LEGO City Advent Calendar — B+ · The Brick Drop Score
B+
The Drop Score
LEGO City Advent Calendar
60201-1 · City
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Six minifigs in a City Advent Calendar is the kind of overdelivery that makes a $30 set feel like a no-brainer. The B+ is earned straight down the middle.
Is the price fair?A+Thirty dollars for six minifigs and a month of daily builds — City Advent pricing at its most reasonable.
Will you love it?BAdvent Calendars are an experience first, a set second — if the ritual appeals, this one delivers.
Holds its value?C-One of the flattest resale curves in the City lineup; these sit on secondary shelves at barely above retail for years.
The Full Take
City Advent Calendars live or die by their daily reveals, and the 2018 edition stacks the deck with six minifigs — a count that makes most sets twice the price look stingy. The builds are the usual mix: some charming, some filler, but the daily ritual is the product and it works. At $29.99 MSRP this was one of the easier spending decisions in the City lineup that year. The pieces are small and scattered, so don't expect a showpiece when the 24th door closes — what you get is a collection of moments. Parents, builders looking for a low-stakes December project, and City fans all find something here. Just don't buy a spare expecting it to fund anything later.
