Marvel Advent Calendar - Day 21
Posted by CapnRex101,
Yesterday's clockwork Hulkbuster was charming and equivalent toys may prove enjoyable during the concluding few days of 76196 The Avengers Advent Calendar.
Let's see what today provides...
This miniature rendition of Iron Man's Hall of Armour is certainly fun, complementing the Hulkbuster and including three dark red trophy figures! They represent different Iron Man suits quite effectively, although printed decoration would have improved the figures further, of course. One such figure recently appeared in 76167 Iron Man Armoury.
The trans-light blue elements behind each armoured suit look superb, while the angled structure works nicely. Some additional texture may have been effective, but this model already captures the most important features of the original location.
Overall - 4.0 - I am pleased with this charming Hall of Armour, but decorated trophy figures would have been perfect.
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I think swapping out one of the dark red trophy figures for a light grey or pearl gold one would have helped with this visually. Pretty good though, a substantial build.
In terms of Day placement, I may have swapped this one with the Avengers Tower.
Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future?
Madame Tussaud’s Hall of Armor?
Yeah, it's 3 times the same figure. There's more types of red and in the Marvel World there would also be blue, white, silver and whatnot available to pick from.
Would it really hurt Lego to use a print?
I like it. I may see if I can add it into the full size hall as a schematic of some sort.
Is it not the first dark red micro fig we got?
@icey said:
"Is it not the first dark red micro fig we got? "
This is actually the third set it has come in, but at least the cheapest option so far. (Chinese New Year Temple Flair and Ninjago City Gardens).
Problem with reusing the print from @76167 would be that you'd either have three identical sets of armor, or one printed and two plain. And I don't really see them doing two new prints.
This is one of my all-time favorite Advent Calendar builds, and I may try to expand it as a fun little display for all of my printed micro-figs.
This Avengers calendar is really showing what makes a good Advent calendar. Microbuilds that are well done representations of features of that universe and still recognize-able with a small number of parts. I agree that different colors of the other two trophy figures would have been a even better idea, but love this hall of armor build overall.
I love that this even came with a spare fourth microfigure!