Almost five months to Christmas and here we have the next City Advent Calendar with the traditional twenty four gifts. I always love to have a close look to these kind of sets, there are always some interesting parts to enjoy and most of the times there are a couple of mini-figures that are very difficult to find in other sets.

The new City advent calendar has exactly two hundred and ninety pieces and features a lot of nice and small elements: a Christmas tree with a couple of gifts, two bakery stands with a small oven, a street lamp, a snowman, a snow bike, Santa’s Sleigh, a trough for the animals and a music set that includes a speaker, a microphone and a guitar.

And now, probably the main part, the mini-figures! Continue reading →

The new City Advent Calendar has just hit stores. The two hundred and seventy eight pieces include the usual twenty four gifts and a lot of great stuff to enjoy. The mini-figures weren’t forgotten, there will be six (a jungle police officer, a robber, three kids and the usual Santa) and some of the other gifts are also pretty interesting.

There is no doubt that most of the parts are small copies of city sets of several themes. Through the images it is possible to identify the complete list that consists on a small stand, an ice lake, a couple of remote controlled cars, an airplane, a excavator, a street lamp, a chair, a Christmas tree, a clock, a couple of gifts, a red train, a snowman, a police snowmobile, an husky puppy, a small fire and finally two replicas of the space shuttle and space port.

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