acciobrick | Dec. 5th, 2020

Well, I'm not sure if LJ is going to straighten out the banning with regards to the comm. At the moment I might be the only one who can post here, which sort of defeats much of the point of making this a comm... (Issues...) Hopefully we can get this cleared up soon. 😊 (And if somebody would care to try posting, go right ahead. That should help answer if it's possible or not. (Just don't put a lot of effort into it, because I'm betting it fails. You can always delete the post if it doesn't.) ETA: MW was so kind as to test it, and it did in fact fail. 😕 (Please help us, LJ.))

In the meantime, I guess I'll just get started with the advent calendar... 🎄🎁

Goblet of Fire. Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's fourth year, students from rival schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at the castle to compete in the Triwizard Challenge, taking place after a roughly two century long hiatus (for safety concerns) to help commemorate Hogwarts' 1000 year anniversary. The Yule Ball is the highlight of the festivities that year, a formal winter dance for all students fourth year and above.

Clock Tower 75948

The 2020 calendar 75981, centres on the Yule Ball and is a nice compliment to the Clock Tower 75948 set. (Worth noting, the calendar basically retires now. As with all the other advent calendars lego makes, if there are sets left over, obviously you can pick them up later and often cheaper, but no more are in production, so if you want it, get on it, or resign yourself to picking it up off ebay / bricklink / brickowl / etc. (You can sometimes get pretty good deals on auctions of used past years' sets.))

The pictures above is from the inside of the calendar. To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)

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