Starbucks anyone?

Cool!  And I like the way you stacked your background buildings behind the 3D structures.

Nice.  I would like to see Miller Engineering do a Starbucks sign (and a Dunkin Donuts and WaWa for that matter).   Yes...I am a coffee junkie. 

If your layout takes place in the Puget Sound area, you'd have to have every 5th business as one of these, and a coffee stand in every parking lot.

Lived here since 1998 and I still don't get the obsession with coffee here...

Me too.  I enjoy the old signs but if you want younger people to buy your stuff you have to get some things that they can relate to.  Things like a Starbucks sign (though I doubt SB would license it), Dunkin Donuts, heck even In n Out or Taco Bell!  Ha ha

I like it. Now I could use a grande Pike Place with cream. Great idea on the sign. Nick

Now you need five more in a two block radius;  then it will be just like real life....

I must have lucked out....I just did a phone book search and there is not ONE Starbucks in any of the several cities in this county!!  However, the large city to

the south, in another county, has about a dozen, most concregated around the "high

rent" residentitial area.  My coffee hound friend, with the quart size cup, refuses to to pay those prices and buys Nescafe "French Roast" when on sale, and Denny's "Bold",

when eating breakfast out.  I have been in one,only, Starbucks, off the Interstate,  on a long, cold trip, where I got hot chocolate.  Of course, this morning, I had 3 cups of

instant cappaccino (not Starbucks, for sure) after plowing and shoveling frozen rain in this heat wave,but that is unusual.  Another piece of luck is that my model era is 1940.

If you do the interior of your Starbucks, don't forget to include a supply of little tiny stirring sticks so that the people on your layout can steal them for their scratchbuilding projects.

I was hoping Miller would do one of these signs as although it doesn't fit my time period it would be an nice homage to my wife who is a coffee aficionado.   That's a very clever way to get the sign and thing I will blatantly copy your efforts once I start on my new layout!  Unless of course....you vehemently object. 

--Greg

How Starbucks got started...

Bruce

I want to do one with the original logo, as first used. 

Yes the older Starbucks logo would be nice, and could be easily obtainable if you print off a sticker yourself on transfer paper, and then stick it on the EL Kit.  

I also grabbed a few giftcards from one of the MANY locations here.  The girl gave them to me when I told her what I was doing as long as I sent a picture of it to her.  So you could get your hands on a giftcard with the old siren on it and use that for window/non lit signage.

The old logo is easy to find and, like you said, you can run it off on a nice printer and it makes a great sign.  

Mostly, with a Starbucks, I want to think of some cute little vignette(s) to go with it, and I have not thought of any now.  I know where I will put it . . eventually.  So many projects . . . 

Verdana looks like a Starbucks kinda girl!   

When every I think of a coffee or donut shop, I envision a traffic jam of police cars outside.  I'm not trying to start anything with police officers, whom I have the utmost respect for, but it's just a funny stereotype. 

Art

Starbucks had a porcelain building available back in the 90's as part of a gift set...here's a picture.  Sorry its not the best view but it has the sign out front as well and a separate Starbucks delivery truck parked in front.

Daryl

Gentlemen,

    The world runs on DD coffee!

PCRR/Dave

It is a stereotype, once I never understood. Where I live (Puget Sound area), there are almost no donut shops for some reason. But I was born and raised in Florida, where they were common. I knew people who worked at them and all confirmed they never saw police any more than any other demographic, all were equally confused why there's the stereotype of cops at the donut shops. Must have come from a different part of the country, maybe.

Came across this post while doing a search for Starbucks buildings.  My sons and I plan on putting one or two of their LEGO City sets on the layout to have some modern looking buildings with current merchants that they recognize.  They both love the Apple Store 

Starbucks (along with others) have lent their logos to LEGO for building amazing structures like this 3-story corner Starbucks building https://ideas.lego.com/projects/79922

And this 3-story Barnes and Noble (also a corner building) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/36775 so I would hope that MTH, Lionel, etc, would look into contracts for those licensees

Both of these buildings have amazing interior details which you can see on the URL links.

The Starbucks sits on a 10x10 plate which would fit in an O Gauge layout.  The 13” height with the cupola looks like it would fit next to a typical MTH 3-story building that’s 10 inches high.  Yeah, it's LEGO, but we're going for the toy train and play aspect and not scale realism.

Won’t probably do something that extreme (those cost $$$) but I know that the corporate logos are out there to be utilized and do something like these store fronts instead http://brickultra.com/cuusoo-o...ek-mini-shop-series/

I should mention that I'm both a Starbucks and a Dunkin Donuts junkie, can carry travel cups from both merchants in my car.  That way, whenever I feel the need for a fix, I can stop at the first one that I come across 

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/67008395@N02/8379367782

-Kevin

Starbucks and a Maple Donuts?