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Last year my wife Heather and I started a new tradition. We bought some Lego pull back cars to play on the kitchen floor at my grandmother’s house. My brother also got in on the action. The three of us sat in the living room floor at first and assembled our kits. We kept taunting each other as to who was going to win the first race. You would have thought we were all three and four years old (we’re in our 20s and 30s).

We completed our kits. Now it was time to prove who had the fastest cars. We lined them all up near the stove and let them fly into the dinning room. Then someone crashed and gave us another idea. We then lined up on opposite sides of the room and proceeded to crash into them into each other. Parts went everywhere.

Everyone dashed to get their parts back and rebuilt their cars. For hours we built and rebuilt our cars, crash after crash. We even got to where we would swap parts for custom builds. Each build lead to a new name for the car.

This year we decided to repeat this event with new cars. We found them under the Lego Racers: Power Racers Series (gallery below). Ordered them all from Amazon. We also ordered a Lego City Advent calendar to help count down to race/crash day, I mean Christmas! Each day you build a new holiday themed City mini-model. As we build them we’ll post up pictures if we can.