me with their rushing so many sets out that some of these were not put in correctly.
I'm not a Friends fan, so this doesn't interest me one bit.
Parts Breakdown
Torso: 2 sets
Head: 19 sets
Hair: 15 sets
Pants: 4 sets
That doesn't surprise me so much, seeing as the outfit's new and Mia is a fairly common character.
I really like the inside picture, I agree it makes a lovely backdrop. It's a shame that the torso is the same as in last year's calendar.
I take out the minidolls first anyway so I'm glad that Mia was behind the first door :)
@CapnRex101, I think that's what's happened with one of ours, the tray has been inserted the wrong way round.
I'm opening last years calender, and there is a picture of what should be inside the tray on the inside of the door... Does this years have the same to check against??
Yeah she definitely opened the right doors, so it appears as though maybe the tray is backwards. Unless it is random. Did anyone else get a different piece on day 1? If it was the same as ours, then its most likely an reversed tray. If not...then it must be random.