LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar — C+ · The Brick Drop Score
C+
The Drop Score
LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
75213-1 · Star Wars
Based on 23 reviews · thin
Eight minifigs in a Star Wars advent calendar sounds great until you open the doors and realize half the builds are tiny TIE Fighters made of four pieces. Decent holiday tradition, mediocre set.
Is the price fair?C+Forty bucks for a calendar full of micro-filler is a stretch, even with eight minifigs saving it.
Will you love it?C+Fun for a Star Wars kid in December; forgettable by January.
Holds its value?B+Retired advent calendars have a quiet resale floor — this one holds better than the build quality suggests.
True ValueC+
$39
Street price
$63
Parts value
161%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 161% of the street price — the basis for this C+ price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$19
Functional piecescalc
$1
Figures (×8)
$42
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $63 of parts for $39.
The Full Take
The 2018 Star Wars Advent Calendar does what all advent calendars do — spread joy thin across 24 doors. Eight minifigs is a real bright spot, and Star Wars fans will find a few genuinely fun micro-builds tucked in. But the filler-to-payoff ratio is rough, with several doors delivering builds that feel like an afterthought. At $39.99 it's not a bargain, and it's not a rip-off — it's right at the edge of acceptable for what you get. The format limits the build experience by design, so don't come in expecting anything technically interesting. What it does well is sell the Christmas-morning feeling, door by door, for kids already deep in the Star Wars universe. A C+ is fair — it works for its moment and not much else.
