Welcome to Reasonably Clever’s yearly review of the LEGO CITY Advent Calendar! Each day I’ll be revealing what lurks behind the calendar’s door. Buy your own set and follow along at home! Or just mooch off my purchase. I don’t mind.
To keep the suspense as long as possible, I’ll be hiding the reveal behind a “read the rest of the article” cut-tag each day. Unless you’re reading this on our RSS feed. In which case, well, you’re pretty much going to have to pretend to be surprised later.
So. Without further ado, here’s Day One!
Day One: Snowman
This year’s countdown starts with a nice Winter themed mini-set…a snowman. Nothing too unusual here…2009’s calendar had a snowman for day two.
– 2009’s Day 2. Click to Embiggen
I can’t say I’m overly fond of this year’s design…the use of the square brick for the head and the robot arms makes this fellow look more like a transformer than a snow-day diversion. And there’s something about that carrot-nose…that particular LEGO part is normally used for a spike or claw…to me, that part selection makes this fellow look even more sinister.
Maybe that’ll be this year’s CITY “mystery thematic tie-in”: Hidden Evil.
We’ll have to be very watchful over the next 23 days.
I have to say I’m quite disappointed in the snowman design this year as well. Last year wasn’t perfect (too squarish), but it was a lot better.
I had to pass this year-other things warrented use of my money. Will be fun to follow it through you, though.
at least it has arms other than a broom
An evil snowman robot! YES! 😀