LEGO 76196 Super Heroes The Avengers Advent Calendar

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This build was a lot of fun and I especially love the use of colour here, with pops of pearl gold and a trans-red rockpit. I wasn't sure what to expect but I love Marvel and seing Spider-Man in a holiday sweater had me sold! JuniorAdventurousBrain Waste of money Our first Lego advent calendar, was hoping to make it a yearly tradition.

And that’s it for Day 18 – at least there’s a healthy number of minifigures here, but I still feel like LEGO should’ve included the Cape with the Doctor Strange minifigure – it just feels like they’re stretching out the days by splitting up key accessories and their corresponding minifigures. LEGO toy advent calendars make magical Christmas gifts to keep little ones entertained as they wait for the big day!

Thankfully we’re back to an area where the 2023 LEGO Marvel Advent Calendar shines – the minifigure department! Melding LEGO and Technic in the most ingenious ways, the build is especially challenging but rewarding, especially when you see the functions in action! I do like the HUD (heads up display) on Tony’s face, which looks cool, and he also comes with 2 power blasts elements, which you can flick by pressing the “tails” inwards to fire them as projectiles.

On the packaging, Captain America is depicted wearing the Jetpack so let’s put it on him by taking out his head and slotting his neck through the hole. Whenever we have too much going on, or if we do something dumb, we will hit each other with a quick: “It’s a big bunny, relax about it. While I had fun opening everything at once, I couldn't help but feeling a little dissapointed after. This is truly bewildering that we only get the Cloak of Levitation and no Doctor Strange minifigure. Snowpeople are a staple of Advent Calendars, so this one is at least semi-relevant, although it would’ve been really cool if LEGO had given us a plain white Iron Man helmet.If Lego can’t think of better items than webs, cape , or tree stand then it’s really time to think about retiring the Marvel Advent. The minifigs included were really neat, there were a few minor characters that honestly should have been replaced by villains.

The 2023 LEGO Marvel Avengers Advent Calendar is truly a topsy turvy roller-coaster of boom and busts. In a way, it’s not surprising as the Mark 85 Armor was the star of Avengers Endgame and Infinity War, so Tony being in his ultimate nanotech-infused armour makes sense. I said of the Marvel calendar last year that I’m almost checking in every day to see how bad it gets and I can’t believe it’s the same again this year! Heads up for those in the US, UK and EU - today is your final day to score 2x Insider Points on all purchases!It’s a shame that he doesn’t have a festive Christmas jumper like Black Widow or Spider-man, but this is just plain old Steve Rogers. A clever trick used here is the use of Day 4’s golden webbing to attach into the piles of snow, which transforms the webbing into golden Christmas Trees. This one is quite clever conceptually, and I appreciate that they managed to combine a festive component with an Avengers reference in a way that makes plenty of sense.