Welcome to Burger King Home of the Whopper. GRAND OPENING!! PICS

[Anonymous]

He well I have a Burger King in Operation on East St. Did a little bit of painting to it to update it to a modern BK which in my city looks just like this one. How does it look?

[GDRMCo]

It makes me hungry

[Anonymous]

You need a big sign to attract motorists!

Bob Boudreau

[MisterBeasley]

Nice work. Do you want fries with that?

[RMax1]

Hopefully they can make a mustard whopper with cheese!!!

RMax1

[davekelly]

Biggie,

Looks great! I did notice that you've "modernized" yours. Also like the location you picked for it . . . . perhaps you should add some guys trainwatcing while they down their woppers :)

Wouldn't it be great if someone came out with a 60-70's era McDonalds? You know the small stores with the arches across the sides? That would be way cool and I bet a hot seller.

[TurboOne]

Good job Biggie Smalls, I can smell the onion rings. Just for oldtimes sake, I'll take a double whopper with cheese, rings, and a chocolate shake.

I like FundyNorthern idea of a big sign, but you probably have to scratch build if it didn't come with the model.

Take care

Tim

[cacole]

That's a good job of scratchbuilding! It seems that the style of building built for Burger King varies according to what part of the country you're in. There seems to be even different designs according to the locale within a state, because out here in Arizona all BKs are not the same design.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GDRMCo

It makes me hungry

[#ditto]

[Anonymous]

about the 60s-70s, era Mc Donalds, i saw on in a hobby shop near me! it was way cool, but it would go well with my layout

[SilverSpike]

Great job on the Burger King! The top photo looks so real I thought that was the prototype at first!
Super size me! Oh, do they do that anymore?[:D]

- Ryan

[leighant]

Location reminds me of the McDonalds next to the BNSF in Bay City, Texas.

[davekelly]

pickwick,

Don't tease. Tell me more info about the McD's you saw at the hobby shop.

[Anonymous]

Awesome work!!

You should be proud!

[Anonymous]

mmmm Burger king. Do they serve breakfast?. I like the Idea about the guys watching trains and the big sign. it screams I NEED A SIGN ASAP!!! lol

[CFournier]

It would look good on my layout but not in the 50's Igess...I'm converting a passenger car into a diner.

[cheese3]

cool, i do not have enough room for one on my layout

[Noah Hofrichter]

Or better than guys train watching, a switch crew of the local on break![;)]

Noah

[Anonymous]

If you look at the bottom picture in my first post in this topic you can see that there is a sign for the Burger King. Not the bottom picture in this post. LOOK UP. LOL It is just the way the picture is that you cannot see it. I may make another one that is lite too. Here is a before picture of the area.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

Biggie,

Looks great! I did notice that you've "modernized" yours. Also like the location you picked for it . . . . perhaps you should add some guys trainwatcing while they down their woppers :)

Wouldn't it be great if someone came out with a 60-70's era McDonalds? You know the small stores with the arches across the sides? That would be way cool and I bet a hot seller.

In the late 70's or Early 80's Life-Like (When ever they were selling their "Buildems" Line of structures sported an early style Mc Donalds. However Life-Like did not procure licencing for such a model and thus Mc. Ds sued. From what I know of the case Mc D. issiued all kits recalled and the tooling destroyed. Every once in a while one of these kits surfaces on Ebay and the lowest I have seen it sell for is $150.00.

Back in 1998, there was a company that made Ceramic buildings (Along the lines of Dept. 56 and Dickens buildings) Came out with a series of ceramic buildings in their "Route 66" Series. I know an early Mc.Donald's was offered. These buildings were scaled to 1/8" = 1' so are a little small for HO scale. But could work along the back of an HO scale seen in a Forced Perspective fashion. My imperfect memory tells me (I saw this one afternoon watching QVC when I was down with the flue) that the line also included a Santa Fe Mission Style train station. (Included a length of HO EZ track) a Gas Station, and a Motel. If anyone can fill me in on who this company is, it would be greatly appreciated.

[davekelly]

Student,

Thanks for the info . . . bummer about the availability. Hopefully someone will get the license and redo an early McDonalds. That would really set the era for a layout.

[Anonymous]

Nice work, PARKER. Though I prefer Jack in the Box. [dinner]

[davekelly]

Biggie,

Here's a thought. Get one of those picture frames with the digital sound recorder in it (sometimes they can be found for less than $5.00 at those Dollar type stores). Install a push button. When ever visitors walk buy you can pu***he button and they'll hear "You want fries with that?" LOL

[Anonymous]

Biggie:

With a handle like that, you should be building a Wendy's (as in Biggie Fries, Biggie Drinks, etc), not a BK LOL

FYI, according to Spikre over on the Atlas forums (HO), Lifelike didn't have a licensing issue with McDonalds, like we've all commonly believed (me included). Rather, they had a limited time frame that they were allowed to produce the kit because McD's was just starting a pu***o change the styles of their restaurant. To quote Spikre, here's what he said in a response to a post by me (Greg), though I don't lnow what he meant by "ALSO":

"Greg,
get the facts on the McDonalds kit
CORRECT ALSO!!!
Life like had X amount of time to run
with the kit.they were slow getting it out
and McRonald would NOT EXTEND thier time!!!
that is from Mr Sol Kramer of Kramer
vs Kramer-NOT,of LIFE LIKE!!!
have also talked to Col Carstens about
this and got about the SAME INFO!!!!
McDonalds was into thier big pu***o
convert to sit in resturants,which
explains the TIME LIMIT!!!
the kit was always DESIGNED to be
converted to other configerations!!!
give Col Hal a call,or E mail!!! "

As you can see, Spikre has a different style of writing than most anyone else. Some love it, some hate it. I get a real laugh out of how he says what he says, but it did take some getting used too. He's also known to be really reliable with his info.

Enjoy the Hobby!

Greg

[fec153]

Biggie- Big time modeling. Delightful .
Flip

[mustanggt]

Whoppers are good, mmmmmmm...... Anyway, great job, I better start scratchbuilding to make the golden arch enemy- I mean McDonalds[:p]

[Anonymous]

Very nice..

[Anonymous]

..and can I order a large fry and hambuger.

[bluepuma]

Need some balloons, searchlights, and a guy in a king costume. Not bad.

I might go for a 65 style Taco Bell before the drive up, or a In-N-Out next to the tracks.

Right at the corner of Imperial Blvd. next to the UP tracks in South Gate lays a burger stand with Pastrami Hamburgers Fries Chiliburgers. A bit further down in a take out Pizza Hut in a strip mall shop like a domionos

[Anonymous]

Cool! well, right now here in Oklahoma, I should be saying: Cold!