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acciobrickWelp.
Everyone gets Crimbo jumpers!
Honestly that's about the extent of my positivity here. 😕 It's a return to the nanoscale or buildable things that you really can't do much with except maybe stick them on your tree and... Why???? What were they thinking? In past years, they've given us some prints we could use for our builds to upgrade stickers or just things that were missing altogether... and instead here we get a completely useless buildable microscale creature or a magical thing. Yay. 😐 For something that has been my favourite set of the year for years now, this is such a disappointment, so much so I don't think I'll buy one new. Anyway, if that buildup has made you curious and you want to spoil yourself, you'll find a pic beneath the fold.
The Skele-gro, Polyjuice Potion, and Hogwarts letter seal bricks are very likely printed, but not actually all that useful. Trying to find something positive... The Bertie Botts print, on the other hand, might be something you could use as advertising around Hogsmeade. Ok, maybe you could use the large Potions as advertising as well for the Apothecary and Potioneer's. (Yeah, it's a stretch.) It looks like it's going to give those of us who aren't minted access to the large Galleons from the ever so pricey Gringotts set, so there's that.
As for buildable creatures(-ish): there's a Thestral, Hedwig, Buckbeak, Aragog, the Sorting Hat (I refuse to class the Wizarding World's poet laureate as a "thing"), and a Mandrake.
On the magical things front: Harry's Stag Patronus, the Monster Book of Monsters, a genuinely cute Chocolate Frog, bottles of Amortentia and Skele-gro, a phial of Polyjuice Potion, a letter from Hogwarts, a box of Bertie Botts Beans, a mug of Butterbeer, and the aforementioned large Galleons.
Hmm.
Alright, to be fair, we're getting eight minifigs (Harry, maybe Angelina Johnson (possibly Alicia Spinnet, though, except I'd expect a lighter skin tone if so), Draco, Blaise, Cho, Luna, I assume Cedric and maybe Hannah?), two each from each of the Houses, at least two different leg lengths, an even divide of boys and girls, and in a variety of skin tones and with different hairstyles (although with a glaring lack of ginger (lego! forsooth! does gingerism rear its ugly head?!) and only a single brunette), so we'll be better able to make our own sigfigs. That is nice. I think we've got at least four skin tones and none of that mittens nonsense, so that, too, is useful and can be employed elsewhere. The jumpers, although not remotely canonical, are cute. I'd have preferred if they gave us a Quidditch uniform and regular jumper or cardigan instead, things they have already printed but are dead useful, but I'd still have no qualms adding this to a Hogwarts display. Variety is nice.
It's just a shame when my first reaction to an Advent set is disappointment, because I'm such a pushover for them.
Everyone gets Crimbo jumpers!
Honestly that's about the extent of my positivity here. 😕 It's a return to the nanoscale or buildable things that you really can't do much with except maybe stick them on your tree and... Why???? What were they thinking? In past years, they've given us some prints we could use for our builds to upgrade stickers or just things that were missing altogether... and instead here we get a completely useless buildable microscale creature or a magical thing. Yay. 😐 For something that has been my favourite set of the year for years now, this is such a disappointment, so much so I don't think I'll buy one new. Anyway, if that buildup has made you curious and you want to spoil yourself, you'll find a pic beneath the fold.
The Skele-gro, Polyjuice Potion, and Hogwarts letter seal bricks are very likely printed, but not actually all that useful. Trying to find something positive... The Bertie Botts print, on the other hand, might be something you could use as advertising around Hogsmeade. Ok, maybe you could use the large Potions as advertising as well for the Apothecary and Potioneer's. (Yeah, it's a stretch.) It looks like it's going to give those of us who aren't minted access to the large Galleons from the ever so pricey Gringotts set, so there's that.
As for buildable creatures(-ish): there's a Thestral, Hedwig, Buckbeak, Aragog, the Sorting Hat (I refuse to class the Wizarding World's poet laureate as a "thing"), and a Mandrake.
On the magical things front: Harry's Stag Patronus, the Monster Book of Monsters, a genuinely cute Chocolate Frog, bottles of Amortentia and Skele-gro, a phial of Polyjuice Potion, a letter from Hogwarts, a box of Bertie Botts Beans, a mug of Butterbeer, and the aforementioned large Galleons.
Hmm.
Alright, to be fair, we're getting eight minifigs (Harry, maybe Angelina Johnson (possibly Alicia Spinnet, though, except I'd expect a lighter skin tone if so), Draco, Blaise, Cho, Luna, I assume Cedric and maybe Hannah?), two each from each of the Houses, at least two different leg lengths, an even divide of boys and girls, and in a variety of skin tones and with different hairstyles (although with a glaring lack of ginger (lego! forsooth! does gingerism rear its ugly head?!) and only a single brunette), so we'll be better able to make our own sigfigs. That is nice. I think we've got at least four skin tones and none of that mittens nonsense, so that, too, is useful and can be employed elsewhere. The jumpers, although not remotely canonical, are cute. I'd have preferred if they gave us a Quidditch uniform and regular jumper or cardigan instead, things they have already printed but are dead useful, but I'd still have no qualms adding this to a Hogwarts display. Variety is nice.
It's just a shame when my first reaction to an Advent set is disappointment, because I'm such a pushover for them.
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Date: 2025-05-01 10:43 pm (UTC)Sadly, you are Not alone in your disappointment. Yee gads, what is the point of nano builds of things that we have MUCH better actual figures for, It took forever for me to figure out what the thestral was (I expanded the picture to view them up close Before finishing reading, DOH!) The large galleons and sweaters seem to be best aspect, aside from fixing the much lamented Lack of variety present in the bookends post. It's a multi year concept again, though feels a bit haphazard. So like you, I'm less enthused at paying full price + tariffs.