It will be six months before I open the 2012 Lego Advent Calendar. And that’s almost a year away! Luckily, during the non-holiday months Lego is offering up items that rival the mighty Advent Calendar in nearly every way. While the Advent Calendar is filled with surprises and mystery, the Lego items below are filled with angel’s magic and genie blood. That’s how great they are.

Lego just released a series of Monster Fighter toys. These sets Lego-ize the classic movie monsters like Dracula. But who would want stupid, dumb Dracula when you can have….

LEGO WEREWOLF!

During the opening of my first Advent Calendar and then again a year later, I created my own jetpack werewolf using a Lego dog and my imagination muscles. But now Lego made a legit Werewolf. You can’t mistake this beast for some glorified dog. The official Lego Werewolf has claws! Glow in the dark claws! Just like a real werewolf!

Each of the Monster Fighter sets comes with a hero who must defeat the monster and steal the Monster Gem, and it seems the Werewolf’s nemesis is an old guy who drives an old car and has a gun that most likely shoots pure hellfire.

The old guy, who I’ve named Pops, is everything you’d want in a werewolf hunter. He has a monocle, a mustache, and a giant gun. And an old timey car. (The exhaust pipes are actually Lego pistols turned upwards. I now have enough Lego pistols to do most things.)

The “Pops vs. The Werewolf” Lego set is made all the better by the inclusion of a Messed Up Tree. That tree, which took nearly 87 hours to build, is messed up. I mean that in a good way. The tree’s construction harnessed all manner of physics and art with the end result being a tree-like monster that is as nightmarish as it is squat. (Had Lego made the tree a bit taller, life would be perfect.)

The tree has an action feature where you press a lever and the Werewolf launches forward towards Pops. It’s unnecessary, but then again, so is buying Monster Legos.

Pops vs. The Werewolf is the very best thing Lego has done, next to…

Lego Mummy!

I’ve never been a mummy or zombie fan. Of all the monsters, they seem the least interesting. And yet Lego has made me fall in love with the Mummy. Just look at him! Look at him with his skeletal horse (that I’ve named Spider). These are fearsome creatures. Who can possibly stop them?

Helicopter Girl, of course.

Helicopter Girl, or Gretchen as I call her, elevates this set from being “Cool” to being “There is a God!” I’d buy Gretchen and the helicopter even if it didn’t have a Mummy with a horse that breathed fire. But I’m glad I didn’t have to.

Where to start?

First, she has a damn helicopter! It only seats one person, but Gretchen doesn’t need friends. She can handle herself.

Though it doesn’t show up well in the photo, her face has a scar. Gretchen has lived a life. She’s seen things. She also wears an arrow/missile in her hair. And she has a crossbow. Find me a better Lego person. I dare you!

These two Monster Fighter sets are an absolute good. If you have money, and enjoy things that are great, buy them. But these two sets are not my favorite. No. There is one that is greater…

And then Batman showed up!

Yes, this is the Lego Batman that I’ve written about on SparkNotes. You can tell he’s awesome already, but for those who didn’t already know…

This is Jetpack Batman!

That’s a real jetpack, not one that I made myself. (Though I did add the flame.) The set, which also includes Catwoman and a street corner, is the only set that has Jetpack Batman.

Jetpack…Batman.

And so, the very best Lego thing of them all is the Jetpack Batman Lego Set feat. Catwoman. It even comes with a purple motorcycle and giant diamond. And a whip!

None can be better.

None.

You may ask, “Hey Dan, why didn’t you give the jetpack to the werewolf?”

To which I respond, “Batman wouldn’t let me.”

Is it December yet?