Unlike those killjoy LEGO reviewers who published their door-by-door account of each what’s behind each door in this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar back in August, we at The Holo-Brick Archives have held off until the true season of Advent has begun.
Like all our other LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar reviews, we start out with a reminder that Advent originally hailed from Germany, where in the nineteenth-century the tradition of marking the days until Christmas with a small candy or gift began. Since then it has spread across the world – and the galaxy!
Meaning “coming” in Latin, the season of Advent – which traditionally starts on the Sunday closest to Saint Andrew’s Day – is a period in the Christian calendar that spans the four Sundays before Christmas and is the time given over to preparing and reflecting on the real meaning of Christmas.
Because the closest Sunday can fall between November 27 and December 3 inclusive, the Advent calendar usually begins on December 1 which is also the first day that a Christmas tree can be decorated. If you’re about to set up your tree, why not check out the #buildtogive LEGO charity campaign that will help underprivileged children receive the gift of LEGO this Christmas.
Though these have only been around in LEGO form since 2011, Advent calendars aren’t new to Star Wars fans, having initially arrived in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Following their first release, LEGO have now produced a total of eleven LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendars for collectors and fans.
75279 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
Kids can wake up to a gift every day in the run-up to Christmas with the 2020 LEGO® Star Wars™ Advent Calendar (75279) holiday building set. Behind each of the 24 doors is a Star Wars LEGO minifigure, LEGO figure, buildable starship, vehicle or location. Also, look out for a code to unlock Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga game content. Quick builds, unlimited creative fun There are 6 LEGO minifigures and 6 LEGO figures to discover, such as Darth Vader with Christmas sweater decoration and D-O with a festive hat, plus a foldout playmat with an image of the Millennium Falcon with Christmas lights to inspire creative play. The 12 mini builds in this holiday calendar include Anakin’s Podracer, a Republic Cruiser and Darth Vader’s Castle.
Since 1999, the LEGO Group has been recreating iconic starships, vehicles, locations and characters from the legendary Star Wars universe. LEGO Star Wars building toys are hugely popular, with fun Christmas gift ideas for kids and fans of all ages.
- Build Christmas joy with the LEGO® Star Wars™ Advent Calendar (75279), featuring buildable characters, vehicles and locations behind each door. There is also a code to unlock Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga game content.
- Includes 6 LEGO® minifigures and 6 LEGO figures, such as Poe Dameron and Darth Vader with Christmas sweater decorations and Tauntaun with a red nose, plus a foldout playmat with a Millennium Falcon image for role play.
- There are also 12 mini build toys including the Millennium Falcon, an A-wing, TIE Fighter, X-wing, Droid Control Ship, Anakin’s Podracer and Darth Vader’s Castle to spark kids’ imaginations in the run-up to Christmas.
- This 311-piece advent calendar building set makes a fun Christmas holiday gift for kids aged 7 and up, and the characters and construction models can be used with other LEGO® Star Wars™ sets for even more creative play.
- Between door-opening ceremonies and playtime adventures, the 2020 LEGO® Star Wars™ Advent Calendar makes an eye-catching, festive display piece in any room.
- The collectibles found in this LEGO® Star Wars™ Advent Calendar construction playset are built with LEGO bricks and powered by children’s creativity – no batteries required – so their galactic adventures never stop!
- Is your youngster a LEGO® newbie? Don’t worry. There is a drawing showing the bricks for each mini build in this Star Wars™ Xmas Advent calendar to guide them, so they can build with the confidence of a true Jedi!
- LEGO® Star Wars™ building toys are awesome for kids (and adult fans) to recreate scenes from the saga, dream up original stories or just build and display the awesome construction models.
- No need to use the Force to connect or pull apart LEGO® bricks! Ever since 1958, they have met the highest industry standards to ensure that they fit together perfectly and with ease.
- LEGO® bricks and pieces are tested in almost every way imaginable so you can be sure that this Xmas Advent calendar meets the highest safety and quality standards on planet Earth – and in galaxies far, far away!
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Normally a traditional advent calendar would feature Christian depictions (like manger scenes or Saint Nicholas) or winter landscapes, leaving the surprise reveal to be discovered as each door is opened, but in the world of LEGO – where box graphics sells products – the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar is covered in spoilers (21 out of 24 to be precise) that largely give away the contents.
Opening the front panel not only reveals a particularly pleasing piece of art that shows the Millennium Falcon in a snow-covered Kashyyyk landscape that acts as both a diorama and a playmat. With the right banners and text this would make a perfect box front, saving the mystery of what starships, vehicles, micro-locations and minifigures are hidden inside.
No different to any of the others, this year’s 75279 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar has 24 (a number that isn’t set to change) small doors; one for each day of December leading up to and including Christmas Eve. Traditionally the appropriately numbered door – starting with number one on December 1st, etc – is opened each day leading up to Christmas to reveal a small LEGO Star Wars gift.
With this being the first day of Advent, the traditional start to the countdown to Christmas, we launch our LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar reveals – beginning with an A-wing…
The second day of our Advent reveal brings the first minifigure of the holiday season – Poe Dameron in his ugly Life Day sweater. This character’s new outfit was first…
Poking out of the Great Chott salt flats of the Jundland Sea is the first location build of the Advent season – a minuscule version of the Lar’s Homestead where…
Looking like he has just stepped out of the Lars Homestead, this Luke Skywalker minifigure is the fourth gift in this years Advent calendar. Complete with macrobinoculars, perhaps to scan…
Proving itself to be as popular a spacecraft as any in the Star Wars galaxy, this new Razor Crest to be produced by LEGO comes in mini-scale. Complete with forward…
With its red cockpit you might mistake this TIE Dagger – the starfighter of choice at the Sith Eternal – for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but you wouldn’t it to…
Garbed in red armor this Sith Trooper could easily be rebranded Sithmas Trooper at this time of the year! First revealed at San Diego Comi-Con as the event exclusive 77901 Sith…
Joining the Rebel fleet’s 30-odd strong squadron of X-wing fighters is this new mini-scale version of the spaceship that has been so pivotal in the telling of the Skywalker Saga….
Looking pretty annoyed – maybe because she’s on a windswept island with only a light tunic and leggings to protect her from the elements – this Rey minifigure is the…
While it’s not quite the smallest novelty in this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, this festive D-O – complete with a Santa hat – does have the lowest part…
The Millennium Falcon takes on a new form on the 11th day of Advent. Proving that size isn’t everything, this micro version of the hunk of junk that broke the…
The smallest set of Advent graces us on the thirteeth day – it’s a seven-pieced porg! Native to the islands of Ahch-To, these tiny sea birds cover the island and…
The latest mini-build to come out of this year’s Advent calendar is a Republic Cruiser. The spaceship that delivered Qui-Gon Jinn and his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, to the negotiations between…
Surrendering to the festive spirit is the 14th gift of Advent – a battle droid minifigure. With a mere six parts, the cannon fodder of the Separtist movement has been…
With the longest set name of the Advent season, the Lucrehulk-class battleships that directed the invasion of Naboo in The Phantom Menace gets revealed on the 15th day. It’s hard…
Continuing the run of Advent sets from The Phantom Menace, the 16th novelty is the podracer built and raced by Anakin Skywalker. Comprised of 12 pieces (not counting the transparent…
Hailing from the junkyards and scrap piles of Mos Espa in The Phantom Menace, the latest addition to the Advent countdown is a DUM-series pit droid. Comprised of 12 elements,…
Skimming across the snowy landscape of Hoth is the latest Advent toy – a micro-scale snowspeeder. Differing from the unarmed version (did you even notice?) that flew in 40333 Battle of…
Ready to sound the alarm when Rebel commanders don’t make it back to Echo Base before nightfall is the festive tauntaun from the 19th day of Advent If every tauntaun…
Making its third appearance in LEGO form on the 20th day of Advent is the shield generator from the Rebel Alliance’s base on Hoth. Having been neglected for the first…
The festive run of Advent novelties continues with this Snowman Power Droid – it’s ready to power up all your Life Day lights! Of the nine power droids that LEGO…
Hidden behind the 22nd window in this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar is a stormtrooper minifigure. First appearing in the Winter Wave of 2019, this dual-molded minifigure was initially…
Like the antithesis of Santa’s workshop at the North Pole, Day 23 brings us Darth Vader’s Castle. Situated on the tortured world of Mustafar, the fortress of solitude for the…
The final day of Advent gives us Darth Krampus Vader in a traditional wooly jumper that boasts a Death Star motif. Battle-damage aside, only once before has Darth Vader steps…
What do you think of this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar? Feel free to share your thoughts below.
Lego have really nailed it with this set. The Vader and Poe figures are brilliant and then seeing them on The Holiday Special too was the icing on the cake. Add to those a festive D-O, a snowman Gonk Droid and a red nosed Tauntaun and this set ticks all the Christmas themed boxes. It doesn’t stop there. A totally new Falcon, and redesigned X Wing and Snowspeeder just confirms this to be the best Advent Calendar yet. The flipside to this is that this is yet another set added to a long lost of sets that I would love to have bought in 2020 but for various reasons been unable to do.