Little Big Pop Up Shop? What's that?

by Majed Athab { Sep 15th 2008 at 9:00PM }

What's the Little Big Pop Up Shop? Well, what do you think it is? If your instincts tell you that it must be some sort of LittleBigPlanet-themed place that suddenly popped up out of nowhere, then you'd be right. It's apparently an activity center in Manchester, England where gamers can go and try out the game's creation tools. Before hitting the digital realm though, children and adults alike put their creativity to the test first by designing Sackboys with crayon drawings.

It's a pretty cool idea -- having a LittleBigPlanet workshop in your town. Unfortunately for us, we'd have to swim across an ocean to get there. It won't be lasting too long, either; if you want to check out the shop you'd better do so now as it will close up by October 4. Head out after school with friends, or take the kids one weekend. We bet that's what that old lady in the pic is doing ... having a cup of joe while the grandkids run amok in the store. Sounds fun.

Now how about those of you who can't make it? Then check out the Flickr photos here.

Tags: littlebigplanet, media-molecule, scee

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LAZoftheTamarinds @ Sep 15th 2008 9:06PM

I wish we had one of those around here. Also man that Sackboy statue is sweet!

Averna @ Sep 15th 2008 9:36PM

No kidding, huh? Id kill for one of those.

Twinturbo120 @ Sep 15th 2008 9:26PM

lol wats that women doing there?

SparkyJ23 @ Sep 16th 2008 6:14AM

She's drinking a coffee in the Starbucks next door.

And yes i WILL have that sackboy.....

P @ Sep 15th 2008 9:55PM

Hmmm, ima gonna have to get my ass down there for that and its right on my doorstep too which makes a change :D

Im wondering if they'd have the same attitude to the Sackboy statue as they do the mini-billboards ;)

j.howlett @ Sep 16th 2008 12:03AM

sounds like fun.

stu @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:23PM

I work in the building above the lbp pop up shop. Sackboy taunts me every day but I am trying to hold off going in so I get the joy of lbp in it's complete state on release.

Good to see the advance marketing though just need more friends to buy ps3!

Roll on 31st OCt and the week of work I am planning!

DeathroW22 @ Sep 16th 2008 2:49AM

I got word of this being in manchester from friends at the weekend so i went down there after college (as i go to college in manchester) and played around 15 minutes of lbp, one thing that i do remember out of it all though the level creater was so easy to use and the controls felt just right, now i'm sort of wishing i didn't go - i'm much more hyped for this game now.

joeybwfc @ Sep 16th 2008 6:00AM

sweet i live in manchester, im gonna head down.

Mr_Tee_ @ Sep 16th 2008 7:00AM

cool only 15min drive from my house ill be there today or tommorow. my wifes gonna be happy :). already got this on pre-order, quiet a few folk from manchester on here i see feel free to add me PSN: Mr_Tee_

elephant_stone @ Sep 16th 2008 9:00AM

hmmmm...is it worth the 100 mile trip for me?

Metal_Gear @ Sep 16th 2008 9:28AM

I wonder if these are going to be popping up around the UK, US and Japan up until after the game is launched.

Maverick Saturn @ Sep 16th 2008 11:37AM

Wheres the London one? ¬_¬

I'm going to complain!

jereth @ Sep 16th 2008 3:13PM

sweet headed there tomorrow
sackboy invited me on facebook

tdrules @ Sep 16th 2008 2:18PM

been there, done that, got the tshirt (literally eee!)
its not just the creation tools, me and 3 others have been through a few already made levels

John @ Sep 16th 2008 4:58PM

went to it today after college was there for about 2 hours its such a sick game the one thing i noticed is when you add a controller it comes up with a option for which account use gonna go back definetly to get my t-shirt

Steve-0 @ Sep 16th 2008 4:08PM

hey guys. this is old news. It was reported that this was gonna happen over on another website a while ago. I think the article was called '12 things you didnt know about littlebigplanet'.

But nice to know that it's happening for sure!

hie @ Sep 16th 2008 4:10PM

Manchester? I thought the Chimera destroyed that place? :)

Mr_Tee_ @ Sep 16th 2008 4:17PM

well i went there today, the game is amazing, so much depth and customization. There are levels already made that are really fun to play. I learned something new that i didnt know before, its a platform game with a difference its also got 5 levels of depth, rather than the conventional 2d. i have no regrets about pre-ordering this game. to me this lives up to the hype. absolutely genius. ill be going back there before it closes to get my fix before i get my copy :)
PSN: Mr_Tee_