Friday 9 March 2018

Ninjago City (70620) - Fish shop, phone booth and more banners!

Yesterday saw the addition of some "consumer oriented" amenities to our "Chinatown". Namely a seafood store, a walking bridge over the canal and a public phone "booth".

First is the public telephone. I used the term "booth" very loosely as it's really not a booth at all but just part of the outside wall of the seafood store. You'll also notice the colorful orange banner to the left (which was a sticker) as well as some ornamentation that hangs from the roof. I really wish that the roof ornamentation was colored instead of being poo-brown. Even a few small stickers would have really livened it up and made it an extraordinary addition in both color AND form. You can see there is a tight walkway just to the right of the phone. On the left side of that walkway is the seafood store which we shall check out next. On the right side is the maintenance shack that Sweep calls home.


At the present moment, the seafood store is fairly pedestrian. I am not sure if future building will see more activity and color in the space. It sits right on the waterfront, which makes sense as the fisherman has a minimal distance to travel to get his wares from his boat to his shelves.


Back to the street side, we see a set of stairs leading up to the canal bridge. There are a couple of brightly colored banners here, presumably advertising for the seafood store and perhaps some directions on what lies across the bridge.


The bridge itself is nothing too fancy. There are some wrought-iron rings hanging from the bridge as decoration - these are positioned on both sides of the bridge. The bridge is also high enough that the fisherman can pass under it comfortably (we tested!!).





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