Friends Advent Calendar - Day 1

I think that's a pretty cool start, and I don't even much like the Friends theme.

These figures are the only real reason i got this calendar this year. Though the builds look far better than the City and Star Wars ones imo

So I guess Olivia didn't discover that she needed glasses until she was older. I myself didn't make that discovery until I was twelve, and I'm very nearsighted.

Many of the builds in this calendar are great and genius! Superb set and undeniably my favourite advent calendar this year and definitely the best out of all the friends ones

@MCLegoboy said:
"So if Friends began in 2012, and we'll just assume they're all about 16 because why else would there be cars for them to drive, and this set implies that they're kids, does this calendar take place in 2002 or some time in the early to mid 2000s?

Or is the Friends timeline one that slides like the Marvel Universe and everything happens within a fixed amount of years and increasingly gets compressed as the years add on, meaning this calendar could theoretically take place in 2012, but not really?
OR did the universe get reset in 2018 with the character redesigns, meaning this set could take place in 2008 to 2010?!
Someone help me understand the Friends lore and if there is an actual continuity to it beyond character traits."

The universe probably reset in 2018 because of the reboot, but friends doesn’t have a clear timeline

Seem good, though I don't know why we couldn't have had 5 full minidolls in the set, all the other calendars have 5 - 6 figures, I've always found it weird that they do way less minidolls than minifigures in equivalent sets, are they that much more expensive to make?

Hey, look, a bent sleeping bag!

@TheOtherMike:
I have a coworker who’s close to retirement age, and I just saw him squinting so hard I’m surprised his brains didn’t squirt out of his ears. Glasses are one of those things people don’t realize they needed all along until they experience what “normal” vision is like (I got mine in 5th grade because I finally had a teacher who noticed I would squint to read the chalkboard even if I was sitting in the front row). Colorblindness is another good example of something where you really need an objective observer to identify if you have a problem or not.

@Apedemak:
Friends AC builders: Why can’t we have the same stuff as the licensed ones?
Licensed AC builders: Why do ours cost 33% more?

I mean...

@ThatBonicleGuy: The image may be from the POV of adult supervision. Besides, they're microdolls. Their arms and legs can't move. ;)
@PurpleDave: Yeah, I remember walking out of the Lenscrafters with my first pair of glasses on and exclaiming that I could read the signs across the mall. My mom felt so guilty for never having noticed before.

Happy to hear so many think this AC is best one this year - and I do agree!

A good start for the calendar! I was a little disappointed that a certain other calendar that I'm opening up didn't start with a fig, so I'm a little envious looking at this...!

@ThatBionicleGuy said: "I'm not really into Friends generally: but I honestly love that this calendar includes the main Friends characters in flashback to when they were children - it's such a cute idea ^^"

I agree, I think it's such a sweet idea.

I'm almost tempted to go out and try and find this calendar, but I've committed to the Avengers calendar, this year.

It's a fun idea to have the main friends included in the calender at a younger age where they might still believe in Santa. And I wonder if Olivia only really got her glasses around the time she did in the sets, with the 10 years of Friends of course condensed and taking place in a much smaller timespan

Also, is it a deliberate that there is no scoring for this day of the calender?

Very nice! I haven’t kept up much with Friends the last few years, so these “microdolls” are new to me (are they to everyone?).

I have done a couple of the Friends ACs in years past, though, and always enjoyed them. I actually like the whole theme, and I’d get it more regularly if I had any money, space, and time left over after all the other themes I buy sets from (mostly Star Wars , plus various other sets and themes whenever they strike my fancy).

I don't often impulse buy a set just from seeing it on a shelf, but I immediately knew my daughter would love this set--all five friends, in younger versions of themselves. We surprised her with it today and she loves it.

@TheOtherMike:
Honestly, I’d be surprised if your mom had noticed. Parents generally only have experience with one or two kids, so it’s easy to miss stuff like that. Total blindness is easy to figure out. Color-blindness...how do you explain green to someone who can’t see it? I actually knew someone during my childhood who turned out to be colorblind. His dad said he never noticed until they were driving along a stretch of rural road, and his son commented on the shade of blue that a barn was painted. Dad turned to look...and the barn was silver. Fuzzy vision is the same way. A blurry ball is still shaped like a ball. But once you start learning the alphabet, and numbers, a lot of those characters are hard to tell apart if you can’t see clearly. Stuff written on a blackboard is going to be easier or harder to read than a book in your hand. And teachers see a new batch of kids annually, so some of them have probably made a point of learning how to recognize things like vision problems, learning disabilities, and even when a kid might be living in an abusive home. Compared across a class of 20-30 students, things like those are more likely to stand out than when you have _one_ child to raise, and no one to make an objective comparison against.

@PurpleDave: Logic means nothing in the face of a motherly guilt trip.