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Shaped Like What It Sells
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Sometimes the easiest way to tell what a store sells is by looking at the shape of the store itself. Like a library shaped like a stack of books or a Burger Shack that's a giant burger, Shaped Like What It Sells is a building that is modeled and designed to look like the product(s) that's inside of it. According to The Field Guide to Sprawl, in Real Life, the name for this type of a building is a "duck," after a duck-shaped duckling stand (the term was coined by architect Robert Venturi), or mimetic architecture. Should a giant entity mistake it for the real deal, This Billboard Needs Some Salt will likely ensue. A Subtrope of Bizarrchitecture. Supertrope of The Dinnermobile. Not to be confused with Shaped Like Itself. Compare with Exactly What It Says on the Tin. In rare cases, this is Truth in Television, as some companies build facilities in the shape of their product as a promotional tactic and some towns have buildings shaped like iconic items from their region as a tourist attraction. These buildings are rare because they have to be custom-designed, which greatly boosts the cost. |
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In Rollercoaster Tycoon, almost every concession stand has an option to be shaped like the things it sells (and most of these do so by default): A lemonade stand shaped like a lemon, a cold drinks stand shaped like four cans, a burger stand shaped like a cheeseburger... | |
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The Simpsons has Lard Lad donuts shaped as a giant boy holding a platter with an donut. | |
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Clarissa Explains It All: Marshall Darling is an architect who seems to specialize in these. | |
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The film adaptation of The Cat in the Hat went with this design philosophy for the surrounding town, placing large, 2-3 meters-tall {{sculptures}} of merchandise on storefronts where you would expect to see signs◊ to produce a whimsical aesthetic. Depicted in the movie itself is a hardware store with a sculpture of a hammer about to drive in a nail, a shoe store depicting a shoe, and the florist with a sculpture of a daisy-like flower in a flowerpot. | |
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In Pinocchio, some of the buildings in Pleasure Island, including a smoking house shaped like a pipe and a pool hall in the form of an eight-ball. | |
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On the We Bare Bears episode "Cupcake Job", the bears work on a cupcake shop shaped like a cupcake. | |
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Arrested Development: The Bluths' one consistent moneymaker is the frozen banana stand, which is shaped like a banana. | |
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The Chokey Chicken of Rocko's Modern Life has a big cartoon chicken on the roof. | |
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Potion Permit: Your house, which was previously owned by the last Chemist before they moved out, is shaped like a potion bottle. Bulk & Build (the renovation and furniture store) has a roof shaped like a hammer. The Willow Waters Bathhouse has a giant ewer of water sticking out of the roof to pour a constant stream into a water feature on the side of the building! |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has quite a few of these such as Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has two examples of this that can be found in the Mojave. The first is the Sunset Sarsaparilla factory that has a front entrance shaped liked a bottle of the titular drink. The second is the Dino Delight motel which has a giant Dinky The Dinosaur statue that doubles as a shop that sells small Dinky action figures as well as a few other things. Interestingly, both locations need to be photographed for a sidequest where an artist in New Vegas uses them for inspiration for making his own neon signs. | |
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My Name Is Earl: Pop's Hot Dog Cart◊ in "Stole P's HD Cart." | |
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Banjo-Tooie has Big Al's Burgers and Salty Joe's Fries, a hamburger stand and french fry stand shaped like their respective products. | |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius has McSpankey's Burgers, shaped like a giant burger (though it also has a giant Scotsman's head on the side). | |
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In PaRappa the Rapper, the "Sweety Cakes" bake shop is shaped like a giant cake. | |
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Used in CatDog, in the case of bodily parts. As well as food, such as Taco Depot. |
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In Girl Genius there's a fish shop with a fish shaped roof in the underground of Paris. | |
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In Stampy's Lovely World, the bakery, Stampy's Hot Buns, is shaped like a cake. | |
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In Space Quest 4, Monolith Burger does this, probably for laughs because it's a parody of McDonald's. You even have to work there to make money. | |
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The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series has an interesting variant to this trope: rather than being shaped like what they sell, buildings are often shaped like the Pokemon who own them. | |
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Theme Park has the Coffee Shop, Pokey Cola, Big Time Fries and the Big Time Burger shops. | |
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In Heroes of Might and Magic 4, several creature dwellings are shaped like the units that are recruited in them, for example Wolf Den being a giant wolf Cave Mouth, and Tiger Den having the stripes of a white tiger. | |
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The Brady Bunch: A client, Beebee Gallini, freaks Mike out when she asks him to design her makeup factory first in the shape of a powder puff, then a lipstick, and finally a compact, complete with hinged roof. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy has quite a few of these such as Taco Bull which is shaped as a taco bull. | |
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The balcony of the pizzeria from Teen Titans is shaped like a slice of pizza when seen from above. The floor is the cheese and the tables are the pepperoni. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has a few: Glove World is made of many different buildings shaped like gloves. The Chum Bucket is in the shape of a giant bucket. |
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One Judge Dredd story started with an Establishing Shot of Mega-City One that included a fly-thru munceburger joint shaped like a giant burger. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Sugar Cube Corner, the bakery and sweet shop where Pinkie Pie lives/works, is done up to look like a gingerbread house, and has a tower on top shaped like a cupcake. | |
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The Pie Hole of Pushing Daisies is shaped like a giant pie. | |
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In Górsky & Butch, the fish-themed mad scientist Fishtein's secret hideout is shaped like a giant cod. | |
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There was a joke along these lines in one episode of How I Met Your Mother. Ted was designing a building shaped like a 10-gallon hat for some cheesy Texan Rib-joint franchise. Instead, they went with a Mecha-Godzilla shaped building (wearing a cowboy hat). No businessman is going to have a building design that needlessly complex if he's not going to sell souvenirs inside...unless, of course, he's been charmed by the powers of Sven. | |
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