This is the Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, Germany. It sprawls across 1300sqm, filling an entire warehouse. It consists of over 1000 moving vehicles. It took over 500,000 hours to build. And it’s absolutely incredible.
I mean, come on. Look at those fire engines driving down the road! And the planes taking off and landing on the runway!
I love my video games, but there are times when old-fashioned automatons are still superior, and this is definitely one of those times.
New video of incredible model railroad in Hamburg: Miniatur Wunderland [Boing Boing]
lol
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:08 PMThis is why Europe is in a recession. //altho rather impressive.
Jack
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:19 PMI don’t mean to be rude when I say this.
It may be amazing (me myself a fan of model railways), but it’s still not video game related. I mean this isn’t a personal blog (much), this is a dedicated news service about video games.
Matt
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:28 PMAbout page says its about gaming and gaming culture, this falls under the gaming culture. plus its crazy awesome, and totally geeky
Thermal Ions
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9:27 PMCan’t see how it falls under gaming culture unless you define that as something (unrelated to gaming) that someone interesting in gaming finds interesting. In which case I’d like to tell you about a recent change to international accounting standards that I found interesting.
That said, I’d never heard of the Miniatur Wunderland before and found it one of Mr Plunkett’s most interesting posts.
Wildesy
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 10:16 PMKotaku Police – how would we traverse this website without you! Keep up the good work.
Kyonove
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:39 PMI always loved seeing the model railways when i was a kid going into HobbyCo in Sydney. This, however, takes it too another level. Amazingly awesome.
TGK
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:52 PMI was hoping this would tie into a “someone has used a game engine to make a sweet model railway”… but no.
The Signal Engine as seen in Toy Soldiers would make a sweet model railway game.
Team Fortress 2 would be insane if someone did a model railway based on the buildings and trains.
But this article? Eh, already knew about it.
matt
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9:27 PMi dont get it, they show you all these individual sections, but it says it takes up a whole warehouse? wouldn’t it be infinitely more useless and interesting to at least finish the video with a shot encompassing the whole build? I have seen all this shit before in small sections..
matt
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9:27 PMsry more useFUL*
Braaains
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9:42 PMMy dad would shit his pants if I showed him that. Seriously. He loves his model trains.
Mik
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 11:41 PMI thought it was pretty cool and worth the entire 5 minutes of my time to watch. Like everything on the internet if you don’t like it…. don’t watch it! Sick of seeing these “Kotaku Elite” jump down the throats of anything that falls outside their neat little box of interests.
CyK
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 1:08 AM2:17 lol!
Dainbramage
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 1:39 AMso took 57 years @ 24/7 to build. pffft!
Marathon
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 11:13 AMUm that’s 500,000 ‘working hours.’ I think it’s safe to say more than one person worked on this project. :P
FPS
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 4:24 AMWould be interesting if they added a Japan section with the 1/1 Gundam in it. :3