REVIEW: Advent calendar 19 December 2023

We’ve been visiting several of Hogsmeade’s most famous shops during the month so far. The last few days we have been at the Three Broomsticks. Will we still be there today? Let’s open door 19 and see what is behind it…

Finally, a decent amount of bricks today – and not just small ones either. After yesterday, that was quite a relief!

I counted 18 parts (one is a spare) – and had to recount because I’m not used to these high numbers in this year’s calendar.

Once again, we’re in the Three Broomsticks inn, with today’s model being a fireplace. It is a quite nice design, though I think I would have preferred a darker tan colour (similar observation that I had for yesterday’s table top).

It has a nice space for it on the flap with the buildings, where the fireplace extends to the chimney shown on the box.

Summary

So, this is quite a step up from yesterday, with three times the brick count and I think a better designed model. I’m still not a great fan of the colour scheme, though the tan works better for the chimney than the table top.

Apart from the golden antlers (which matches well the graphic on the box as well), there is not really any other interesting elements, so it wont be a high score, but I’ll still award it a solid four out of five house points.

We still only got one butterbeer glass for the trio. Are they going to share it or will we get more tomorrow? Based on the sequences previously, tomorrow might be another outdoor model though. Check back tomorrow on the 2023 Advent Calendar page to see what we got.

Till then, Build the Magic!