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
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i was there with my girlfriend, it’s really as awesome as it looks. the scenery has a lot of sneaky sexual humor in it, such as sunbathing beauties and peeping toms every once in a while.
Sweet, topless babes.
If you don’t want to fly all the way to Germany, check out Northlandz in NJ. It’s not quite as big but it’s very impressive, plus they have an outdoor train ride and an amazing organ. I try to go there every few years.
heh. you said “amazing organ”. heh.
forgive me, I’m coping with Monday.
You can’t fool me… those are just Tilt-Shift images!
“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”
cept in those movies the guys watch the screens, not their cell phones. … *sigh * little do I know for saying that its actually streaming video to his cell phone of the monitors above him.
First thing I’m doing here is adding a little waldo or as they call it wally to the exhibit.
PS: Wanted to say good post!
This is a fascinating thing… I don’t know which would be more obsessive, making it up/doing Tilt-Shift photogrpah etc. or actually building it. I hope, for everybody’s sake, that the Hamburgers responsible for this never meet up with the equally obsessed American artist David Beck, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Loer27MWTY (video does not do justice to the fascination of the MVSEVM, now in the second floor of DC’s National Portrait Gallery.) Thanks for the great post.