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> Frank Buiting wrote:
> > I received a mail from someone in Portugal who commented on my description
> > of Octan in the LEGO Lexicon:
> > http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/o.html#octan
> >
> > He pointed out that in Portugal there is a real company with gas stations
> > over the country branded 'Octan' and it uses the exact same logo. I asked a
> > portugese collegue if he could recognise the logo I sketched and he
> > instantly recognised the logo (there was no LEGO context on the paper).
> >
> > So is the LEGO version of Octan based on this company?
In lugnet.general, John Neal writes:
> lol that would be funny if it were and we thought it fictitious all these
> years! Since Octan is transported mostly by LEGO trains, I've crossposted
> there:-)
Speak for yourself - I'd always assumed it was a brand from mainland Europe
that I'd just never heard of. I know Lego used the 'Shell' brand a long
time ago, and I assumed they'd just struck a new deal with someone else. I
don't know how widespread any fuel companies are outside of the UK, although
I've never seen an 'Octan' hoarding on any of the televised Grand Prix circuit.
Does the brand use the same colours? I preferred the white/yellow/red of
shell to the white/green/red of these Octan vehicles anyway.
Jason J Railton
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| (...) <snip> (...) I usually do! *I'd* just assumed that TLC had had a falling out with Shell and decided to go with a fictitious company instead-- less legal hassles;-) If Octan were real, I'd have thought that they would have been a little more (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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