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Happy Friday to one and all! Hope the weekend is filled with fun and slow walks down dusty roads!

What are your weekend plans? Spending some time outdoors, or staying inside and doing a little gaming? Maybe something completely different! Whatever your plans for the weekend may be, I hope it's a great one. Sound off in the comments and let me know what's up! I know there's not a huge reader base quite yet, but i'd love to see some comments from those who do! More posts tonight, PEACE!

New Scan!

A new scan has just popped up! This one was posted by Superpenguin over at Bell Tree Forums. A lot of screens that we've already seen, but in much better focus! If only every scan was this clear...>_>

Though as of yet untranslated, we can see the planting of the town tree, a new outdoor bonfire, and some blurb about Tortimer, who has still not shown his wrinkled face in AC3DS. I for one am hoping he makes a return! 

Image Link: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mape6tGMhP1r5kyvmo1_1280.jpg

Analyzing the Info: Shops

It's no secret that Animal Crossing 3DS looks to shake up the tried and true formula that we all know and love when it comes to the series. Which is welcome news in my book, really. Seems as if the game will be more immersive than ever! And while release is a few short weeks away, there's a lot about this game that we don't quite yet understand. For example, the game's shops, or to be more precise, the outdoor shopping mall as it's been called, which appears to hold many of the games in-village stores, plus many new ones.

The group of shops just over the train tracks has been on showcase ever since we got our hands on this concept art from a developer roundtable video, and while details are still sparse, the area appears to hold a lot of promise and depth, even more so than the somewhat lackluster titular city from AC: City Folk. You see, the make up of the shopping mall is not set in stone from the beginning of the game. As Nintendo of Japan's President Satoru Iwata stated in August's Nintendo Direct, part of your mayoral duties is AC 3DS will be choosing which shops are built in the mall!

Now the actual process of how to choose what is built is unknown, but we are aware of a handful of the places that can be built, some of which are stores, while others' functions are not as clear. This post aims to look at what we know is waiting for us across the tracks, and maybe even some shops a little closer to home.

Buildings Confirmed for the Shopping Mall:

Nook Housing

Here we have Tom Nook's new shop, Nook Housing. Shown in the recent scan find below, the shop will indeed be found in the mall, right next to the Post Office(see next building). Here we will be able to buy different themes for the outside of our house, a feature new to AC3DS. It also appears that Lyle will be taking up residence in the shop, and is rumored to be working for the Happy Room Academy.

Post Office

Also visible in the above scan is what appears to be the town post office. We have yet to see the inside of the post office, nor do we know of any new features that it may offer. I find the post office's inclusion here odd, especially since it seems like a building that, like the town hall, we'd expect to see in-village, as opposed to the new shopping center.

General Store

Nook's handed over the keys to the Cranny to Tommy and Timmy in AC3DS! And from what we've seen, its first incarnation will be nearly identical on the inside to what we've seen in previous entries.

Where things start to look a little different is after the shop has been upgraded. As seen in the screenshot below, a larger shop appears to sit just to the right of the path to the HRA Model Homes. We have yet to properly see the inside of this shop in any screens, although some tables with wallpaper can be noticed as the door opens in the August trailer. Another noticeable addition is a new shop built onto the side of the store...

Garden Shop

Now here's what i'm talking about! A brand new store! Appears that the Nook family has given over the floral side of the business to a new character called Lazy the Sloth! We can see seeds and trees on sale, as well as a watering can to the right. Whether Lazy's shop will upsize with the Nook Brothers' is not yet known.

Unconfirmed, But Likely Buildings for the Shopping Mall:

Able Sisters Shop

Another series long staple making the big move across the tracks are the Able Sisters and their clothing store. The inside appears largely similar to previous versions of the store, and although we've yet to see it, there will apparently be an accessory corner in the store. While some may argue that it just seems wrong for this shop to be a part of the mall and not close to home, with the General Store and Post Office now taking up residence in the shopping center, it's a safe bet this one will follow suit.

Police Station

We've known ever since Nintendo Direct August that Copper and Booker would be hanging up their gatekeeper hats and go back to their first love of upholding the law. But now, thanks to recently translated information, we know that we will have two options of Police Station to build, and that your choice dictates which officer is present. At the time of post, all we've seen is Booker's classic "lost and found" layout.

Reset Management Center

Everybody's favorite(?) mole Mr. Resetti is back on the scene doing what he does best, only this time he's bringing the command center home from the big city. The only details we know about the Center is that you can have it built, Resetti and his brother Don will be there, and that Mr. Resetti will actually THANK you after it's built. Wow, finally some respect!

Kicks' Shoe Store

A new store for all your shoe and sock related needs(new needs, since this is their first inclusion in the series!) Kicks and his store seem to fit an oddly specific need, which makes me wonder if this will be one of those "build if you so wish" stores. Maybe the Able Sisters will sell shoes and socks sparingly in their accessory corner, while Kicks has a new selection every day with a lot wider variety. Food for thought, eh?

Confirmed In-Village Buildings

Thrift Store

The new Thrift Store, run by Lisa the Pink Alpaca and an unnamed blue llama, will sell items of furniture for your house, and even change the color and design of it for you! This building is actually one of the only confirmed in-village shops, from a June trailer. Compare the picture from the trailer below with the boxart. The heart door and sign are clearly seen.

  

Brewster's Coffee Shop

The only other truly confirmed in-village shop is none other than the coffee shop, owned by Brewster. The interesting thing about this shop is given translations, this will be an optional building you can choose to have, but it is built in town. Perhaps we have even more power as mayor than previously thought! We only recently got a picture of the outside of the shop, and we can actually confirm that it is behind the thrift store in that previous trailer snippet. Compare the screen grab with the shop in the top left corner of the scan below, then watch 1:40-1:42 of the trailer.

Unconfirmed, Likely In-Village Buildings

Town Hall

I'm thinking this one's a shoe-in. The base of operations for all your new mayoral duties in the new game! With your new assistant, choose your towns landmarks and hours of operation!

The only solid clue to this one's placement besides a little bit of common sense, is the rather large building seen to the right of the station in front of the train tracks. Of course, this is only developmental art for the game, but it seems to be pretty accurate to what we've seen so far, and the building matches the bill for what i'd expect the town hall to look like.

Museum

Another series staple, the museum will still function as a place to show off your greatest catches and finest finds in the realm of art and archeology. However, there will now be planned exhibitions in addition to your own donations, and a gift shop run by Blather's sister Celeste. No real evidence for village or mall on this one, so I just stuck it here. We'll see I guess.....*cue mysterious music*

There's much we do not know about the various stores and places we'll be building as mayor in Animal Crossing 3DS, but I hope that this has served as a good roundup of all the information we do know already. Feel free to shoot me a message if I forgot something or made an error here. Thanks for DROPPING in! Get it?!?! PUNNY!

Thanks to Bell Tree Forums for scan pics!

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New AC3DS Info!

StreetsAhead over at NeoGAF has posted some Animal Crossing 3DS details, some old, some new!


- Can place a Reset Management Center. Mr. Resetti will appear after you have placed this on the map.
- Return of Don Resetti. 
- Brewster's Coffee Shop is separate and you can build it. If you go there a lot you can begin a 'part-time job'. 
- Can drink coffee outside. 
- Can build two types of Police Stations. The police officer will vary by the type you choose.
- New Villager: Hamsuke, a hamster, born May 30th. Brisk personality. 
- New Villager: Brittany, a pig, born November 14th. Mature personality. 
- New Villager: Anthony, a horse, born May 22. Smug Personality.
- New Personality: Smug； talks indirectly but acts like a gentleman. Pure, so you can't hate them. 
- New Villager: Takoya, an octopus, born March 8th. Shaped like takoyaki. Carefree personality. 
- New Villager: Frappe, a penguin, born February 22nd, lively personality. 
- Lyle now works for the Happy Home Academy. 
- Picnics available (blanket, chairs, picnic basket)
- New flowers.
- Return of cherry blossoms. 
- Can eat ice-cream cones.
- Seen planting the tree seen on the box art. This is your first act as Mayor. It will grow as your city does. 
- Can build camping grounds, bridges, wells, jungle gyms, benches, and those face-hole photograph things.
- Receive donations from villagers and even other players to fund the building. 
- Clothing types: Tops, bottoms, dresses, shoes, socks, hats, accessories. 

New Villager: Doremi, deer, born March 26
New Villager: Sunairu, gorilla, born December 5th
New Villager: Hajime, elephant, born September 7th
Flower Shop: Owned by Reiji, sells seeds for flowers, tree saplings, gardening tools, house plants. Open 10:00~8:00PM. He's a sloth, and lazy, so he may sometimes not be in the shop. 
Museum: Open 24 hours. Will have 'planned exhibitions' of items outside those which you give them. Also a Museum Shop run by Blather's little sister. 
Able Sisters: 8:00~9:00PM. Contains an accessory corner now. 
Nook Housing: 10:00~8:00PM, parts to decorate your house change every day. Run by Tom Nook. 
Speck Shop: Appears to be taking the place of Tom Nook's old shop, run by twin tanookis. Sells daily goods like cups for your house. Open 8AM~10PM, Starts of small and grows. Opening hours vary by type. 
Shank the Skunk runs a shoe store, Lisa the llama runs the recycle shop. 
Start the game off in a tent. 
Bunnie, Chevre, Peanut return as villagers.

Huge wall of info there, not the least of which being some of those new personalities and that little snippet about a part-time job at Brewster's that's been floating around. Soundings exciting!

The Bit Block's Scan Analysis

A great analysis of some of the most recent scans by Josh over at The Bit Block. Be sure to check out his channel for more on Animal Crossing 3DS and other titles!

Today's Scans!

The only two truly new scans i've seen today. Got some thoughts on these and some other scans that i'm saving for an Investigation! post. In the meanwhile, visit this great thread by Sam over at Bell Tree Forums. He's got most of the scans we have right now all in one convenient place!

The Joys of Animal Droppings...

Welcome to the maiden post of the new Droppings blog!

                                         Taking out all unwanted garbage and precious goods! Art by Jaimonster

...well that was anti-climactic...awkward.

Anyhow, how are you? Doing well i'd hope. Not every day you meet an Animal Crossing fan such as yourself on the web. I'm glad to see ya, i'm the writer of this new (possibly totally unwanted) blog.

You may ask yourself, why is this blog here? Who runs it? What kind of posts will it be publishing? Is Elvis Presley still alive? Are you still reading? If the answer to the last one is yes, then the answer to the second one is me, the third that these posts will indeed be related to Animal Crossing, the answer to the fourth one is pretty obvious, and the first...well, that one may take a bit longer to explain.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WALL OF TEXT IS A FULL BIOGRAPHY OF MY LIFE WITH FUNNY JOKES AND ALSO I PROMISE THE POSTS WILL GET BETTER BE MY FRIEND I LURV ABNIBUL CROZBING

I'll start from the start. Fact #1. I am what one might call a fanboy. A Nintendo fanboy to be exact. Ever since I was young, i've been nothing but enchanted by the quality software that Nintendo has put out over the last going on 25 years. I still fondly recall the childhood memory getting a 64 for Christmas bundled with Super Mario 64 (bet you know that one!) and Chameleon Twist (umm...probably don't know that one). The hours that I put into those games! Smash Bros, Kirby 64, Diddy Kong Racing, etc etc so on so forth! There's just something about Nintendo games you don't get anywhere else. Something...Magical! AMAZING! gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

As the years roll on and I myself roll into adulthood and all the...errm...charms that come with it, i'm still a dedicated gamer. Sure, i've branched out from my strictly Nintendo childhood, but I always find myself coming back to them over any offering that Sony or Microsoft can throw at my face. My 3DS gets the most of my sparse playtime now, and as such, being the obsessive neckbeard that I am, I enjoy knowing the most recent, up to the second news about my anticipated future game releases. That's Fact #2. I want my news...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!

Now for all my general Nintendo news, I turn to the amazing, never disappointing Gonintendo.com. Seriously, like...if you want Nintendo news just...just go there. Right now. No seriously, i'll wait, just go! GO WATCH THAT FREAKIN' AA5 TRAILER DEM GRAPPICKS FEENICKS RYHT HOLY POOP HOLY Ok i'm glad you're back. I just love how RMC runs the site. Up to the minute, all day everyday. All kinds of news, every sliver of juicy news meat, gets posted. Plus random artsy and strange stories too! I love it! Thus the dilemma...

You see Fact #3...there's no up to the minute Animal Crossing blog. For reals, there isn't. Now, for sure, there are some great news blogs. Justin from over at Bell Tree Forums has an amazing one right here. So nice and pretty. His grass looks so much...better than mine.... But my point is, there's no blog that's posting the most up to date scan finds. And at that, none that are really taking some time to kinda piece some info we have together to make some connections of what we've seen so far. So here we are, at acdroppings.blogspot.com. My hope is that this will be the one-stop place that you can come and be sure to get the most recent findings as they come. Maybe it'll fail and no one will care. Maybe no one cares in the first place. But i'll be darned if I don't try. Thanks again.

              TL;DR- This is a cooking blog. I'll be posting cooking.

Real TL;DR- I'll be posting the new scans as soon as I see em, k? And like, writing opinion posts and junk.