Justin

Shell 92 in real life: Shell Regular Shell 95 in real life: Shell V-Power

Come to think of it, the licensing deal between Royal Dutch Shell and LEGO was great while it lasted. Over the past 60 years in various countries, LEGO had Shell-branded gas stations and such in their town-themed building sets. Along with the various Esso and Exxon sets, Shell sets are going to be valuable collectors' items in the years to come, since LEGO has shifted its focus towards making Octan-branded gas stations and vehicles.

"Greenbrick" is going to have a field day with this one! I guess the Octan Figs represent those former Octan employees who became Greenbrick activists after their gas station and vehicles were converted to Shell. Maybe they were arrested on-site for protesting.

Harrison Ford played Han Solo in the Star Wars Movies, as well the title character of the Indiana Jones movies.

Finally, we have buns for our hot dogs and wheelchairs for our handicapped LEGO Citizens.

Just the sets I was looking for: the LEGO Octan Station with convenience store and a park for my LEGO Citizens.

Another thing I wish LEGO would release this year, is an Octan gas station with convenience store.

I'd like to see another Octan Gas Station, complete with service garage, car wash, and convenience store, plus a tow truck, an oil tanker, and a civilian automobile (like a car for example). LEGO could take what they learned from the Simpsons' Kwik-E-Mart LEGO set and apply it to the convenience store portion of the set, like for example: how to set up the interior of the store. I would love for LEGO to bring back the car jack piece that was originally molded in blue, but later molded in yellow for a Jack Stone gas station set. Another set I would like to being made, is a truck stop for all the big rig trucks. I would like to see them make a supermarket, a toy store, a discount store (like a Walmart or Target), and a strip mall.

Most LEGO sets in the '80s, '90s and early '00s were great and had instructions that were contained on one booklet or sheet of paper. These days, it has gotten difficult to find so much as one LEGO building set where there's only a few steps to follow. I most certainly agree that the building instructions have been dumbed down. I remember when I put together my 6441 Deep Reef Refuge set back then, only to feel I've accomplished something when I was done. The same thing happened when I put together my 7140 X-Wing Fighter after receiving it as a Christmas gift back in 1999. Both sets had one booklet for instructions, a LEGO Shop at Home pamphlet, plus a brochure featuring their product lineups for the year (with the LEGO Club Magazine subscription on the back cover), that's it, unlike the multiple instruction books that they give us today for each of the individually numbered bags.

Mobil also has gas stations in the USA as well (They were once called Socony, a.k.a. Standard Oil Company of New York). If they did make LEGO gas stations/truck stops/tow trucks/oil tankers featuring Exxon and Mobil, maybe they could include both gas station designs, including Mobil (blue canopy with Pegasus mascot) and alternate Exxon station model build (red canopy with Tiger mascot). If LEGO went ahead with the ExxonMobil license, LEGO would include both the Exxon station's and Mobil station's design on the box (Exxon on front of box, Mobil on back), and two sheets of stickers, as well as extra colored bricks representing each brand's canopy (red for Exxon, blue for Mobil with round plate featuring the Pegasus mascot), they would likely use Esso brand in Europe and Mobil (without the alternate Exxon model) in Australia and New Zealand. Ideas for models include: * Service Station/Convenience Store with Gas Pumps * Oil Tankers * Truck Stop * Tow Truck * Car Wash ...But unfortunately after that disaster with Shell and Greenpeace, I do think LEGO should just stick to branding their gas stations as Octan (for LEGO System/Duplo/Technic/Dacta) or FUEL 4 Speed (LEGO Tiny Turbos).

I know LEGO is doing a Scooby Doo license, other Hanna-Barbera (a divsion of Warner Bros.) licenses I would like to see next: * The Flintstones * The Jetsons * Dexter's Laboratory * The Powerpuff Girls

Wax on, wax off. (a "Karate Kid" reference) Great MOC, Kai NRG!

If I had a choice between these two LEGO Town sets from the DIVERS subtheme, I'd either go with: The 1782 Discovery Station: OR... The 6560 Diving Expedition Explorer: ...But if I were to pick just one, it would be 6560 Diving Expedition Explorer because it includes a large boat (the largest boat in the entire subtheme), a mini-sub, a raft, a seascape to explore, a crew consisting of four scuba divers, a boat captain, and a mini-sub pilot, as well as diving gear, and some sea creatures including sharks, stingrays, and octopuses. other features include a skeleton Conquistador guarding some sunken treasure.

And if they were to make a Sandy's Treedome building set in the SpongeBob theme they would have to bring back this piece, previously seen only in LEGO Space and in Aquazone Hydronauts: ...unless they just release her tree-house, picnic table and hamster wheel. One of the the things LEGO overlooked when redesigning Sandy's air helmet was the pink flower, which they left out of the design at the last minute before releasing the Glove World set to the general public.

Great MOC! I like how it incorporates lots of Star Wars references, as well as references to other themes. I'm afraid that if Vader gets off his barge, that he'll get sand in his mask!

I would like to see LEGO continue with their Nickelodeon licence by including these themes alongside their already-popular SpongeBob SquarePants sets: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Power Rangers Samurai The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2 (movie coming in 2014; a subtheme of LEGO SpongeBob SquarePants)

I would love to see Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in LEGO form (fingers crossed for Nickelodeon to extend their licensing range from SpongeBob to TMNT, since Mirage Studios sold the rights to Nickelodeon), including some sets based on, but not limited to: *The 1987 series (a.k.a. "Hero Turtles" in the UK) **The Technodrome **The Turtle Party Wagon **The Sewers **Channel 6 Mobile Newsroom **Turtle Blimp *The 2003 series *The upcoming 2012 series

The problem with that, is that they would have to swap out his satchel for a full beard.

Actually, Disney came up with the idea first, with a cartoon "Susie the Little Blue Coupe" in the 1950s. The cars in Cars/Cars 2 have the "windshield eyes" that were first used in the 1952 film. More about Susie the Little Blue Coupe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_the_Little_Blue_Coupe

Both sets look fun and I'm really looking forward to buying them once they are available. I also have yet to buy this year's sets (yes, I have a lot of catching up to do.). The only thing thing that would improve the party set is the inclusion of Sandy. I like that all the characters are wearing leis and flowers, giving the set a Hawaiian party theme.

The police car reminds me of the Gadgetmobile from the Inspector Gadget cartoon.

This is a great review for a set that just happens to be out my price range. So many play features in one set. If only I had enough money for this set...

I would like to buy this set once it is available at Toys "R" Us.

These new LEGO SpongeBob sets have some potential for those Town MOCers out there considering that the ice cream pieces in new colors are perfect for ice cream parlors. And for those Space/Sci-fi MOCers, the space gun in the Heroic Heroes set would be a great weapon for your spacemen.

How about if Lego was in talks with Pepsi about releasing Pepsi-branded building sets under the City theme? One set could include a Pepsi delivery truck with Pepsi delivery guy, and a payload of minifig-sized cans of Pepsi products including Pepsi, diet Pepsi, Mtn Dew, Sierra Mist, and Pepsi Max. The set will also include a dolly to carry the payload, as well as a Pepsi vending machine to fill with the cans. (I'm sure Lightningtiger also likes this idea)