This is a neighborhood, but it's also a kingdom... because nothing has to make adult sense in make-believe. :) It is ruled over by King Friday XIII and Queen Sara Saturday, and has many inhabitants both large and small, human, avian, feline, and more.

The Neighborhood was a regular and important feature of the children's TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a much-loved show that ran from the late 60's up until 2001.

This size of the scene was determined so that the puppet characters are all roughly minifig size. The human characters were then scaled to match.

The full display is based largely on the studio set of the Neighborhood. The set had many changes throughout the show's run, so I settled on basing each model on the best versions I could find.

This creation is now on display at the Blocks to Bricks museum in Schaumburg, IL. Be sure to check it out!

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Trolley is one of the few characters to go between the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and the main Mister Rogers' Neighborhood house set.

There are two tracks in the kingdom for Trolley to run on, one around the castle and a 'rock' wall at the front of the set. This was was easily movable (all of the structures were) and would be moved away when not needed for a shot.

The actual wall was sinuous but had far less of a curve to it - however I decided on using the coaster track pieces so this wall is much more wavy.

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Lady Aberlin is King Friday's niece and can usually be seen in and around the Neighborhood.

Daniel Striped Tiger lives in a grandfather clock with no hands (It can be whatever time you want it to be in make-believe!).

For most of the puppet character I went with minifig heads and torsos, but for Daniel I thought it would be better to use the lion/tiger cub piece instead.

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The large oak tree in the center of the Neighborhood is home to X the owl and Henrietta Pussycat. Officer Clemmons is a police officer who can often be seen around the Neighborhood.

The tree is built in two parts, with the leaves section easily coming off for travel. Henrietta and X are built into the tree and do not come out easily.

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