If you find yourself stressed this holiday season and need to relax your brain, I highly recommend watching Hercules Candy videos on YouTube. This mom and pop candy store in upstate New York posts relaxing and funny videos about their candy making process.

Watching them make peanut brittle is very soothing.

And it has inspired me to become a candy maker! Some day. Maybe in 20 years. Not today. Today I’ll just eat candy.

Let’s see what Lego sprinkles into my life this fine December 7th…

A Helicopter with a Rotor that Turns!

Long-time readers with great memories will recall I received a helicopter in the 2018 Lego Advent Calendar. It had a stationary rotor. It wasn’t a big deal. I didn’t mind. Who needs moving rotors? NOT ME!

But this chopper is the real deal. See the rotor? It spins. As it should.

Do you think if I toss this into a strong gust of wind it would fly? There’s only one way to find out…and that’s by doing complex physics calculations which I don’t really have the time for today. Let’s just assume it would fly for real. No need to math up the holidays.

Bo-Bo and Giles loved their new helicopter, mostly because the rotor moved.

Then a high-pitched cackle was heard throughout the land.

Skeletor!

He’s here to claim the helicopter, which has a moving rotor, for himself.

There was little Giles and Bo-Bo could do. Skeletor is an evil muscle wizard. He’s the WWE version of Voldemort. How can you possibly fight that?

Technology in the He-Man universe is a bit inconsistent. They have high-tech lasers and spaceships, but they ride around on giant tigers and dress like cavemen. The He-Man aesthetic is equal parts Star Wars, Conan, Sex Shop, and Lord of the Rings. And this helicopter fits in nicely.

Side note: In the original 80s cartoon, the villain Hordak had a helicopter. Just a normal helicopter. What does it look like to you?

That’s right! It looks like a robot’s thumb! And nothing else.

After defeating Giles, Skeletor gloated and screamed, “Now no one can stop me!” He then looked at Robot Snowman and invited him to Snake Mountain saying, “You look dumb and have a dumb name. Surely you must be part of my evil army!”

“More like Skele-snore,” Giles said softly.

Day 7 Rating: 3.6 out of 5 (Points added for the moving rotor. Points deducted because I still feel burned about the old helicopter from 2018.)

See you tomorrow!

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