guest post by mikl-em
If you were to bet that the most incredible model railroad in the world was constructed by Germans, you would win that bet. Miniatur Wunderland, located in Hamburg, is an epic achievement in diminutive transport.
The video above is divine, building in 5 minutes from dry tourist pitch to high novelty then ultimately into the kinda surreal. The attention to detail is obsessive to say the least. All framed by the sweet poetry of stilted translation: “see wild animals/and other very shy herds/and above all you examine the life like it is real”.
The wunders also include thousands of model cars, hundreds of thousands of lights, and scenes recreated from busy harbors to red light districts to football matches to hauling a body out of a river, across countries including the US, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The fully functioning airport scene, you should know, is still under construction.
For more videos about MiWuLa you can check out their YouTube Channel (mostly in German). And of course thousands of photos on Flickr including the ones below…..
And to make this little world go it takes a staff of 150+ and a control room that looks like something that James Bond or Bruce Lee is trying to sneak up on and destroy:
photos by robs80, delawega, Jens_Petersen, and michael_urspringer
via liveleak.com with thanks to wayneco
