Surprise building review

Well, now it's time to unveil the surprise building:

Yep, you guessed it,- THE JOHN LEWIS DEPARTMENT STORE!!!  This set was exclusive to, obviously, John Lewis stores. I, have bought many of my Sylvanian families in the store nearest to me. It is very big and has a LOT of stickers ( which isn't a bad thing ). This is just the review of the set, I am planning another proper story about the set. The story is going to have two parts to it, part 1 ending with a cliffhanger. 

                  

As you can see on the back of the box, the top floor can be removed to create two separate buildings. The top floor is a café, apparently called 'THE PLACE TO EAT' I think I will give it another name like 'The Lavender Tea Rooms' or something like that.

One side of the café has lots of ice creams on display and where they make the food. On the other side, a nice curved bay window with lots of windows letting plenty of light in and excellent views over Hazelnut Hollow. The customers are loving their ice creams. Mr Maces the mouse even comes with the waiter outfit and a nice tray to carry drinks.

Moving down a level, you can see the lovely serving-window set-up with a juice counter. The bright juice really bring some colour to the building, especially from the outside.

On the inside, you can see Mrs Maces serving fresh juice to Sonny Barker the Labrador. The shelves behind Mrs Maces were a bit of a pain to set up, but are well worth the struggle. There is melon, orange and strawberry juice. Note that that the fruit in the blender does not actually come with the set, I just added them in.

On the other side, we have the actual 'department store' part itself. It is very colourful and has lots of interesting elements, such as this station where you can choose paper to wrap presents with.

Probably my favourite thing out of the whole entire set has to be this totally awesome mini Lakeside Lodge dollhouse. I just totally love the table and chairs, which are actually protruding from the wall behind them.

The back is a bit plain, but I suppose it would be in real life! I like it when they do miniature Sylvanian 

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Here's a look at the other side. It has some nice adverts for products you can actually buy IN store!

Also included is an outdoor set of table and chairs with a parasol to keep the ice creams cool.

From the front the building looks fantastic. Now you can see the mini tea room beside the entrance and the glass window showing off a nice orange dress and some toys. 

There's even an 'open/closed' sign hanging on the door. Postman Sam is collecting mail from the box.

The final verdict

I think you should buy this set if you see it somewhere cheap on the internet. Unfortunately it has been discontinued but some stores still have a couple left in stock. What do you think?