That sure is a cart and it sure has fire

Trump could have used one in The Apprentice.

Is he delivering the fire? Is the cart on fire? Is it a cart that you'd set on fire for the purpose of keeping warm?

So many questions.

At least the Cart isn't on fire!

...Ok...Hey cart...YOU'RE FIRED!!!:D

Although, I can't be the only one here thinking "Shell...on a Castle set...:|"...But guess: if Arthur and the boys can use shells...coconut ones though...:)

This makes total sense.

Will that be cash, or CHARGE! ?

I like to think the barrel contains fuel for the flamethrowers. The nice part here is that beside the minifig you even get a bat. It can either be used as a decoration or as an animal itself, which is great value for the budget.

These small little carts used to be everywhere. Not anymore. I guess it's because we don't have any or very few historic themes where using a cart would make sense. Nor do we get as many small impulse sets containing a minifigure, as micro models seem to be the go-to thing now in today's modelling climate.

Probably had a couple of those.

Looking at how panicked that knight seems to be I’m not entirely sure the cart should be doing that. Is it really just a barrel of ale and things have gone horribly wrong?

One of the better Fright Knight minisets

Consecutive Castle RSotDs. Verily.

In hindsight, I guess I appreciate Shell's brazenness. At least they were upfront with their message in this set.

"Shell: Setting fire to the world for fun and profit."

@PurpleDave said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"Bat-farts: silent but deadly "

Hey, that's no joke, dude. Spelunkers in caves that host bat colonies have to wear oxygen tanks because the amount of methane coming off the bat guano will cause you to asphyxiate. And then you'll faceplant in a pile of bat guano and die."

The need to obtain bat and sea bird guano to fertilize American farms and feed the growing population led the U.S. to join the rest of the European powers to try its hand at imperalism. The rest is history- imperalism, oil company domination. Sigh.

That barrel is suspiciously empty - does it contain the fuel for the flames?

Also, does anyone know what theses weird number stickers (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?G=2538stk01&idColor=0T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0}) were for in the 10 Shell sets of that line?

@Brickalili:
I dunno. Are you going to trust a lowly foot soldier all by himself with an entire barrel of booze that’s _that_ flammable? Cheap swill, maybe, but that barrel is probably worth more than he makes in a year.

@Atuin:
The sticker matches a bug printed in the upper right corner of this set’s box. I would imagine it’s intended as a way to keep track of which sets you’d obtained, so you could try to complete the series. You know, because nobody has writing utensils they can use to mark checkboxes. Although, knowing AFOL tendencies, a checklist with check marks would list for lower than unmarked, where being covered in a complete set of stickers might actually give the resale value a boost.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
I dunno. Are you going to trust a lowly foot soldier all by himself with an entire barrel of booze that’s _that_ flammable? Cheap swill, maybe, but that barrel is probably worth more than he makes in a year."

I mean I wouldn’t trust him -again-, not after this, that’s for sure! XD

That cart has a severe case of indigestion.

This is... objectively not one of LEGO's finest, but darned if I don't feel somewhat cheated that my adulthood has not included more impulse-sized LEGO sets at gas stations.

I remember getting this one! ...in 2005, as a free-with-meal gift at Legoland Windsor's pizza restaurant. Not the place I would have expected a shell promo set from seven years earlier to turn up - but hey, free Lego is free Lego!

And it was always nice to have another of those helmet pieces - not to mention my first Lego bat! So I was pretty happy with it ^^