2024: Day 15

2024

I look forward to decorating the Christmas eggs.

December 15: The Christmas Bunny

This is the Christmas Bunny, who comes each year to put candy and eggs in your Christmas basket and spread cellophane Christmas grass around your entire house.

Rating

Fun ★☆☆☆☆

It’s a plastic figurine. There is nothing to build. There are no moving parts. He’s cute, but he’s barely a Lego.

He can technically be plugged into some things, but he can’t really be used as a building block, and because of his shape, there are many things that he can’t be plugged into. For example, he can’t snap into the Baby Cart, which makes the Baby Cart even more useless than previously thought.

Here are some attempts to use him as a Lego:

*Bunny was most of the way through firefighting school before he realized that he had a general misunderstanding of how ladders work*

*For a moment, he felt like he was flying*

*Xerx’or had been so meticulous when choosing his earth form, and couldn’t understand why he had such a hard time getting into nightclubs*

Ease of Build N/A

There is nothing to build.

Comprehensibility ★☆☆☆☆

I comprehend what this is…I mean, obviously, everyone knows who the Christmas Bunny is, and has fond memories of waking up early on Christmas morning, finding the first clue to the Christmas Bunny’s scavenger hunt in your Christmas basket, and then roaming around, searching for eggs, hoping that the fake grass in your Christmas Basket isn’t infecting your entire house, itching its way into every corner and skeeving between the couch cushions and somehow manifesting itself into your breakfast cereals and undergarments.

But the thing I can’t comprehend is, “why?” The one thing you’re supposed to be able to do with Legos is build stuff. It reminds me of a Zen koan:

Zen Master: What do you build with a Lego set containing one part?
Me as a Zen Student: A longer list of regrets?
Zen Master: [sighs] The answer is: the hare.

Extra Parts ☆☆☆☆☆

There are no extra parts. There is exactly one part, the bunny himself.

Overall ★☆☆☆☆

I don’t get it. Maybe I’m missing something. Maybe among the true aficionados this means something, and maybe there is a group of people who are overjoyed to find Rupert, the beloved Rabbit character from that thing where Lego aligned itself with that well-known franchise and made its own Lego-based movie/cartoon series/video game/theme park ride/basketball shoe/breakfast cereal…wait, how the hell did cellophane Christmas grass get into this breakfast cereal?