One Shop = Eight Shops

[tahra]

They are carts to carry hay in. The large Horse Paddock set had one, and several other sets as well

Ah, thank you. I have been mostly staying away from the riding sets.

The two in the middle are Sylvanian Families, and the ones at either end are Kinder Surprises.

Ah, yes, the sylvanian ones.. they are sooo cute!

5.  The Pet Shop

Love the dog staring at the cat...

So the next floor became home to the Cosy Cat Café.

The cat sign on the counter is just purrfect!

And the top floor housed Horseriding Supplies.

I really like the way you displayed the saddles.

6.  The Flower Shop

The flowery wagon wheels are amazing!

(T-Rexs love flowers, so their presence in Flower Shops is not surprising)

 

Concluded tomorrow with the Food Market and Secondhand Shop.

Looking forward to it!

[Daniela]

I am not able to say, which one I love best, they are all amazing! 

And it makes me so happy, to see, you are back and feeling well again, dear! 

Daniela

[leefert]

I agree that all of them have been amazing! And I see Toby and family are looking at horse riding supplies

[Salamander]

I can't choose a favourite, they're all great! 

[Raven]

I see Toby and family are looking at horse riding supplies

   You noticed!


7.  Sally's Food Market

As this is not really a Supermarket, it is called Sally's Food Market so that there is a reason for the staff to have the letter 'S' on their uniforms...



Out of all the shops, this one was the most difficult to create, and took the longest time.  My initial idea was to put all the tins and jars and packets on the entrance floor and then, on the higher floors, have the sellers of bread and cakes, meat, and fresh fruit and vegetables.  But then when I came to do the higher floors, I realised that those fresh products really don't fit or display properly on the Shopping Mall's fixed shelves.  So now what? 

Tins and jars and packets would need to fill some shelves on the middle and top floor also.  Which left my entrance floor shelves empty! 

So the entrance floor ended up just with whatever was left over.





On the higher floors, there wasn't enough space for big displays of fresh food.







Despite the shelving limitations, the top floor came the closest to my liking.



Though these vegetables in crates on the shelves were very precariously balanced, and repeatedly fell off at about ten-second intervals.







I don't really recommend using the Shopping Mall as a Grocery Store!

8.  The Secondhand Shop





This shop was fun to create, selecting various items to put on the shelves.



And furniture too.













It was a nice and relaxing end to shop-making, especially after the struggles with the Food Market!

[GrahamB]

 
(Is there a smiley for 'gobsmacked'?)

I decided to wait until you had posted all the pictures before commenting, Raven. This is a wonderful concept, a great challenge to your own creativity with many many excellent ideas and heart-warming touches. My favourite shops were the flower shop and the secondhand shop, both of which really work well in that building! As Tahra said, the positioning of figures often gives a real sense of what they were thinking or saying, like the dog looking suspiciously at the green-eyed cat, the bored man outside the changing room, the guy pointing at the bread he wanted in the Sallymarket (I never know what the different loaves are called either!). Pure genius, AGAIN!

It has often struck me that the scale in the world of Playmobil is right off! You made all the shops work well, but the building really restricted what you could do, because it's actually far too small, the way it is designed! When my children have a PM school trip, they can only take 11 children and the teacher (plus driver) in the coach! I suppose klickies know no better and have adjusted to this in the same way as having no elbows or knees (NHL figures excepted!)

Veg racks falling off shelves; Blu-tack (or local equivalent) is a good solution, or don't you like using it?

[playmofire]

|The food and second hand shop nicely round things off and, like the others, are great and you've overcome the problems of fixed shelves etc very well.

[tahra]

7.  Sally's Food Market

As this is not really a Supermarket, it is called Sally's Food Market so that there is a reason for the staff to have the letter 'S' on their uniforms...

Brilliant!

And you have the blue bottles! MUST have some! I think they are the playmoclosest there is to water bottles.

Also.. that Kinder egg 

8.  The Secondhand Shop

Love the kid pulling grandpa (?) along

And the Lego box! 

The price tags are so..... on.


I look forward to your next project!

[Tiermann]

They were all wonderful. After seeing this I think I need maybe 8 more shopping mall sets...
Actually if you have the space the ground floor base plates will fit nicely next to each other so you can put more than one ground level across. It curves a bit due to the base plate shaping but can look nice. Takes more width of display table though. I have two mall sets so far and need one more to complete the building I want to eventually have. You've really provided some great ideas about what to do with it once created.
I really liked the cartons on their side in the boxes for case display in the store. That is a great idea and one I will definitely steal emulate one day. I especially like some of the things you've done in the flower shop. I will have to keep them in mind when I someday finally make my big garden center diorama.

[Raven]

Veg racks falling off shelves; Blu-tack (or local equivalent) is a good solution, or don't you like using it?

I usually use Blu-tack/poster putty quite a lot, but in this case, I was stubborn: I was seeing the behaviour of the vegetables (jumping out of their crates and bringing the crates down with them) as a personal rebellion, and I was determined that I was going to win this argument about being on shelves, for at least the duration of a photograph.