Harry Potter Advent Calendar - Day 21
Posted by CapnRex101,
Following the appearance of Hermione Granger yesterday, receiving something based upon the Hogwarts Express would be appropriate before reaching Hogwarts.
There are various possibilities...
In fact, our attention shifts directly to Hogwarts! Tables laden with food are always associated with Hogwarts and this design matches those from 75964 Harry Potter Advent Calendar completely, featuring identical colours and proportions. Such consistency seems sensible, especially since reddish brown, dark brown and pearl gold appear attractive together.
Furthermore, the food looks suitably inviting. Cherries, a baguette and a pumpkin are provided, differing from the tables in the 2019 Advent Calendar. This baguette appears somewhat out of place though, while the bench design cannot accommodate minifigures securely. However, I think that can be excused because minifigures with short legs cannot sit down anyway.
Overall - 4.0 - Even though minifigures cannot properly interact with the benches, this table and the food look excellent.
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My first Lego baguette, although it slides on the table very easily!!! I like the fruit bowl too. :-)
@FARLANDER said:
"My first Lego baguette, although it slides on the table very easily!!! I like the fruit bowl too. :-)"
I got most of my LEGO baguette from 40465: Food but it was also in 31120 :-)
Still I love small builds like this.
These aren’t short-legged minifigs. They all have midi-legs, which seem to have been created to address some of the problems that reared their heads when the HP theme was revived.
And it absolutely is nice to see some consistency of design across multiple years, in cases like this where someone might want to combine the contents of multiple calendars to form even larger scenes. How many times have we seen people lament the inclusion of SW army-builders solely on the basis that they didn’t match their counterparts from previous years? I’ve even seen one person praise the inclusion of Battle Droids precisely because the unprinted variety have never undergone any deco updates (and you get enough spare straight arms that you can eventually update all your older droids to match).
I wanted to post something 'funny' about who would be able to swallow cherries, baguette and pumpkin, however the obligatory just-in-case google search turned out the following:
Bread with Dried Cherries & Pumpkin Seeds recipe... umm and Pumpkin Cherry Bread... ok I resign defeated ;-)
@PurpleDave said:
"These aren’t short-legged minifigs. They all have midi-legs, which seem to have been created to address some of the problems that reared their heads when the HP theme was revived.
And it absolutely is nice to see some consistency of design across multiple years, in cases like this where someone might want to combine the contents of multiple calendars to form even larger scenes. How many times have we seen people lament the inclusion of SW army-builders solely on the basis that they didn’t match their counterparts from previous years? I’ve even seen one person praise the inclusion of Battle Droids precisely because the unprinted variety have never undergone any deco updates (and you get enough spare straight arms that you can eventually update all your older droids to match)."
But short leg minifigures can't bend their legs. Yes, the midi sized leg changed that while giving a middle height for those teenagers and less than average height adults. (assuming regular length is "average" since the vast majority have it).
@PurpleDave said:
"These aren’t short-legged minifigs. They all have midi-legs, which seem to have been created to address some of the problems that reared their heads when the HP theme was revived."
Except, the minifigs in this calendar ARE short-legged...
@Albus:
Whoops! I’ve got Kevin McAllister on the brain. Since buying a second copy of Home Alone about a month ago, I’ve been fairly focused on using parts from the second copy to build wings that can rest against a stock build of the set (it gets really tricky at the roof, but I pulled it off), and plan to be able to stage it for different scenes during the movie, and need to be able to build a few different versions of Kevin for that to work, so I was placing a B&P order (it hasn’t been shut down this year) and slapped on two copies of every available color of midi-legs, because that’s how the Kevin minifig is built, probably because he has to be able to sit on the included sled.
^while I agree he needs the midi legs to sit down on the sled and whatnot, I think he should have been given short legs in that set so he'd be smaller than Harry's character with the midi legs. Just to keep relative height/age. But how often are they really near each other except for at the neighbor's when Kevin is on the clothes hook.
@Sethro3:
You’ll have to imagine my utter confusion as I read your comment, on a thread about a Harry Potter Advent Calendar, until I reached the part about the coat hook.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Sethro3:
You’ll have to imagine my utter confusion as I read your comment, on a thread about a Harry Potter Advent Calendar, until I reached the part about the coat hook."
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