Der Waffle Haus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Like_Me  Perhaps my favorite TV show was Dead Like Me.  In that show the characters often meet in a coffee shop named Der Waffle Haus.  It was originally filmed in a real restaurant in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  After the first episode they constructed a nearly identical set to do the filming.  The same set is used on an episode of Stargate SG-1 television series.

So I decided to make a model of both the set version and the original version of Der Waffle Haus as part of my American Cities project.  These photos are overhead views of the incomplete restaurants. I intend to either plate over or cut off the visible Lego type pins, and the tables need tabletops.

I also have to work on the windows, as well as the incidental bits like the grill.  I have been gathering waitresses, cooks, for the restaurant and just for fun, the main characters from the TV show, and later direct to DVD movie.

This version is the real restaurant.  It is the end unit of a shipping center.  My plan is to build the whole shopping center.  I purchased the interlocking bricks at Dollar Tree and Constructive Playthings, an online store.

My intention is to build the whole shopping center, with swap out parts to change up the mixture of shops.  The plan is they can be used for my 1898 War of the Worlds project and all the 125 years since then by either using tenants, like an Army Recruiting station, book store, and others that would be in business for that whole time, or by swapping out obsolete business such as the blacksmith for more modern ones like auto repair.

I have used blue bricks and clear bricks as different choices for windows, but I am still experimenting with the windows.  I am considering "smoked glass" color brick windows because I think they will look the best.  I am building one of these Der Waffle Haus as part of a shopping center and two other Der Waffle Haus restaurants as stand alone shops, to create a small chain of businesses.  Due mostly to a shortage of bricks and other materials I have moved on to another project but I hope to come back to this one in the next month or so, as funding for materials becomes available.