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You and Your Kids Can Count Down to Christmas with These 9 Lego Advent Calendars
The Best Lego Advent Calendars for 2023
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Wait, we’re how close to the holidays? For many, the annual surprise of December’s rapid approach is like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, and counting down to Christmas helps get us excited for time spent with family, time off from work and school, and (shamelessly) a cool present or two. There are boatloads of Advent calendars you can get to add some extra zeal to your wait, offering everything from food to toys to tech—but a decades-long mainstay is Lego’s annual Advent calendar collection.
Whether you’re an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego) yourself, or you’ve got some kiddos you’re looking to spoil this holiday season, there are few gifts that compare to a shiny new Lego set. Something about shaking a gift-wrapped box and hearing the clinking of hundreds of plastic bricks inside has the power to immediately excite the imagination—and with these calendars, you don’t have to wait the whole month to start building.
To keep your search for the perfect Advent calendar short and sweet, we’ve rounded up every offering from Lego’s 2023 lineup, as well as a few thrifty alternatives. Whether you’re a fan of Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, or simply snapping bricks together to make something new, these calendars are sure to make the first 24 days of December a little bit more bearable. Just watch your step once you’ve cracked them open!
Star Wars 2023 Advent Calendar
Whether you’re looking to bulk up on rare minifigures, sleek miniatures of your favorite starfighters, or the ugly Emperor Palpatine in an equally ugly sweater, this Star Wars calendar is sure to delight fans of any age.
Some highlights of this set include a reindeer-antlered gonk droid, an impressively detailed scale model of the Mandalorian’s Naboo N1 fighter, and a festively colored Ewok. On top of that, you get characters like a B1 battle droid and a 212th Attack Battalion clone trooper that can perfectly supplement your budding Clone Wars armadas.
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Star Wars 2023 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$40.49
City 2023 Advent Calendar
Outside any specific fictional universe, Lego City advent calendars are always a reliable means of collecting pieces and props for creating simple-but-sweet scenes of real life. This most recent edition is full of furniture pieces fit for a cozy winter abode, including a fire-filled hearth, a grandfather clock, and a festive table fit for a holiday meal.
There are some notable individual pieces with this set, too: It boasts tiny dog and cat figures, a minifig-scale video game controller, and a cooked turkey, to name a few.
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City 2023 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$31.49
Harry Potter 2023 Advent Calendar
Harry Potter carves out an intriguing niche on this list as one of the only fictional universes in Lego’s range that’s filled with Christmas scenes. Appropriately, most of the builds in Lego’s yearly Harry Potter calendar are totally screen-accurate, and this most recent edition centers entirely on Hogsmeade Village.
This calendar is loaded with cozy, beanie- and hoodie-clad versions of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, and it also features miniatures of Three Broomsticks Inn, Hog’s Head Inn, and Zonko’s Joke Shop, among other icons from the fantastical franchise.
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Harry Potter 2023 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$37.66
Marvel Avengers 2023 Advent Calendar
Much like the Emperor in Lego’s Star Wars calendar, Spider-Man gets the ugly sweater treatment in this latest Marvel calendar, and there are plenty more pieces in this set that are must-haves for fans of the Avengers saga.
Some notable inclusions are Captain America holding Thor’s hammer, a miniature Hydra train, and a Christmas tree with the Tesseract as its star. Is it dangerous to handle an infinity stone so precariously? Perhaps, but at least there’s no Loki in this set to keep an eye on.
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Marvel Avengers 2023 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$38.49
Friends 2023 Advent Calendar
For the youngest range of Lego lovers, this set from the Friends collection makes a great blank canvas for all kinds of holiday-themed scenes. The builds in this set range in complexity from easy three-piece constructions, such as a snowman with a hat, to more elaborate brick configurations, such as a Christmas tree and festive archway.
This set also comes with some classic handhelds for your minifigures, such as the chicken leg, carrot, and shovel pieces, and it’s also full of small single-piece pet figures—perfect for adding some extra life to your next homey creation.
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Friends 2023 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$27.99
Christmas Wreath
While almost all the other Advent products on this list involve some kind of cardboard box filled with micro-sets, this is a complete set that you can build on December 1 and hang on your wall.
To keep track of the days leading up to Christmas, you attach four candles to the wreath, each consisting of six pieces—then you add a piece every day for 24 days. What’s especially nice about this set is that, unlike Lego’s cardboard calendars, this set is infinitely reusable, so you can (carefully!) stash it away for next year, too.
Advent Calendar Activity Book
If you already have a Lego gift wrapped and ready to go for the big day itself, it’s understandable if getting little fixes of bricks leading up to the reveal feels like spoiling your bigger present. For the Lego fan in your family who’s itching for another way to count down to Christmas, this activity book provides 24 days of puzzles and games (16 per day) to keep creative minds chugging along all through December.
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Advent Calendar Activity Book
lego.com
$24.99
City 2022 Advent Calendar
More often than not, it’s difficult to find Lego Advent calendars from previous years in steady supply. But because each year’s calendars are totally unique, finding a cache of old sets introduces a rare option to curate which bricks and minifigs you get (and score a slight discount).
This calendar is from last year’s City line, and at the time of this article’s publication, it’s the only Lego calendar from a previous year that doesn’t have a low stock alert on Amazon. In it, you’ll find the full entourage of main characters from the Lego City Adventures TV show, as well as plenty of versatile, simple colored bricks you can use for just about anything.
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City 2022 Advent Calendar
amazon.com
$43.13
Animal Advent Calendar 2023
In the past few years, Legos have become profoundly more expensive than they once were, now frequently exceeding 10 cents per piece—for a while, that was a strict barometer I would use to budget for new sets. If you’re looking to get a better brick count out of your Advent calendar, this budget option from ZPM might be the way to go.
The bricks in this set will feel a bit flimsier than real Lego blocks, but as long as you’re careful, you’ll get a relatively elaborate build every single day, not just a minifigure or a small prop.
These builds also utilize some unorthodox building techniques: Examples include Star Wars battle droid arms for bumblebee antennae and loose minifigure hands for scorpion legs. For novice builders, getting some practice with these “illegal” techniques can help you forego the instruction book and add a little more creativity to your personal projects.
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Animal Advent Calendar 2023
amazon.com
$27.99
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