City Advent Calendar - Day 15
Posted by MeganL,
We now have four minifigures in our calendar, which means that including the cookie that Tippy is holding, there's enough cookies from Day 7 for all the minifigures so far. We will get more cookies in case there are more minifigures? What else will the minifigures have to do? Let's take a look and find out.
No cookies needed for this! Today we have a scarecrow. I'm not sure that I remember a scarecrow in an advent calendar before. This serves the part, and is definitely dressed for the winter with a toque and a green scarf to match Raze's.
I don't know how a scarecrow fits with a festive theme, though including one here does pay an homage to the farm type City sets we saw earlier this year. However, the big question is - does this count as a minifigure?
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It's nice that even the residential scarecrow is dressed warmly. And the colors actually look like clothing this time!
Not a minifigure. Too many of these small ‘possibly a fig’ builds to consider each and every one
Nice build like it
Well, it's not listed as a minifig on the Minifigs tab of the calendar's page in the database.
Interesting that there was no spare with this, unlike the minifigure. A bit like the HP calendar not having a spare death eater but a spare statue in the room of requirement
I find it weird how raze com with second scarf but here we just got one.
@Jackthenipper:
Extras are determined primarily by size. The robed trophy (Dementor) is big enough you don’t get spares. The nekkid trophy (practice Dementor) is small enough that, even when it was introduced in a CMF packet, you got a spare. This should give you a spare tan 1x1 round plate, and possibly a spare red nipple tile.
I like it as its unique and can easily be incorporated into a City scene/layout. Having said that, it's not what I'd consider to be a minifigure (or an appropriate substitute).
@lordofdragonss said:
"I find it weird how raze com with second scarf but here we just got one."
Generally they only give one spare per set, even if the part is used in multiple bags. So the bag with Raze had the spare for the set.
@Miyakan said:
" @lordofdragonss said:
"I find it weird how raze com with second scarf but here we just got one."
Generally they only give one spare per set, even if the part is used in multiple bags. So the bag with Raze had the spare for the set."
But we have got 2 spare cookies?
Opened mine today to find bag of parts for what looked like the back trailer for the snow sled thing from a few days ago so I assumed this was another instance of the reported wrong bag in wrong days section, but then saw I had today’s baggie in there as well. So do I open both now or hold the ‘spare’ in case of an empty box when I get to the relevant day. What a dilemma! firstworldproblems
@Miyakan:
This is not true for Advent Calendars. Every bag is treated like a separate set, probably because they expect them to be opened on different days. This is even true for the biggest LEGO Advent Calendar, 21330. Of the 107 different parts you get extras of, you get two spares of nine, and three spares of three others. There’s a pink flower that you only need once in the entire model, and you get three in the same bag.
@lordofdragonss:
There is no such thing as a spare cookie. Unless it’s oatmeal raisin, in which case they’re all spares.