The character arc of of the knight from day 1 overcoming his fears to scare away the ghost is one of the most profound developments in 1992 Lego history.
I love slugger because he feels like one of the few channels that approaches the toys with a true sense of whimsy and joy as opposed to products designed to gather dust on a shelf. This was a great little video.
This hand drawn art style is so full of charm and whimsy - nearly on the same level as the old product photography. I could stare at this for hours… 😊👍
The Art is so gorgeous. SOmeone sitting down, sketching all the perspective and the plastic sheen and all the studds is just amazing to me. it is so well done
oh man, seeing such casual inclusion of ALL the contemporary lego systems in the art is just wild to me, even if I actually did grow up at the tail end of this era. even now when every freaking set has an unnecessary technic skeleton, lego's "brands" just never come together like this anymore. what a cool artifact
The knight getting spooked by the ghost on day 1 seems to be the same knight chasing off the ghost on day 23. Perhaps he got some revenge by spooking the ghost back!
I don't get to look at old technic sets very often, but man, that raw "all work" asthetic they give is so much cooler than the more polished sets today. I love the technic bricks and how they are featured in full display
@@RRSlugger easy to spot for one who's spent years playing with it! I've made some time ago a custom list on rebrickable that contains all my childhood sets -- I browsed through ALL the LEGO sets in the catalog and went "I had this one, not that one, not that one, etc" 😅. So just went to that list to find it. I didn't remember what year it was from, and since the advent calendar is for 1992 I assumed it'd be featuring sets from 1991, it's nice to see that's not the case :) .
I coveted 6673 for such a long time - I was always lusting after anything Lego made that resembled a realistic airplane or spacecraft, and the Solo Trainer was no exception. My parents refused to get it for me as they said I could just build it at home with the parts I had.
I like how the minifigures are mostly drawn in believable poses, (with non-bendy arms and legs). While I like the modern calendars with bricks, I must admit this has it's own charm.
It was a real nostalgia trip seeing Lego Technic set 8856 (Whirlwind Rescue) front and centre there. I was so excited when I got that as a kid, only to feel heartbroken when the extremely delicate flex system cables cracked during assembly, and snapped completely when I tried to disassemble it. It angered me that Lego would release such an expensive set with critical parts so fragile and easily broken.
Man, your background music doesn't get enough appreciation. It's so perfectly cozy and festive. (assuming this is another R.R. Slugger original and not a licensed track.)
“They must work at the local zoo” *Vietnam flashbacks* Thank you Grandt for making this video possible! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!
Oh thank you Slugger, this is an absolute delight. The artwork is everything good about LEGO. I look at it and I'm filled with immediate childlike wonder and happiness. SLUGGISH Holidays to you!
Threw me off guard - saw the first flap open and was disappointed there was nothing there like in modern advent calendars, nothing to build. However, as it went on, I realized the charm this advent calendar has. Its silly but fun and you can tell someone worked hard on it. That is what makes it special.
This is such a cute idea, but I am irrationally upset that they depicted such a lovely train plus a train station and not a SINGLE door was on them! Why does Lego hate its train fans? :(
I recognize so many of our old sets on there ... OMG... I loved the Plane... And it as well as some others were used by my son as well... this is awesome ^^
3:30 - those paper hearts are a tradition that is very, very deeply rooted in the Danish christmas setup. We call them "Christmas hearts". Extremely traditional, and extremely abundant :)
This is so much more fun than an advent calendar full of little sets that I’ll build one time. I’d have opened this year after year if I had it as a kid.
The sets on display brings back memories from my childhood. I'm actually looking at that castle on one of my shelves right now, and I also have that plane. I remember all the other sets on display, although I didn't got them. Really nice advent calendar, and great reaction from you. Thanks for sharing this experience!
Didn't expect to see an Advent Calendar from five years before I was born here. It is definitely amazing that something like this could be perfectly preserved for 32 years after the fact, given how Lego Advent Calendars didn't start having bricks in them until 1998. Even though the year of 1992 is somewhat rarely covered by most creators in recent memory, I was somewhat surprised to not see the "Pirates" theme represented in this calendar, though I do understand why they presumably weren't present in spite of the theme's popularity at the time. It is an interesting choice for them to have the "Black Knight's Castle (6086) prominently featured on this, in spite of how that theme conventionally wasn't depicted in a snowy setting. Of note, the portcullis at 4:58 actually debuted in that set, and appeared in its origin color of the old dark gray for ten years, last appearing in that color in the "Off-Road Racetrack" (4588) from September 2002. Between then, this part also appeared in "Mata brown" (often called "Old brown" to distinguish from later shades) in two sets (6076 and 6082) from the "Dragon Masters/Dragon Knights" theme in 1993, and also appeared in the Pirates "Skull Island" set (6279) in 1995. The same year, this part appeared in yellow as part of the "Neptune Discovery Lab" (6195) from Aquazone, and would also debut in black in another set (6190) from that theme in 1996. Becoming the most common color of this part overall, though the only sets I had containing it were a Batman set (7783) from 2006, and 2008 "Agents" set (8634) which I obtained as a late Christmas gift in mid-February of 2009. And those are just some of the 26 sets this part appeared in over eighteen years.
2:15 Yes, that is a Duplo set! My family had that, but the red parts were blue, the yellow parts were white, and it had jects instead of propellers. Same exact wings and there's a clip on the landing gear piece that can attack to the trailer hitch on a Duplo car, truck, or train car of the era.
2:23 Imagine my horror at seeing the cultists of the 4̶̡̘̥͙͍̹͈͓͙̺͍̓̓̽͂̉͂̊̍͐̐̈̓̊9̷̡̧͇̠̘̹̏͋̎͑̂̒̆̓̇̒̀̄̌̚6̵̩̤͚̍̒̃͊̄̌͘0̵̨̤̘͉̱̪̹͖͇̥͔̳̒̽̀̿́̋̓̂̾̚ ̷̮͖̦̩̖͚̖̌͊̍̈͌̎́͘Ḡ̸͇̝̰̍̑͘̕͠ͅḭ̶̡̥̝̥̣͙̓̂͛̀̑̎͋̕̚͠ä̴̛͚̍n̷̨̡̨͈̝̬̳̝̞̦̜̔͒̑͗̈́̆̂̆͘ţ̷̹̖̲̙̬̻̮͍̈̀̊͜ ̸̧͙̥͕̳̱̠̙̗͓͖̽͆͂͆̎͑́̽͆͘͘̕͝͝Ź̵̛̹͇̠̹͎̿͛̇́̽̅̕͝o̵̞̙̗̻͉̝̠͇̺̗͓̪͗̾͂̈́̈́̽̃̌̉́̚͠ǭ̴͙̖͍̩͉̥̠̰̰͕́̽́̎̿̕͜
Loving the pen and watercolour detailed lego illustrations! That woild have taken some time, care and skill to draw to that standard. And im not seeing any bending like you got on some lego comics from around then (remember Jim Spaceborne?)
Wonder how something like this would do nowadays. It’d be a lot cheaper than the average LEGO advent calendar, but I’m willing to bet some kids would feel ripped off if there wasn’t anything to build.
It would be kinda cool if you did a comprehensive history of every years lego advent calenders, i find it neat how they slowly, but steadily evolve over time.
Grown man giggling at little plastic men antics for 10 minutes ASMR also, isnt that knight on the horse wearing the mystic mountain time lab exclusive yellow helmet ornaments?
@RRSlugger 0/10 video ruined Cancel slugger NOW Jk seriously tho love your content, you made me care about lego in a way i never did before, keep going
Hey slugger! Glad to see you back! Making a small pause on your boardgame? Do you think you could review the new blacktron when it releases? Love your content!
Haha, thank you! Although my last video here on the main channel was less than a week ago! 😅 I also just covered the Blacktron reveal on my second channel, Sluggin' Around if you're interested! 🙂
It's an interesting little callendar for sure. Some of the paper flaps just plain have nothing interesting on them, being a simple cutout of the sky, or the snow, so they could be removed wholesale without ruining the whole of the image, leaving the picture behind bare for good. Other flaps add to the image, so it would be a shame to get rid of them, as both they and the surprise work too well to be lost. But leaving the flaps open and attached would mar the picture with these unseemly white squares as the back of the flap is on display. Best solution would probably be to pull the flaps off, but save them so they can be stuck on again as desired. Surprise 12 is the only one that doesn't "work" really, as the random foot is meant to disappear "behind" the picture, but that makes it out of place as a part of the picture itself.That's the only flap that works better closed for good.
For those wondering why LEGO would make an advert calendar without any bricks behind the doors, here’s a possible explanation: In Denmark, where LEGO originates from, it is tradition that every december the two major tv-stations broadcast a christmas tv-show consisting of 24 episodes. Alongside these, they will often produce advent calenders with 24 doors, each revealing a hint at what will happen in that days episode. I think LEGO was inspired by these calendars, when they made this. Don’t get me wrong, the calendar is still extremely strange, and it is not connected to any tv-show, like the ones that might have inspired it, but it might explain why it was made in the first place.
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My mom got this for me when I was 12 and she got mad when no legos came out so she went an yelled at the manager
Poor guy
The character arc of of the knight from day 1 overcoming his fears to scare away the ghost is one of the most profound developments in 1992 Lego history.
Renders aren't "bad" by any stretch, but this era with hand illustrated Lego has such charm!
I love slugger because he feels like one of the few channels that approaches the toys with a true sense of whimsy and joy as opposed to products designed to gather dust on a shelf.
This was a great little video.
Didnt expect to see 'kissing' minifigs lol
Now that I think about it... why DON'T we see that?
I mean... it's just a simple and wholesome display of affection.
@@ShyGuyXXLLego’s for kids dude
@luawidi It's just a kiss. Next you'll be saying holding hands in public is too much for kids. 😂😂😂
@@ShyGuyXXL good point
Alternate title: "R.R. Slugger chuckles heartily at wholesome shenanigans for 10 minutes and 41 seconds."
This hand drawn art style is so full of charm and whimsy - nearly on the same level as the old product photography. I could stare at this for hours… 😊👍
Man, I don't think I'll ever get over how surreal it is to have TrikBrix commenting on my videos. 2025 is going to be such a good year! ❤️
@ 😄👍 It is indeed!
"... a couple of kids in dreamland! ...hopefully..." - Slugger
"They're dead, Jim" - McCoy
Hahahaha 🤣
4:13 A Knight has fallen into the snow in Lego Castle! HEY!
build the siege tower!
@yeeoof1995 Fire the arrows
@@gamerboyofficalytand make the crusade
@@borritoguy2286 The new siege collection from lego Castle
The Art is so gorgeous. SOmeone sitting down, sketching all the perspective and the plastic sheen and all the studds is just amazing to me. it is so well done
I can't help but fear whenever I see a Duplo zoo...
I know the feeling..! 😅💀
A calendar showing you the Lego your parents maybe, can afford, some day. If you're really nice.
It's great having stuff like this documented so well. Thanks Slugger
oh man, seeing such casual inclusion of ALL the contemporary lego systems in the art is just wild to me, even if I actually did grow up at the tail end of this era. even now when every freaking set has an unnecessary technic skeleton, lego's "brands" just never come together like this anymore. what a cool artifact
The knight getting spooked by the ghost on day 1 seems to be the same knight chasing off the ghost on day 23. Perhaps he got some revenge by spooking the ghost back!
I don't get to look at old technic sets very often, but man, that raw "all work" asthetic they give is so much cooler than the more polished sets today. I love the technic bricks and how they are featured in full display
3:18 - I think that's 6673: Solo Trainer, a 1990 Town set which I had as a child. Loved it to bits.
Nice! Thanks for figuring that out! I didn’t even know where to start, haha. 😅
@@RRSlugger easy to spot for one who's spent years playing with it!
I've made some time ago a custom list on rebrickable that contains all my childhood sets -- I browsed through ALL the LEGO sets in the catalog and went "I had this one, not that one, not that one, etc" 😅.
So just went to that list to find it. I didn't remember what year it was from, and since the advent calendar is for 1992 I assumed it'd be featuring sets from 1991, it's nice to see that's not the case :) .
@@SuperSecretBricks That's a smart idea! 🧠
I coveted 6673 for such a long time - I was always lusting after anything Lego made that resembled a realistic airplane or spacecraft, and the Solo Trainer was no exception. My parents refused to get it for me as they said I could just build it at home with the parts I had.
I like how the minifigures are mostly drawn in believable poses, (with non-bendy arms and legs). While I like the modern calendars with bricks, I must admit this has it's own charm.
Everybody is here except the spacemen and the pirates.
And the Technic figures.
pirates didn't know how to get into snowy lands yet :P
@jessetroller-yx8zd well at least there are technic sets on the calendar.
It was a real nostalgia trip seeing Lego Technic set 8856 (Whirlwind Rescue) front and centre there. I was so excited when I got that as a kid, only to feel heartbroken when the extremely delicate flex system cables cracked during assembly, and snapped completely when I tried to disassemble it. It angered me that Lego would release such an expensive set with critical parts so fragile and easily broken.
This is TOO wholesome
Thank you Grant
Man, your background music doesn't get enough appreciation. It's so perfectly cozy and festive.
(assuming this is another R.R. Slugger original and not a licensed track.)
Thanks! Indeed, it is. 😉
@hunted4blood Really evokes McCartney!
“They must work at the local zoo”
*Vietnam flashbacks*
Thank you Grandt for making this video possible! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!
Oh thank you Slugger, this is an absolute delight. The artwork is everything good about LEGO. I look at it and I'm filled with immediate childlike wonder and happiness. SLUGGISH Holidays to you!
this calendar is PEAK... having minifigures be portrayed as little goober guys is so adorable......
6:20 LOVE ISN'T CANON GUISE
-Greg Farshtey
6:53 Number 15: Burger King foot led us.
Awhhh that's very cute! Love the artstyle of the calender!
Threw me off guard - saw the first flap open and was disappointed there was nothing there like in modern advent calendars, nothing to build. However, as it went on, I realized the charm this advent calendar has. Its silly but fun and you can tell someone worked hard on it. That is what makes it special.
Well said! 💯
This is such a cute idea, but I am irrationally upset that they depicted such a lovely train plus a train station and not a SINGLE door was on them! Why does Lego hate its train fans? :(
Good point; that seems like a no brainer!
Thank you, Grant, very cool!
I recognize so many of our old sets on there ... OMG... I loved the Plane... And it as well as some others were used by my son as well... this is awesome ^^
Whaat! Lego minifgures can't kiss! hahaha. This was very cute.
3:30 - those paper hearts are a tradition that is very, very deeply rooted in the Danish christmas setup. We call them "Christmas hearts". Extremely traditional, and extremely abundant :)
I think the LEGO advent calendars became even more fun when each day of the month until Christmas day consisted of a small LEGO model to build...
This ism like all the advent calendars from when I was a kid, they all only had pictures... I know I'm an OLD fart.
I cried a little bit for every door you opened.
What a wonderfully whimsical item!
This is so much more fun than an advent calendar full of little sets that I’ll build one time. I’d have opened this year after year if I had it as a kid.
Happy holidays Slugger! What a heart warming calendar!
Merry Slugsmas!
The sets on display brings back memories from my childhood. I'm actually looking at that castle on one of my shelves right now, and I also have that plane. I remember all the other sets on display, although I didn't got them. Really nice advent calendar, and great reaction from you. Thanks for sharing this experience!
this thing made my day, it just feels so warm, friendly and inviting it just feels right and like i´m home. mery christmas every body
Didn't expect to see an Advent Calendar from five years before I was born here. It is definitely amazing that something like this could be perfectly preserved for 32 years after the fact, given how Lego Advent Calendars didn't start having bricks in them until 1998. Even though the year of 1992 is somewhat rarely covered by most creators in recent memory, I was somewhat surprised to not see the "Pirates" theme represented in this calendar, though I do understand why they presumably weren't present in spite of the theme's popularity at the time. It is an interesting choice for them to have the "Black Knight's Castle (6086) prominently featured on this, in spite of how that theme conventionally wasn't depicted in a snowy setting. Of note, the portcullis at 4:58 actually debuted in that set, and appeared in its origin color of the old dark gray for ten years, last appearing in that color in the "Off-Road Racetrack" (4588) from September 2002. Between then, this part also appeared in "Mata brown" (often called "Old brown" to distinguish from later shades) in two sets (6076 and 6082) from the "Dragon Masters/Dragon Knights" theme in 1993, and also appeared in the Pirates "Skull Island" set (6279) in 1995. The same year, this part appeared in yellow as part of the "Neptune Discovery Lab" (6195) from Aquazone, and would also debut in black in another set (6190) from that theme in 1996. Becoming the most common color of this part overall, though the only sets I had containing it were a Batman set (7783) from 2006, and 2008 "Agents" set (8634) which I obtained as a late Christmas gift in mid-February of 2009. And those are just some of the 26 sets this part appeared in over eighteen years.
2:15 Yes, that is a Duplo set! My family had that, but the red parts were blue, the yellow parts were white, and it had jects instead of propellers. Same exact wings and there's a clip on the landing gear piece that can attack to the trailer hitch on a Duplo car, truck, or train car of the era.
This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Have a merry Christmas!
This was great fun! Thank you for sharing, R. R. Slugger, and thank you Grandt!
4:12 A KNIGHT HAS FALLEN INTO THE SNOW IN LEGO CASTLE
HEY!
I love how slugger is so filled with joy at pretty much every reveal
2:23 Imagine my horror at seeing the cultists of the 4̶̡̘̥͙͍̹͈͓͙̺͍̓̓̽͂̉͂̊̍͐̐̈̓̊9̷̡̧͇̠̘̹̏͋̎͑̂̒̆̓̇̒̀̄̌̚6̵̩̤͚̍̒̃͊̄̌͘0̵̨̤̘͉̱̪̹͖͇̥͔̳̒̽̀̿́̋̓̂̾̚ ̷̮͖̦̩̖͚̖̌͊̍̈͌̎́͘Ḡ̸͇̝̰̍̑͘̕͠ͅḭ̶̡̥̝̥̣͙̓̂͛̀̑̎͋̕̚͠ä̴̛͚̍n̷̨̡̨͈̝̬̳̝̞̦̜̔͒̑͗̈́̆̂̆͘ţ̷̹̖̲̙̬̻̮͍̈̀̊͜ ̸̧͙̥͕̳̱̠̙̗͓͖̽͆͂͆̎͑́̽͆͘͘̕͝͝Ź̵̛̹͇̠̹͎̿͛̇́̽̅̕͝o̵̞̙̗̻͉̝̠͇̺̗͓̪͗̾͂̈́̈́̽̃̌̉́̚͠ǭ̴͙̖͍̩͉̥̠̰̰͕́̽́̎̿̕͜
Super cool, thank you Grant and Slugger!
That Rock Raiders Christmas scene needs to be its own set!
This was peak Slugger content!
What a delightful calendar! 😮
Man the hand drawn pictures is amazing. Sadly its more 3D renders nowadays for advent calenders.
Loving the pen and watercolour detailed lego illustrations! That woild have taken some time, care and skill to draw to that standard. And im not seeing any bending like you got on some lego comics from around then (remember Jim Spaceborne?)
Wonder how something like this would do nowadays. It’d be a lot cheaper than the average LEGO advent calendar, but I’m willing to bet some kids would feel ripped off if there wasn’t anything to build.
Great set and great video 😊
Imagery of a DUPLO ZOO is featured on this. This calendar is cursed.
Thank you for a nice well done video about this advent calendar, I'm glad to know now about it 😃❤️
hearing slugger laugh at the ghost made me start crying Bruh LOL
It would be kinda cool if you did a comprehensive history of every years lego advent calenders, i find it neat how they slowly, but steadily evolve over time.
This was so dope! Never knew this existed either
Lego train fans eating well here
Fun stuff! Enjoy your holiday season folks!
this is one excelent gift
OH NO! NOT THE ZOO!
💀
You're laughing? A knight fell into the snow in Lego Advent Calendar 1992 and You're LAUGHING!?
in Grant we trust
This is not slugger Friday! It's even better
This, this is art
Grown man giggling at little plastic men antics for 10 minutes ASMR
also, isnt that knight on the horse wearing the mystic mountain time lab exclusive yellow helmet ornaments?
He sure is! …because I was wrong about the set exclusivity of it in my Time Cruisers video! 😭
It actually was common in the Dragon Masters theme.
@RRSlugger 0/10 video ruined
Cancel slugger NOW
Jk seriously tho love your content, you made me care about lego in a way i never did before, keep going
🎄☃🎁🎅☺MERRY CHRISTMAS SLUGGER🐌AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆🎉🎊🧨🥳🥂
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Omg this just awoke a memory of an old Lego advent calendar that my older brother
Sooooooooo cute !
Hey slugger! Glad to see you back! Making a small pause on your boardgame? Do you think you could review the new blacktron when it releases? Love your content!
Haha, thank you! Although my last video here on the main channel was less than a week ago! 😅
I also just covered the Blacktron reveal on my second channel, Sluggin' Around if you're interested! 🙂
It's an interesting little callendar for sure. Some of the paper flaps just plain have nothing interesting on them, being a simple cutout of the sky, or the snow, so they could be removed wholesale without ruining the whole of the image, leaving the picture behind bare for good. Other flaps add to the image, so it would be a shame to get rid of them, as both they and the surprise work too well to be lost. But leaving the flaps open and attached would mar the picture with these unseemly white squares as the back of the flap is on display. Best solution would probably be to pull the flaps off, but save them so they can be stuck on again as desired.
Surprise 12 is the only one that doesn't "work" really, as the random foot is meant to disappear "behind" the picture, but that makes it out of place as a part of the picture itself.That's the only flap that works better closed for good.
Interesting to see system, technic and Duplo mix
I always prefer picture advent calendars. They look pretty all through the month
"Kids in dreamland hopefully 😅"
Simpler times, better times.
I thought the two mini-figures in the thumbnail were both wearing the same masculine hairpiece at first, how forward thinking of Lego! :D
A knight has fallen in the snow in Lego City!
Hey!
Crane operators asleep on the job, portcullis accidents, what do they *have* in that eggnog over there?
thanks grant!
2:18 that is indeed a cargo duplo plane, my brother had that one
So its a lego calendar... without any actual legos in it.... makes sense
Oh man, this rules so much.
I might get a Lego advent calendar next year
6:22 Oh, we can make it happen if LEGO won't.
8:26 She probably wants to be someone's present.
Hahaha maybe! 😂
The R.R. Slugger Christmas Special!
Day 7 is quite violent for our modern days
I’m surprised they only did 24 flaps. Would’ve expected 25.
I love those old school glowie ghosts
I think I had this, totally forgot
I didn’t get to advent 1992 yet in my history courses yet are these spoilers?
So good
2:31 is the zoo they work relatively large? giant, you could say?
😳💀
For those wondering why LEGO would make an advert calendar without any bricks behind the doors, here’s a possible explanation:
In Denmark, where LEGO originates from, it is tradition that every december the two major tv-stations broadcast a christmas tv-show consisting of 24 episodes. Alongside these, they will often produce advent calenders with 24 doors, each revealing a hint at what will happen in that days episode. I think LEGO was inspired by these calendars, when they made this. Don’t get me wrong, the calendar is still extremely strange, and it is not connected to any tv-show, like the ones that might have inspired it, but it might explain why it was made in the first place.