LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2025 — A · The Brick Drop Score
A
The Drop Score
A for you · A overall
Great for a builder
LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2025
42668-1 · Friends
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Twenty-four small seasonal builds won't push any technique boundaries, but as a daily micro-build ritual they're a different kind of fun.
Is the price fair?B+Solid deal for 24 surprises and five minifigs at under 35 bucks.
Will you love it?ADaily unboxing ritual with Friends characters — hard not to enjoy this one.
Holds its value?C-Advent calendars retire fast but flip slow; buy it to open, not to store.
True ValueB+
$35
MSRP
$37
Parts value
105%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 105% of the MSRP — the basis for this B+ price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$22
Printed & detailcalc
$6
Functional piecescalc
$1
Figures (×5)
$8
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $37 of parts for $35.
The Full Take
The Friends Advent Calendar turns the whole month of December into the gift. Five minifigs spread across 24 doors keeps the cast rotating and the surprises coming, and the daily ritual of cracking a new window is half the point. At $34.99 it's not pocket change, but stretched across 24 mornings it stops feeling like a single purchase. The builds skew small and seasonal — little scenes, accessories, furniture — which is exactly what this format calls for. It's not a set you assemble in one sitting and admire; it's a set that earns its A by being the most reliable December tradition in the LEGO® lineup.
