Buy LEGO City Advent Calendar 7553
- 24 days of fun with the LEGO City Advent Calendar
- Gifts include 6 minifigures (2 police men, 2 robbers, 1 fisher and 1 Santa Claus)
- Build larger models using bricks from three different gift days
- Includes 2 cool snowmobiles, a police dog, a Christmas tree, a mini police station and much more
- 232
It’s Christmas time again! Just make sure the robbers don’t steal all the gifts and get away! Help the police catch the robbers using the cool snowmobile or the mini police car and make it another great Christmas again this year. The 24 individual gifts, including police and robber minifigures, are the perfect addition to your existing LEGO sets and a great start to the holiday season. Open a door every day to reveal 24 different LEGO City-themed gifts.
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Perfect for the Lego Maniac,
This is the annual Lego Advent calendar. Just like previous years, there are 24 little compartments with a different Lego toy for each day leading up to Christmas. All total there are 232 pieces. Each toy is simple to assemble; there is an assembled picture on the back of each door.
This year they did a little more Christmas than previous years. Santa, Christmas tree, and somebody carrying presents are the theme. A car, snowmobile and a fisherman make up the remainder. They also included a bigger piece this time – four days are put together to make a Police station. It’s a nice touch, the building. The odd part is a Police station for Christmas?
All 24 days come together to make a single scene. After Christmas, the toys make a nice addition to anybody’s City collection.
The box is the same size as previous years. The cardboard is not very rugged; it’s pretty standard Lego box issue. I’ve posted some pictures of the box and tray. It’s possible some of the doors will get torn when opening them. I imagine if somebody was really careful, they could put the toys back and save it for next year. But then they’d miss out on a year of playing with the toys and the new 2012 version.
Every Lego Maniac will love this calendar. Even though my boys are much older now, we’ve enjoyed these sets for the past bunch of years. Heck, Dad gets a big kick out of the daily opening and building.
There is another Advent calendar this year. If it doesn’t sell out and become outrageously expensive, the Star Wars set is rather cool: LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (7958)
The MSRP for the City Advent calendar is $35.
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|Wonderful Holiday Tradition,
I have three boys and the Lego Advent Calendar has been a tradition for a few years. The boys get out of bed each morning excited to open the little door and create their new little lego figure. Highly recommend!
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|Fun for the kids during Christmas break,
My family has been buying Lego Advent Calendar for at least 10 years. Recent editions include mini figures and a few accessories or tools/weapons as a mini-set for one day, it is still fun. My kids especially love the clever modeling using just a few bricks. This is their calendar to remind them that they have to be especially good for Christmas is only days away. The build is easy and kids as young as 4 can build with very little help.
Lego in the last few years had released 2 types of advent calendars every year, one is the city and another of a different theme (castle-2008, pirates-2009, kingdoms-2010). This is the first year of Star Wars Advent Calendar. These sets can be found at Lego store for retail price. Once Christmas is over and Lego store is sold out of them, they are hard to find and usually sold by individuals for much more.
This City set has 232 pieces and *not* made in China, like the Star Wars Advent Calendar. This is a good gift because it is not constrained to December or 2011. With my first child, we opened our advent calendar in the middle of summer when he was 3 years old, when he was learning to count and learning delayed gratification. We counted the pieces of Lego every day and the number of “windows” we had opened. And he remembered well that “one window a day” meant exactly that and stopped whining to open all the windows after the first 3 days.
Overall, a good set and highly recommended.
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