Ben-
Geesh, where in NJ are you?!?!?!
TDS in the Staten Island Mall is about twice as wide as it is deep. Take 3 or 4 normal-sized mall storefronts and put them together...that's TDS #535.
the cash wrap (which was in the center of the store), as well as the shelves behind it, are a B&TB motif. The cash wrap itself is modeled after the banquet table and there are TDS-esque statues of Gaston, Cogsorth, Mrs. Potts, etc., towards the ceiling. The front of the store is Fab Five and they are on the ceiling, with Daisy Duck, Huey, Louie and Dewey and Alice in Wonderland(?) in the store windows. The right side of the store (as you walk in) is Snow White & the 7 Drwarfs, with a wood (formica ) floor and when I worked there, that was the Adults' section. What WAS the Collecibles Room was a 12' octagon-shaped room in typical teal-and-gold Disney gallery colors and it was behind Adults. The Kids' section, on the left side of the store, had a lot of greens and aqua and was supposed to feel like you were underwater (we didn't have Plush Mountain....we had Plush Fountain). There were 2 ceiling murals in the store...in Kids, which had clouds in it, and in Collectibles, which had Fantasia characters.
The big laser disc screen was in Kids. There was a touch screen video monitor in Collectibles, which had short videos about collectibles, movies, the parks, etc.
It was a beautiful store. Like I said, it's still there, but they've pretty much ruined it, the way they did all the rest. The last I visited was about a year ago...it was the first time I went since they went "all kids" and I almost cried at what they had done to "my" store, so I swore I'd never go back.
I know that 2 of the other eight 1995 prototype stores were in Georgia and Chicago.
-Sharon-