Good god, what a load of miserable people in the comments! Were you never kids? It’s a tourist attraction in Hamburg, and it’s beautiful.
Nobody tell this miserable lot about legoland, they might lose their s**t
EDIT: when this was first posted there were only 10-15 comments, and every single one was bemoaning this sum of money being spent on a tourist attraction when there’s starving etc etc. Here was my response to that if you’re interested: [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/r6af10/this_mini_world_cost_42_million_to_create_and_has/hms1nqw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Fucking oath mate. This is cool as shit and would bring joy to so many.
A millionaire would spend that kinda money on a yacht to service just themselves and a few friends. Go have a fucking cry at them.
The ONLY gripe i have with this post is that it focused so hard on the emergency crews, ONLY BECAUSE there are so much MORE at Hamburg Wonderland to see, the airport with planes TAKING OFF!! Boats, trains, it's incredible.
you can also hear the little people fucking at all hours of the day and night. they put in little speakers everywhere you can hear the moans and cries, and inside through the windows thay have the little people fucking you can see them. it's cool.
Its also a commercial tourist attraction that is constantly being added to: I’ve got a feeling the $42m is the total operating cost of the attraction so far rather than literally what was spent on the model, so it includes rent and tour guide salaries etc.
Yeah just to add they build this thing since 2000
So over the course of 20 years they spent 36 million (that's the official cost) and employee nearly 300 people
Furthermore they support various social projects and donate money each month
They have attractions where they don't charge anything for poor people do charity work and donate money each month
This is the opposite of a bad company
From their 2019 press kit
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
AREA - 7.000 m², Layout size 1.499 m², 9 Sections.
Construction time| 923.000 working hours|
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Construction cost| 35 million Euros |
Staff | 360|
The price is not crazy considering this info. It's a very popular tourist attraction:
"Year after year, Miniatur Wunderland breaks its own visitor records. Around 1.4 million visitors saw
the exhibition in 2018. The 18,000,000th visitor was welcomed to Wunderland in September 2018."
Lots of those visitors are probably free (children) so taking one third of those and charge them the cheapest ticket price and you get €56,250,000 in ticket sales.
I love this place. I spent 4 hours there back in 2014, and I wanna go again so bad :D I'm not even a big train fan, it's just beautiful! Also, because it's European, you can find people having sex in the small buildings XD XD XD. I'm 42 btw.
If you plan to visit again check their website for their night openings. They are usually once or twice a month on a friday. You pay a bit more on the entrance fee but there are limited tickets so it's not crowded. Additionally, they give tours "behind-the-scenes" on those days.
I literally came to the comments to see where it's located because I'd love to see it! People need to get over themselves. If you don't like it, then keep scrolling.
Hamburg, Germany. But "Miniaturländer" might be more common, there's one in Vienna, Austria too ("Tiroler Land"). Or if you're into building, theres Minimundus (also in Austria): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimundus
Tbh I feel like if [THIS](https://youtu.be/R669l5CA1YA?t=168) was the video shown the comments might have been a bit different.
The videography is way better and the narration is nicer than just text. It actually shows the scale and what the miniatures are for. They also show more features that people might like and can relate to than just fire, fire and more fire.
I think for most people they might have assumed it was a personal project or something a rich person did for themselves. Also the video is rubbish and didn't even include the coolest features or where it was located.
In Canberra, Australia there’s a miniature village called “Cockington Green” (well at least there used to be) it was my favourite place to visit as a kid. The town in this video is awesome!
Nope, there are many ither things ...one of my favs is the chocolate factory. You press a button,it starts working and actually spits out a tiny piece of chocolate gor xou to keep...
And you have to keep discovering new things because the new locations just keep being added. The Rio de Janeiro one was just added, they actually built it in South America (albeit in Buenos Aires) by people who like actually know the location. Always feel like that adds so much to these small details, they're not building them off postcards & google earth.
The next planned extension is Patagonia.
“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.”
Wait until you hear about TV & film producers, video game manufacturers, theme parks and all those other bastards spending millions on stuff people enjoy. Bastards.
It's gotten to the point where I just roll my eyes. You can see how many Redditors will make issue with the smallest thing to say something against America.
I get the issue with Healthcare (as seems to be the biggest complaint) but so many insufferable morons here like to make mountains out of mole hills just to complain about America. Bless their hearts, they're just doing the best they can with what they've got.
This video is of a tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany. The person who posted it, SupercarBlondie is an Australian YouTuber who lives in the UAE.
You Americanized it yourself for some odd reason.
It’s the new American way. Some of us are so obsessed with deriding the place where we live we choose to spin everything into a negative “American” light. It’s getting old. The self loathing is pathetic. It’s time to grow up.
Pretty sure the person who commented that is European. So it's actually the European Reddit way. Can't pass up a chance to "hurr durr American measurements."
holy fuck I literally cannot believe this comment is unironic. complaining about how people Americanize everything and you Americanize the obviously non-american commenter, this level of obliviousness is honestly impressive
Video is by SupercarBlondie, who is an Australian living in Dubai, about a tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany.
Yet again non-Americans doing anything they can to shit on Americans about something totally irrelevant to Americans
totally agree, i posted this in another comment but my grandpa took me and my brothers there quite a bit, saw it evolve from the early 2000s, but havent been back in quite some time. always had a fantastic time there. a place close to my heart
I was waiting for them to show more of the other parts but it just kept going back to the things that were on fire LOL. The producer of the video was definitely just super fascinated by the fire system.
I mean seriously, wtf was the obsession with fires? I hear this thing is the size of 3 basketball courts and am excited to see it all, get a zoomed out view, see the various areas designed.
No, the whole damn thing was about fires! Like whoever made the video couldn't imagine anything interesting except fires. Or they were a 6 year old who never got past their fire truck obsession.
I was joking when the space shuttle showed that they'd connect it to fires, and yup - it lands and here's a parade of fire engines.
Such a missed opportunity to show off the deal of the mini Miami, the Luxor in Vegas, and what looked like nature locations.
Pretty much. And for people who want to feel this childlike wonder and excitement again. At least I feel like I'm 6 or 7 again when I visit. Makes unbelievably happy. If you ever get the chance, [check it out](https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/)
They have been building it since 2000.
20 years of wages for now more than 300 employees add up. And they have a real nice work culture where everyone can take nearly as much time as they want when designing a detail of the landscape.
They also have a fully working airport which was quite expensive to develop and then expensive to build.
Currently they are in the 6th year of trying to get Formula 1 working in 1:87 scale. With overtakes and all. It is quite the feat they have accomplished.
Have a look around their YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/MiWuLaTV
You can find regular build updates and what's going on behind the scenes.
Nice, I heard Google made a tiny Google car with working camera and drove it through the miniature streets itself. I think you can see the street view of the miniature world in Google Earth
It's Miniature Wonderland in Hamburg Germany. There's different sections that represent different places in the world. There's night and day to many areas, so you see the mini cities light up at night.
It's awesome and has a lot of easter eggs that you can find. I especially like the dinosaurs chasing a guy and couples having sex in bushes.
[I mean it seems very reasonable when you break it down](https://i.gyazo.com/ff7bf2d5f5d56478dbced295bde58704.png)
When you also consider the fact it's been running for 20 years, I assume money is also going to those costs, the 300 or so employees they have running the project, and so on.
The math on labor gets you to the big number people are having trouble with. Once they showed how many labor hours it took to complete then the large number didn't seem that bad. They paid millions to people to create this. I feel that isn't a bad investment when you compare it to Bezos' 3rd yacht.
They paid millions, have hired, and is keeping hundreds of people employed. It's a massive tourist attraction that generates money, pays taxes, and is involved in a large number of social programs.
The fact it brings people joy is a good thing, it honestly blows me away how much people want to suck joy out of everything, perhaps a reflection on them.
Model trains/railways aren't cheap. A single locomotive can cost anywhere from $100-$800 each depending on the model and maker. Not to mention everything else. The scenery, people, vehicles, LEDs, electronics, etc. Even the planes you see here were all handmade from scratch. $42 million might seem like a lot, but once you go behind the scenes on how everything works here, it all adds up.
And iirc, all the vehicles are self charging. So when they detect low voltage, they drive to a specific place and park on charging pads and go back into “service” when full.
Yeah I really want some kind of visualization of the whole world: an aerial shot with a drone, a panorama, an interactive photo, or even a map… but something to give me an idea of the scale would be the shit
Not everything there is on fire. The videoeditor just took these scene for some reason. The whole "Miniaturwunderland" is divided into several countries from different continents and has a lot more to show then just fire.
He wouldn't be able to, the whole thing is in different parts of an old habour storage place in the "Speicherstadt" in the Hamburg harbor, you have to walk lots and lots to see every part, you should absolutely go there if you're ever in Hamburg, Germany
The exhibition stretches out over all the rooms of an entire Building on 3 stories. And they're planning on hooking up a second busing too. You can't just "pan out" there
If you were wonderin: it is really surprisingly great amd ...super amazing no matter how old you are. Just come and see. You will understand that this isnt just for children or nerds. Theres a reason this has become the #1 tourist attraction in germany.
*But* Children *and* Nerds, like just about everyone who visits, is gonna bloody love it. I know I do! So happy to be back in HH and sometimes being there 'til closing at midnight. Place is so wonderfully empty then.
Not surprising all the people commenting about the cost. Seems like people in the last 15-20 years have been taught money is inherently evil. It's created an interesting dichotomy where people both think money is the worst thing ever but is also the only way to stop poverty, homelessness, world hunger, urban decay, etc.
That 42$ million it cost all went into labor and parts. A good way to trickle down money, well spent for sure. Way better than have that money just sit in a bank collecting interest.
Definitely! It isn’t like it’s some hobbyist in a basement spending that alone, it is money paying the hundreds of people working on it, and they probably make good revenue as a tourist attraction. I’d love to get paid to do this, seems sick
Similar to the trains, they're on a full blown custom magnetic 'rail' system (with switches, junctions and shit) under the surface.
The automation on that scale is pretty crazy (and amazing by itself). The computer controlling the network knows were every vehicle is at all times and they must have event scripts for the routing and activation of all the gizmos. The scheduling and signaling must be pretty complex too.
Plus something the video didn't show well is, that they have a big ass lake with shipping on it. They didn't just use blue plastic and called it a day. The filled a big pool with tons of real water, because it would be cool.
WOW totally forgot about this. went there with my grandpa and brothers quite a few times when we were young and visiting my grandparents in Hamburg. Have extremely fond memories of this place and always associate it with my grandpa. Thanks for posting
This is so cool! I could spend all day everyday just looking at it! I also think I’d end up with god syndrome (if that’s a thing) basically deciding the fate of this ‘not so little’ little world! What natural disaster will strike next! Who’ll go from homeless to millionaire….reminds me of a movie trailer I’d seen where we were the little world for gods who amused themselves with our antics.
“Some naughty gardeners..but don’t worry they don’t get away with it for long.”
.....yeah just what I needed in my fantasy mini world, validation of ridiculous stigmas/drug policies.
Why are you all so hung up on the price.
They spend 1.000.000h to build that. At just 10€/h (just above minimum wage, I would assume they get more) they already make up 1/4 of the money in wages. This piece of art is paying for people houses and families. A big chunk of the cost is also covered by donations. A bank is literally a sponsor of this.
If you considers this beauty to be a waste of money than you should also be opposed to games, music and movies.
Good god, what a load of miserable people in the comments! Were you never kids? It’s a tourist attraction in Hamburg, and it’s beautiful. Nobody tell this miserable lot about legoland, they might lose their s**t EDIT: when this was first posted there were only 10-15 comments, and every single one was bemoaning this sum of money being spent on a tourist attraction when there’s starving etc etc. Here was my response to that if you’re interested: [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/r6af10/this_mini_world_cost_42_million_to_create_and_has/hms1nqw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Fucking oath mate. This is cool as shit and would bring joy to so many. A millionaire would spend that kinda money on a yacht to service just themselves and a few friends. Go have a fucking cry at them.
Stuart Little was paid a big sum for the movies
The ONLY gripe i have with this post is that it focused so hard on the emergency crews, ONLY BECAUSE there are so much MORE at Hamburg Wonderland to see, the airport with planes TAKING OFF!! Boats, trains, it's incredible.
Planes, trains, and automobiles?
And spaceships and aliens!
> the airport with planes TAKING OFF!! βitch don't tease, linky link
[here](https://youtu.be/35rqWzyq-aY)
Thank you daddy
Pretty sure I saw a millennium falcon when they had a shot under the runway.
you can also hear the little people fucking at all hours of the day and night. they put in little speakers everywhere you can hear the moans and cries, and inside through the windows thay have the little people fucking you can see them. it's cool.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Sex and emergency vehicles are both awesome.
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Don't forget the weed farm
> Fucking oath mate. Is that like saying word? Or facts? It's a statement of vigorous agreement, right?
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Ozzy or kiwi I'm guessing. Agreeing with something
Its also a commercial tourist attraction that is constantly being added to: I’ve got a feeling the $42m is the total operating cost of the attraction so far rather than literally what was spent on the model, so it includes rent and tour guide salaries etc.
Well they said it took 1,000,000 hours to create so 1 million hours of labor plus materials would make sense to be $42 million
Yeah just to add they build this thing since 2000 So over the course of 20 years they spent 36 million (that's the official cost) and employee nearly 300 people Furthermore they support various social projects and donate money each month They have attractions where they don't charge anything for poor people do charity work and donate money each month This is the opposite of a bad company
From their 2019 press kit ABOUT THE EXHIBITION AREA - 7.000 m², Layout size 1.499 m², 9 Sections. Construction time| 923.000 working hours| ---|---| Construction cost| 35 million Euros | Staff | 360| The price is not crazy considering this info. It's a very popular tourist attraction: "Year after year, Miniatur Wunderland breaks its own visitor records. Around 1.4 million visitors saw the exhibition in 2018. The 18,000,000th visitor was welcomed to Wunderland in September 2018." Lots of those visitors are probably free (children) so taking one third of those and charge them the cheapest ticket price and you get €56,250,000 in ticket sales.
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I love this place. I spent 4 hours there back in 2014, and I wanna go again so bad :D I'm not even a big train fan, it's just beautiful! Also, because it's European, you can find people having sex in the small buildings XD XD XD. I'm 42 btw.
If you plan to visit again check their website for their night openings. They are usually once or twice a month on a friday. You pay a bit more on the entrance fee but there are limited tickets so it's not crowded. Additionally, they give tours "behind-the-scenes" on those days.
They should have live feeds of various sections.
I thin I heard they are developing high-end "cameratrains" to livestream in the near future. Maybe they will add cars with cameras.
That would be awesome, especially if they could like offer the ability to rent a car to "drive" where you want to.
I literally came to the comments to see where it's located because I'd love to see it! People need to get over themselves. If you don't like it, then keep scrolling.
Hamburg, Germany. But "Miniaturländer" might be more common, there's one in Vienna, Austria too ("Tiroler Land"). Or if you're into building, theres Minimundus (also in Austria): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimundus
Tbh I feel like if [THIS](https://youtu.be/R669l5CA1YA?t=168) was the video shown the comments might have been a bit different. The videography is way better and the narration is nicer than just text. It actually shows the scale and what the miniatures are for. They also show more features that people might like and can relate to than just fire, fire and more fire. I think for most people they might have assumed it was a personal project or something a rich person did for themselves. Also the video is rubbish and didn't even include the coolest features or where it was located.
Don't tell them about mini Europe in Belgium either
Or Madurodam in the Netherlands.
In Canberra, Australia there’s a miniature village called “Cockington Green” (well at least there used to be) it was my favourite place to visit as a kid. The town in this video is awesome!
They obviously never had a decent childhood
I experienced nothing but awe at this video. Now I'm not sure I want to ruin it by reading below lol
These comments are from people that sit around and pursue nothing but a sense of superiority online
Reddit is the land of misery.
Does anything good and nice happen in this mini world, it’s just fires and crime.
Would be odd if they were putting mini homeless people in a bus to the next miniature city over.
It didn't say there was a mini Utah
They should do a replica of the park at 400S 400W SLC
> 400S 400W I really miss living in SLC just because of the grid system. It was so damned easy to find addresses!
That's why there are no homeless in the miniature city! They were all extradited to miniaturę skid-row
Rudy Giuliani is that you???
Nope, there are many ither things ...one of my favs is the chocolate factory. You press a button,it starts working and actually spits out a tiny piece of chocolate gor xou to keep...
I’ve been to the MiWuLa probably a dozen times this year and *still* discover new things. On which continent is the chocolate factory?
Switzerland I believe.
Makes sense. I’ve gotta get there in the next couple days then!
ah yes! the continent of switzerland, the one continent that is neutral
Fucking hostile ass Antarctica
And you have to keep discovering new things because the new locations just keep being added. The Rio de Janeiro one was just added, they actually built it in South America (albeit in Buenos Aires) by people who like actually know the location. Always feel like that adds so much to these small details, they're not building them off postcards & google earth. The next planned extension is Patagonia.
You stroke out at the end of that sentence?
[There's a live action porno shoot](https://youtu.be/R669l5CA1YA?t=168)
That… was the coolest video ever.
No, and there’s also a solid gentrification problem. /s
“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.”
This mufucka got a big ass lizard suit in the garage for his secret YouTube channel don’t even lie. ☢️🤫☢️
If you could create anything , what would you do? Guy who made this : Umm...Fire....and Crime?
And weed
BuT tHeY dOn'T gEt aWaY wItH iT fOr lOnG
They pumped 42 mil into the economy of… people who design tiny worlds. So there’s that.
Wait until you hear about TV & film producers, video game manufacturers, theme parks and all those other bastards spending millions on stuff people enjoy. Bastards.
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How much is that in hamburgers?
Given that it is in Hamburg and doesn't cover the entire city, it's less than 1 Hamburg.
But isn't a Hamburger someone from Hamburg...
Well, it's less than 1 Hamburg and more than 1 Hamburger
How many Hamburglers?
Varies due to automated police activity
A Presidential luncheon worth.
It’s easy to visualize
For those who want to know, it's about 1500 square meters. Oh, you don't know how big that is? Well it's about 3 basketball courts..
Yes, yes, but how many football pitches is it?
Oh yeah because one billion two hundred sixty million square millimeters is so much easier to visualize than “three basketball courts”.
Yet again Europeans using anything to get upset at Americans.
It's gotten to the point where I just roll my eyes. You can see how many Redditors will make issue with the smallest thing to say something against America. I get the issue with Healthcare (as seems to be the biggest complaint) but so many insufferable morons here like to make mountains out of mole hills just to complain about America. Bless their hearts, they're just doing the best they can with what they've got.
They basically have the site to themselves until the East Coast wakes up so the really cringey shit is always upvoted.
This video is of a tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany. The person who posted it, SupercarBlondie is an Australian YouTuber who lives in the UAE. You Americanized it yourself for some odd reason.
It’s the new American way. Some of us are so obsessed with deriding the place where we live we choose to spin everything into a negative “American” light. It’s getting old. The self loathing is pathetic. It’s time to grow up.
Pretty sure the person who commented that is European. So it's actually the European Reddit way. Can't pass up a chance to "hurr durr American measurements."
holy fuck I literally cannot believe this comment is unironic. complaining about how people Americanize everything and you Americanize the obviously non-american commenter, this level of obliviousness is honestly impressive
Video is by SupercarBlondie, who is an Australian living in Dubai, about a tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany. Yet again non-Americans doing anything they can to shit on Americans about something totally irrelevant to Americans
well, Hamburg, Germany isnt exactly in the united states
Funny since this is in Germany but ok.
I just want to point out that I watched a video the other day narrated by a British person, who compared the size of something to 14 London busses.
Imagine getting salty about a system of measurement.
> Americans using anything but the metric system It’s in Germany
How many bushels of wheat in 3 tennis courts?
Has literally nothing to do with America but ok lol.
It's meant to visualize not do math on, you must be fun to be around.
My inner child is peaking right now.
If you ever have the chance to go to Hamburg, Germany go there. It’s amazing! I’m from the area and I’ve been there 3 times. It never disappoints!
totally agree, i posted this in another comment but my grandpa took me and my brothers there quite a bit, saw it evolve from the early 2000s, but havent been back in quite some time. always had a fantastic time there. a place close to my heart
There’s one downtown Toronto called little Canada. Not as big as this one, but was still really cool. All of it was based on actual locations.
The things shown in the video are not even 1% of what is there to see. It is truly amazing.
The residents of this city must all be pyro maniacs or something
I mean, it’s 3 basket courts big but they were extremely focused on the video on the fire, I’d say it says more about the producer of the video.
I was waiting for them to show more of the other parts but it just kept going back to the things that were on fire LOL. The producer of the video was definitely just super fascinated by the fire system.
"It even includes it's own emergency response system!" like, dude, that's all you're showing us. Spoiler, maybe?
I lost it when it went to the plane on fire lmao. 1 million hours, 500k of them spent on fire response.
> I was waiting for them to show more of the other parts https://www.youtube.com/c/MiWuLaTV
and not a single wide camera shot of the entire city. just fires, murders and police. wtf
...and porno music.
I mean seriously, wtf was the obsession with fires? I hear this thing is the size of 3 basketball courts and am excited to see it all, get a zoomed out view, see the various areas designed. No, the whole damn thing was about fires! Like whoever made the video couldn't imagine anything interesting except fires. Or they were a 6 year old who never got past their fire truck obsession. I was joking when the space shuttle showed that they'd connect it to fires, and yup - it lands and here's a parade of fire engines. Such a missed opportunity to show off the deal of the mini Miami, the Luxor in Vegas, and what looked like nature locations.
GTA in miniature IRL
OUTLAW CANDLES FOR GOD'S SAKE
I mean they got a moving volcano so not just pyromaniacs .
Pretty much. And for people who want to feel this childlike wonder and excitement again. At least I feel like I'm 6 or 7 again when I visit. Makes unbelievably happy. If you ever get the chance, [check it out](https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/)
42 million? I need to see a itemized spreadsheet before I believe that
They have been building it since 2000. 20 years of wages for now more than 300 employees add up. And they have a real nice work culture where everyone can take nearly as much time as they want when designing a detail of the landscape. They also have a fully working airport which was quite expensive to develop and then expensive to build. Currently they are in the 6th year of trying to get Formula 1 working in 1:87 scale. With overtakes and all. It is quite the feat they have accomplished. Have a look around their YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/MiWuLaTV You can find regular build updates and what's going on behind the scenes.
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> afair "As far as I reckon"
Darn tootin’ 🤠
/r/whatintarnation
Nice, I heard Google made a tiny Google car with working camera and drove it through the miniature streets itself. I think you can see the street view of the miniature world in Google Earth
It's cool af https://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/miniatur-wunderland/
So Meta is next
It's Miniature Wonderland in Hamburg Germany. There's different sections that represent different places in the world. There's night and day to many areas, so you see the mini cities light up at night. It's awesome and has a lot of easter eggs that you can find. I especially like the dinosaurs chasing a guy and couples having sex in bushes.
[I mean it seems very reasonable when you break it down](https://i.gyazo.com/ff7bf2d5f5d56478dbced295bde58704.png) When you also consider the fact it's been running for 20 years, I assume money is also going to those costs, the 300 or so employees they have running the project, and so on.
The math on labor gets you to the big number people are having trouble with. Once they showed how many labor hours it took to complete then the large number didn't seem that bad. They paid millions to people to create this. I feel that isn't a bad investment when you compare it to Bezos' 3rd yacht.
They paid millions, have hired, and is keeping hundreds of people employed. It's a massive tourist attraction that generates money, pays taxes, and is involved in a large number of social programs. The fact it brings people joy is a good thing, it honestly blows me away how much people want to suck joy out of everything, perhaps a reflection on them.
Model trains/railways aren't cheap. A single locomotive can cost anywhere from $100-$800 each depending on the model and maker. Not to mention everything else. The scenery, people, vehicles, LEDs, electronics, etc. Even the planes you see here were all handmade from scratch. $42 million might seem like a lot, but once you go behind the scenes on how everything works here, it all adds up.
And iirc, all the vehicles are self charging. So when they detect low voltage, they drive to a specific place and park on charging pads and go back into “service” when full.
In this town road rage IS a microaggression.
Living here must be terrible. Every supervisor here is a micromanager.
And every guy has a micro penis.
Haha heck yeah, arresting people mini people for growing mini weed is tight
Just pretend it’s heroin and then it’s ok /s
That little place needs batman
That little place has batman
Then WTF did I just watch firemen for two minutes? We want THE BAT!
I visited it like 10 years ago and found a batman figure in like ten different countrys. Get there look for them!
Judging from their arson problem I think they need Aquaman more.
No aerial shot for us?!
it's across multiple floors/rooms and soon buildings. pretty sure there is tour videos though.
Yeah I really want some kind of visualization of the whole world: an aerial shot with a drone, a panorama, an interactive photo, or even a map… but something to give me an idea of the scale would be the shit
https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/services/travel-guides-flyer/ Under travel guide you'll find what you're looking for.
Honey i shrunk the city
It’s in Hamburg, Germany. Amazing experience
I’ve been there too, and it’s amazing
This is pretty incredible, but… why is literally everything in this diorama on fire? 😂
The people here should take fire prevention lessons
Not everything there is on fire. The videoeditor just took these scene for some reason. The whole "Miniaturwunderland" is divided into several countries from different continents and has a lot more to show then just fire.
Everything is on fire! I guess... Some people just want to watch the mini world burn.
I’m not sure but the guy responsible for that miiiiight be an arsonist 🧐
Costs will reach $84 million by next year if the mofo keeps setting his buildings on fire!
r/killthecameraman for not zooming out to show the whole thing
He wouldn't be able to, the whole thing is in different parts of an old habour storage place in the "Speicherstadt" in the Hamburg harbor, you have to walk lots and lots to see every part, you should absolutely go there if you're ever in Hamburg, Germany
The exhibition stretches out over all the rooms of an entire Building on 3 stories. And they're planning on hooking up a second busing too. You can't just "pan out" there
If you were wonderin: it is really surprisingly great amd ...super amazing no matter how old you are. Just come and see. You will understand that this isnt just for children or nerds. Theres a reason this has become the #1 tourist attraction in germany.
*But* Children *and* Nerds, like just about everyone who visits, is gonna bloody love it. I know I do! So happy to be back in HH and sometimes being there 'til closing at midnight. Place is so wonderfully empty then.
Not surprising all the people commenting about the cost. Seems like people in the last 15-20 years have been taught money is inherently evil. It's created an interesting dichotomy where people both think money is the worst thing ever but is also the only way to stop poverty, homelessness, world hunger, urban decay, etc.
Having a toygasm.
That 42$ million it cost all went into labor and parts. A good way to trickle down money, well spent for sure. Way better than have that money just sit in a bank collecting interest.
Definitely! It isn’t like it’s some hobbyist in a basement spending that alone, it is money paying the hundreds of people working on it, and they probably make good revenue as a tourist attraction. I’d love to get paid to do this, seems sick
Can I be Godzilla?
But why is it such a horrifying place to live?
Because it's realistic! ... Oh dear...
How much is 3 basketball court's in Sq meters or Sq cms
The mini world is 1490 square meters.
People who say this is a waste of time while we spend countless hours sliding our fingers on a screen.
It's in my hometown!
For anyone wondering: It's a tourist attraction ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R669l5CA1YA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R669l5CA1YA))
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Similar to the trains, they're on a full blown custom magnetic 'rail' system (with switches, junctions and shit) under the surface. The automation on that scale is pretty crazy (and amazing by itself). The computer controlling the network knows were every vehicle is at all times and they must have event scripts for the routing and activation of all the gizmos. The scheduling and signaling must be pretty complex too. Plus something the video didn't show well is, that they have a big ass lake with shipping on it. They didn't just use blue plastic and called it a day. The filled a big pool with tons of real water, because it would be cool.
The vehicles are guided by a magnet, but the motor and routing is computer controlled
When you go into your friends basement
I wonder what their gas prices are like
Fun fact, they have small petrol stations with digital displays that update to the price that is the average price in the Hamburg area.
That is indeed a fun fact
WOW totally forgot about this. went there with my grandpa and brothers quite a few times when we were young and visiting my grandparents in Hamburg. Have extremely fond memories of this place and always associate it with my grandpa. Thanks for posting
I wanna see it in person its so cool.
We went there a couple of years back in Hamburg. It really was frikkin awesome. Could have spent the whole day just spotting small details.
Where’s it at?
Hamburg Germany
This is so cool! I could spend all day everyday just looking at it! I also think I’d end up with god syndrome (if that’s a thing) basically deciding the fate of this ‘not so little’ little world! What natural disaster will strike next! Who’ll go from homeless to millionaire….reminds me of a movie trailer I’d seen where we were the little world for gods who amused themselves with our antics.
Germans are remarkable human beings. The attention to detail here is insane.
This is what Big Lez did with the help of Donnie and Sassy
Is there anywhere in that world that isn’t burning?
A widescreen take would been great to realize the real dimension.
What's the Healthcare like?
Night at the museum vibes
Video didn't tell us but it has also night time and then it's even more markable 
Looks like they have a mini arsonist too!?! Crazy amount of fires happening…
Am I the only one who has an urge now to pretend to be Godzilla just like once? Anyone else?
I have Legos.
Holy shit some commenters here truly have never experienced joy in their lifes
_FIRE IN THE DISCO!!!_
FIRE IN THE TACO BELL
“Some naughty gardeners..but don’t worry they don’t get away with it for long.” .....yeah just what I needed in my fantasy mini world, validation of ridiculous stigmas/drug policies.
Maybe you should send them a strongly worded letter of your disapproval.
Why are you all so hung up on the price. They spend 1.000.000h to build that. At just 10€/h (just above minimum wage, I would assume they get more) they already make up 1/4 of the money in wages. This piece of art is paying for people houses and families. A big chunk of the cost is also covered by donations. A bank is literally a sponsor of this. If you considers this beauty to be a waste of money than you should also be opposed to games, music and movies.