Marvel Advent Calendar - Day 3
Posted by CapnRex101,
Peter Quill has been the focus of the interesting 76231 Guardians of the Galaxy Advent Calendar thus far, so I am anticipating another item which relates to Star-Lord today.
Let's open the door and see...
Today we receive a guard drone from the Kyln, although this is not immediately obvious because the instructions orient the model backwards and upside down to show its construction. The shape and dark red colour are accurate though, while the adjustable thrusters on each side look good. Moreover, I like how 1x1 tiles with rounded edges are used on the front and back, forming additional thrusters and sensors.
Overall - This is a reasonable representation of the Kyln's hover drones, including some useful parts.
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"ALL FIRE ON MY COMMAND!"
Ohhhhhhhhh.
I thought it was some sort of hover scooter when building it.
That's a weird looking dinosaur. Maybe it's in flight?
Thank you Cap'n. I would've never figured that out.
Now, if only he was here to tell me what it is I'm eating for breakfast.
It probably ended up upside-down because the people downstream of set design couldn’t figure out what it was.
Thank you for being here to tell me what this is. Looks nice, I just did not know what I was looking at.
@PurpleDave
That actually happened several years ago with a City Advent calendar. There was a mini fire boat standing straight up in the release photo which proved that someone had no idea what it was.
@stevesheriw said:
"Thank you for being here to tell me what this is. Looks nice, I just did not know what I was looking at.
@PurpleDave
That actually happened several years ago with a City Advent calendar. There was a mini fire boat standing straight up in the release photo which proved that someone had no idea what it was. "
The same occurred with 75146 Star Wars Advent Calendar in 2016, as the Desert Skiff was photographed backwards and placed at a peculiar angle.
I opened this door today and got a little white sled with a green bag piece. Days 1 and 2 were correct but this one wasn't for some reason. Anyone else get this error?
@Ridgeheart: Directive?
@ekayto:
I got five calendars this year (two were duplicates for spare parts), and someone in my LUG got shorted a minifig from GotG, which is the closest I’d personally come to having an error. I hadn’t touched mine since opening the parcel to save them (it was raining when I got home, but somehow they managed to avoid getting wet even when the shipper was mildly drenched). I don’t punch open the doors, but cut the tape on the right side of the ones I build, and the left side of the ones I raid for parts and minifigs. I have now checked them all over, and saw no duplicate days within any single calendar, nor were the trays rotated 180°. HP and GotG still have the egg carton trays (which are purposefully biodegradable, by the looks of them), while the two SW calendars had garbage bins instead. Since I store the leftover parts and completed models inside the box, that’s a bit irritating, to say the least. The insert walls can be lifted free, allowing parts to slide around, and eventually reach one of the large holes along the base of the tray.
It took me two or three minutes to figure out what this was. Then I realized that the instructions showed this not only backwards, but upside down as well.
@PurpleDave:
Maybe something shifted around in my tray. I'll see if I get any other oddities.
@ekayto:
It’s doubtful that happened in transit (else you’d have one or more empty cavities when their contents shifted down to a lower compartment based on how they were stacked on the pallet). The little bags also tend to rebound when you wad them up, so they will generally fill the compartment as much as they can manage. _If_ one shifted down, minifigs (Day 1) and tiny builds (Day 2) seem the most likely culprits, as there’s not much inside that will snag on the top of the compartment. Something bulky like this year’s Day 1 for Harry Potter should have enough volume that, at most, the edge of the bag might peel over the lip.
The vast majority of these issues have to happen at the packing plant or earlier. Trays that are rotated 180° just aren’t going to magically happen after the ends are taped shut. Getting a duplicate and being shorted something else clearly has to happen as the bags are being loaded into the tray (maybe the machine jams and two packets end up in the same hole, and a line worker removes the wrong one, or one gets mixed in to a bin of the wrong builds and it’s loaded without anyone noticing). A single pair of flipped days are probably another jam on the line, and someone mixed them up in their rush to get the machine running again. I have to wonder if the garbage cardboard bins are any sort of attempt to halt these issues, though one of my SW trays probably got jammed during insertion, as one of the side flaps was folded in half. I’ve never seen that before with the plastic or pressed fiber “seedling trays”, and I hope they at least stick with the latter if they’re not willing to return to the former. One of the newer members of my LUG says his wife even cuts up the biodegradable trays to start seedlings, since you can stick the whole thing right in the ground for the plant to “eat” as it grows.