Our favorite holiday tradition is opening all six LEGO Advent Calendars, one day at a time, with you, our readers! Along with spoiler pics of the daily gifts, we include commentary and alternate builds to celebrate the season and creativity.

We have an all-star cast of custom minifig creators leading our Advent adventure this year. Fool’s Figures is wizarding his way through Harry Potter and Frozen calendars. ExpansionBricks is launching Star Wars and Friends. And beyondb0nes is digging into Minecraft and City. Now let’s open some doors and see what gifts are in store for today!

Fools: This Acromantula (giant spider, for you muggles out there) is my favorite of the creature mini builds. I hate spiders, but maybe it’s because this one only has two eyes that I find it cute?

Jake: It is quite cute! But does it taste like chocolate?

Fools: A mailbox might’ve been more suiting for this letter, but this little bell is a nice festive build too.

Jake: These small Frozen builds are taking their toll…

Fools: The sorting hat has had enough with the kids and their head lice.

Jake: Sort this!

Bones: Space again, two days in a row. This time we’ve got a microscale spaceship, possibly a tiny interpretation of this year’s Galactic Spaceship 60446. In any case, it’s a simple but effective little build.

Fools: I like that the colors on this little ship make it instantly recognizable to the space subtheme.

Bones: And what do we have here? A bookshelf with a bedside lamp and a small stand to display books? Whatever it is, the fact that each book made of bricks and plates has a different color gives this tiny build a lot of charm.

Fools: Something about the open book being printed on a 1×2 feels wrong to me…

Jake: Are you sure it’s not an open-faced smore? Maybe that lamp was for toasting a marshmallow.

Expansion: I’m love that the Minecraft advent calendar is giving us game accurate blocks in almost every window. Such good fan service

Jake: Like a moth to a fame, the spaceship meets its end by desk lamp.

Bones: Know your enemy, and the best way to do that is by watching them! Unless, of course, you get lost staring into the stars instead…

Jake: That alt build would fit right into a Hoth themed battle pack.

Expansion: A scratch post for the cat from a previous window. Cute but not sure why these needed to be separated given the cat was 1 piece 4/5

Jake: It could also double as a microscale power plant in a fantasy city.

Bones: So that’s why the previous day was a bit empty. Cute cat tree, but it doesn’t change the fact that in my opinion it should have been one gift, not two.

Fools: I actually really like this little build. It’s so simple and uses so few pieces, but really gets the idea across.

Expansion: A crane for picking up droids that were totally legitimately purchased from their previous owners. This combines with the previous window to crate a mobile droid swiper that heavily resembles the 2007 Jawa and Tusken raider battle pack 4/5

Fools: This crane adds some really great playability!

Bones: All the reasons why 90% of Star Wars fans will buy this set in one photo !

 

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