Advent calendar - who waited til December?

sirJacob · Post by **sirJacob** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:55 am

mine is waiting for me over in finland, so I have to wait untill aprill! but my nice brother-in-law keeps me uppdated day by day, whats in todays box!

natelite · Post by **natelite** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:04 am

MarioDAlessio wrote: I only purchased two one to open and one for misb collection. I thought their would be some left over after Christmas to pick up discounted.

Mario

that's what i figured as well so i didn't buy any since i didn't want to pay those steep shipping charges.

good thing i was able to get a few from a german BL store. still much cheaper than getting from aussie S@H. the internet is definitely a great information bank...helps u find the cheapest available worldwide.

MarioDAlessio · Post by **MarioDAlessio** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:05 am

natelite wrote: good thing i was able to get a few from a german BL store. still much cheaper than getting from aussie S@H.

thanks for the information, I think it will be a highy collectable set in the future with such limited sales offered.

Md

brian · Post by **brian** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:06 am

It was really tough to wait, but now I start each day with coffee and opening my calender before I go to work. It put's me in a good mood every morning.

Lcuan82 · Post by **Lcuan82** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:34 pm

I bought 2 and I haven't opened them yet.

This is my problem - I think I am slowly drifting into a dark age, in that my urge to buy is much stronger than my urge to play with the set.

I still have a Vladek's castle from 2006 that's unopened... also Dwarves' mine. Maybe I just need to move into a place that supports massive lego display.

kibosh · Post by **kibosh** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:49 pm

Lcuan82 wrote:I bought 2 and I haven't opened them yet.

This is my problem - I think I am slowly drifting into a dark age, in that my urge to buy is much stronger than my urge to play with the set.

I still have a Vladek's castle from 2006 that's unopened... also Dwarves' mine. Maybe I just need to move into a place that supports massive lego display.

TOTALLY agree with this. I can NOT pass up a deal, yet can't remember the last time I creatively built something from my imagination. My wife always says I seem to like acquiring Lego more than anything.

THANKFULLY my son is 6 1/2, and really getting into Lego, so hopefully he'll keep me from entering a dark age. I'll need to build some forces up to battle his King's castle he's getting for Christmas.

Lcuan82 · Post by **Lcuan82** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:07 pm

I don't have kids yet. But when I do, I can't imagine having him tearing through my lego collection, haha.

Maybe I'll buy him some random theme like City first, to keep him interested in lego but also preoccupied. Then I will hand over the reins when he turns 18...

kibosh · Post by **kibosh** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:13 pm

Lcuan82 wrote:I don't have kids yet. But when I do, I can't imagine having him tearing through my lego collection, haha.

Maybe I'll buy him some random theme like City first, to keep him interested in lego but also preoccupied. Then I will hand over the reins when he turns 18...

No, no, no. He has HIS Lego, and daddy has HIS.

He has a handful of small city sets, a bunch of Star Wars sets, and a small castle set. He LOVES playing with them, and is very creative. What blows me away, is he's coming up with a bunch of building techniques I see used here. And he hasn't even seen the site. He's light years ahead of me when I was his age in terms of technique. But I had a better eye for design!

Fenneke-Jose · Post by **Fenneke-Jose** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:26 pm

I opened mine today. I Just opend 5 boxes. The rest I wil open the following days of the month.

Traveler · Post by **Traveler** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:24 am

I waited!

And am still waiting, until I get home to my parents' house on the 19th.

Post by **JoshWedin** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:41 pm

I bought three. I opened two of them and the kids of opening the third one door at a time.

Josh

melonkernel · Post by **melonkernel** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:45 am

I open them each morning now that it is december. I got mine as a fathers day gift (it's in novemberin Finland).
My brother in law, SirJacob, has ordered one at the same time, but he is in australia now, so when i open it each morning, i put a picture on Facebook so he can see what it was..

sirJacob · Post by **sirJacob** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:33 am

Woohooo I got the calendar for my birthday! the 3 december!!!
melonkernel gave it to me!
I can't wait to get home!

melonkernel wrote: My brother in law, SirJacob, has ordered one at the same time, but he is in australia now, so when i open it each morning, i put a picture on Facebook so he can see what it was..

and thats why you're my favourite brother-in-law!
The best part of the day is when i log in to facebook to find out whats in the calendar!

cheers Melonkernel!

The Crusader · Post by **The Crusader** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:56 pm

I waited till yesterday and opened the previous days, as I just havent had time

this set is all kinds of win

DanDanLegoman · Post by **DanDanLegoman** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:06 pm

Today's little archery set was really cute. I also have the City themed calendar, and that one was a brick-built tree with a cat.

I'm liking these way more than last year's advent calendar.

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