Shell Salt Water Supercars

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Anyone else seen these? They're four quid each if you buy thirty pounds worth of V-Power.

They have a chemical 'battery' which you fill with salty water. There's a mixing bottle supplied. You can also buy a re-chargeable electric battery too, plus a paper racetrack. There's four models to collect.

Thought it looked quite interesting, I'll get it going tomorrow and report up. Bit of fun, innit?!

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

[Miserablegit]

Thanks for posting- I need to fill up today

[Cloudy147]

Miserablegit said:

Thanks for posting- I need to fill up today

Me too! Thanks for the heads-up, Ray!

[Cloudy147]

I bought mine today. 3 cars, 3 charging packs so you can use them after the salt water packs have expired, and two track packs.

A bit of simple science learning for daughter too as we put it all together. Impressive as a concept too, love that the track is totally biodegradable.

Anyhow, was lots of fun, the cars all went at different speeds so kept me and daughter entertained for a good hour of building then playing. Will put this up as a semi permanent fixture in the garage I think.

Great work, Shell.

[Paynewright]

I keep waiting for the lego offer to re-appear with hopefully new models!

[Poppiecock]

Paynewright said:

I keep waiting for the lego offer to re-appear with hopefully new models!

Greenpeace applied pressure to Lego to stop this activity. Lego didn't want the hassle of dealing with Greenpeace disrupting their business.

As usual, Greenpeace didn't really think this through - they thought it was bad for a family orientated business like Lego to be associated with a big, bad oil company. But they don't appear to realise that plastic is a product of said big, bad oil companies!

[Einion Yrth]

Poppiecock said:

Greenpeace applied pressure to Lego to stop this activity. Lego didn't want the hassle of dealing with Greenpeace disrupting their business.

As usual, Greenpeace didn't really think this through - they thought it was bad for a family orientated business like Lego to be associated with a big, bad oil company. But they don't appear to realise that plastic is a product of said big, bad oil companies!

And surely, from the point of view of the greenies, turning oil into plastic has to be better than burning it, no?

[98elise]

Poppiecock said:

Paynewright said:

I keep waiting for the lego offer to re-appear with hopefully new models!

Greenpeace applied pressure to Lego to stop this activity. Lego didn't want the hassle of dealing with Greenpeace disrupting their business.

As usual, Greenpeace didn't really think this through - they thought it was bad for a family orientated business like Lego to be associated with a big, bad oil company. But they don't appear to realise that plastic is a product of said big, bad oil companies!

Lego is also fantastically green. I had Lego as a kid, which all passed to my kids. They are now grown up and it's still sitting in a big tub, ready for when the grandkids start appearing.

There is no reason to bin Lego, unlike 99% of other plastic toys.

[Evangelion]

I read recently that the average household on the planet has 65 Lego bricks in it.

Can't be true though, I haven't managed to find any here.

[lufbramatt]

98elise said:

Lego is also fantastically green. I had Lego as a kid, which all passed to my kids. They are now grown up and it's still sitting in a big tub, ready for when the grandkids start appearing.

There is no reason to bin Lego, unlike 99% of other plastic toys.

The older stuff does seem to go very brittle with age. My lad is 4 so I retrieved my lego from my parents house. Some bits just disintegrate when you try to press them together. Although they are probably bits that were passed down to me from older cousins so 30+ years old. Have had to bin quite a few bits though.

[TwyRob]

Cloudy147 said:

I bought mine today. 3 cars, 3 charging packs so you can use them after the salt water packs have expired, and two track packs.

A bit of simple science learning for daughter too as we put it all together. Impressive as a concept too, love that the track is totally biodegradable.

Anyhow, was lots of fun, the cars all went at different speeds so kept me and daughter entertained for a good hour of building then playing. Will put this up as a semi permanent fixture in the garage I think.

Great work, Shell.

I have 3 track packs (to make a figure of eight), two cars and two rechargeable batteries. Putting it together with my daughter in a minute, hopefully she'll enjoy it!

[shep1001]

Paynewright said:

I keep waiting for the lego offer to re-appear with hopefully new models!

It won't - Shell ended its relationship with Lego a few years back.

[Stevil]

Evangelion said:

I read recently that the average household on the planet has 65 Lego bricks in it.

Can't be true though, I haven't managed to find any here.

I think I've probably got getting on for 50,000 in mine so I more than cover your lack of them

[ukaskew]

98elise said:

Lego is also fantastically green. I had Lego as a kid, which all passed to my kids. They are now grown up and it's still sitting in a big tub, ready for when the grandkids start appearing.

There is no reason to bin Lego, unlike 99% of other plastic toys.

So true, we've never binned a single piece of Lego in over 30 years. As a bare minimum it all has resale value or will be passed down to kids etc. Apart from the old chunky base plates which had a habit of cracking I don't recall a single piece ever breaking either.