Lego Advent Calendars

Lego Advent Calenders have been wowing children and parents alike since they were first released, however getting hold of them isn’t always easy.   This year’s Lego Advent Calendars are being released in a greater number than previous years, but I’d still be looking online for them and buying them early.

Look at the Lego Advent Calendars for 2011 -

Although the Lego City advent calendar is more expensive than the themed chocolate advent calendars available they are well worth it as you are essentially purchasing not just an advent calendar, but a 232 piece Lego set.

2011’s Lego City advent calendar includes 6 minifigures which comprise of 2 police men, 2 robbers, 1 fisherman and (of course) Santa.   Also included are a police dog, a couple of snowmobiles, a Christmas tree and a mini police station.

If your child (or you yourself) love Lego Star Wars then I would snap up this advent calendar as soon as you can because I’m predicting it will become a collectors set in no time – in other words expect the price to increase a lot after Christmas.

This Lego Advent Calendar retails for more than the Lego City one, but it is a) bigger and b) Star Wars!   The set contains 266 pieces in total and includes 8 minifigures which are Nute Gunray, Chewbacca, R2 Q5, Zev Senesca, a Clone pilot, a Tie Pilot, a Battle Droid and Yoda in a Santa suit.

This set was originally released at the San Diego Comic Con and, as you can imagine, sold out very quickly.   This is part of the reason why I feel that this set will become a collector’s edition – Yoda in a Santa suit can only be found in this Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar and not in any other set and I must say he does look cute!

Also included in the set are mini versions of the Millennium Falcon, X-wing Starfighter and other ships to make up your own ‘Christmas’ mini Starfleet.

If you don’t want to get this year’s Lego Advent Calendars then you’re in luck because Amazon do have some of the Lego Advent calendars from previous years still available to purchase.   If you have a child who loves Lego Pirates or Lego Kingdoms or some other theme then there just might be a perfect Lego advent calendar for them right here –

A parrot (all good pirates need one), a wooden raft, a table with a treasure map on it and a treasure chest among other things are all included over your 24 days of high seas Lego fun.

There are also some cool castle accessories such as a catapult and an archery range.   This advent calendar is bound to be a winner for any Lego Castle theme fan.

The most popular theme of advent calendars that Lego release is the Lego City advent calendars and there are a number of these available as they have been released consistently over the years.   There is a great webpage that is dedicated solely to these calendars –

Lego City Advent Calendars
Every year since 2005 Lego have released a Lego City Advent Calendar which are a great way to keep your child happy every morning in December right up until Christmas Day when (hopefully) they'll be even more Lego under the tree!