City Advent Calendar - Day 3
Posted by MeganL,
Yesterday we met Billy, the first minifigure of the calendar. I hope his Twirly Hat doesn't get him into any trouble through the calendar! It looks like he's ready to meet Santa with letter in hand. Let's see if the third build gives Billy something to do.
Today's build is a mailbox, a standard build in advent calendars. Undoubtedly Billy was on his way to mail his letter to Santa. I'm happy to see that the traditional red is used for this build, perched on a wedge-shaped piece of snow. The holly greenery is a nice touch.
I'm glad we're starting on a Christmas note so early in this calendar.
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But, like ... what's the holly actually sitting on?
@Zordboy said:
"But, like ... what's the holly actually sitting on?"
I thought that. Someone's gone to the trouble of decorating the wall next to the postbox with a sprig of holly, but it doesn't seem very logical. I'm guessing it's because the designer had extra pieces in the budget beyond the postbox itself, and they know how many people complain about a lack of Christmassy builds.
In the UK there are decorated post boxes, people knit covers for the tops of them and attach knitted decorations. Not usually the adjoining wall though!
It is a pleasant one, but it would have been so cool to have had a red bird instead of a red stud on the greenery :)
@Paperdaisy oh I love the post box crochet toppers. I see loads round my way (and loads more seem to pop up on my Facebook feed).
You've given me an idea for part of my Christmas scene moc. There's definitely going to be something on top of a post box. Not sure what yet.
Could it be a big package left next to the post box?
Seems a srange way to mail a big gift.
A street-side planter, maybe?
@StyleCounselor:
Useful if you planned to “mail” it to the very next person who happens to drive past…
Strange.. it’s my first Advent ever in my life. I just discovered LEGO through my 4 year old son. He opened and built something completely different this morning. I’m cooking and he says “where’s the mailbox?”, I end up opening it up.. and they packed two “23”. This common? Can I take it back to the LEGO store and swap foe a new one! (That’s if they have any left..) only bought one for son.
@Dakula said:
"Strange.. it’s my first Advent ever in my life. I just discovered LEGO through my 4 year old son. He opened and built something completely different this morning. I’m cooking and he says “where’s the mailbox?”, I end up opening it up.. and they packed two “23”. This common? Can I take it back to the LEGO store and swap foe a new one! (That’s if they have any left..) only bought one for son."
Yes, or call Lego and they'll send you the missing parts.
Looks like a red box package gift left next to the mailbox, rather then a plant pot.
@Dakula:
I mean, depending on store policy wherever you bought it, they’d probably accept a return on it for being defective. And they might reshelve it to sell at clearance prices (assuming nobody jumps at an obviously-open Advent Calendar after the countdown has started). I would not assume they have any to replace it with, and I would also not assume that a replacement calendar that may have been produced in the same batch is for sure going to be correct. Customer service is probably well used to correcting these mispacks by just sending you whatever you got shorted, and it won’t even cost you the gas money to take something back.