Last year I was invited to join a group of friends from the LEGO train community in a Secret Santa Gift Exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, a Secret Santa is a Christmas tradition in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they give a gift. The identity of the gift giver is to remain a secret and should not be revealed until the gifts are opened.

Since all of us in the group are LEGO train builders, for this gift exchange we decided to exchange rail cars. The cars that came out of this exchange were awesome and the whole event was an unbelievably fun experience! It was such a success that we decided to do it again for 2021, and the gift opening date is only a few days away.

But for now we would like to look back on the cars from the 2020 exchange. So for the next few days, we’ll be sharing those builds with you and giving a bit of background on them, Who built them, who received them, and why the designer chose the car they modeled.