LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Twenty One Review.

Hello! Welcome back to Day 21! There are only 3 doors left to open now! I'm definitely in holiday mode, these posts are getting later and later.

It's the end of week 3 already! The kids... The kids are already driving me insane!!  We are only 2 days into the holidays and we have 6 weeks of it left... Aghhh!

Deep breaths... Big smile, Biiiig smile! Ok, ok... I'm calm again. But for how long?

So what did we get this morning? Lets go take a look!






On this warm and sunny morning Chloe got a... Bluetooth speaker... aaaand a "iPhone/iPod/Smartphone" with a docking station. When Chloe opened the door she first thought it was a washing machine o_0. I lol'd and said "you got a what..? Let me look at the picture" TLG seem to put more internal details into an imaginary house then they do in any City or Creator house. Oh well...

Spare.

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In my City calendar I got a Lime Green and White present and a Red and White stripe Christmas stocking (should have came with 2). Nothing exciting but are perfect addition's for the impending Christmas tree. For now the police officers can zoom around carrying them on the back of their snowmobile until it does arrive.

My spares for today.

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The Original Trilogy mini builds continue to come thick and fast because today Jaspa got the iconic Y-Wing. This is a great little model that captures that good ol rustic feel. Jaspa is into the Clone Wars series and is more use to the cleaner lines, he thinks "this looks ugly". Damn kid has no respect! :-P

Plenty of spares...

Well, that's it for Day 21 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)

Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

 

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Twenty Review.

Good afternoon and welcome back to Day 20 as we continue to countdown the days till Christmas!
Only 5 days to go!!!

Today is the first day of the school holidays and already the kids are starting to get at each others throats. When they are on their own they are like angels but when together it's like there are 10 kids in the house, when actually there is only 2. The horror! :-D

So... While I have the kiddies separated, what did we get today!





This morning Chloe was thrilled to get a "cute wittle kitty cat, look how cute the kitty cat is?" It was fun to see how she reacted to it. It seems to be a rare kitty cat, only being in 2 other sets. The kitty also come with a small bed . I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but Chloe found it amusing to see that she got the cat right underneath the picture of today's cat.

 

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Today's gift was underwhelming... Nothing to write home about. A couple of "stools", a barrel (I do like), a shovel and an axe. Nothing to really build today, more like place holders. At the end of the day they will be useful pieces for a future MOC.

Spare shovel and axe.

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Jaspa got a cool mini build today! An Imperial Shuttle or a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle (or Shuttle Tydirium). "ooo daddy... another spaceship! pew pew pew!" You guessed it, he loved it. I'm sure I'll be looking for this one around the house too later in the day. Like I do everyday with all the other days gifts, so I can photograph with previous day door reveals. :-P

Spare.

Well, that's it for Day 20 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)

Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

 

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Nineteen Review.

Good afternoon... Seems these posts are getting later and later. But I do have a reason for being late today. Last minute Christmas shopping for the wifey!

I totally forgot about picking them up so I did it early this morning. By 10am the shops were packed! Thank goodness I got in at 8:45am.

I have been so caught up with these reviews and also building from scratch 8 x transport boxes for our Winter Village MOC. All in preparation for our very first appearance at Brickvention on Jan 17th and 18th 2015. Tickets are available HERE! Sessions are starting to sell out now!
Hope to see you there!

What gifts did we get this morning?


We are still in the lounge room today as Chloe got a sweet Lavender and Pink couch that seats two. 10 pieces are used to build this couch. Chloe was like "Wow dad! look I got a cool looking couch!" Purple/Lavender is her favorite colour.

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This morning before going shopping I got a small table with a big ass roast turkey, a wine bottle and 2 wine glasses! Awesome parts that are very useful! I'm always happy to get turkeys! They are not very common and are only available in 6 sets.

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Behind door 19 Jaspa's mini build was a speeder bike inspired sled, carrying a couple of gifts in a sack. A interesting looking model that looks pretty close to the source material. Jaspa had some difficulty building it and gave up after about 10 mins. But he was happy to give General Rieekan a blaster.

Spare.

Well, that's it for Day 19 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)

Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

 

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Eighteen Review.

Good afternoon, welcome back for Day 18.

We are on the home stretch now, just 7 sleeps to go till the big man in red comes to visit! Have you been good?

What did we get today? Scroll do to find out!








This morning in Chloe's Friends calendar she got a small side table with a lamp and a pink book to the side. I thinks it's safe to say we are finally out of the kitchen. A cute build that uses a couple of Nougat coloured log bricks for the legs of the table and a festive Green and Red checkered table cloth on top. From what my wife told me Chloe couldn't be bothered building it (A late night driving around looking at Christmas lights) so Tash did it instead.

A few Spares to add to you collection.

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This morning I got another Police officer. It's pretty much the same as Day 11 but he has a different face print. He also come with a coffee mug and a pair of handcuffs. To be honest I was actually expecting a female officer since TLG have been adding a lot more females into their city sets.

Spare pair of handcuffs.

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In Jaspa's Star Wars Calendar he got to build a General Rieekan minifigure. This is a great way to get this fan favorite Character as he has only been in one other set, 75014: The Battle of Hoth. He has a great torso print with a snow jacket, two pockets and a belt running through the bottom. He  has a one sided face print and he looks rather serious about something... maybe too many snow balls coming in his direction. Jaspa loved the fact that Rieekan is a good guy, he only said the other day "We need more good guys daddy, we have too many bad guys" lol

Well, that's it for Day 18 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)

Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Seventeen Review.

Day 17... hmmm.. There are only 7 more days left in our Advent Calendars. Just 7!

The kids have now transitioned into holiday mode now because it is getting more difficult to wake them up in the mornings... Just 2 weeks ago they were eager to open their Calendars... but now, umm... Not so much. Even Jaspa who is usually the first to wake up in our house is now the last one to get out of bed atm. I think we will will have some issues getting him up and ready in his first year of school starting in late Janauary lol. Wish us luck! :-D







Finally! After enjoying their dessert yesterday it looks like Mia and Ewa are now moving into the lounge room! Chloe was over the moon to get this pretty interesting fireplace build (compared to pretty much everything in this Calender). She was happy to have something more challenging to build rather then "always just adding accessories everyday" (her words not mine).  18 pieces are used to build the fireplace.

Spares

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Behind door number 17 I got a trailer attachment to go with yesterdays Police snowmobile. At the back of the trailer is a Yellow storage section that could possibly store some future gifts in it... maybe? I would have preferred if they stuck with the blue and white colour scheme, after all the 1 x 1 x 1 Corner piece became available this year in two sets. Nothing complicated about today's build, but you can still have fun taking the kids for a ride.

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 We are still on the planet Hoth and today Jaspa got to build a mini turret (it's technical name is a DF.9  anti-infantry battery) Jaspa looked confused by today's gift and to be honest, it had me wondering for a moment what it was too. But it finally dawned on me.

 Just like we saw in Day 7 this mini build uses the new "Stud firing" blaster on the top of the turret and shoots "snow balls" again rather then live ammunition. You get a few different sized White slope pieces to replicate a snow trench and a few 1 x 1 round plates to shoot with (and lose).

Spares for today.

Well, that's it for Day 17 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)

Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Sixteen Review.

Welcome back for Day 16... Feels like I just finished reviewing day 15...

The past 24 hours have been crazy... Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that were involved in the Martin Place siege and also to their families and loved ones at this extremely difficult time.

Lets try and continue our daily routine and see what our little munchkins got today...







I can tell you now Chloe was not impressed with today's offering. A Christmas pudding, a couple of trans pink mugs and... a chocolate star cookie? I think today was her final straw and she finally cracked, Chloe wishes she had the Star Wars Advent. When you get the last week of gifts all together is doesn't look to bad.

Spare cookie

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This morning our little policeman got himself a new ride. A new police snowmobile. 12 pieces were used to build this funky looking snowmobile. I think the police officer is happy with it.

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Jaspa is always getting the cool stuff. Continuing on with the original trilogy we get a Snowspeeder Pilot to accompany the Snowspeeder from yesterday. Fantastic printing on both sides of his face and torso. Even his legs are printed. Jaspa has a few different versions of this minifigure and this combo is unique only to this Advent Calendar. needless to say he loves it! It's another to one he can add to his line of "good guys" which he thinks he doesn't have enough of.

Well, that's it for Day 16 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)
 
Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow.

LEGO 41040: Friends, 60063: City, 75056: Star Wars 2014 Advent Calendar, Day Fifteen Review.

Welcome back to the start of week 3. Today is Day 15!

Only 10 days to go now... It gets tough to write an intro everyday. Trying to come up with something to say that's worth reading. Sometimes I babble on like I am now... and sometimes it's easy. It really depends on what has happened that particular morning. The only thing worth noting about today is it's the final week of school for Chloe being in grade 2 and tomorrow is Jaspa's last day of kinda before he starts prep next year. All fantastic milestones! anyway...

Lets take a look at today's door reveals.





This morning Chloe got her kitchen sink, I knew there had to be one eventually. Now Mia and Ewa can do their dishes after eating their yummy Christmas dinner. 12 pieces are used to make the sink. Did Chloe like it? Yeah sort of... She has a few iterations from other Friends sets, so she wasn't too fussed about today's. When do the toys start coming? Girls can have fun too!

Today's spares

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I didn't get to build anything today. What I got was a dog with a bone in a bowl... yep! Cool to have another dog  if you don't own many, but I loved last years more. It was different. A new coloured dog would have been great! Instead we get this one again...  I have well over 20 of them now, from all the different City sets in the last 3-4 years. But only 2 of last years Dalmatian, more of him please. lol

Spare bone.

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I think Jaspa's calendar build wins today! He built a mini Snowspeeder. (you only had to wait a couple more days Az) Jaspa absolutely loves it. So much so he has dug out his Lego Star Wars tub and is playing with it for the first time in months. It takes 19 pieces to make up this cool little build.  Zoooooom! Zap zap zap!

Spares

Well, that's it for Day 15 of the Advent Calendar reviews. Thank you for dropping by and please check in again with us tomorrow to see what little goodies we get to build. :-)
Tan Tile signing out! See you all again tomorrow