Mr Rogers Visits Plasticville
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Mr Roger's trolley visits Plasticville. We need a Mister Rogers again, lots of them actually. In a world filled with anger and hate, with cries of the world ending in ten years (which they have been saying for decades now), we need the peace and calm and empathy that Mr. Rogers brought every time he appeared on camera.
Over more than 30 years Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting with a trusted friend. Mister Rogers looked directly into the camera and sang and talked to each child watching. His radical kindness, acceptance, and empathy created a place that as TV Guide described: “… makes us, young and old alike, feel safe, cared for and valued… Wherever Mister Rogers is, so is sanctuary.”
This is an amazing Trolley Model, i love it when it travels Around the tracks, Nice work.👍🏽
@zacharyspinks6207 thank you
Lovely trolley model, and this is a great looking layout, too. Well done.
Thank you!
That's a nice trolley, you wouldn't know it almost looks like the one from the show.
Thank You
What's really cool is that all the buildings in the opening for mr rogers neighborhood were made from modified plasticville kits!
Across the very back of the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood layout were two unknown buildings, the AHM Ramsey Journal building; and the AHM Old Time Firehouse, which was based on the Ramsey Journal building, but had a slightly different front and coupla.
The layout in the TV series changed over the years; and some buildings were changed out. The early version had a Plastiville "Dicks's Auto Body Repair" across the street from these, and across the corner from the building with the custom roof. In a later version and the movie, it is the Con-Cor re-release of the Revell Superior Bakery kit.
In front of the building with the custom roof, and across the street from the bakery are two more buildings based on the AHM Ramsey Journal building with some kind of store in between. (They are Brockett's Bakery and Soda Shop and Joe Negri's Music shop on each end, and Betty's Little Theatre in between on the show.) The house you were talking about in front of the bakery is the Plasticville Split Level house.
The yellow house at the end of the block with the above three stores, and across from the Split Level house is the AHM Suburban House kit. The pinkish house behind it that was Bob Trow's Workshop on the TV show looks like another AHM Suburban House kit. Next to it is the Plasticville Ranch House kit. I have not figured out what the next two houses on that block are; the last one being Brown's Marionette Shop and Francois Clemmons Studio.
Mr. Roger's House is the Plasticville Cape Cod house, with the patio on the side. Across the street is a building made from an AHM Ramsey Journal building. I think another Plasticville Cap Cod house with it's backside to us is in front it at the end of the street; but no sure on that one (Elsie Neal's Craft Shop.)
There is also a AHM Masterpiece HO 545 Fairway Terrace Colonial 2 Story Home between the AHM Ramsey Journal building and AHM Fire House along the back, and Mr. Roger's House (behind the four houses.) I have not identified the house with porch across the front that is across Main Street from the rest of the town (Mr. and Mrs. McFeeley's House.) There was also a Plasticville Contemporary House kit across Main Street from the rest, but it is not on the movie set model. The movie set model has a Plasticville? trailer house model next to it.
Originally, they had HO Life Like cars in the street; but later they were replaced with Matchbox or Hot Wheels cars. The January 1988 issue of Model Railroading had a story of how a model railroader on the movie set added Mr. Roger's trolley (Trolley II) to Main Street. They also added grass to the layout instead of just green paint; so the layout changed a little over time.
Some of the plasticville building just looked like the ones in the real mister Rogers model.
That's because they are -- the Neighborhood models on both the TV and movie sets were made using Plasticville, AHM, Revell, and Concors buildings. Some of them have been repainted, and others have been kitbashed or had new roofs or other parts made for them.
The set also originally featured HO Scale Life-Like cars, but were later replaced with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
How did you build the trolley?
It was made from an old Tyco Brill Trolley body I had since I was a kid, I used to use it as a roadside diner. I cut out every other window frame on the side, then all the ones on the ends.
I then painted it red. I printed out the signs on top, and the sides, and glued them on. Lastly, I blackened out the doors and the remainder of the sides above the paper sides.
I finally took another functioning Tyco Brill Trolley, and swapped bodies with it. It is not a great runner because it has an open frame motor with just one pickup point on each side, but as you can see, it works.