LEGO City Advent Calendar 2012 Day 13

A command centre desk for controlling a fire scene

I’ve seen more of these in real life than I’d ever thought to want to, and this is a cute representation of a much-needed resource when the fire’s raging.

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LEGO City Advent Calendar 2011 Day 11

Another section of police station wall

Now I’m not creative enough to normally criticize any decisions that LEGO has made, but this is a little disappointing. I was shocked that people would pay out on the MTT in this year’s Star Wars set - but now I understand. I feels odd to have a whole big thing coming together day by day, and was a little bit of a let-down after being given little sets that are fun while standing alone…

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LEGO City Advent Calendar 2012 Day 12

A lady firefighter ready for duty!

I love the hair on this minifig - it flows over her shoulders and sits just nicely. 🙂 I have to say it’s nice that they made a woman firefighter too.

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LEGO City Advent Calendar 2012 Day 3

After my friend Jess mentioned that I’d found myself a 2011 Advent Calendar and had been posting it up thinking it was a 2012 one, I had to scrabble to find the right one (justifying LEGO 101: Temporal Accuracy!) So… I’m playing catch up and here’s day 3.

A shout-out has to go to ToysEtc, their shipping process must be great because they got my calendar to me in under 24 hours. They also tend to have some good sales on, so they’re worth checking out 🙂

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LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 Day 12

Sorry for the photos today, I really need to improve my photography situation, and I was in a rush 🙂 Hopefully in the next couple of days I’ll have built a little “studio” to make the photos a big cleaner 🙂

Rebel Snow Fighter

The LEGO Star Wars code for day 12 is 9497.

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LEGO City Advent Calendar 2011 Day 10

Teach a man to fish… and he’ll never go hungry.

A cute one for today, a fish on the end of a little rubber whip/rod and a fire to cook it on.

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