Some of Second Life's most popular and innovative retail sites don't look like malls or any other sort of traditional commerce site. Instead, the shopping is integrated into a larger experience, often a strange and fanciful one unique to SL. Garth Goode of the SLWTF travel blog has an excellent series devoted to the best of the best of these, "Build It And They Will Shop", and so far, he's explored four. (Here he is, for example, on a floating companion in the pool of the equally skanky Starlust Motel.) Other stops include the GTA-esque The Block, the New Orleans-as-film noir Silent, and one I haven't visited yet, but Garth has convinced me, a marvelous looking airship city known as Plunder. Can't wait to see where he winds up next.
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Brutal Gear is a men's clothing store dressed up to look like a sleazy auto-repair site, complete with a manager's apartment that was so filthy that it made a friend physically ill IRL.
Posted by: Mitch Wagner | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Hah, excellent!
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM
If you think Plunder is an interesting shopping area, you may want to check two others with a cyberpunk kind of look. First one is INSILICO (http://slurl.com/secondlife/INSILICO/190/183/3602), and the Cyber Bunker Spaceport Mall (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baidu/164/125/628). If you're not into cyberpunk or fantasy-related lines there's nothing to look in there, but overall, there's plenty for everyone in there.
Posted by: Melnik | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Philotic Energy is also reworking their main store, and turning it into open spaces. It looks kind of weird for a store like this.
Posted by: Jericho | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 07:00 PM
I checked out the Stardust Motel - it is a pissa! Whatever you do, don't drink the Red Bull.
Posted by: Mitch Wagner | Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 10:44 AM