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Blockbuster's shop, bright and warm. Deep royal blue carpet with small yellow ticket shapes, white racks right round the room with glowing yellow shelf edges, packed with VHS tapes, DVD and Blu-ray cases and games with generic covers, and blue hanging signs reading ACTION, COMEDY, HORROR, FAMILY and GAMES. A NEW RELEASES wall facing the door with one section standing open under a STAFF ONLY sign onto a stair, a STAFF PICKS island with a popcorn machine and sweet jars, and a white counter with a yellow band, a retro till and a RETURNS slot.

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Blockbuster

Video shop, games lounge above. 1990s video shop, south side.

The card

shops 13 of 19

Blockbuster

shops 13 of 19idea_075

The notes

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What it really is Video shop, games lounge above
Front 1990s video shop
Side South, number 13 of 19 walking the street clockwise from the north-west
Frontage 7 m
Floor area about 49 m², from the model

One of the six heroes, a 1990s video shop: a deep lit blue box sign with yellow lettering and a yellow strip under it, a window full of posters, a returns box and a lit OPEN sign, with the red phone box at the kerb. Inside is the shop, and through a swinging section of the New Releases wall, a hidden stair up to the games lounge.

The room behind it has its own page under behind the fronts: Blockbuster · the shop, 1990s video shop with a modern twist.

The plates

3 · lift any one out
Blockbuster's shop, bright and warm. Deep royal blue carpet with small yellow ticket shapes, white racks right round the room with glowing yellow shelf edges, packed with VHS tapes, DVD and Blu-ray cases and games with generic covers, and blue hanging signs reading ACTION, COMEDY, HORROR, FAMILY and GAMES. A NEW RELEASES wall facing the door with one section standing open under a STAFF ONLY sign onto a stair, a STAFF PICKS island with a popcorn machine and sweet jars, and a white counter with a yellow band, a retro till and a RETURNS slot.
01 · Blockbuster's shop
Blockbuster at dusk after rain. A deep lit blue box sign with yellow BLOCKBUSTER lettering and a yellow strip, a white shopfront with the window full of colourful generic film posters and racks of cases, a red OPEN sign in the door and a blue returns box beside it. Midland Bank's navy front and a bracket clock are on the left, a red telephone box at the kerb and The Regal's REGAL blade sign and marquee on the right, under the glass canopy and the limestone upper floor.
02 · Blockbuster at dusk after rain
The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun. Left to right: Ashworth Ironmongers on the corner, Texas Homecare with a red fascia and a part-closed roller shutter, Ironside Boxing Club showing a boxing ring through the window, the narrow fronts of Fletcher's Range and Midland Bank with a bracket clock, Blockbuster's blue sign, the red phone box, The Regal's marquee and blade sign, and Our Price on the far corner. Three slate roofs step above the limestone upper floor, with a chimney.
03 · The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun