A city pack for the Moonlit Atlas book

Toronto

One needle of a tower stands over everything in this set: the CN Tower, rising above the bank towers, with Casa Loma's copper turrets on the hill and red maples on a brick street below. Put it in your Moonlit Atlas, press the brass button, and Toronto stands up on a clear northern night.

The Moonlit Atlas book, closed: 8.1 × 6.7 × 2.5 in. With this pack, Toronto is what folds flat inside it. Scroll to open it before dark.

Press the brass button. Two torsion springs lift the lid, a gear damper keeps it slow, and three rows of the city stand up with it, upright at 90°, the tower highest of all.

The CN Tower: a slim pale shaft with its round pod two thirds of the way up and a needle on top, over white, blue-glass and teal bank towers, with the Rogers Centre's white dome at its foot.

In front of the towers, Casa Loma stands on its green hill: a sandstone castle with two round towers under copper-green cones and a steep green roof.

Down on the street, a red-and-white streetcar runs past red-brick bay-and-gable houses and the narrow Gooderham Flatiron with its green roof, under red maples and old lamp posts.

At the front, Lake Ontario fills the tray: the island ferries at the dock, a sailboat, red canoes and a lighthouse on the island. From the water, the whole skyline stands behind them, the way Toronto looks from the ferry.

Lights out. Windows glow in the bank towers, along Casa Loma and the brick houses, in the streetcar and the ferry, and the street lamps and the lighthouse come on. They glow in the dark: no batteries, no wires.

The view from the ferry

Toronto is best seen from the water: ride the ferry out to the islands, turn round, and the whole city stands in one line behind the harbour with the CN Tower above it. This set is stacked in that order. The lake and the island sit nearest you in the tray, then the brick street, then Casa Loma's hill and the downtown blocks, and the tower and the bank towers stand at the back against the moon.

The skylineThe CN Tower, the bank towers of the Financial District and the Rogers Centre dome.
The hillCasa Loma under its copper-green cones, the downtown blocks and Union Station.
The streetRed maples, bay-and-gable houses, the Gooderham Flatiron, a streetcar and its lamps.
The harbourLake Ontario, the island ferries and their dock, a sailboat, canoes and the lighthouse.

The four pieces of the Toronto set out of the book, seen from the front right and a little above: in front, the blue lake plate with white ripples, a wooden dock, two white ferries, a white sailboat, red canoes and boats, and a beige island strip with round green trees and a white lighthouse; behind it the front row with two red maples, a red-and-white streetcar, red and brown brick row houses with arched windows and a narrow red-brick wedge with a green roof; then the middle row with a white colonnaded station, low white and blue blocks and a sandstone castle with copper-green cones; at the back a slim pale tower with a grey pod and a needle, white, blue-glass and teal towers and a white ribbed dome — The four pieces of the set out of the book: the lake nearest you, the CN Tower at the back.

Drag to turn the book. Tap a number for its story.

14 landmarks, from the tower to the island

Walk the set the way the film did, from the top of the CN Tower down to the lighthouse. Pick a landmark to see where it stands and what the model shows.

Up close

Maple red, lake blue and copper green, on your shelf

The back of the set against the dark indigo sky panel with its cream moon and stars and a magenta band along the horizon: a slim pale beige tower with a grey pod and a needle, white, blue, teal and grey towers with small pale yellow-green windows, a white ribbed dome and a sandstone castle with green cone roofs; in front, low white and blue blocks with dark caps, two round green trees and the tops of red-brick houses and red maples — The skyline under the moon: the CN Tower over the bank towers, the Rogers Centre dome, and Casa Loma's copper-green cones at the right.

The front row on its navy frame: a big red maple with orange leaf accents over a red-and-white streetcar, red and brown brick row houses with arched pale yellow-green windows and dark grey roofs, a narrow red-brick wedge with a green roof, black lamp posts with pale lamp heads and round green shrubs along the curb; behind, white and blue towers, the white dome and the sandstone castle with green cones — The brick street: the streetcar under a red maple, the bay-and-gable houses and the Flatiron's green roof.

The lake plate in the cream tray: bright blue water with white ripples, a wooden dock, a white ferry with a row of windows and a red boat beside it, a white sailboat, a red canoe, a larger white boat with an ochre sail, and a beige island strip with round green trees and a small white lighthouse; behind, the streetcar and the brick houses on their row — The harbour: the island ferry, a sailboat, red canoes and the lighthouse on its island, with the street just behind.

Already have the book?

New York off, Toronto on

Say your book holds New York. Each row clicks onto its frame with two magnets and two V-keys. Lift it straight up and it comes free.

Once New York's three rows are off, lift its harbor plate out of the tray.

Drop in the Toronto plate: Lake Ontario, with its island ferries, a sailboat and the lighthouse.

Set the Toronto rows on, back to front, the CN Tower first. The magnets pull each row home. New York goes back on the same way whenever you want it.

What's in the Toronto pack

The set

Three building rows and a lake plate that drop into your book and click onto its frames with magnets. No batteries: after a lamp has charged them, the windows glow brightest for 30 to 60 minutes.

Weight: about 4.9 oz 140 g
Made from: PLA
Building depth: up to 0.47 in, so the rows fold flat 12 mm

The closed Moonlit Atlas book: navy cover, cream page block and a brass button

Add-on: needs the Moonlit Atlas book

Toronto needs a book to stand in

This pack is the city only. It stands up inside the Moonlit Atlas book, which is sold separately. The rows click onto the book's frames, so Toronto swaps with New York or any other city set in seconds.

See the Moonlit Atlas book