Random set of the day: City Advent Calendar
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Today's random set is 2824 City Advent Calendar, released during 2010. It's one of 37 City sets produced that year. It contains 271 pieces and 6 minifigs, and its retail price was US$34.99/£24.99.
It's owned by 3,725 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Just what every child wants for Christmas: Santa taking a shower before breaking into their homes and offering trinkets in exchange for sweets.
Totally not weird at all.
The only set where you can get Santa showering in a Speedo.
Shower Santa. I have spoken.
Read the blog on the site "Laserfarm" of the saga of a man opening this advent calendar. It's hilarious. It's become my tradition to read his commentary on each LEGO calendar he gets every year, day by day.
Is this the only set with two santas? Which is the real one though?
I don't know what I liked better about this advent calendar--the cool microscale builds or LEGO actually doing the "Santa in a Speedo" joke.
I just now realized from the comments here--that's a shower, not a streetlight.
Ah, the infamous Shower Santa. Other than that bit of weirdness, this is a nice little calendar. I particularly like the bulldozer and crane.
Hoo, boy... First 24-pack for RSotD?
Day 1: Hey, look, a snow cone!
Day 2: You’ll, uh, stab your eye out, kid?
Day 3: The ramp is almost as big as the skateboard.
Day 4: World’s Saddest Crane.
Day 5: Justifiable homicide.
Day 6: If that’s anything like my first cat, this girl beats the boy, hands down.
Day 7: Piano with not quite a full octave.
Day 8: Bright red, spicy, processed meats are great for dogs!
Day 9: What kid doesn’t love a toy plane crash?
Day 10: Dad’s trying to sneak off and start a new family...
Day 11: Mount it on a turntable base to make Indy and his dad appear!
Day 12: I’m really curious to see the “before” picture of this woodchopping scene...
Day 13: One of the kids could ride this, but not with the ragtop down.
Day 14: It’s never a good sign when Mom starts binge-eating carbs...
Day 15: Family of four, table for two.
Day 16: Speaking as a younger sibling, any couch where you have to twist your arms into a pretzel to sit together is a fight just waiting to happen.
Day 17: An open-air shower, for the exhibitionist on your list.
Day 18: Tobias Fünke, age 90.
Day 19: A wagon full of nothing.
Day 20: Someone cubed Wall-E!
Day 21: Just in case you prefer your disappointment in a different color...
Day 22: Newton’s Third Law of Motion, the toy.
Day 23: Slightly taller than a person, and made of plastic...just like the Christmas tree of my youth...
Day 24: A garden gnome on a G-Scale train.
Day 25: Nothing! It’s an Advent Calendar! Open some real presents!
4924 was on 10/1/19
7324 was on 10/11/18
7600 was on 7/11/21
7687 was on 5/8/19
7724 was on 5/2/19
7952 was on 4/27/20
So, this would be the 8th one. First year of Friends had an Advent Calendar as well, so it will be allowed to be on the list in 58 days.
I never did buy this one, which is a shame, actually, because I really like the train and two wagons there at the back.
I find that I tend to dip in and out of the advent calendars. Particularly the City ones. If you have one, you've got them all. So you can buy every second or third one, rather than every year, and you're not missing much.
@MeisterDad said:
"The only set where you can get Santa showering in a Speedo."
Never has the message on the box been more appropriate 'WARNING Choking Hazard'
I vividly remember getting this advent calendar. There are some nice things that stood out to me, the yellow torso was still quite rare outside of SpongeBob sets and this was my very first set with the sausage and baguette pieces. I was also impressed by the keyboard (first time I saw that technique and still prefer grille tiles to printed tiles!) and the abnormal part connection of the drum kit. The snowman is one my favorites because of the droid arms and the enormous cone bottom, which make it look suitably goofy.
Surprising Santa in the shower like that is revenge for him bringing that one child a drum kit
I bought this advent calendar over the past year in 2020 just for the living the glory of Shower Santa. Worth it.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Just what every child wants for Christmas: Santa taking a shower before breaking into their homes and offering trinkets in exchange for sweets.
Totally not weird at all."
How do you know it's *before* breaking in?
Ah, Santa in the shower. What I would have given to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where that was approved.
Would be nice to get one of these non-"City Adventures" calenders now and then.
@Arnoldos:
I imagine they don’t have indoor plumbing at the North Pole. Frozen pipes and all that.
Do dogs like hot dogs? I find the city advent calendars too predictable and repetitive, and wish they would bring back a castle themed one like 7979 , 7952 or even pirate 6299 . The main reason apart from more mini-figs is the builds are mini-fig size so can incorporate within your castles, and no micro-scale which I never know what to do with apart from spares bin.
@Norikins said:
"Read the blog on the site "Laserfarm" of the saga of a man opening this advent calendar. It's hilarious. It's become my tradition to read his commentary on each LEGO calendar he gets every year, day by day."
Anyone got the link? Just spent like an hour searching for this page, my curiosity is peaked.
@Goujon said:
" @Norikins said:
"Read the blog on the site "Laserfarm" of the saga of a man opening this advent calendar. It's hilarious. It's become my tradition to read his commentary on each LEGO calendar he gets every year, day by day."
Anyone got the link? Just spent like an hour searching for this page, my curiosity is peaked.
"
http://www.laserfarm.com There you are!
@Norikins Thank you, this is beautiful. Where else can I read such lines as "Pineapple Woman made a happy wheezing noise and ran into the wall. She’s fine."?
I bought this as a used set this year JUST to get the Santa in a speedo. He's hilarious!
@ambr:
I know of one food that dogs won’t inhale. Back in high school, I worked for a guy who builds small wooden boats (the size you can trailer, or feature in PotC2 and PotC3, or that Meryl Streep can die in). He had a Golden Retriever named Max, or this one might have been Max (I can’t remember which one it was). Both dogs would eat anything place in front of their noses. When I was building my own 11.5’ sampan, I even caught the first Max gnawing on my mahogany transom (fortunately it hadn’t been trimmed and shaped yet, so the tooth marks were eventually eliminated without any additional work needed). Later on, he was eating takeout from a restaurant that throws a jalapeño in with their sandwiches. Every time, he’d bite the end off the jalapeño and toss the stem in the trash. Max would always stand there, begging for any scrap of food he could get, and one time he caved in and offered Max the stem. That is the only time in my life that I’ve seen a dog spit out food without being yelled at.
Hey! Watch it! Santa’s taking a shower!
Those are some looong drumsticks.
That snowman tho… look like something Calvin (and Hobbes) would make!
@Milo_Hilo_26:
I mean, the body, yeah, it looks like it’s half-melted. But the head has no expression. It needs to be frozen mid-scream, with hands raised to the heavens, as if pleading to know why such suffering has been visited upon it. Also, it needs to be surrounded by other dead and dismembered snowmen.
@Norikins said:
"Read the blog on the site "Laserfarm" of the saga of a man opening this advent calendar. It's hilarious. It's become my tradition to read his commentary on each LEGO calendar he gets every year, day by day."
Haha :D Thank you for pointing that one out! Made my evening. I just hope he will continue to buy the 2021 year calendar. If not I will continue. :D So hilarious. :D
Really cool calendar, it might even be my favorite City one out of the ones I own.
I really like that drum set, simple yet effective. I have it somewhere on display with the CMF Punk Rocker and had the radardish replaced by a chrome silver one to look more life like.
Shower Santa was really funny and probably my first plain yellow torso in almost 20 years...
Oh and I also liked the use of 1x3 Technic beams as micro caterpillar tracks^^
@Norikins said:
"Read the blog on the site "Laserfarm" of the saga of a man opening this advent calendar. It's hilarious. It's become my tradition to read his commentary on each LEGO calendar he gets every year, day by day."
That was a riot, thanks for sharing that hidden gem
Castle or Pirates Advent Calendars would've the perfect way to supplement those larger IDEAS + 3-in-1 sets
City Advent Calendars of 2020 and 2021 haven't been that good imo, but I don't think microbuild sets are as interesting as those small interior pieces from like 2019.