- Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:52 PM
- DisneyDan
Hello everyone,
Over the coming days I am going to be reviewing three of LEGO's advent calendars for this year. The LEGO Star Wars calendar, the LEGO City calendar, and the small giveaway calendar that they had as a promotional item a few weeks back. I am going to start with the latter one; the free with purchase calendar.
The set number for this this advent calendar is 40222, and it contains 250 pieces. There are no minifigures in this set.
This set is a little different than the other advent calendars in that you do not open a door each day to reveal the mini-build behind it, but rather you reconstruct the set everyday into something different. Therefore, you cannot build all 24 models at once.
Let's start with taking a look at the front and the back of the box:
The contents of the box:
Day one:
Day two:
Day three:
Day four:
Day five:
Day six:
Day seven:
Day eight:
Day nine:
Day ten:
Day eleven:
Day twelve:
Day thirteen:
Day fourteen:
Day fifteen:
Day sixteen:
Day seventeen:
Day eighteen:
Day nineteen:
Day twenty:
Day twenty one:
Day twenty two:
Day twenty three:
Day twenty four:
I would give this set four and a half out of five. Considering this set was a free with purchase item, it isn't bad. At 250 pieces, it's pretty generous. I will say however that some of the designs are a little questionable! I have no idea whether day four is meant to be a dog or some other poor deformed animal, but it's pretty bad! Day ten is just as ambiguous, and as for eighteen, your guess is as good as mine! I think the cat, the two little birds, the second, larger castle, and the dragon are my favourites of the set.
Have a great day everyone,
Dan.