Blog
October 24, 2026
A Galaxy on a Street Corner: The 3D LED Shop Front We Built for Toy Planet, Kalyani Nagar
A toy shop on a Kalyani Nagar corner wanted its space-themed brand on the shop front. We filled both sides of the fascia with light: a logo in two lit levels, the name in Marathi, and a collage of glowing 3D shapes.
Case study · Toy Planet, Kalyani Nagar
It started with a walk down MG Road
Mr. Hamza, who owns Toy Planet, was walking down MG Road one day when a shop board stopped him: the Pebbles sign we had made. He knew Sagar Shah of Pebbles, so he walked in and asked who had made such a board.
Sagar gave him our name. A few days later Mr. Hamza walked into our shop with his toy store's brand on his phone, and this is what we built for him.
The client
Toy Planet, a toy store in Kalyani Nagar, Pune
The fascia
Two faces round a corner: 14.5 x 3.8 ft and 10.5 x 3.8 ft
The lights
About 800 LED modules across both faces
Start to switch-on
About 15 to 20 days
The brief
A blue corner, waiting for a galaxy
Toy Planet sits on a street corner, so its fascia wraps around two sides. The blue ACP was put up by Mr. Hamza's own vendor. Before that went up, we gave him the dimension files for the whole frontage and guided him on how to get it done.
His brand designer had made a space-themed identity: a smiling rainbow planet, a rocket, an astronaut, a UFO. He wanted all of it on the shop front, bright and fun, so children and parents notice it from both roads.
Planning
One design, two different faces
The two faces aren't the same size: 174 x 45.6 in over the entrance and 126 x 45.6 in around the corner. The client's design was drawn for neither, so we re-arranged it for each face, keeping his artwork exactly as it was.
Each face got its own TOY PLANET logo (77.6 in wide on the big face, 65.6 in on the small one), the name टॉय प्लॅनेट in Marathi and its own set of shapes.
The numbers
Sizes, face by face
Our layout with the size of each face and each logo: this is what the letters, the shapes and the LEDs were planned around.
The big idea
A logo in two lit levels
Most lit logos are one box: a face, sides, LEDs inside. The TOY PLANET logo is two, stacked.
The first level is a logo plate cut to the shape of the planet, its face printed with the artwork and lit from inside. The TOY PLANET letters sit on top as a second level, each one a lit acrylic box of its own. If you've seen our two-tier sign for Jayashree, it's the same idea, built differently.
Illustration: the two levels from the side, fixed straight onto the ACP. Not to scale.
Up close
Plate first, letters on top
Here you can see both levels: the printed planet plate with its thick white sides, and the orange letters standing proud of it.
Each level is about 2.5 in deep, so from the street the logo has real depth, and after dark the light comes out of the sides too, not just the face.
In our workshop
Built piece by piece
Everything was printed, laser-cut, assembled and lit in our workshop before it went anywhere near the shop.
The logo plate
The printed planet face with its deep white acrylic sides.
The letters
TOY PLANET letters with their LED modules inside, on the printed plate.
Stills from our own workshop video, February 2025.
Counting the lights
About 800 LEDs, planned one by one
Before we lit anything, we counted. Every letter and every shape got its own number of LED modules: 326 on the small face and 481 on the big one.
The letters have warm white LEDs, so TOY PLANET glows a little golden. The plate and the shapes have white ones, so the colours of the print stay true.
Our LED sheet
Every number, written down
Our count for this job, letter by letter and shape by shape, with the totals for each face. It decides how many power supplies a board needs.
Our LED count for this job, small face above, big face below.
The collage
An astronaut, a boat, a UFO, a xylophone and clouds
Around each logo we fixed a collage of shapes from the brand: an astronaut, a boat, a UFO, a rainbow xylophone and clouds. They're built just like the logo plate: a laser-cut acrylic face, deep white acrylic sides and LEDs inside.
Wherever the artwork has pictures or shading, we printed it on backlit vinyl on our own UV print-and-cut machine and pasted it on the acrylic. Where the artwork is one flat colour, the face is coloured acrylic, laser-cut to shape, with no print at all.
Illustration: the fascia from the front, and the layers of one lit shape pulled apart. Not to scale.
Cut to size
Every letter, measured in inches
Before the laser cutter starts, every letter and shape gets its size. On the big face the letters of TOY are 13, 10 and 13 in tall and PLANET is 10 in; on the small face, 11, 8.5 and 11 in, and 8 in.
The shapes run from 10 in to 22 in across. Same design, two sizes, so both faces look like one family.
Before it leaves the workshop
Laid out, pasted, checked
Every piece is laid out and checked on our workshop floor before it is closed up and lit.
Laid out
The printed logo plate and its cut pieces on our workshop floor.
Pasting the print
The printed face going onto the UFO; a white acrylic cloud waits its turn.
Real photos from our workshop, February 2025.
On site
Drilled onto the ACP, wires out of sight
Our installation team fixed the pieces straight onto the client's ACP. No extra frame was needed on the front.
The ACP vendor's scaffolding was still up, so we worked from it:
1
Drill and fix
Each logo plate, letter and shape is drilled and screwed straight onto the ACP.
2
Wires to the back
The wires go through the ACP and run behind it, so nothing shows on the front.
3
Power behind the fascia
The power supplies sit out of sight behind the fascia.
Switch on
Two faces, one glowing corner
After dark the whole corner lights up: the logos, the Marathi name and every shape, from the face and from the sides.
Round the corner
The smaller face lit up at night (our photo).
Over the entrance
The bigger face at night. Photo: Toy Planet’s Google listing.
Night photos: one of ours, one from Toy Planet’s own Google listing.
And at Christmas
A shop front that joins the party
We love this one. Toy Planet dressed the shop for Christmas, with Santa at the door and a tree outside, and the fascia glows right along with it.
A shop front that looks this cheerful makes the decorating easy. (Photo: Toy Planet's Google listing.)
Where it began
The board on MG Road that sent him to us
This is the Pebbles board Mr. Hamza saw on MG Road: every letter in 3D, glowing above a clothing store.
The best advertising we have is still our own work, up on a busy street.
The specs
What we made
Client
Toy Planet (Mr. Hamza), Kalyani Nagar, Pune
Installed
February 2025
Fascia faces
174 x 45.6 in and 126 x 45.6 in, client’s blue ACP
Logo
Two lit levels, each about 2.5 in deep; 77.6 in and 65.6 in wide
Letters
Acrylic, about 2.5 in deep, warm white LEDs; 13/10 in (big face), 11/8.5/8 in (small face)
Shapes
Astronaut, boat, UFO, xylophone, clouds: laser-cut acrylic, printed backlit vinyl or coloured acrylic, white sides, LEDs
Marathi name
टॉय प्लॅनेट on each face, built like the letters
LEDs
About 800 modules: 326 on the small face, 481 on the big face
Installation
Drilled onto the ACP, wires behind it; by our team
Time
About 15 to 20 days, start to finish
What it cost
The price of this job
Toy Planet paid ₹60,800 + GST for the big face and ₹48,800 + GST for the small one: ₹1,09,600 + 18% GST for both, including fabrication, transport and installation, in February 2025.
For your own sign, our 3D LED sign boards page gives about ₹2,000 per sq ft + GST as a planning guide. A collage like this one, with many shapes and two levels, is priced in a free proposal.
3D LED sign boards
about ₹2,000 per sq ft + GST (indicative)
Two-level logos and collages
priced in our free proposal
Installation in Pune
quoted separately for your site
Good to know
What to send us
Your logo or brand artwork (vector if you have it), a photo of your fascia and its size.
Lead time
Fabricated signs typically take 1-15 days after you approve the proposal.
Delivery
Free in Pune on orders of ₹3,000 + GST and above.
Warranty
Six months from installation, as on all our fabricated signs.
Have a brand with a story? Send us your artwork and a photo of your shop front, and we'll make a free proposal with the sign drawn on your own frontage.
Read more
Start here
Lit signs
3D LED sign boards
All the kinds of lit sign we make, with an indicative price per sq ft.
See 3D LED boards →Shop
Backlit acrylic logo letters on a base plate
A lit logo on its own base plate: the simplest version of a two-level sign.
See the shop pageNot sure which kind of sign suits your shop? Try the board finder in our sign board guide.
Next time you’re in Kalyani Nagar
Look for the planet on the corner
Next time you pass Sun Shine Court in Kalyani Nagar after dark, look up at the corner. The planet is smiling, the rocket is flying and the UFO is lit.
See every photo on the Toy Planet job page, and more shop and showroom signs in Our Work.
More lit shop signs
Our work
The Pebbles board on MG Road
The 3D sign that brought Toy Planet to us: every letter lit, pink sides and white faces.
See the job →Our work
Two tiers of glow at Jayashree
Another two-level lit logo, in English and Marathi, on an L-shaped fascia in Viman Nagar.
See the job →Your turn
Want your shop front to glow like this?
Send us your brand artwork and a photo of your fascia on WhatsApp. We'll plan the letters, the shapes, the LEDs and the fixing.
Looking for any specific product?
Drop us a line. Send us your query. And we’ll get back to you with solutions and answers.
Mitesh Sanghani
Mitesh lives, mostly for Saturdays.
But when forced to work, you’ll find him heading Orchid Digitals – a printing press in Pune.
If it’s an emergency, try looking for him in the hills behind his house. You’ll almost certainly find him… lazing under a tree, with a book in hand.
