Advent calendars: the big unboxing begins ...

It has become a day to be marked with a milestone: on December 1 of each year, the little world of LEGO is racing for the various Advent calendars available: Star Wars, City, Friends and this year the set 40222 Christmas Build Up offered in November to customers of the LEGO Shop and the LEGO Stores.

I'm not going to give you a 500-line daily report here on the content of these calendars, others will do it better than me. I will content myself with regularly noting the few mini-gimmicks or interesting characters delivered in the very nice but already out of print LEGO Star Wars 2016 Advent Calendar (LEGO reference 75146).

Boba Fett's Slave I microphone of the day is also quite successful. This is what should have looked like, with the colors of Jango Fett's ship, the mini-thing offered with number 2 of the official LEGO Star Wars magazine ...