The Transformation Mall has met its $500 goal with just under one week to spare. I'm grateful to all of you who've supported the project.
I also want to announce a stretch goal. I'm going to poll my blog audience and see which are your favorites. For every $100 we clear above the goal, I'll write one of them. If we hit $1000, I'll write them all.
$600 = 1st place idea into the Mall.
$700 = 1st and 2nd place
$800 = 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
$900 = 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
$1000+ = ALL seven ideas included!
Here are the ideas. Visit my blog to
vote in the poll. I'll leave it open until the Mall project closes on the 25th. So if you want to be involved in the project, you've got five days!
1. Exotic Fish Store: All kinds of rare, tropical fish can be found - but customers who ask too many questions about what's in the back room are in for a real surprise. After being tossed into a saltwater tank, they begin to transform into mermaids! Then, the mermaids are sold to a rich clientele, who are eager to play with their new "pets." I think this one would definitely include some gender change fun.
2. Bowling Alley: Adjoining the mall is a set of bowling lanes that have a habit of attracting petite, uptight women who wouldn't be caught dead bowling otherwise. With each pin knocked down - and with each swig of bear and handful of greasy bar food - these women lose their sophistication and their snobbery. Before long, they become vulgar, low-class, full of curves and much more open minded sexually.
3. Ogre Bodyworks: It purports to be just a normal beauty product place, but every product is specially made to turn girls into monsters: A green face mask that leaves faces green - permanently. A sweet smelling lotion that turns skinny women into hulking, huge monsters. A toothpaste that makes teeth sharp, and a perfume with a smell nobody can ignore.
4. Therapist’s Office: A couple of youngish married professionals (in their late twenties-to mid thirties or so) arrive; they were sort of an "arranged marriage" with both of their families being close, living nearby while growing up, and just sort of falling into dating and then marriage; but while they do love and respect each other, their personalities are now causing problems they didn't anticipate. The husband is tight with money even though both have good incomes, expects the household to be run the way he wants, and rarely says "I love you" to his wife; she is exercise-obsessed, maintaining the champion athlete figure she had in high school and college, and is also not nearly as physical affectionate as her husband would like, with a lower libido than his. But after a unique "therapy session", reality is altered to make sure they leave very pleased with each other. The happy couple is now a roly-poly, bulging beauty with an easy going attitude who loves to cook for her mate, along with dressing sexy (in her 4x-large lingerie) and acting silly/girlish in their bedroom, while her now much meeker and nerdier (in appearance and personality) and even shorter husband shows how much he appreciates his wife with generous affection, flowers, chocolates, and trinkets.
5. New Body 4 U Gym: An attractive young woman is a bit overly jealous and over-protective of her brawny, exceptionally well built boyfriend, especially as she is just a bit out of shape, with a few extra pounds; Resenting the constant attention he gets from other women, despite the two being devoted to each other, she decides a visit to the New Body 4 U gym is in order, where she pays for a very special training session for the both of them, unknown to her boyfriend. By the time they leave, the results are undeniable. Passers-by look at the obviously in love couple and can only wonder why the incredibly fit and striking woman (who looks like a professional figure competitor) is smitten with the puny little fellow with the drooping pot belly. But both are clearly happy with the other as they walk through the mall, with the woman having a knowing smile on her face.
6. Cougar Clothes: A sexy clothing store that turns thin, uptight women into older, voluptuous, sex-crazed cougars. The sales clerks offer advice on how to seduce young guys. There's lots of potential here for fun. Maybe some of the women are accompanied by their boyfriends, who are eager for them to change. Maybe some of them got a gift card and have no idea what's going to happen. Perhaps even a few know what will happen, but welcome the change.
7. Body Swap Photo Booth: The name speaks for itself - friends, family, lovers, or whoever pose in the booth for photos with fun effects, but when the shutter clicks, their bodies are swapped!
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vote in the poll now!
Update: We've hit 2 of our stretch goals!