Advent - Day 13

Ooops... todays Imperial Astromech droid was not best pleased to see he was getting a parking ticket for leaving his Imperial Shuttle too close to a pedestrian crossing!

(This pic shows todays advent treats; R2-Q5 and a new police MiniFig (possibly a traffic cop). Also staring the Imperial shuttle that came behind last Saturdays advent door and the police station now in its entirety.)

Advent - Day 12

The Battle of Hoth was revisited this morning when I opened my Star Wars Advent calender and out popped a Rebel Snowspeeder. As soon as I placed it on the shelf it saw the Mini AT-AT and battle re-commenced!

A mini Hoth Battle, a photo by Kitty*Kins on Flickr.

In other Lego news, behind todays door on the City calender we found the last piece of the police station. It looks pretty fab!

Advent - Day 11

Yet another super day from the advent calenders. The Star Wars one provided me with a Droid Pilot Commander who may bring some much needed order to my Droid army.

No more slacking off, a photo by Kitty*Kins on Flickr.

Whilst the City Calender was hiding another wall for the police station, which is really starting to take shape.

ooOOoo I just can't wait for tomorrow....

Advent - Day 10

Day 10 was a slight disappointment all round.

Although the Star Wars advent provided a super Mini Imperial Shuttle, it was such a disappointing model to build - as it used only 8 tiny pieces to construct it.  I am the first to admit though, that once it was made, it was fab!

As for the City advent, that was a major disappointment, with only a fishing rod, a fish and 4 small pieces of Lego that created the worst camp fire I've ever seen.  Ah well, at least yesterdays "Hooded Adventurer" now had something to do.

Advent - Day 8 + 9

Day 8 and 9, a photo by Kitty*Kins on Flickr.

Wow! So impressed with the last two days of the Star Wars advent calender. It has definitely come up trumps with a Rebel Pilot yesterday and his trusty X-wing today .

The X-wing is awesome and pretty accurate - it even has a little blue stud in the place where the co-piloting R2 unit's head would be. It is ace and probably my fave advent treat so far.

Day 9 was also pretty special in the Lego city calender as it was a hooded adventurer (Mini-Fig), with ice axes to help him navigate the glaciers. I will make sure his picture is posted in the next few days. ;-)

Advent - Day 6 & 7

Christmas "Wookie" style.

The last 2 days treats have been awesome.  Yesterday I got Chewbacca and the City Calender was hiding a Christmas tree.

Then, today saw the arrival of a skateboard, a helmet and some other goodies for under the Xmas tree from the City calender, whilst the Star Wars one gave Chewy his own little storage/work unit.

I'm suddenly feeling all Christmassy. :-)

Norman and Rene

Wooopppeee!

Today I move a little bit closer to completing my Series 4 Mini-Fig collection with the arrival of Norman the Gnome, who I sneakily ordered from eBay, due to my inability to find him by the usual means due to Series 4 outlets being few and far between now.

Then came the surprise arrival of Rene the Artiste; who we had decided had got lost in transit.  Tom posted him well over a week ago, but he never arrived.  However, yesterday Royal Mail posted a letter through our door saying they have an envelope at the sorting office for us, but they can't deliver it as the correct postage hadn't been paid. Thievin' sods wanted 12p. How dare they hold the debonair Rene hostage for all that time and demand a ransom. Mikey made a quick dash to the sorting office and Rene is now safely home.

Only 6 more from Series 4 to find....

Advent - Day 5

Wow!

All that disappointment from the previous few days with the Star Wars advent quickly slipped away when I discovered a Mini "Slave I" lurking behind today's door.

It is awesome, and just what the doctor ordered today, whilst I am lying in my sick bed with a stinking cold.

BTW, The City calender was hiding some more bricks for the Police station.

Advent - Day 2, 3 & 4

On Day Two I wasn't disappointed with either Advent treat, we had a snow catapult in the City calender and a Mini-Fig of Nute Gunray in the Star Wars one.  I was much happier with the SW calender now.

Sadly on Day 3 my disappointment returned as I opened the Star Wars calender to find some weird brown and clawed thing, I had absolutely no idea what it was. At first we thought it was some kind of droid, but today I was informed that it is actually Nute Gunray's walking throne. (Oops, I probably would have known this if I had watched Episode One more than twice!) Day 4 provided a much more satisfying Spider Droid.

The Star Wars Advent so far. 

Thankfully the City Advent Calender has continued to excite day after day with a policeman on Day 3, and the start of a police station on Day 4.

Advent - Day 1

Back in September, Mikey bought me the Star Wars advent calender, I wasn't convinced that I would be able to resist opening it before the 1st of December, but I left it somewhere out of sight and out of mind.

In the mean time I also bought the Lego City calender; which was ultimately for me, but I bought it knowing so Mikey could open something each day.

Anyway today was the day... time to open them. I was excited. Unfortunately, Mikey had gone to work by the time I had thought about opening them, so I decided to wait for him.

By 6pm I was ready to explode with excitement, sadly on opening it I was hit with disappointment; the Mini-Kit in the Star Wars advent was a let down. Not even sure what it is called. I was gutted! Mikey however, had opened the City one to find a super Mini-Fig; a criminal in a red scarf with a snow ball.

Ah well, there was always tomorrow. ;-) My disappointment was short lived as I anticipated the next days treat.