If Lego were smart, they’d put me in charge of Advent Calendars. At the risk of bragging, I could bring a great deal of creativity and wonderment to the otherwise ho-hum calendars of the past two years.
The person currently in charge of calendars is doing an adequate job, but they’re not bringing their A-game. With the near limitless potential of Lego, a calendar should offer more than just typical Lego prizes. It should make you cry.
My calendars would be filled with oddities and fascinating bricky objects. Each day would make the child (or grown adult) gasp with holiday cheer. They would tell their friends, “You gotta see this Lego Calendar, Pete! It’s off the hinge!”
(I assume most people have a friend name Pete, and I’m trying to get “Off the hinge” to be a cool phrase.)
I’m hesitant to list what types of themes and items I would put in a Dan Lego Advent Calendar, because Lego could too-easily steal my mind-thoughts. But perhaps one day my dreams of making calendars will become a reality. If not at Lego, then perhaps somewhere else.
Anyway, let’s open the tenth door of the Lego Friends Advent Calendar and see what shade of ordinary dwells beyond the flap of cardboard.
It’s a sled!
Today’s item connects with the snowmobile from a few day’s ago.
It’s an all-around decent gift, but lacks that certain POW factor.
Annie-Ann, who is a spoiled brat, hopped in the sled. Nintendo, whose thirst for adventure cannot be sated, gladly drove the snowmobile.
Baby Robot Snowgirl wanted a turn, but the poor thing didn’t quite fit.
She get’s an “Aww” for effort.
There’s something I didn’t really notice until now. The playmat (which is part of the calendar) is illustrated with a cute winter scene like always, but up in the right corner, something tragic happened.
There are clearly footprints and snowmobile tracks. And these two…intersect.
Uh-oh! Lego is telling us how to play with the pieces in a very subtle way.
While Baby Robot Snowgirl attempts (rather pitifully) to make a snow angel, Annie-Ann is about to learn a lesson.
Yep. This happened. That’s why you should always look both ways at random intervals while traversing through the snow.
Day 10 Rating: 4.8 out of 10 (Points deducted because it’s that kind of a day.)
See you tomorrow!
