This is the penultimate of my MOCs (my original creations) that I built in December, on Advent day 23 made from the first 23 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. This was largely inspired by the 3×3 red plates with a rounded corner which feature in the body and hat. But the main technique featured here is the mixing of odd- and even-width portions on this flat sculpture. If you want to build it, here are the instructions (2 pages). Here is the parts list: This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. If you ..read more

Here’s the 22nd day MOC (my original creation) made from the first 22 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. The green plates from the earlier Xmas tree inspired me to build a green (John Deere style) tractor using the small red train wheels from Friends as the blades in a disc plow. Here are the steps to build this model: And here are the parts you’ll need to build it: This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. If you want to build the others, here are some links to them on Amazon: City, Harry Potter, and ..read more

Continuing with the instructions for the Advent models I built in December, here’s the 21st day MOC (my original creation). Again, I chafed under the range of color in the parts from the first 21 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars that I’d gotten thus far, so I built a small model instead, a little airplane. It’s a very small model, but I think I made some clever uses out of the parts – the wheels holders act as the propeller engines, and the ice skates are the props. The roller skates, meanwhile, serve as landing gear. The instructions and parts for this all fit on just one page ..read more

For my 20th day MOC (my original creation) for last Advent I really wanted to get away from the wild colors of the previous two days, and I ended up deciding to use the white parts to make a little bunny out of the parts from the first 20 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. Of course that resulted in a much smaller model, as I didn’t have that many white parts to work with … but this is what I came up with. The instructions for this are just one page: And here’s the parts you’ll need for this model: This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars L ..read more

When I sat down to build the 19th day model I still faced the same issue with too many colors, and thought to myself, what else is that colorful? Then it came to me, a birbd*! I continued with my builds using the first 19 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. I have no idea what species this would be, but I think it has some strong birbd energy. Here are the instructions if you’d like to build one, along with the parts list (3 pages total): And here’s the parts you’ll need for this model: This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has rel ..read more

For Advent 2023 Day 18 I couldn’t come up with anything that had a coherent color scheme using the parts I’d got from the first 18 days of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars, so I built something that doesn’t have to, as the real thing is often brightly decorated in many colors, a tuk-tuk. These function like taxis in places like Thailand and India. Here are the instructions if you’d like to build one, along with the parts list (4 pages total): And here’s the parts you’ll need for this model: This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has relea ..read more

Instructions are kind of moot for the Day 17 MOC (My Own Creation) from the 2023 Marvel & Friends Advent Calendars. I don’t have the cape (Cloak of Levitation) available in the program I use to generate instructions, but it’s simple enough I’m sure you could replicate it from the photo, should you feel any desire to build your own Super Sausage Dog Unicorn Guy… This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. If you want to build the others, here are some links to them on Amazon: City, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. (But p ..read more

The original model I built for Advent 2023 Day 15 was of a helicopter, made using the parts I’d got thus far from the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. Here are the instructions to build my MOC (My Own Creation) from this day, along with the parts list (5 pages total): Sorry about the long delay, if you were waiting for this … I hadn’t taken good photos or video showing the internals on this, and I eventually had to reverse-engineer it, and creating instructions for this complex of a model was not trivial. But anyway, here we go. This year I purchased and am building just two of the av ..read more

On Advent 2023 Day 14 I posted about a MOC (My Own Creation) of a Zamboni ice conditioner using the parts I’d got thus far from the Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. Here are the instructions to build my MOC from this day, along with the parts list (3 pages total): This year I purchased and am building just two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. If you want to build the others, here are some links to them on Amazon: City, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. (But please don’t support Harry Potter, due to the transphobic politics of J. K. Rowling ..read more

The second half of the 2023 Advent project started off with Day 13, and my MOC that day was a lizard alebrije using the parts from the Friends and Marvel Advent calendar models acquired thus far. Instructions for it are included below. The parts I used from the Day 13 models include Okoye’s spear tip and the round “dots” from the Friends set. Here are the two pages of instructions and a parts list: If you build one please share or send me a link! Or if you design your own model using these parts, or your own idea of an alebrije, let me know! This year I purchased and built two of the avail ..read more