And in case you were wondering, I bet that a lot of posters on this board will vouch for my tiny city making abilities. I have built, I think, about 8 or so tiny cities for people (and their lizards, toads, salamanders, newts, small snakes, skinks, and tropical frogs) over the past 20 years. I have essentially zero competition in this area. I think about six years ago a few people tried to muscle into my territory (I believe one of them was a Cambodian man who trained in Cambodia making small cities for insects and wanted to branch out), but it was the quality and creativity of my work which won every single damn one of the contracts I got.
You see I don't stray from my specialty, some people get good at something and then want to branch out to something else. Sure I was pressured by a lot of people (big money people) to start building tiny cities for birds, but I drew the line. They made some good points about lizards and birds being very similar (cladastically speaking), but it's the wings! It's the wings! When designing a tiny city you need to be able to work with empty space and visualize how you want that empty space to function as a canvas for the buildings, trees, street lights, etc. These goddamn birds, however, just fly all over the place and land on buildings that were clearly labeled as "NO FLY ZONES" and well if you have messed with birds you know how they act. I just flat our said: "NO BIRDS", and I know this cost me money. I should correct something I mentioned earlier, that Cambodian guy also made tiny cities for arachnids as well (spiders and scorpions). I don't think that was too big of a stretch for him (moving from insects to arachnids), but a jump from insects (and arachnids) to lizards, well that's like jumping from third grade straight into high school. Insects are fast, but don't demand the higher aesthetics that lizards do (I suspect its a function of having more developed brains). You can pick a blue building with uneven sides and frankly a spider won't care. A skink, on the other hand, well a skink will sulk (I have seen this happen) when it gets surrounded by substandard housing developments. It is this attention to detail and to my users that gives my tiny cities the touch of class that others can't meet. Who else has done the research to know that bearded dragons will NOT tolerate tiny above ground swimming pools. They hate them and will urinate in them as soon as possible. You give a bearded dragon a tiny koi pond (I admit it doesn't have real tiny koi in it, I just make some tiny koi models out of rubber and don't tell the dragons any different, I would advise you not to tell them either), and it just loves it. It will watch the koi for hours and eat 4.32% more than it would without.
Well this is getting a bit wordy, but seriously I think most can say that I have been the best when it comes to building tiny cities for reptiles.
