The only Toy to get for your kid

    And the reason why you buy it for your kid is so that you can play with it! I am not a recovering Lego addict, but I have cut back on my expenses this year, mainly because this line lacks good substance. I've collected Lego for nearly 20 years now and own a good portion of all the sets since I began collecting, save the most expensive, technic, and everyone's favorite, Belville. I have some photographs of my collection prior to the destruction of 90% of my sets when I cleaned up my room last year. Unfortunately, I never got around to photographing my original creations which entailed a huge castle, and several monolithic space ships. When I eventually purchase a place of my own, I'll consider making a private room just for my collections.
    My eventual goals with Lego are to building a castle zone resembling the ludicrously huge Minas Tirath from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, the SDF-1 from Macross, and a conglomerate of all genres which may resemble the Masters of the Universe Series (i.e. high fantasy mixed with technology). It'll be quite a while before I ever get to that project now that most of my time will be spent finishing up college, finding a job, and working from 9-5 like every other mundane. But regardless of my circumstances, I'll still collect Lego.
    Something that I've always enjoyed was theorizing what the next themes or products coming out would be. Here are some ideas that I hope to see in the future:

A massive hospital. 1995 and 1996's editions did not go cheap in terms of parts and price. So, why not produce something that we haven't seen for a while, but on the scale of the old Police HQ? Have two baseplates, one with the usual garage layout and the other maybe a flat. The garage will hold an ambulance and a paramedic's car, while there could be a parking lot for others. A small landing pad on top of the roof will contain a rescue chopper for the EVACS. There should be an operating room, several cots, and of course, the waiting room.
A collection of shops that you can collect and formulate a mall (or mini-mall). Where do your Lego citizens shop for clothes or buy groceries? I bet most figures wear the same outfit night and day, and eat the same pizza from that Pizzaria place. What about an electronics store, a computer store, a hardware store, clothing store, supermarket, seafood restaurant, pet store, and perhaps if your citizens are good, a nuclear bomb retailer? Sounds good and happy.
A Lego mayor's house. As far as I can tell, Lego towns are socialistic in nature, a chip out of Rousseau's philosophy. Of course, with all of the fire stations and police stations, and of course, Jailbreak Joe, Lego has it's share of rebels and mischief as well. So who heads all of this?
A Lego school. I would not want a guy with an IQ equal to the amount of pieces in those polybag sets to run the city police station (and if you live in California, that's what happens!). With growing towns, you can always use a good education system, at least in the elementary levels. Come on. Even guys who operate cranes have to know how to spell their names.
A Lego sports arena. (Ack! I've been playing too much SimCity 2000!) Okay, so your citizens get bored, so aside from stealing the local UFO and taking it for a spin to the Ice Planet to pick up the Ice Babe, there's not much to do except build in Legoland (okay, I'd admit that stealing the UFO is much better than watching a baseball game, but hey, they don't come by that often!)
A Lego Hotel. I really miss the old Main Street set. It had something that resembled a hotel or motel, and since then, they never have built extra housing complexes for their residents. Besides, where else can those UFO dudes stay?
A Lego Bar. Yeah, yeah. It's a bad influence, but what do those goblets in all of those Lego castle sets suggests, hmmmm?
Lego Construction Set. Huh? What's the point? Do you ever remember the Public Works Center or the Big Rig Truck Stop? Yeah, those are the employment agencies since there aren't any Lego schools.
Lego Pollution Factory. Refer to the statement above regarding education. Otherwise, it would just be a plain, old factory.
Amazon Lego Biatches! Yeah, this one will really offend the feminists (or really please them depending on the execution), but I miss the old Islanders. They were kooky and had a stoned expression on their faces. Imagine what kind of traps these gals will have for the Pirates!
Castle peasants with village. You click on the castle and outcomes a peasant! Oh, no! Now, I'm thinking about Warcraft!
The Giraffe. It WILL be done.

That's all I can think of for now! Send in your thoughts and I'll make a list.