Marvel Advent Calendar - Day 16
Posted by CapnRex101,
76196 The Avengers Advent Calendar contains an excellent selection of minifigures, the fourth of which appeared yesterday. An accompanying model therefore seems probable today.
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Snowmen appear in almost every LEGO Advent Calendar and this example takes ingenious inspiration from Iron Man, featuring an exclusive plain white helmet! This component provides limited use elsewhere, so I wonder whether including a snowman design would have enhanced the whole model. Regardless, the structure looks good already.
The addition of a trans-light blue arc reactor and pearl silver ray guns, forming arms, is fun too. Once again, these look perfect for an Iron Man-themed snowman. The window also contains a single white 1x1 round plate, which presumably represents a snowball.
Overall - 4.5 - While the design is simple, I am impressed by how much recognisable Iron Man theming has been integrated with this snowman!
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The addition of a random white stud almost makes it seem like the arm cannons on this thing were supposed to be stud shooters earlier on. Weird that they didn't go through with it.
I really love this version of a snowman for some reason, it just hits the spot again as a crossover between Iron Man and festiveness.
This is my favourite so far, just needed some snowman face printing on the white helmet, and it would be perfect.
I got an extra white stud so put the 2 on the end of the gun arms.
Strikes me as a really nice Ultron snowman.
@Rumble_Strike said:
"I really love this version of a snowman for some reason, it just hits the spot again as a crossover between Iron Man and festiveness.
This is my favourite so far, just needed some snowman face printing on the white helmet, and it would be perfect.
I got an extra white stud so put the 2 on the end of the gun arms. "
I did exactly the same. Completed my build about 3 minutes ago.
Kinda looks like something you’d see on The Jetsons.
Liking the arc reactor theme going through the calendar. Really like the helmet too, although somehow it gives me the heebie-jeebies without eyes.
I would guess the white 1x1 round plate is a snowball, so maybe Tony built Snow Man (Iron Snowman?) as a snowball-fight drone for the party.
@StarWarzFan7777 said:
"The addition of a random white stud almost makes it seem like the arm cannons on this thing were supposed to be stud shooters earlier on. Weird that they didn't go through with it."
Exactly what I thought. They also had the strange eye warning in yesterday's Captain Marvel so I wonder if she was supposed to have something that shot too.
@jduds said:
"... They also had the strange eye warning in yesterday's Captain Marvel so I wonder if she was supposed to have something that shot too."
The warning is for the power blasts; you can make them shoot out of her hands.
@YanVanLan said:
" @jduds said:
"... They also had the strange eye warning in yesterday's Captain Marvel so I wonder if she was supposed to have something that shot too."
The warning is for the power blasts; you can make them shoot out of her hands."
Thanks for that. I hadn't figured that one out.
@jduds said:
" Thanks for that. I hadn't figured that one out. "
You're welcome!
I only quite recently discovered it myself; as I haven't build any Marvel sets (other than (part of) this calendar) yet, but had come across these in 75966 .
How odd. For some reason, I opened the door of my advent calendar today and, despite the image/instructions for this on the inside of the door, I got the Thor minifigure complete with scarf and Mjolnir. Not sure if I'll get this in the space where Thor should be. Guess I'll find out. If not, may have to contact customer services and see if they can provide me with this model or just Bricklink the parts for it.
Am I the only one who thought this was a snow ULTRON?
@icey said:
"Am I the only one who thought this was a snow ULTRON?"
I thought it was an Ultron drone themed snowman at first
@Joej6609 said:
" @icey said:
"Am I the only one who thought this was a snow ULTRON?"
I thought it was an Ultron drone themed snowman at first"
Same. Realized it was Iron Man once I saw the helmet out of the bag. I also got 2 1x1 white "snowballs" and a spare arc reactor piece.
This is a great build for a snowman / Iron Man drone. Love the all white helmet. Great piece.