12 Grimmauld Place Advent Calendar Day 01
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What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!
Day 01 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent Calendar
Day one would give us Harry Potter spending his first Christmas in the series away from Hogwarts, but then the school is decidedly less Christmassy this year, what with Umbridge lurking about. Here he's recently returned from visiting Arthur Weasley at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where he was accompanied by Hermione Granger and the majority of the local Weasleys (apropos of nothing, I'm sure, Percy is an absolute pillock). Hermione's and Ginny's reassurances notwithstanding, Harry remains uncertain if He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named had somehow managed to possess him and is wracked with guilt that Nagini had attacked Arthur almost fatally at the Ministry of Magic. (It's perfectly alright if that doesn't make much sense. Harry's Patronus and Expelliarmus may be unassailable, his powers of deductive reasoning, not so much.)
As all that Angst! would be a terrible way to spend the hols - and we really can't have that - one of Molly's Christmas puddings will fortunately go a ways to cheering him up. (Yum!) At the latest after a second piece, assuming Ron leaves one for him that is, our intrepid hero should be right as rain again. We wouldn't have it any other way.
Our Harry minifig is wearing a custom shirt, a sand blue version of 973pb4286c01 Ross Gellar's dark blueish grey shirt. Ideally it might be striped, but attempts to stripe it were either too subtle and un-lego-y (that's totally a word) or too broad and ill suited. I assume in the hands of real lego designers, that would be resolved, or who knows, maybe they'd make the same decision we did and just skip them. Apologies for the low quality youtube screenshot, but yes, that's our source material.
I always like to guess what the pieces in the Advent Calendars will build before peeking at the pictures, but here you see them assembled. To compensate for that, I've decided the best approach would be to include a picture of the next day's parts so you can play along at home:
Day 02 Pieces
Let the guessing begin!
What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!
Day 01 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent Calendar
Day one would give us Harry Potter spending his first Christmas in the series away from Hogwarts, but then the school is decidedly less Christmassy this year, what with Umbridge lurking about. Here he's recently returned from visiting Arthur Weasley at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where he was accompanied by Hermione Granger and the majority of the local Weasleys (apropos of nothing, I'm sure, Percy is an absolute pillock). Hermione's and Ginny's reassurances notwithstanding, Harry remains uncertain if He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named had somehow managed to possess him and is wracked with guilt that Nagini had attacked Arthur almost fatally at the Ministry of Magic. (It's perfectly alright if that doesn't make much sense. Harry's Patronus and Expelliarmus may be unassailable, his powers of deductive reasoning, not so much.)
As all that Angst! would be a terrible way to spend the hols - and we really can't have that - one of Molly's Christmas puddings will fortunately go a ways to cheering him up. (Yum!) At the latest after a second piece, assuming Ron leaves one for him that is, our intrepid hero should be right as rain again. We wouldn't have it any other way.
Our Harry minifig is wearing a custom shirt, a sand blue version of 973pb4286c01 Ross Gellar's dark blueish grey shirt. Ideally it might be striped, but attempts to stripe it were either too subtle and un-lego-y (that's totally a word) or too broad and ill suited. I assume in the hands of real lego designers, that would be resolved, or who knows, maybe they'd make the same decision we did and just skip them. Apologies for the low quality youtube screenshot, but yes, that's our source material.
I always like to guess what the pieces in the Advent Calendars will build before peeking at the pictures, but here you see them assembled. To compensate for that, I've decided the best approach would be to include a picture of the next day's parts so you can play along at home:
Day 02 Pieces
Let the guessing begin!
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Date: 2022-12-06 09:30 pm (UTC)