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Making an 80s/90s US mall toy store with currently available shop props?

Alley RatAlley Rat Posts: 405
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Hi all,

I'm attempting to make a toy store as you might find in the 80s or 90s in a US shopping mall. Has anyone tried this with some of the existing shop/boutique sets? If so, do you have any recommendations? I'd love to make (or better yet, buy) a proper Kay Bee or Circus World-type shop.

Thanks!

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,281
    edited December 2019

    I was just looking at KindredArt's Skate park and thinking that it would be great base for a Toys 'R Us...

    There are a couple of good shop interior bases for a mall-based store, like https://www.daz3d.com/hang-it-up-storefront-and-storefront-fillers (which would make a great FAO Swartz) but for the time period you're looking at you really can't beat First Bastion's magnificent shopping mall... https://www.daz3d.com/suburban-shopping-mall  which, if I recall correctly, he recently re-did with Iray materials.  Of course, those store fronts are empty and most of the other DAZ store sets are for clothing, jewellery and electronics, so the rackage and fixtures are wrong.  Fortunately, InliteStudio.com (who sells at Renderosity as TruForm,) has a phenomenal free department store set that has exactly the right kind of high stack shelving as well as some basic cash register stations. HIt those up with some shaders to give them some more vibrant colors and you ought to be good to go for the store itself. 

    As to the toys... KayBee, Toys By Roy and the other stores mostly had a lot of boxed stacked on top of each other on the shelves, so you should be able to get away mostly with primatives or billboards with actual product images laid on them for most of the store.  For the closer items, you can suplement those with products like Disperate Dreamer's Barbie-like Bestee https://www.daz3d.com/dp-bestie-for-the-girl-8 and then stick other random figures, props and vehiclesinside The AntFarms blisterpack pakaging set https://www.daz3d.com/action-figure-blister-pack  and Maclean's Display cases https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-display-cases  Fugazzi has a lot of interesting and weird toy-type items and wall-cover included as props inside his Gamer Room set https://www.daz3d.com/fg-gamer-room-and-props  as well as with his various bedroom sets like the FG Princess Room  https://www.daz3d.com/fg-princess-room and then for the younger kids toys both Maclean and 3D Universe have a lot of younger kids toys in their sets.  Finally, there was someone... Ajax or Moebius?... who used to have some great vehicles that came packed like a hot wheels car, but those vendors seem to be among the many who have disappered recently. For signage, it's Maclean again with https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-labels-and-signs and https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-pedestals  

    Oh yes, Vanishing Point also has a bunch of free toy boxes available on ShareCg.  They're poser format but should convert to Iray easily enough.

    Post edited by Cybersox on
  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,219
    Cybersox said:

    I was just looking at KindredArt's Skate park and thinking that it would be great base for a Toys 'R Us...

    There are a couple of good shop interior bases for a mall-based store, like https://www.daz3d.com/hang-it-up-storefront-and-storefront-fillers (which would make a great FAO Swartz) but for the time period you're looking at you really can't beat First Bastion's magnificent shopping mall... https://www.daz3d.com/suburban-shopping-mall  which, if I recall correctly, he recently re-did with Iray materials.  Of course, those store fronts are empty and most of the other DAZ store sets are for clothing, jewellery and electronics, so the rackage and fixtures are wrong.  Fortunately, InliteStudio.com (who sells at Renderosity as TruForm,) has a phenomenal free department store set that has exactly the right kind of high stack shelving as well as some basic cash register stations. HIt those up with some shaders to give them some more vibrant colors and you ought to be good to go for the store itself. 

    As to the toys... KayBee, Toys By Roy and the other stores mostly had a lot of boxed stacked on top of each other on the shelves, so you should be able to get away mostly with primatives or billboards with actual product images laid on them for most of the store.  For the closer items, you can suplement those with products like Disperate Dreamer's Barbie-like Bestee https://www.daz3d.com/dp-bestie-for-the-girl-8 and then stick other random figures, props and vehiclesinside The AntFarms blisterpack pakaging set https://www.daz3d.com/action-figure-blister-pack  and Maclean's Display cases https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-display-cases  Fugazzi has a lot of interesting and weird toy-type items and wall-cover included as props inside his Gamer Room set https://www.daz3d.com/fg-gamer-room-and-props  as well as with his various bedroom sets like the FG Princess Room  https://www.daz3d.com/fg-princess-room and then for the younger kids toys both Maclean and 3D Universe have a lot of younger kids toys in their sets.  Finally, there was someone... Ajax or Moebius?... who used to have some great vehicles that came packed like a hot wheels car, but those vendors seem to be among the many who have disappered recently. For signage, it's Maclean again with https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-labels-and-signs and https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-pedestals  

    Oh yes, Vanishing Point also has a bunch of free toy boxes available on ShareCg.  They're poser format but should convert to Iray easily enough.

    Do you have a link for the InliteStudio com free department store.  I can't find it.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,281
    Fauvist said:
     

    Do you have a link for the InliteStudio com free department store.  I can't find it.

    http://inlitestudio.com/3d/product/department-store/

     

  • Alley RatAlley Rat Posts: 405

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! heart

    Cybersox said:

    I was just looking at KindredArt's Skate park and thinking that it would be great base for a Toys 'R Us...

    There are a couple of good shop interior bases for a mall-based store, like https://www.daz3d.com/hang-it-up-storefront-and-storefront-fillers (which would make a great FAO Swartz) but for the time period you're looking at you really can't beat First Bastion's magnificent shopping mall... https://www.daz3d.com/suburban-shopping-mall  which, if I recall correctly, he recently re-did with Iray materials.  Of course, those store fronts are empty and most of the other DAZ store sets are for clothing, jewellery and electronics, so the rackage and fixtures are wrong.  Fortunately, InliteStudio.com (who sells at Renderosity as TruForm,) has a phenomenal free department store set that has exactly the right kind of high stack shelving as well as some basic cash register stations. HIt those up with some shaders to give them some more vibrant colors and you ought to be good to go for the store itself. 

    As to the toys... KayBee, Toys By Roy and the other stores mostly had a lot of boxed stacked on top of each other on the shelves, so you should be able to get away mostly with primatives or billboards with actual product images laid on them for most of the store.  For the closer items, you can suplement those with products like Disperate Dreamer's Barbie-like Bestee https://www.daz3d.com/dp-bestie-for-the-girl-8 and then stick other random figures, props and vehiclesinside The AntFarms blisterpack pakaging set https://www.daz3d.com/action-figure-blister-pack  and Maclean's Display cases https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-display-cases  Fugazzi has a lot of interesting and weird toy-type items and wall-cover included as props inside his Gamer Room set https://www.daz3d.com/fg-gamer-room-and-props  as well as with his various bedroom sets like the FG Princess Room  https://www.daz3d.com/fg-princess-room and then for the younger kids toys both Maclean and 3D Universe have a lot of younger kids toys in their sets.  Finally, there was someone... Ajax or Moebius?... who used to have some great vehicles that came packed like a hot wheels car, but those vendors seem to be among the many who have disappered recently. For signage, it's Maclean again with https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-labels-and-signs and https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-pedestals  

    Oh yes, Vanishing Point also has a bunch of free toy boxes available on ShareCg.  They're poser format but should convert to Iray easily enough.

     

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,281
    Strange Voyager said:

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! heart

    Cybersox said:

    I was just looking at KindredArt's Skate park and thinking that it would be great base for a Toys 'R Us...

    There are a couple of good shop interior bases for a mall-based store, like https://www.daz3d.com/hang-it-up-storefront-and-storefront-fillers (which would make a great FAO Swartz) but for the time period you're looking at you really can't beat First Bastion's magnificent shopping mall... https://www.daz3d.com/suburban-shopping-mall  which, if I recall correctly, he recently re-did with Iray materials.  Of course, those store fronts are empty and most of the other DAZ store sets are for clothing, jewellery and electronics, so the rackage and fixtures are wrong.  Fortunately, InliteStudio.com (who sells at Renderosity as TruForm,) has a phenomenal free department store set that has exactly the right kind of high stack shelving as well as some basic cash register stations. HIt those up with some shaders to give them some more vibrant colors and you ought to be good to go for the store itself. 

    As to the toys... KayBee, Toys By Roy and the other stores mostly had a lot of boxed stacked on top of each other on the shelves, so you should be able to get away mostly with primatives or billboards with actual product images laid on them for most of the store.  For the closer items, you can suplement those with products like Disperate Dreamer's Barbie-like Bestee https://www.daz3d.com/dp-bestie-for-the-girl-8 and then stick other random figures, props and vehiclesinside The AntFarms blisterpack pakaging set https://www.daz3d.com/action-figure-blister-pack  and Maclean's Display cases https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-display-cases  Fugazzi has a lot of interesting and weird toy-type items and wall-cover included as props inside his Gamer Room set https://www.daz3d.com/fg-gamer-room-and-props  as well as with his various bedroom sets like the FG Princess Room  https://www.daz3d.com/fg-princess-room and then for the younger kids toys both Maclean and 3D Universe have a lot of younger kids toys in their sets.  Finally, there was someone... Ajax or Moebius?... who used to have some great vehicles that came packed like a hot wheels car, but those vendors seem to be among the many who have disappered recently. For signage, it's Maclean again with https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-labels-and-signs and https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-pedestals  

    Oh yes, Vanishing Point also has a bunch of free toy boxes available on ShareCg.  They're poser format but should convert to Iray easily enough.

     

    No problem! I've been building my collection specifically so I can quickly toss together any scenario on the fly, so things like this are a fun challenge.  Plus, it reminded me that I hadn't bought Ant's Blister-packs for myself and seeing that the Dystobia ones had vanished, it prompted me to buy Ant's while they were on sale and I had my bonus discount.   

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