Customer Reviews

LEGO City Advent Calendar 7553

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This is the annual Lego Advent calendar. Just like previous years, there are 24 little compartments with a different Lego toy for each day leading up to Christmas. All total there are 232 pieces. Each toy is simple to assemble; there is an assembled picture on the back of each door.

This year they did a little more Christmas than previous years. Santa, Christmas tree, and somebody carrying presents are the theme. A car, snowmobile and a fisherman make up the remainder. They also included a bigger piece this time - four days are put together to make a Police station. It's a nice touch, the building. The odd part is a Police station for Christmas?

All 24 days come together to make a single scene. After Christmas, the toys make a nice addition to anybody's City collection.

The box is the same size as previous years. The cardboard is not very rugged; it's pretty standard Lego box issue. I've posted some pictures of the box and tray. It's possible some of the doors will get torn when opening them. I imagine if somebody was really careful, they could put the toys back and save it for next year. But then they'd miss out on a year of playing with the toys and the new 2012 version.

Every Lego Maniac will love this calendar. Even though my boys are much older now, we've enjoyed these sets for the past bunch of years. Heck, Dad gets a big kick out of the daily opening and building.

There is another Advent calendar this year. If it doesn't sell out and become outrageously expensive, the Star Wars set is rather cool: LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (7958)
The MSRP for the City Advent calendar is $35.

I have three boys and the Lego Advent Calendar has been a tradition for a few years. The boys get out of bed each morning excited to open the little door and create their new little lego figure. Highly recommend!

This is what I sent to Lego:
To whom it may concern. I recently purchased a Lego Advent Calender. I have never written to a company to complain about a product, i certainly never thought I would write one to Lego. But in the spirit of the season I feel that the Lego 7553, missed the point. I can appreciate the fact that Lego has done an exceptional job at bringing realism to Lego City. It is bothersome though, that during a time of cheer, the first 6 days dealt with villains, police, and jails. Our children's world has enough negativity and sadness, it would have been nice if the advent calender exemplified the spirit of Christmas, unfortunately it does not. I was excited to give these to my children, I have never been so disappointed in a product and the image it portrayed.

My family has been buying Lego Advent Calendar for at least 10 years. Recent editions include mini figures and a few accessories or tools/weapons as a mini-set for one day, it is still fun. My kids especially love the clever modeling using just a few bricks. This is their calendar to remind them that they have to be especially good for Christmas is only days away. The build is easy and kids as young as 4 can build with very little help.

Lego in the last few years had released 2 types of advent calendars every year, one is the city and another of a different theme (castle-2008, pirates-2009, kingdoms-2010). This is the first year of Star Wars Advent Calendar. These sets can be found at Lego store for retail price. Once Christmas is over and Lego store is sold out of them, they are hard to find and usually sold by individuals for much more.

This City set has 232 pieces and *not* made in China, like the Star Wars Advent Calendar. This is a good gift because it is not constrained to December or 2011. With my first child, we opened our advent calendar in the middle of summer when he was 3 years old, when he was learning to count and learning delayed gratification. We counted the pieces of Lego every day and the number of "windows" we had opened. And he remembered well that "one window a day" meant exactly that and stopped whining to open all the windows after the first 3 days.

Overall, a good set and highly recommended.

What a terrible job Lego has done this year with this advent. (insert sarcastic tone) Such a Cheery kick off to the Christmas season. Robbers, Police with handcuffs and Jail? In addition to this not following any Christmas theme at all, 4 out of 24 days are to the jail? Really Lego? It seems to me this company was getting rid of old stock that didn't sell! My seven year old is bored and disappointed as well. Such a shame as last years version was amazing!

My son came to me this morning and said "Mom, this Advent calendar is really disappointing." Pretty disappointing words for a Mom to hear about a special gift! "It doesn't really have Christmas-y stuff." It's the 12th, and so far by my son's count, only 1/4 of the toys have been about Christmas. The rest have included a police station and a minifig of "a criminal."

I love these Lego advent calendars, but this year's one is off to a bizarre start. It appears to have a cops and criminal theme. So far we've gotten an outlaw, a cop (along with two sets of handcuffs), a catapult, and a jail. What is next, protesters and pepper spray?

Not very Christmas-ey so far.

Lego toys are always great and help with the imagination. My daughter loves this advent calendar. She gets to
"get" something each day while waiting for Christmas. She has already set up a Christmas scene with other Legos and plans on adding each day as her new gift is available. Box works well for the length of time it should last and my daughter has to figure out which day to open each day which is a little learning although that is not the main purpose. Lego's are alway good toys.

This will be our second Lego Advent calendar. Our son, now 9 years old, loved it last year. It's everything you'd expect from Lego and more. Our son can't wait to open the door each day AND it's a great alternative to a piece of candy or money! Merry <early> Christmas and Happy Building:>)

I have bought each my kids (now ages 6 and 7) the lego advent calendars for the past 2 years. I hope they continue to make them year after year. My kids get enough candy around the holidays, and we love legos! So it's a winner here!