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"With a BrickScore of 68, the LEGO Brick Calendar is a crowd-pleasing, genuinely functional desk set that wins fans as both a gift and a parts haul — minor gripes about repetitive building and imperfect numeral aesthetics keep it from perfection, but reviewers are nearly unanimous in recommending it."
The LEGO Brick Calendar (40172) is a broadly well-loved desk accessory that earns consistent praise as a practical, functional LEGO set suitable for fans and non-fans alike. Reviewers universally appreciate its usefulness as a perpetual desktop calendar, its satisfying — if admittedly repetitive — build, and the clever design packed into 278 pieces. A handful of reviewers noted minor aesthetic quibbles with how certain numerals (particularly "7" and "9") look when rendered in 1×1 tiles, and a few felt the included minifigure (a suited businessman) was underwhelming or oddly placed. Overall, the set lands as a charming, accessible, and genuinely useful display piece.
Where they split: Minor split on the minifigure — most reviewers accept or enjoy the businessman figure, while a vocal subset found it puzzling or replaced it entirely. There is also slight disagreement on whether the repetitive build is charming or tedious, though the majority lean positive.
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"Insgesamt ist der Kalender ein super Set, was sich auch in einer weniger LEGO affinen Büroumgebung gut auf den Schreibtisch stellen lässt."
Zusammengebaut"It is a nice addition that the set contains a minifigure, but because of the size of the blocks it somewhat fades into the background and it seems as if it adds almost nothing to the set."
Bouwsteentjes"Insgesamt ist der Kalender ein super Set, was sich auch in einer weniger LEGO affinen Büroumgebung gut auf den Schreibtisch stellen lässt."
"It is a nice addition that the set contains a minifigure, but because of the size of the blocks it somewhat fades into the background and it seems as if it adds almost nothing to the set."
LEGO.com4.4
