Hey! Remember when I said I had something special coming up for the Encyclotrivia? Well this isn't it!
Since I'd decided the fifth "Type" category should be "Locale," I wondered how I would actually portray that, considering that I might actually have to draw a - shudder - interior.
But then I remembered that I haven't drawn the outside of Fandango Laboratories for a very long time.
In fact, there has never been a 'final' design of the place, just a few half-finished sketches.
The very first version of the lab: https://sta.sh/01k0xdifx5c8 was crude and directionless but even there you can see key features like the wonky tower and St. Basil's onion domes were already implemented. It wasn't until I went through the archives I realised I used this design in quite a few unfinished pieces!
I'm pretty sure I did a newer sketch where the lab had lots of 'solar panels' floating around it but I can't seem to find that one.
What I can find is a very fine sketch that became the basis of its modern design: https://sta.sh/02eowd7j7l3t placing it on a floating lump of rock and adding the planetoid to the top of the main tower.
However, this style of building, consisting of a large central tower and lots of other varied connected buildings predates Professor Fandango himself, in the form of "Replay's": https://sta.sh/01nie7kmpoze
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So this is the complete design for now. As always, colours were a challenge so there might be small tweaks going forward, but the important part was that, now I'm starting to structure the Fandango stuff more clearly, I was able to draw each zone separately and piece them together, which will be useful for their upcoming Encyclotrivia entries!