Can confirm, all of them are actually German. Source: Am German, Playmobil comes from the town of Zirndorf in Franconia, Bavaria. ZE GERMANZ ARE TAKING OVER ZE BRITISH EMPIRE, JAWOHL! I wonder if it is their subconsciousness telling them to remain with us in the EU that made them buy those calendars... :P
Thing is, they've had the Playmobile Pirate Calendars in my local[ish] Waterstones for MONTHS- if I'd have known there was a grass mask on day 1, I'd have bought 20 by now.
After Brexit the helicopter will self-activate and destroy the Royal Airforce. Then the German military will swoop in and conquer Britain in the longest ploy ever, played since 1945.
@@koenvandamme6901 Only problem with this plan is that we probably don't have any working planes or boats to actually make it to the UK. Yesterday our chancellor needed to use an airline airplane to make it to the G20 summit because her plane was broken. I don't think our army will be able to fly with Ryanair to invade the UK^^
@@Chris5291_ yes and the funny thing, it's actually made for Rentner = pensioner, so not a child Kalendar (and maybe that's why the "sad onion" is more like an "there's no toys in this Kalendar" icon^^
UndeadCollector Yes I know :) And the crossed out teddy bear on it means „store out of reach of small children“ here in Germany (mostly due the danger of them swallowing things) :D
If y’all are wondering why some of these end on the 24th, Germans typically open presents and put up the tree on Christmas Eve. Christmas itself is used for a feast and church celebrations.
(Music time) On the first day of advent, The germans gave to me. One Chai tea, one Porschestand, one gear with cogs, and a Nerdcubed infront of a tree. :D
Missed opportunity to open the best advent calendar: The Funko Pop Harry Potter one! We know how much you both love Funko Pops, and their staring into the abyss expressions.
I'm watching these in mid January and I'm still sad I wasn't there "live" for these for a tiny youtube comment German lesson a day :) "Zeit für ein gemütliches Frühstück" - "Time for a cosy breakfast." Dan's pronunciation of Frühstück was absolutely spot on, btw!
this series, more than anything else, really gets me into the christmas spirit every year. it's my own virtual advent calendar and i didn't even have to waste any money!
@Atheist Dingo Chai latte is just what has been in the UK for a long time under a few (actual original) names, but latte was added for Americans who had never had it and wouldn't try it without something familiar sounding. By the time any products make back here with the silly latte name instead of course it is going to be confusing.
@@wyterabitt2149 I mean, there's chai tea, and there there's chai tea lattes, which have milk added (milk is what makes a latte). So you saying "latte" was added to make it appeal to Americans is a questionable claim. Chai lattes have been available in America for about as long as I can remember - there's a brand called Oregon Chai that makes pre-made chai lattes and I've had them since I was pretty young, and I'm only 28. (Amazing brand if you ever have an opportunity to try it, by the way.)
My mum has a German advent calendar from the 80s that her friend gave to her. My parents are both Welsh by the way, but my mum took German O Level in school and made friends with the student she stayed with on her exchange trip. They're still friends to this day. The advent calendar has a lovely drawing of Munich on the front. From what I remember, it's a Christmas market drawn in pencil, and each window has a different smaller drawing behind it. We hang it up every year still because it looks really nice.
We germans don't do the 25th thing, christmas dinner and presents and everything important happens on the 24th over here, so that's why all of the german advent calenders have 24 doors. 'Zeit für ein gemütliches Frühstück' translates to 'time for a cozy breakfast'. And yes 'Frühstück' means 'breakfast'. The calender itself only says that it is a 'pensioners advent calender' ('Renter' is 'pensioner') and the breakfast theming is only implied by that sentence as far as I could see. Also Chai literally means spice as far as I know, and rerfers to spiced milky tea. In india it is usually served in tiny amounts and consists of pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and maybe some fennel or anis as well as COPIOUS amounts of sugar. It is all usually cooked with some sort of black tea in milk (although I've seen it cooked and served without the tea, just as spiced milk as well). Chai Latte is usually a sanitized western version of this with the spices toned down and often something like vanilla or caramel thrown in there for good measure, but it is still always a milky tea. This specific one is just one of those marketing 'chocolate tea' abominations, wich has nothing to do with the actual thing
Wow, that Porsche calendar is actually pretty sick. I've never considered getting an advent calendar before, but the presentation of that one is gorgeous.
Damn you guys are up early to open those calendars, It's only 1 am! That explains what a pensioners breakfast is, you start preparing it at midnight so you can start eating at 6am.
Oh shit I forgot about this. Rejoice! I love how I was in such a shit spot exactly a year ago that these videos were THE ONLY thing I was looking forward to, and this year it didn't even come to my mind! Thanks guys.
Random UA-cam video..... this didn't disappoint. Guess I need to advance to day 2 now. Maybe I'll wait for December and watch one a day, even though these are 4 years old. Could be a December routine. Watch these while drinking Chi Tea....
My favourite time of the year - Stuart and Dan counting down the days with expensive tat is the only thing that makes my December bearable. Bah, humbug to you all :)
Oh sure, when Jesus magically multiplies food or turns water into wine it's all fine and dandy, but I can't make a coin disappear without having to expect divine retribution? That's some double standard bullshit man, I thought we were all God's children!
I wasn't feeling very Christmas-y this year, but then when this went up last night I was spurred into the festive spirit and actually finished my holiday decorating and everything. (Interestingly with the German theme this year, my own advent calendar is German chocolate, though I don't remember the brand, it was one I'd never heard of but I trusted World Market and went for it. It was a mid-price compromise with myself between "$2.50 calendar from the farm supply store that always tastes kind of like farm supply store" and "$30 Lindt calendar")
@@SaviourInDistress Yes, it's derived from the Mandarin word "chá", which means tea. What most people would call chai tea is also called masala chai though.
We've been opening our advent calendars while watching your videos for the last two years. It has become kind of a tradition now. It's hilarious to us how ze German Adventskalenders are taking over! Greetings from Germany XD
But wait, this is more German than you initially thought! Playmobil is German!
Yup :D
I came here to say this. 😂
Can confirm, all of them are actually German. Source: Am German, Playmobil comes from the town of Zirndorf in Franconia, Bavaria. ZE GERMANZ ARE TAKING OVER ZE BRITISH EMPIRE, JAWOHL! I wonder if it is their subconsciousness telling them to remain with us in the EU that made them buy those calendars... :P
Getting to stay in the EU would be the best Christmas present ever.
@@ZT742 :'(
The best part of Christmas is -The whole family coming together-
*Ashens Advent Calender*
No, it's Poundland - didn't you hear the song
That time of the year when Ashens and Nerd³ wear the same clothes for 24 consecutive days.
Or they shoot all episodes in one take....
@@tonyS4853 Thats the joke... lmfao
Tony Skagerlund r/whoosh
Well, this year Nerdcubed seems to be prepared. The videos I've seen up untill now he has worn a different sweater everytime.
I know it's too late but I'm guessing you're supposed to put the Porsche boxes back upside down
Yes... the "frame" the boxes are in would be a frame for the picture on the reverse side.
@The Philocrates I'm pretty sure they already mentioned the boxes might be put upside down so I'm pretty sure they will figure it out
Exactly what I was thinking, putting it back upside down will form a black and white photograph :-)
Man, I feel this is going to be a pretty frustrating month for some of us.
I wasn't the only one shouting at the video saying "you put it back in the wrong way!" :D
Day 1, grass mask.
Off to a good start I see.
Making up for last year.
Thing is, they've had the Playmobile Pirate Calendars in my local[ish] Waterstones for MONTHS- if I'd have known there was a grass mask on day 1, I'd have bought 20 by now.
Not even joking- very serious. They need to start using that as a selling point. "This advent calendar contains 1x Grass Mask Overlord."
Throw back to 1942
Seeing that left me broken... I'm still laughing...
"For use in all EU countries", does that mean you have to return it post brexit?
Depends if Germany will conquer it or not I suppose.
After Brexit the helicopter will self-activate and destroy the Royal Airforce. Then the German military will swoop in and conquer Britain in the longest ploy ever, played since 1945.
@@koenvandamme6901 This was their dastardly plan all along, those Germans still want their 1000 year Reich.
@@koenvandamme6901 Only problem with this plan is that we probably don't have any working planes or boats to actually make it to the UK. Yesterday our chancellor needed to use an airline airplane to make it to the G20 summit because her plane was broken. I don't think our army will be able to fly with Ryanair to invade the UK^^
@@koenvandamme6901 Britain? Oh, you mean Northern Schleswig-Holstein!
The first calendar says "Time for a cosy breakfast" (Zeit für ein gemütliches Frühstück) on it.
I can confirm, at least according to Google Translate.
Adam Porter I can confirm, too
According to being german :D
Don't lie to me. It says "hope you really like powdered tea"
@@Chris5291_ yes and the funny thing, it's actually made for Rentner = pensioner, so not a child Kalendar (and maybe that's why the "sad onion" is more like an "there's no toys in this Kalendar" icon^^
UndeadCollector Yes I know :) And the crossed out teddy bear on it means „store out of reach of small children“ here in Germany (mostly due the danger of them swallowing things) :D
Sitting here waiting on the invasion of the grass masks.
They are here
THEY ARE US
Made possible by playmobile
At least we didn't have to wait long for one of our grass mask overlords to arrive. Now to wait for day 2 for the other to show itself.
P͘͜r̕e̵͘p҉a̷r͜ȩ̵ t̵o͠ ̸̨b̶̸e̡͟͝ ąs̀͡si͟͏m̴í͏l͢a̶̶t̨͏̨e̷̷̛d͞.̵͟͝
Yay! It's the Ashens Calendar time again!
Will the grass masks once again grace us with their presence?
If you had watched the video before commenting, you'd already have an answer to that question.
I hope that they are all this long!
@@Chaos89P W̛e̸ ͢rí͡s̷̨é̶̕.͏ ̴̴Y͏̀͜o̡u̧r̨ ̷d̸e̡a̷t̵͜҉hs͢ ̡͝͡ś̴h͞a̛l̷͘l̢̨̕ ̀n͞o͜͡t ̡͏̨b̡҉ę̴ ̷̸s͏ẁ҉i҉f̧t̵́.̕͝
you know you've ordered 5 German advent calendars because playmobil is german as well
If y’all are wondering why some of these end on the 24th, Germans typically open presents and put up the tree on Christmas Eve. Christmas itself is used for a feast and church celebrations.
(Music time)
On the first day of advent, The germans gave to me.
One Chai tea, one Porschestand, one gear with cogs, and a Nerdcubed infront of a tree. :D
I hope you do this for the whole 24/25 days.
Did you just call a grass mask a tree? Get your no scope gloves on and meet me in McDonald's car park.
It feels like no time has passed since the last series
Don't worry. Resistance is futile anyway.
"accidental Germans"
Hey, I'm an accidental German!
Frohe Weihnachten, allerseits!
(The Teddybear means "No toys" BTW. )
Zauberbuch being a "spell book". (Or literally a "magic/sorcery book")
What is pensioners breakfast
as a german I died several deaths of laughter. You two are so precious!
Missed opportunity to open the best advent calendar: The Funko Pop Harry Potter one! We know how much you both love Funko Pops, and their staring into the abyss expressions.
My sister actually has it this year, the figures are so bloody tiny
...I hope Stuart realizes that you're meant to flip the Porsche boxes over to the other side as you return them to the frame.
If not we're in for a frustrating time...
He just doesn't get it!
Ok so Stuart and Dan are great and all, but where's lindt chocolate calendar guy???
The Advent Calendar series hasn't truly kicked off until Nightenstaff comes around again.
Maybe his wife finally did him in
@@koenvandamme6901 If memory serves, I thought he killed her?
Has someone compiled all the comments in one place? Because I know I've missed some
@@Chaos89P Death is only the beginning!
I've been watching all of these since the first day of 2019 (I didn't know the existed beforehand) and that Porsche one looks amazing.
Grass mask day one... what sorcery is this? Oh, it was the magic calendar all along
I remember when I was young I had a cars advent calendar, their was a big section on day 25, I was expecting it to be a toy car. It was a notebook
Jesus Christ, it's been a year already?
Hey, don’t bring Jesus into this! Wait a few more weeks.
I know. It's ridiculous. It was just last December a few minutes ago, I'm sure of it!
Did you know that Jesus slept in a bed of Grass Masks when he was a baby? That's pretty impressive.
no we skipped ahead a few months
I said the same thing when I started watching too!
And now, It's the most wonderful time of the year.
As a German viewer I found this incredibly hilarious and I'm so looking forward to the rest of the month now xDD
Gotta say, having this video appear right on my birthday made me feel all warm and cozy inside.
I’ve just started Rewatching last years advent and dear god I am so excited for this year 😂 Thanks for making me smile, both of you ❤️
16:44 you know how there’s moments in Dan’s videos when you just want to rewind and listen to him yell something funny over and over again...?
This is our hell, we endlessly continue this cycle of opening calendars in hopes of one day escaping. We fail every year
I'm watching these in mid January and I'm still sad I wasn't there "live" for these for a tiny youtube comment German lesson a day :)
"Zeit für ein gemütliches Frühstück" - "Time for a cosy breakfast."
Dan's pronunciation of Frühstück was absolutely spot on, btw!
Our Grassmask Overloards have returned! Praise to the Grassmasks!
Our faith has been rewarded! This is going to be a good year after all.
This is my Christmas tradition, and it isn’t Christmas without it
I think the Porsche calender I think is supposed to be flipped over for each day
They will realize this on day 19.
chamoo232 a prophecy
I thought it was a Magic The Gathering Advent Calendar from the thumbnail.
It's the most wonderful time of the year. The Ashens (and Nerd^3) advent countdown with miscellaneous calendars of tat.
I was exited when I received the notification, now it feels like december
I've followed nerdcubed for years. Never knew his face until this video thank you
Stewart, the gloves are in the wand... *Clap Clap Clap Clap*
this series, more than anything else, really gets me into the christmas spirit every year. it's my own virtual advent calendar and i didn't even have to waste any money!
chai latte is black tea with indian spices and frothy milk. no chocolate
I was confused by that as well as soon as it saw it written on the packet.
This one is ‘typ chocolate’ so it is chai tea with a chocolate flavour
Actually Latte is German for boner. I guess it's for the pensioner's erectile dysfunction.
@Atheist Dingo Chai latte is just what has been in the UK for a long time under a few (actual original) names, but latte was added for Americans who had never had it and wouldn't try it without something familiar sounding.
By the time any products make back here with the silly latte name instead of course it is going to be confusing.
@@wyterabitt2149 I mean, there's chai tea, and there there's chai tea lattes, which have milk added (milk is what makes a latte). So you saying "latte" was added to make it appeal to Americans is a questionable claim. Chai lattes have been available in America for about as long as I can remember - there's a brand called Oregon Chai that makes pre-made chai lattes and I've had them since I was pretty young, and I'm only 28. (Amazing brand if you ever have an opportunity to try it, by the way.)
Here on Dec 30th 2023, this video pops up suggested and I thought "let's go back and watch these again." See how much I can remember of them
"I don't like tea."
Dan was exiled from the UK shortly thereafter.
Keiya
As was Ashens
I look forward to this every year now!
Now christmas can really begin
It's become my Christmas tradition to watch these advent calendars every year for a month
YESSSSS COME ON ASHENS GET THE CALENDAR OUT
My mum has a German advent calendar from the 80s that her friend gave to her. My parents are both Welsh by the way, but my mum took German O Level in school and made friends with the student she stayed with on her exchange trip. They're still friends to this day. The advent calendar has a lovely drawing of Munich on the front. From what I remember, it's a Christmas market drawn in pencil, and each window has a different smaller drawing behind it. We hang it up every year still because it looks really nice.
Yay!!! You know its truly Christmas when Stuart & Dan start opening crap advent calendars
I use these videos as my Christmas countdown.
Dan screaming DAS BIG BOX brought actual tears to my eyes
"Accidental Germans", sounds like that would be a good band name.
Christmas eve tradition for years now. Time to binge the whole playlist!!!
those goddamn inflatable crowns!!!!!
We germans don't do the 25th thing, christmas dinner and presents and everything important happens on the 24th over here, so that's why all of the german advent calenders have 24 doors.
'Zeit für ein gemütliches Frühstück' translates to 'time for a cozy breakfast'.
And yes 'Frühstück' means 'breakfast'.
The calender itself only says that it is a 'pensioners advent calender' ('Renter' is 'pensioner') and the breakfast theming is only implied by that sentence as far as I could see.
Also Chai literally means spice as far as I know, and rerfers to spiced milky tea.
In india it is usually served in tiny amounts and consists of pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and maybe some fennel or anis as well as COPIOUS amounts of sugar. It is all usually cooked with some sort of black tea in milk (although I've seen it cooked and served without the tea, just as spiced milk as well).
Chai Latte is usually a sanitized western version of this with the spices toned down and often something like vanilla or caramel thrown in there for good measure, but it is still always a milky tea.
This specific one is just one of those marketing 'chocolate tea' abominations, wich has nothing to do with the actual thing
Love the "merry christmas" banner in the back that's cut off by the chairs so it just says "CHRIST"
I have literally been waiting for this. I shall follow along with my Thorntons chocolate calendar. Day 1: a star. Ooh exciting!
Wow, that Porsche calendar is actually pretty sick. I've never considered getting an advent calendar before, but the presentation of that one is gorgeous.
How have you guys not made your own advent calendars to sell yet?
The AshensCubed Calender. Every day is one piece of tat from every advent calender. (day one: a playmobile wig) etc.
Huzzah, it's that time of the year again! Glory to the grass mask!
Or as we call it in Germany-
*DAS B I G B O X*
Oh man, I forgot about advent calendars! What a pleasant surprise to wake up hung over to!
Damn you guys are up early to open those calendars, It's only 1 am! That explains what a pensioners breakfast is, you start preparing it at midnight so you can start eating at 6am.
Oh shit I forgot about this. Rejoice! I love how I was in such a shit spot exactly a year ago that these videos were THE ONLY thing I was looking forward to, and this year it didn't even come to my mind! Thanks guys.
I can see this is going to be an amusingly painful experience as a German speaker... Also that grass mask cracked me up! :D
Ah yes, the advent calendar, now to wait for the Nightenstaff story to continue.
Looks like he wasn't there this year? Is he around for 2019?
I love how the word “Christ” is in between them
It's not Christmas without Ashens opening shitty advent calendars. This makes me so happy 😊
Isn't that the gloves inside the wand?
Every December I am reminded that Nerdcubed is like, criminally adorable :P
On the first day of avant tat, the Germans gave to me...
Eine Grasmaske.
Ein wand-shaped spliff!
@Roblox Adventures and a violated peace treaty!
Random UA-cam video..... this didn't disappoint. Guess I need to advance to day 2 now. Maybe I'll wait for December and watch one a day, even though these are 4 years old. Could be a December routine. Watch these while drinking Chi Tea....
And I’ve been waiting for this all year, damn it’s been a while!
Inventive Koopa64 been about a year.
I love how in the background the word "Christmas" is cut off so it looks like "Christ"
Like: "Christ, these advent calendars..."
Advent Calendars - Bloody hell, are we still doing these!?
Except we actually watch these
Oh yes. 😎
My favourite time of the year - Stuart and Dan counting down the days with expensive tat is the only thing that makes my December bearable. Bah, humbug to you all :)
A magic Advent calendar seems just a LITTLE sacrilegious.
Oh sure, when Jesus magically multiplies food or turns water into wine it's all fine and dandy, but I can't make a coin disappear without having to expect divine retribution? That's some double standard bullshit man, I thought we were all God's children!
It's a pagan holiday
this is one of the things i look forward to every year
Found a use for your mass inventory of f'ing inflatable crowns then .
I wasn't feeling very Christmas-y this year, but then when this went up last night I was spurred into the festive spirit and actually finished my holiday decorating and everything. (Interestingly with the German theme this year, my own advent calendar is German chocolate, though I don't remember the brand, it was one I'd never heard of but I trusted World Market and went for it. It was a mid-price compromise with myself between "$2.50 calendar from the farm supply store that always tastes kind of like farm supply store" and "$30 Lindt calendar")
2 critical grown men opening advent calendars for children? Excellent.
Hang on, one of these is literally called pensioner's breakfast. These ain't for children
@@mrflibble1259 Also I'm not really sure how many children would want to build a small Porsche model or be interested in assembling an RC helicopter.
@@PixelatedH2O The RC helicopter one probably will get more children interested than a Porsche model
The real meaning of christmas
Dan just tipping the powder down his throat is the most dan thing I’ve seen for a while.
Isn't playmobil a german company.
Genuinely the only part of Christmas I enjoy! Straight up.
Chai does mean tea Stuart!
wait does it literally mean tea? like chai tea is actually tea tea?
@@SaviourInDistress Yes, it's derived from the Mandarin word "chá", which means tea. What most people would call chai tea is also called masala chai though.
You guys got me through a really rough December with this last year. Looking forward to joining in the fun again this year :)
Was day one of the Playmobil calendar a grass mask??
yes.
Watch the video, you bearded carrot
@@ahandsomefridge You gotta know that I would only ever ask that question, in past tense, after seeing what comes out of the calendar, right?
Such tactics are beyond my comprehension. You're still a bearded carrot though.
@@ahandsomefridge ...I feel like you've either seen my avatar on another website, or are a friend of mine incognito for some reason...
My favorite time of the year! Not cause it's Christmas but cause ashens releases videos every day for almost a whole month!
Oh hell yeh, Christmas is official now i get to see th crap that comes out of these calendars
This year they've chosen quite good ones :D
@@PrivateHaggard Surprisingly they are not too bad, I would like the RC helicopter one myself.
We've been opening our advent calendars while watching your videos for the last two years. It has become kind of a tradition now. It's hilarious to us how ze German Adventskalenders are taking over! Greetings from Germany XD
The gloves where inside the wand...
My favourite time of the year, Ashens + Nerdcubed Advent Calendar yesss
I miss the Lego calendars.
Gadgetboy UA-cam channel has a Lego Advent Calendar this year, not as good as an Ashen's review of the contents
@@mcocker I'll give it a look. Thanks!
I'm mostly here in hope that the guy who ends up writing an entire Noir story everyday will be here again this year!
I'm feeling Christmassy now this is out!
This is my new favorite Christmas tradition
OUR GODS ARE RETURNING ALL HAIL THE GRASS MASKS
I cant even begin to tell you how happy I was when I saw this video in my subscription feed!
Damnit Dan, fix your sound! My right ear is good, but my left is out of whack!!! Do what Asshens does and set it to mono!!!
God I love these 2. always makes my xmas build-up that lil bit better. watch them every year
FING INFLATABLE FING CROWNS
OMG "MAGIC MAGIC E!" what a reference, thats how my school taught me to spell! no wunder i cant!!
A whole month of butchered german to look forward to :D
This is something I look forward to every year