Playmobil Expedition Dinosaurs Advent Calendar (72225): a jungle dig to build across 24 doors
Behind the 24 doors of the Playmobil Expedition Dinosaurs Advent Calendar sits 71 pieces that add up to one thing: a prehistoric expedition scene you assemble a bit more each morning. One explorer, two articulated dinosaurs, an egg that flips open on a baby stegosaurus, and a foldable jungle backdrop with a volcano and a cave. It’s a diorama in the making, not a pile of loose figures.
This is a toy calendar for children aged 4 and up who like acting out a story more than lining up trinkets. Set number 72225, it sits in the budget-friendly, entry-to-mid-range part of the toy shelf, and it works with the rest of your Playmobil.
Playmobil is about acting out a story
Playmobil doesn’t do sealed display pieces; every set is a stage a child rearranges. This calendar keeps that intact. The vine is functional, the explorer actually swings on it, and the egg opens on the baby stegosaurus. The daily reveal turns the countdown into a build.
Contents and value
The box holds 71 pieces across 24 doors: 1 explorer figure, 4 creatures (a velociraptor and a stygimoloch with articulated limbs, a snake and a hidden baby stegosaurus), a foldable landscape with rocks, lava blocks and a plant, and a long run of expedition kit, torch, compass, binoculars, camera, digging tools, microscope, laptop, a crate, fossils, a skeleton and footprint stickers.
On value, I’ll be straight: Playmobil publishes no content value and these small parts don’t sell individually, so there’s no hidden bargain to hunt for. At the £29.99 launch price across 24 doors, that’s about £1.25 a day, roughly what the contents are worth. You’re paying for a coherent scene, not resale value.
=> The full door-by-door breakdown of all 71 pieces sits in the SPOILER tab.
Where it sits in Playmobil’s 2026 line-up
Playmobil is running three advent calendars for 2026: this Expedition Dinosaurs (72225), a North Pole set (72226) built around Father Christmas, and a Fire Rescue Operation. What sets the dino box apart is the diorama that stands up on its own, a jungle with a volcano and a cave, plus two dinosaurs whose arms and legs move. If your child is into digging and dinosaurs rather than sleighs or sirens, this is the pick of the three. Playmobil hasn’t put out a comparable dino calendar in recent seasons, so there’s no prior edition to measure it against.
My verdict on the 2026 edition
What wins me over is the density. Seventy-one pieces for £29.99 is a lot of small parts, and they cohere: rocks, lava blocks and plant build one readable jungle rather than a bag of odds and ends. The two articulated dinosaurs and the flip-open egg are the kind of detail children replay, and because it’s Playmobil, the explorer drops straight into any other set you own. This is a calendar with a life after 24 December.
Where it gives me pause is the scenery material. The landscape is foldable card and paper, not the rigid plastic playset some parents will picture; it holds up to normal play but won’t survive a stamping toddler the way moulded plastic would. There’s no bargain angle either: no announced value, nothing to resell. Buy it for the play, and treat the price as roughly break-even.
My line on this one is simple: ‘it’s a proper build-as-you-go expedition, priced fairly, let down only by the cardboard scenery’.
- For dino-mad 4 to 8 year-olds who play out stories and already own other Playmobil.
- Not for anyone hunting a value calendar: nothing here resells, and the maths is roughly break-even.
- Not for collectors after a durable rigid playset: the diorama is card and paper.
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Promo code and delivery:
- Promo code: no code is available at the time of writing.
- Delivery: set by the retailer at checkout; compare the offers at the top of this page.
The Playmobil story, fifty years of the 7.5cm figure
Playmobil was invented by Hans Beck and launched in 1974 by the German firm geobra Brandstätter, around one idea that never changed: a 7.5cm figure a child can hold, with a big smiling face and hands that grip a tool. The Dinos range applies that formula to prehistory, and this calendar is its countdown version, the expedition arriving one door at a time.
Where to buy the Playmobil Expedition Dinosaurs Advent Calendar
This calendar is sold on Amazon, with no promo code at the time of writing and delivery set by the retailer, so compare the offers at the top of this page. If you’re weighing up alternatives, browse our full toy advent calendar selection or the rest of the Playmobil advent calendar range.
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