Advent Thomas features Thomas wearing snow goggles with a polar bear and penguins sliding down a mountain on snowboards drinking hot chocolate. For a gourmet take on a traditional calendar, look to Compartés' chocolate garden advent calendar. Every door reveals a different flavor of decadent chocolate inspired by California's botanicals to start or end your December day. Some of the limited-edition flavors you can only find in this calendar include honey lavender, lemon poppyseed, and more. The beautiful calendar features graphics inspired by a stunning garden so it doubles as mantle or tabletop decor. Unleash your inner glow this holiday season with BeautyBio's 12 Days of Glow holiday calendar. Reveal 11 deluxe minis and one full-size product meant to brighten and nourish your skin. Examples include creams, gels, cleansers, and more. There are even a few skincare accessories to upgrade your morning routine. Each and every night, you'll test your Home Alone knowledge as you decorate the pop-up tree with ornaments inspired by the movie's most memorable scenes (or so they say).

Cheery elves, flying reindeer, and cute little animals will help you count down the days until the big 2-5 on this calendar. You can fill each of the 24 doors with a piece of candy or a small present. The top can be personalized with your child’s name for a holiday keepsake he or she will have forever. Fill each of this homey calendar's 24 wooden drawers with your own small treat—think an ornament, a piece of chocolate, or a small toy—as you countdown to Christmas. The box is topped with colorful, snow-covered pine trees and can be reused year after year for holiday lovers young and old.

Conclusion

Santa Gonk– Despite being part of Top 4 Mini Builds I selected this build not because I like it, but rather because of how much I dislike this build. At first glance I couldn’t even tell what it was, but it was obvious it was a Santa something. Whereas the present version of Gonk from 2019 was well done and you could still discern it was our favorite power droid. Unfortunately, this one completely misses the mark and leaves me disappointed. This advent calendar contains 25 days of surprises and brand-new unique keepsakes and trinkets ranging from fun paper ornaments to classic Friends-inspired recipe cards and more LEGO Advent calendars are a great way to make the holiday period even more magical for friends and family so we hope you are able to decide which to build this year and enjoy the process and cool minifigures and builds! Beauty lovers need this luxury calendar from Saks Fifth Avenue that features 25 items instead of the traditional 24. Try out the best body and home fragrances in the form of serums, lip balms, toothpaste, candles, and more. You're guaranteed to find something new that becomes a staple in your home.

Discover how different cultures celebrate the holidays with a Cheers Around the World advent calendar from WSJwines. Each door displays a different culture cheer-sing to the holiday season with an international wine hidden behind the door. On Christmas Eve, you'll open up a half-bottle of prosecco to toast to Santa's arrival the next day. Maddy– This minifigure is a middle-school-aged girl in the Netflix show, with ponytails on her head and two joyful faces on her reversable head. She wears a bright orange sweater over a blue and white striped shirt, and she holds a gold lantern in one hand. Ollivander’s– At the risk of spoilers, this is the first build in the advent calendar, and it is incredibly difficult to build from the tiny image in the door. The picture is far too small to allow you to tell what is going on, and it is likely to cause frustration for all builders, not just those at the low-end of the 7+ recommendation. Further, it was not immediately recognizable to us based on seeing the films (and playing the LEGO games), but it is a passable representation when looking at photos of the real thing.An advent calendar works by counting the days up to Christmas. You start opening the boxes either 24 or 12 days before Christmas, depending on how many items your advent calendar has. The number one box is opened first and then with each day you open a new box. Each day you open a new box, adding to your collection of prizes. The number of the box you open tells you how close you're getting to Christmas Day. Of course, there are no specific rules for how you should open or use your advent calendar. It may be fun to buy a few leading up to December to open in October and November, as well. Always remember that everyone can enjoy the fun of advent calendars no matter their religious beliefs.

In general, the 2022 LEGO City Advent Calendar is an improvement over last year’s calendar, especially in terms of better builds that are more suitable for younger children and more variety and creativity in the builds. For those reasons, I give this set a 4/5 Stars (Recommended) rating overall.

Looking Back!

I’ll be posting direct links to this post, and tomorrow, I’ll begin posting sequentially from 12pm AEDT, beginning with Harry Potter, Friends, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars.

Every year, Sephora releases highly-anticipated advent calendars featuring some of the brand's best-selling products, perfect for makeup lovers. The premium advent calendar comes with 18 full-sized products, two travel-sized minis, and four accessories to add to your beauty collection. It’s the one with 24 doors of great gifts! This Friends Advent Calendar is perfect for any Friends fan this Christmas!Little ones will have a blast with this engaging calendar from KiwiCo. Each day, children receive all the materials necessary to build a piece of their Christmas village with extra surprises to customize the elements to make them their own. On the 24th, you'll have a stunning, hand-crafted Christmas village you can use year after year. Sorry we don't have more information on the content of this advent calendar ... for the moment ;) Content value of this advent calendar 2021: not disclosed In fact, instead of lots of moving vehicles and structures/buildings as there were in the 2021 City Calendar, there was a variety of different objects in the 2022 builds. The reason for this variety may be the country setting of this City Calendar but, in any case, it made for a much more entertaining and enjoyable building experience overall, though like with last year’s calendar there’s some builds where once completed I wasn’t sure what they were supposed to be. Hogwarts Express and Platform 9 3/4– This iconic location is well reconstructed at microscale, and is easily identified due to the signature red of the scarlet steam engine, The Hogwarts Express. I think it’s fun that this tiny model is included this year, given that a much larger version was released earlier this year as #76405 Hogwarts Express. I would love to see the two side by side! One fan commented, “I want this even though we don’t celebrate Christmas lol,” which — that’s totally fine! Use it to countdown to another holiday or simply open each box as a daily surprise for yourself.