#716 of Year 2 Lego 6754 Creator Family Home

Lego churns out houses in their Creator theme once every couple of years.  I guess it's a good thing because that's how I'm getting houses to populate my City.  Should these be part of the City theme?  Who knows?  Perhaps Lego could merge the Creator houses with the City theme?

#700 of Year 2 Lego 7553 City Advent Calendar Day 16

It's nearing the home stretch, and there's less than 10 days to go...

#715 of Year 2 Lego 7902 City Doctor's Car

Whew, I do have a lot of large sets that I'm opening, but once in a while, it's nice to actually open and build a small Lego set.

#700 of Year 2 Lego 7553 City Advent Calendar Day 15

It's Day 15 - 10 more days to the big day when there's no more toys on the advent calendar!  I'm hoping today brings something good.

#714 of Year 2 Lego 5771 Creator Hillside House

Let's go into some history then.  Lego started a 'Basic' theme way back in the late 70s... that has been renamed again and again over the years (and I don't really remember all the iterations), but it was Designer in the 90s and Creator in the noughties.  Basically these were the 'build anything' sets.  However, as today's Creator set shows, Lego has gone a long way from those 'Basic' days!

#700 of Year 2 Lego 7553 City Advent Calendar Day 14

It's Day 14 of the month and so far this month, it's been Police related.  Would today bring something different?

#713 of Year 2 Lego 7035 World City Police HQ

The Lego City theme has gone through quite a bit of transformation over its branding in the past 30 years that I've been collecting.  Back when I started drooling at collecting, there was only one minifig theme so they didn't bother to label it anything.  When they added the Space theme in the late 70s, the non-Space theme had to be differiented somehow so at the early 80s, Lego decided to call it 'Town'.  In the 90s, they took a disasterous step by 'juniorising' all their sets with ugly designs and easy builds. When they realised what a mistake that was, they brought back the Town theme, but renamed it World City instead.  World City was less juniorised than 'Junior', but the designs were still a mishmash of 'Junior' and the normal sleek look.  Perhaps because of how blocky World City was, they renamed it to City in the noughties (ha!) and moved the design to larger vehicles and better looking models.

#700 of Year 2 Lego 7553 City Advent Calendar Day 13

It's lucky day number 13!  What will today bring?  A new toy from the Lego City Advent Calendar for sure!

#712 of Year 2 Lego 8639 Cars 2 Big Bentley Bust Out

This is the second of the "next wave" of Lego Cars 2 sets, although I guess they are really just one wave, but separated into two shipments or something.  I know my store got them at different times.

#700 of Year 2 Lego 7553 City Advent Calendar Day 12

Another day, another window from the tree?  Well, it seems this year is getting a bit Police-y, and that's not too bad a thing since my first set 30 years ago was a Police Van...