It’s that time of year again, LEGO fans! Though its a bit late to celebrate Christmas in July, you still have the opportunity to celebrate the holidays with LEGO in August, as the three LEGO Advent Calendar for the year have now began to arrive! While a lot of fans will be excited for the 2013 LEGO City Advent Calendar 60024 and LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 41016, there’s no question that the most-anticipated is the 2013 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 75023. Online orders for the new LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar will ship next week, but it’s also now been released in stores!

I had heard the whispers that the LEGO 2013 Advent Calendars were available, so I hopped over to all of my favorite local stores this morning to scope them out. Toys R Us had the LEGO Star Wars 2013 Advent Calendar for some ridiculous price of close to $60, so I decided to check my closest LEGO Store as well.

Bingo! At the local LEGO Store, they had several of the just-released LEGO 75023 Star Wars Advent Calendar on the shelf for the much more reasonable price-tag of $39.99. For that price, I was willing to be bite.

The biggest incentive to purchase this set–at least for me–is the all-new LEGO Star Wars kid Boba Fett minifigure! I love the AOTC Daniel Logan Boba Fett, and I’ve been waiting what feels like eternity for LEGO to release this new Episode II Boba Fett minifigure as part of the modern LEGO Star Wars line.

I’m totally going to be a sick person and stick Jango’s helmet (perhaps with his severed LEGO head inside) into a LEGO present box for the LEGO Boba Fett to open. Yeah, I’m horrible like that.

Additional incentives to purchase the 2013 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar include the exclusive Santa Jango Fett minifigure and the awesome LEGO R5-F7 minifigure Astromech Droid (I believe this specific R5 is meant to go with a Y-Wing).

If you’re looking to pick up the set, the best price you’ll find anywhere is off of Amazon, which is selling the LEGO 2013 Star Wars Advent Calendar for $39.99 plus no tax and free shipping. I couldn’t wait, so I paid a bit more, but if you want to get the best value for your Santa Jango and kid Boba Fett minifigures, Amazon is the way to go.

Thoughts on this year’s Star Wars LEGO Advent Calendar, LEGO fans? Are you going to pick it up and have a little fun counting down the days to the holidays, or are you going to wait for a possible clearance sale on this LEGO set until after Christmas?