advent calendar dilema of first world proportions

[kiwidreamer]

DS 5.5yrs is getting a Lego City advent calendar this year, got it cheap in January and its been hibernating all year... DD will be 2.7yrs and typical second child, precocious and thinks she is five already too. But obviously she's not and I cant decide if a playmobil advent calendar would be a waste for her and just spend £5 on the cheapy zhu zhu advent calendar or spend a bit more and at least she'll use the bigger playmobil figures now and the fiddly bits a bit later on... but is still a fair bit of cash...

www.amazon.co.uk/Playmobil-4165-Calendar-Princess-Wedding/dp/B004P5O8I6/ref=sr_1_2?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1382968855&sr=1-2&keywords=playmobil+advent+calendar

We have a distinct lack of female playmobil from the various pirate / dino hunter sets we have from earlier Xmas' but the bits are so very fiddly, the other sets we have or are not particularly good value IMO.

Lamest WWYD in the history of MN I agree.

Until she was 5 my DD was happy with a £1 chocolate one even when DS had playmobil ones so I'd be tempted to go with something cheap at that age. Last year I did relent and buy a moshi one as she was moshi mad though.

at first world problem - I would probably get the playmobil and have yourself a calmer, more relaxed lead up to christmas. Otherwise I have a feeling it will be spotted with 'but why didn't iiiiiiii get a good calendar?"

My 3yo is quite apt at playmobil and almost never eats the pieces

I have just bought dd2 the moshi monster advent calendar so I thoughts better tell dd1 and see what Calendar she wants, she said 'don't be silly mummy, calendars need to have chocolate or sweets in them' so she will be happy with a chocolate one even though dd2 has moshi monsters. I might buy a nice wooden one for her though so we can use it each year,that way she gets something as nice as dd2's and she can still have chocolate in it.

Having just looked up that zhu zhu one I think that would be fine! It's still toys and your DD won't know it's cheaper.

I would go for the playmobil one. My daughter loved playmobil from about 3. Also I know if it was mine I would either have complaints from the youngest about no toy calendar or complaints from eldest about 'why does he get a chocolate each day its not fair'. Probably easier all round to just have 2 toys ones. Alternatively could you say the lego one was joint and let them take it in turns opening it? That's what we did the last 2 years with playmobil ones (my kids are 3 and 6 atm). This year they have 1 each as I got my son the imaginext one on sale - daughter wants the horribly expensive playmobil pony one (am trying to convince her she actually wants the £10 moshi one but she is adamant she prefers the ponies!)