Okay decided to do the Advent Calendar 2013 together with the last few days of 2014 ones. Overall builds are quite meh this time round but one stand out for me is the nice tricycle. Simple build but quite unique.
Combing the 2013 pieces with the 2014 ones makes a riot of colours but a good portion of it is red in keeping with the Christmasy colour theme. Not many rare accessories this time round, oh well seems that the end of the advent calendar is not really going on a high note.
So one more build for tomorrow! It is usually the Santa so let's see what tomorrow brings...
Decided to try and combine multiple advent sets to build. One is I am getting a bit lazy haha the other is that it does look better when several of them are built together
The sets policeman and his sled will certainly come useful to countering that Christmas time robber. Extra set of handcuffs seems to be a normal whenever we get a policeman. The sled is simple but decent. The nicer advent builds are the dog and turkey. Ever since the dog mould was introduced, we seem to be seeing more of them in police sets and all. I wonder which is more common now, the cats or the dog. The full turkey piece is a rather rare addition so it is a nice addition.
As for the Winter Village builds, I like igloo build because that is one of the more unique pieces. The other is the lamposts which seem to be a regular feature in Winter Village sets but rare outside these sets and modular.
Almost done with with my existing Winter Village sets, cannot wait to start on the new sets. We are less than a week from the Big Day so hopefully I can make it in time!
Yeah it is the weekend, time go get this going!
And we are given an anticlimax almost immediately. A sled. Yes obligatory since 'tis the season. But really tiny build. Oh well.
This 2013 Limited Edition set is pretty nice. The colour combination is great between the dark red roof, than wall and reddish-brown windows. Even better are the 3 nice small pine tree that came with it. The only thing I feel is that why not just 1 large pine tree and 2 small ones.
Now that I look at this, I wonder if I should go get the cousin of this, the 40083 one too....
Okay I must admit that building a set a day is not easy for me.
But seeing a very set get build up and displayed is certainly rewarding. Let us look at the 2 Advent pieces first. The wooden duck set is a tribute to the roots of Lego which actually started with the company making wooden toys first. The other set is the almost obligatory robber from Lego City. These 2 are so so, just fillers for the Advent Calendar.
The bakery and the snowplough vehicle are certainly the builds that take up more effort on my part but also are much more rewarding. The bakery has a lot of food accessories in it but too bad the set did not contain extra spares. Overall a fantastic build with nice dark red ties mixed without some nougat brown pieces. Quite a rare combo.
The snowplough vehicle has a very nice colour scheme as well, it contains 2 of the many favourite colours that I like from Lego, tan and dark blue. The unique part of this set is the detachable plough in the front. It is able to move in certain degrees of freedom as well or it can be removed to be like a normal truck.
I look at my box and see that only 1 building is left and less than half a dozen small builds left. That is great, look forward to completing them, then moving on to the 2 new sets I bought and finally add spare pieces to join them all up.
Yeah did another build today together with the Advent Calendar piece.
Although the policeman seems quite mediocre, he is compensated by having a printed tile! So that makes him at least slightly above average compared to the other pieces in the Advent Calendar. He is quite funny singing with his loudhailer.
The set he is together with is a "limited edition" set that I managed to snag from a guy I purchased off eBay. Met him at Woodlands or Admiralty MRT. Quite a long way to go for Lego and was my 3rd time that I went that far. The first time was for the Grand Emporium and the second time was for multiple units of Springtime scene.
Among the small Christmas sets/builds, this lists among the top or is the top. I like it for the horse and the guy whipping the horse away. The horse whipper I feel has an uncommon face which looks very senior indeed. The lamp post is the other piece that is equally uncommon and looks great. In fact, if could I would make more scenes with nice Victorian looking lamp posts.
