No more shoppingtowns - feat. patton oswalt
I follow Patton Oswalt on twitter, and one day a couple months ago he posted the original picture for this, asking if anyone could make it into a movie poster. I opened it up and was very amused and kind of amazed that I 100% recognized the mall he’s standing in here- it was known as Shoppingtown Mall in Dewitt, NY, and I spent a lot of time there as a kid. The red and white paneling on the immediate left belonged to a store called Media Play (RIP Media Play) that sold music, movies and books, and the one right next to it used to be a shop called “Small World”, where my sister and I used to go buy cute 90s Hello Kitty items with our small allowances. It used to be a pretty cool mall until a new management group took it over around 2011 and it started to go down hill rapidly, before closing for good in 2020. Anyway, I thought it was a fun challenge so I took it up, and though I don’t think Patton ever saw it, I think it came out pretty well.