Tierra de la Oscuridad

[GreekMan 246]

nooo no no

Merry Christmas!

great cj

[bbfan02 23]

Merry Christmas back!!

[dralin321 0]

Heh heh. Merry Christmas as said before me!

[suplado! 23]

hey -- merry christmas!!

[salut221 10]

I've not been here since a long time ago , but the city is still pretty beautiful =) Love your playing style 'Twiggy Keep up that awesome work!!

Salut221

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

Wow Twiggy, Huge and incredible park! Congratulations on your Trixie win, I nominated you You were the first person I thought of when I saw that category lol. Merry Christmas!

[miguelkuk 111]

Why not Merry Holidays? He hehe

[ky72x 13]

It's a good thing you weren't building when the computer crashed! Who knows what you could have lost, a great row of W2W buildings, a shopping district, or even a park. I hope you had a great Christmas, Twiggy. Can't wait for another update!

- Kyle

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Hey all!  I just had a wonderful day of shopping with Christmas money, and it reminded me of this update I needed to post lol.  Here, for your convenience, is a very handy guide to shopping in Tierra de la Oscuridad.  It is by no means an exhaustive list.  Oh, and my apologies to Shanna; I promised her a house in this update!!  I totally forgot though, and so will showcase it in the next. 

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The Richland Building has a variety of small stores for everyone.

Border’s is a good place to get…how did you guess?…books and music!

I love these small Mediterranean shops and cafés in an older section of town.

Fry’s has the latest computers, games, music, TVs, and other various electronics. (It also sells this game called SimCity Societies!)

Trend Fashions carries all the latest in-vogue Tierran apparel.

Can’t afford Trend Fashions? Le Pointe Boutique sells the exact same items, only at much lower prices. (Hmmm…  However, there is no picture of this store available, mostly because of a most inconvenient computer crash.  () 

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REPLIES

zelgadis

Oh, I see! Hmmm,I could do one with a castle sometime in the future, that would look cool. 

pipishere

Hey, thanks!  I'm glad you like it!

GreekMan

What was all the "no"ing about?  Lol, thanks, I hope you have a great holiday season!

bbfan02

Thanks!  Happy Holidays!

dralin321

Thanks,Dralin!

suplado!

Hey!  Have a great New Years!

salut221

Hey, Salut!  I remember you.  Thanks for stopping by again! 

ilikehotdogsalot

Oh, thank you!!  I didn't even see the category lol.    I'm a pretty non-observant blonde most of the time. 

migu

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool pics, really nice shops around the area!! really like the mediterranean style area!! hehe...

[connorc24 2]

Nice! I like the close-ups. Very thought-out! Great job and keep up the excellent work!

[Chris M 406]

Hey Twiggy,

Excellent urban shopping area!  It very much reminds me a lot of the suburbs around the Indianapolis area close to where I live.  I'm glad that you used nofunk's Borders in that area instead of SimGoober's because his is much more urban looking where SimGoober's is more meant for a small, less cramped area!  I've never heard of Fry's Electronics.  Do you know what region has those type of stores? 

Looking forward to more,

DragonAnime/Chris

[Zelgadis 638]

A castle, with your style, would look great!

And I do like the picture-in-a-picture photoshopping you've done. Very neat.

ISF

[Simfan34 11]

A nice town, I would like to live there! Now, is there a house I could get?

[ky72x 13]

I should've known than an update like this was coming!

Nice work, Twiggy! Great descriptions of the various shops around the region. I liked the small B&W images you provided for some of the shops, they looked pretty cool. Great use of spa's buildings; lately I've been using them quite a bit in my cities. What's that power plant doing by the Fry's store? Maybe it needed its own personal generator to power all of the electronics in that sprawling building, lol. Anyways, keep it up, I'm looking foward for more!

- Kyle

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

I really like the Mediterranean shops you created there, with the large open plazas. I'm trying out the same style with some of my cities now, as you probably tell Very nice shopping guide, great update as usual!

[bbfan02 23]

Great shops and espcially the Med. ones. Happy Holidays and have a great new year!

-bbfan02-

[Shanna 1]

Hi Twiggy!

Don't worry I wait for my lovely house in Tierra, but in the meantime I visit the wonderful shops! I love the mediterranean style so I'll stop to drink a good italian coffee but I'll pass much time in the Trend Fashion!!!)))

Great work as alway my friend!

Take care

Shanna

[penguin007 27]

Awesome pics I love the mediteranean part that looks great

Will

[pipishere 3]

Wonderful updates, love the shopping update the most though!

[dralin321 0]

Always the great and the colourful from this cj! You've left me thinking about all those stores!

[jacqulina 162]

hiya twiggs did you have a great christmas,this is a wonderfull update i love the shopping centre very nicely done as allways my friend.and wonderfull pics.

happy new year

[anarchy0029 2]

Hey nice view of the retail stores in your CJ. I want to wish you a Happy New Yrs. '08. Hope to see more.

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Great work and pics. I love how different every picture looks, very attractive places!

[Amerikaner 42]

HAHA yay its shopping time. Well anyway I have not been here in FOREVER, and its looking so nice BT. I really love those med. buildings that you have, and of course CONGRATS on your trixe, wo well deserving. haha .

[Glenni 1,447]

No twiggy, just no, you just simply don't buy books at a suburban box store, that is as classy as living in a trailer with a girl named John.

Nice update though

[The Almighty Cheese Grater 0]

Hi, BlondeTwiggy.

I haven't visited your 'City Journal' in quite some time, I'm a little disappointed to see no talk of cheese or cheese grating. Hope to see this fixed, soon!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

REPLIES

suplado!

Hey, thanks, I"m glad you liked the Med style buildings! 

connerc24

Thank you for the lovely comment!!  Glad you liked the close up shots! 

DragonAnime

Hey DA! (Chris?)  Lol, really? I don’t know what style of citybuiding I have… Although Im glad to know it looks somewhat realistic.  So you live near Indy?  Actually, I don’t think I’ve seen SimGoober’s Borders, and it probably has too many dependencies anyway! Rofl, according to Wiki, Fry’s has stores in a lot of States. See ya! 

zelgadis

Thanks!  That was a good idea, I hope the result (in this update) isn’t too hideous.  I’ve never worked with Asian architecture before.  The castle I downloaded (by ragutaro) looks really good, even though it’s from like 2004, lol.  Thanks, glad you liked the Photoshopping!  I saw it done in a journal one time and thought it was a cool way to highlight a building.

Simfan

Of course!  In the update I have included a house for you, if you’d like it. 

ky72x

It was inevitable I’d do one on shopping. I use Spa’s buildings probably way too much lol.  They’re very nice BATs though. LOL, I don’t know why the powerplant is there, but that’s a pretty good explanation! Thanks for your comments, Kyle!

ilikehotdogsalot

Hey, hot dogs!  Yeah, I saw your use of the med. buildings, I liked how you incorporated them in the farms.  Way better than what I do (plop, add streets, take picture )  Thanks for the comment!

[bbfan02 23]

Hey, what do you have for sale? I might come and move in! Great residential area!

-bbfan02-

[The Big Z 103]

Looks awesome, BlondeTwiggy! I love the Mediterranean Shops! They're super! I love Japanese castle. I've been there in RL, and its gorgeous. Yours looks much better!