Consider that this video is nearly 8 years old, as Italy was opened in 2016. Shortly after the main italian section, they added a small corner for Venice. No trains, just houses and canals and still 1 million Euro construction cost, as every building needed to be handcrafted. The control centre has been heavily modernized, and sports 3 MASSIVE screens instead of the numerous small monitors. Southern France has been finished for nearly 2 years now, while Monaco with the racing F1 cars will open end of April. And of course, the bridge has been added, as well as Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana beach and Patagonia (they added a Metallica concert to Antarctica, when Metallica played in Hamburg and visited Wunderland). The Anden mountains and the Attacama desert are under contruction in Hamburg, while the rainforest and the Amazonas bassin are buing built in Argentina. And they have a Virtual Reality experience in the new building, where you can see the display from the eyes of a figurine.
I think the biggest secret to their success is the fun these people have from the owners to the last employee despite the mountain of repetitive work to just maintain to keep all functional. The builders and technicians are encouraged to pursue their own ideas if posible with little scenes and moving gadgets - a paradise for creative people.
Just wait until the Monaco part opens with its Formula 1 track, where the racing cars race completely independently using a computer program and the outcome is always uncertain. Gerrit has been working on the computer program and the technical conditions for many years. It is fascinating. In addition, new parts have now been opened such as Brazil. Miniature Wonderland never stands still.
The Germans' love for Italy is a well-known thing, a love reciprocated by us Italians, but here the genius is at the highest levels with the tribute to our beloved actors of Spaghetti Western, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, with the reconstruction of "They Call Me Trinity" ('Lo chiamavano Trinità' in Italian) at minute 08:12 and the image of Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) at minute 17:59. Simply incredible!!
Bud and Terence are very famous here. You can be sure that their movies will always be shown on any public holiday. And you can be sure that I am in front of the screen 😂
now remember that the video is 8 years old. There is now a second building on the other side of the canal, connected with a bridge on which the landscape and tracks naturally continue. and they have a virtual reality attraction. You find yourself in an empty room with VR glasses and a backpack for the technology and see how you are shrunk to model size so that you can then wander through Wonderland. Or you register in as a team and are given tasks that you have to fight your way through as a team.
It is a joy and pain to see you marvel at it. 😋 The bridge is build and currently they work on the atacama desert together with some rainforest in that new building 😍
Yes, a Rammstein concert would be great, with pyro and all. I think one needs at least one week (better two) to see every detail in there. It's fascinating. I wonder if there is a maximum of authorised visitors at the same time so that it doesn't become too crowded, that would be annoying if there were several rows of visitors everywhere who'd stand in the way of each other. This building where the Wunderland is inside is huge, there is room for several coutries more. I just looked up the entrance fees, and I see there are special offers where the hotel stay (+ breakfast) is included, plus VIP (no standing in line to get in) entrance, and a ticket worth € 31 that allows you to take all public transports (bus, tram, train, ferries) in Hamburg for 3 days for € 81 (so € 50 are for hotel stay and entrance fee, which is € 19 alone). These public transport tickets are great, here were I live, for € 8 something per day, I can travel through the entire Land (Bundesland) for 24 hours (usually, one bus ticket is about € 2,50).
And that's why it's tricky sometimes to get (good) tickets. I don't know how it works, but apparently it works: You have a START time as a slot. So you can enter at that time period (from-to, be there in that hour!), and stay all the time until closure. I've been there myself, and for some reason, it doesn't get increasingly crowded over the day as you might expect. It's more like a theme park: At some times, there are more people, some times there are less over the course of the day. But - even when there are many people, it's never too crowded. They have a good limit. The busiest is the airport. So you might have to wait 2-3 minutes to get to the front where the planes start and land. But in that time you can enjoy the beauty of the rest of the airport, after all, the planes taxi all the way to the gates and park on the field, and there's always something going on.
Please tell me they're taking better care of their trains than they were in 2013. When I was there, so many of their trains were squealing so bad from lack of lubrication on the drive gears.
15:24 There is already a lot going on there. They expanded the Miniaturwunderland already to the other side of the canal and installed a bridge for visitors to get to the new sections of South America that were and are built in a cooperation with a model builder family from Argentina. And also Europe is still expanding. Soon they will open Monaco with a true Formula One racing track with little cars and a real race going on. 22:15 Actually they do elaborate testing for their moving parts so they can be sure they are running longer than normally specified. And sometimes they improve those moving parts with new technologies to make them long lasting. I.e. they are replacing all rails with a middle conductor to a DC-system, because the middle conductor gets worn down regularly from all the trains running over it. And perhaps the team is that large because of just the maintenance they have to do every single day to keep things running.
I've visited Miniatur Wunderland twice and I've always discovered something new. Next year I will be in Hamburg again and then I'm looking forward to see the progress and the new sections. As you say, it's hopefully a neverending story and you can revisit this place over and over again. It's great for the whole family, everyone has fun there!
It’s even more impressive in real life! I live near Hamburg and went there several times and it’s always a blast! First time my daughter joined me and as we entered she stands right at the first point where you can see something for over an hour! I had to tell her that there is much more to see. Always love your videos, greeting from Hamburg.
Was there numerous times, something doesn’t work every time. Once we didn’t get the Chocolate and sometimes some of the buttons did not work. But it was always amazing, you have to stay a look and discover. It’s really a wonderland.
i live in Hamburg where this is located, i visit it at least once a month and if you EVER visit Hamburg GO THERE, its crazy, even now i see details i didnt notice before. btw in your reaction for the Airport you said you want to take a look inside: there is a "behind the scenes" tour
For any tourist who would like to visit this place - get your tickets in advance online. Sometimes there are queues for tickets in front of the building..
@1:56!! these are Gaston's hidden gems probably the most famous model maker from MIWULA, That's the one with the beard from the scene before Unfortunately, he is now retired and can no longer hide any of them in the landscape, but hopefully the others will honor his funny figures and continue to do so, especially because many have repeatedly tried to steal the figures as souvenirs
Thair newest Project is Monaco with the Formula 1! All cars are driving autag in a real race! Absolute amazing! I think, Formula 1 was 10 years under construction
I was there last year, they have a second building now, connected with a bridge. I hope you will have the chance to go there one day. It's impossible to grasp in a video. Work like this is only possible with a huge amount of passion. When you talk to the staff and the "owners" you can clearly see, that they are more like a family that share a strange passion for perfection.
Building that bridge wasn't as simple as it sounds. The Speicherstadt, the old warehouse district, was built on huge logs rammed into the river mud and silt, upon which both the streets and the buildings were created. The canals between the buildings were used to transport wares from the actual port section to the warehouse by barges. These were faster, cheaper, and more versatile. However, the Elbe river is tidally influenced by the 70km distant North Sea. With high tides on the North Sea, the river water rises by well over two meters, and runs off almost completely at low tide. This means that the constantly changing weight of water on the river mud causes the buildings on opposite sides of the canal to tilt towards and away from each other during high and low tides by over 30 cm (roughly one foot) on the top floors. But to retain their title of biggest model railway in the world ALL parts of the tracks have to reachable by ANY train set anywhere on the tracks by following the tracks without artificially lifting them onto other tracks. They are only allowed to use switches built into the tracks themselves. But model railway tracks aren't known to be able to contract and expand four times a day by over a foot when passing over the bridge. I still haven't heard a good explanation how they solved that problem. Another problem was that the Speicherstadt is part of Germany's UNESCO World heritage sites so their inherent structure can't be significantly changed. The bridge thus had to be approved for very strict adherence to classic building codes that didn't change the character of the two buildings. So quite a feat for a seemingly fairly simple straight connection between point A and B.😂
Just visited the Wunderland on March, 1st. The bridge and the new building are open for quite some time now and they already added Brasil, Patagonia and much more in the new sector. What really is so great about this whole thing is that it costs you only 20€ entrance fee and both restaurants in the Wunderland are very well affordable!!
I live in Germany, but it took an American from across the Atlantic to remind me ... 😍Thanks to You I will visit Hamburgs Wunderland and the Tropical Islands near Potsdam/Berlin again soon, haven´t been there for years and there is lots of new stuff to see. Thank You. Love Your reactions!
I enjoyed watching your video. You should definitely get into an airplane and come to see this thing in real. I can promise that you won’t be disappointed. As a car fan you also will find some other interesting places to visit 😎
Hello D, there is a brand new documentary about the Miniaturwunderland from Stern TV. You have to switch the subtitles to English and watch it because of copyright, but it's worth it. Really touching too. The title here on YT: Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg: Die Geschichte von Gerrit und Frederik | stern TV
Since I know Rammstein everytime when I see the Wunderland my first thoughts are: "please put a Rammstein concert in". Thank you for sharing my thoughts. 😂
If you want a far newer video on the MiWuLa, check out James Bray's recent video from his visit to Hamburg. Yepp, he was blown away. He's an American currently stationed in South Korea but he has a very active German subscriber group. He visited Germany three times in 2023 with his most recent stay in Hamburg. Btw: there are quite a few much raunchier scenes to be found than those tame ones in the automated warehouse. But if you want to see the raunchiest ones that even the Wunderland creators thought were just a bit over the top, you'd have to book the behind the scenes tour. Where you are literally taken into crawlspaces behind and sometimes even under the scenery and shown the internal workings. It's fun but often a quite tight squeeze.
Guys, mindset, I say! When you think about it, this never ending project is a working paradise, since the employees get so much freedom to research, get things on a higher level of perfection, although failures always happen. Maybe the point is exactly that the founders are _not_ businessmen but enthusiastic technicians. This would not have happened if two guys wanted to earn money. Also, the employees do not seek to get rich but to do what they love to do. From time to time, we all should reflect on the work we do daily.
I actually visited Miniatur Wunderland and I can highly recommend it. I just miss the most iconic figurine ever: naked elderly man chasing a wild boar which stole his backpack. Maybe they already have it and I just couldn't find it. Who knows...
🚂 As for moving parts: Most of the locomotives are tuned, motors and gears replaced, plastic replaced with metal, to accommodate for the continuous operation you would definitely not reach in a home model railroad 😅
Visited for the first time many years ago, before it blew up on youtube :) its one of those things you should go visit and have a day for it, maybe two :)
At 8:04 I was wondering, why you didn't recognize Lucky Luke. After a short google search I recognized that Lucky Luke is a Western Comic Character from the Belgian Artist Morris (Maurice De Bevere). Stereotypical thinking on my side, eh? 😂 I love your reaction to the Wunderland! Best wishes from Germany. Peace out!
cool... but this an old video... meanwhile they have rent the neighbour-building too, for more space... they have their own hotel around the cornner for the visitors
Tune playing in my head...Coolio. "Been spending most my life looking for daddys paradise. Spend time and improvise, to make it all look real nice" and if that strung a sting in your head...youre old 😂❤
And this Doku is 3 Years old 😉but there is a Cinema Movie in Germany (not verry good promoted) runing at the moment just so you know. not sure if they translate it into english to.
In the beginning: the 2 brothers went t to their bank: we need 2 million to start a new project: a model railway! Answer of the banker: for private use or for a new business? That's how it started! Meanwhile, they have +400 employees. Some Sheiks from an Arabian country offered them 100 Million euros to build something similar in their country - keep the rest ...
the guy with the moustache - Gaston - retired in 2021 and made a documentary with Gerrit about his time and work at the wonderland. Two little examples for you: he wanted some fishing nets in Italy, but every stuff he tried to be a net had too big holes, so all the fish slipped through. He then went to a famous sex shop in Hamburg, took the little fish with him and "tried out" some lingerie till he found some with the right size of net-holes. And the second example: the Brückenpisser - 2 men peeing from an bridge into the river underneath :D
48:07 that guy was known for ranting about things that got on his nerves with a thick Bavarian accent, which I think made him popular with the fans of MiWuLa. He retired last year.
I got to go there in 2013. It's absolutely incredible to see in person. It's VERY crowded there though. I don't know if I went during peak hours, but it was absolutely packed on a weekday when I was there. You really have to push and shove if you want to see anything, but it's more than worth the hassle to see in person. One last note, as a model railroader, Miniature Wunderland needs to take better care of their trains. When I was there a lot of the locomotives and rolling stock were squeaking really bad. They don't lubricate or clean their trains enough. And YES, they need to put a RAMMSTEIN stage at that music festival! :D
I heard in an interview that they have limited the number of visitors since the beginning of Corona and not lifted it to the max since then. They said it is still quite crowded with about 80% of the maximum possible visitors. It's for the benefit of those who actually get a ticket. It also shows nicely that they aren't doing it to maximize their profit but the experience.
They have buildt the bridge since, but on the other side they buildt South America. They worked with similarly crazy Model builders from Brazil and had everything buildt over there and shipped over in Containers, because they were convinced that only people from the country could build everything most realistically. And Frederik‘s brother Gerrit is currently finalizing his masterpiece: the Formula 1 racing track of Monaco. They invented the whole system on their own with the whole racetrack being made of printed circuit boards so that the can steer the cars like on a display. It‘s insane! Watch this latest update: ruclips.net/video/WE-0AmcYph8/видео.htmlsi=-o-gXS_QDHZCP5xU I am not sure, if it has English subtitles, but maybe the pictures speak for themselves!
Had you already had the chance to watch the latest Gerrits Tagebuch episode? The F1 is almost all done and there are some really impressive F1 racing scenes.
54:35: I don't know if it's here, but at one antique model, they divided it in half: The left part, all the people are ancients romans, and on the right tourists with cameras. A split between anitique and modernity.
Its german: Do whatever you want, make it perfect, consult you co-workers and together make it better. If you finished, let the world marvel how perfect it is and giggle at the vain attempt to copy it.
7:33 Some years ago a Group of Sheiks from Dubai gave them an offer: 100million$ to build a similar Model Train in Dubai. Thats a lot more you need to build such a Thing. And all three of the Bosses (yes, there are three Braun Brothers) said ... NO! If any Village in any Corner of the World has its own Wonderland it wont be the same anymore and much more important: It isnt unique anymore
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Yes, there r three Braun-Brothers, but only the Twins and an old schoolfriend of them are the owner of the #MiWuLa!
Love the video. I recommend watching the serie "Gerrits Tagebuch" (Gerrits diaries) on the official Miniatur Wunderland youtube channel. it has english subs. you will love it. There are regular updates of the bosses favorit projects shown with from idea to try and error to longrun and final execution. for example #42 the first try of lava for the volcano 9 years ago. #73 shows the installation of the bridge between the houses 3 years ago. currently they show much about monaco and the f1 race there (newest #93). I recommend watching in order old to new videos, its the most fun.
Pretty sure they will not do a Rammstein concert scene due to the huge controversy and the accusation of sexual abuse surrounding singer Till Lindemann.
One of the many new sensations is the remodelling of the Hamburg section. The visitor lives in scale 1:1 when he enters the Speicherstadt, the home of Wunderland. In the building he can watch the same building in scale 1:87. Part of the roof is open, so he can watch what the model figurines in scale 1:87 watch: A third Speicherstadt in scale 1:??. The model in the model in reality brings the project to the edge of feasibility. Nice. see more here: ruclips.net/video/MQcEm39_UQY/видео.html the official channel with weekly updates is here: ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=miniatur+wunderland+hamburg
Yeah i know it i would visit so often but everytime i was there 4 or six 6 times in Hamburg you must wait over two hours for the entrance and thats too much for me
Only thing im scared of closing the project is the cost of cleaning. While manufacturing items stay at a linear cost, the cost of cleaning the place will be exponential...or logarythmic..or whatever math people call it. It will hit a crossroad then cleaning costs more than building. But then again..germany loves culture, and it will be saved and then ruined by the G-man
The problems with doing something like this in the USA would be ... - the MINDSET: workers change their jobs on a regular basis (as part of the culture of "getting ahead"), but that way you would have to "start at zero expertise" again with a new one - the RESPECT FOR "stuff": the USA is the place that "invented" modern[1] Graffiti ... and "children touching everything" It could be INSPIRATION for a bunch of children AND there would probably be enough multi-storey industrial buildings to accommodate it. [1] modern = spray can tags and graffiti ... "Kilroy was here" slogans have been left in buildings for thousands of years, but they are rare in comparison, because it was rather hard to do with a piece of coal or actually etching it in the stone with a piece of iron.
2:32 This is actually human, because that‘s how you become a human. I can‘t understand, why it‘s such a taboo in the US. Basically everybodys parents did that. It‘s the most natural thing on earth…
DJ bobo and _Helene Fischer have both donated in the past a lot money for Miniatur Wunderland, thats why they got their Concert Models there, as they are sponsors and in the Helene Fischer section people could donate money to get their own little figurine up there too. its not just about family friendlyness.
no Rammstein.... most people in Germany don't like them. It nothing for the main people... but they should make a Love Parade in a Miniature Berlin that would be cool!
Only the old building of Minutar Wunderland is shown in the video. This has been extended in the neighboring building. The buildings were connected by a bridge. In the new building is Rio de Janeiro with Carnival. ruclips.net/video/EGpBr2PSqMg/видео.html
How about this: you don't make another reaction to a video but come here and react to the real thing 😉♥
and then he makes a video for himself and us 👍
Will you give him a behind the scenes tour? Please? 🌸
"we make him an offer he can't refuse"😂❤
Consider that this video is nearly 8 years old, as Italy was opened in 2016.
Shortly after the main italian section, they added a small corner for Venice. No trains, just houses and canals and still 1 million Euro construction cost, as every building needed to be handcrafted.
The control centre has been heavily modernized, and sports 3 MASSIVE screens instead of the numerous small monitors.
Southern France has been finished for nearly 2 years now, while Monaco with the racing F1 cars will open end of April.
And of course, the bridge has been added, as well as Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana beach and Patagonia (they added a Metallica concert to Antarctica, when Metallica played in Hamburg and visited Wunderland). The Anden mountains and the Attacama desert are under contruction in Hamburg, while the rainforest and the Amazonas bassin are buing built in Argentina.
And they have a Virtual Reality experience in the new building, where you can see the display from the eyes of a figurine.
I think the biggest secret to their success is the fun these people have from the owners to the last employee despite the mountain of repetitive work to just maintain to keep all functional. The builders and technicians are encouraged to pursue their own ideas if posible with little scenes and moving gadgets - a paradise for creative people.
Yes, it must be fun, I'd love to work there!
And they don’t care that much about the cost and time needed to build stuff
Exactly , Dream-Job for the right Persons , much Respect to those Geniuses
The land of the poets, thinkers, and the precise creators of this world. Yes, that is Germany. Thanks for your video🤘🇩🇪
The land of "doing things EXCESSIVELY" being one of the big cultural problem.
Tatsächlich? Muck?@@Muck006
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Meanwhile they reached more than 16km of Tracks and costs about 40 million Euro
Just wait until the Monaco part opens with its Formula 1 track, where the racing cars race completely independently using a computer program and the outcome is always uncertain. Gerrit has been working on the computer program and the technical conditions for many years. It is fascinating. In addition, new parts have now been opened such as Brazil. Miniature Wonderland never stands still.
The Germans' love for Italy is a well-known thing, a love reciprocated by us Italians, but here the genius is at the highest levels with the tribute to our beloved actors of Spaghetti Western, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, with the reconstruction of "They Call Me Trinity" ('Lo chiamavano Trinità' in Italian) at minute 08:12 and the image of Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) at minute 17:59. Simply incredible!!
Terence and Bud are world heritage ❤
Bud and Terence are very famous here. You can be sure that their movies will always be shown on any public holiday. And you can be sure that I am in front of the screen 😂
Bud Spencer and Terrance Hill are legends. Greetings from Austria!
Wow...impressive
I've been to Hamburg many times but I didn't know about Miniatur Wunderland.
I must visit it one day 👍
Only ONE day?
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Ok, more than one day 😁
At first, I thought there was no way I was going to watch this for an hour, but the time flew by.👍
I have to see this before I die.🚂
now remember that the video is 8 years old. There is now a second building on the other side of the canal, connected with a bridge on which the landscape and tracks naturally continue.
and they have a virtual reality attraction. You find yourself in an empty room with VR glasses and a backpack for the technology and see how you are shrunk to model size so that you can then wander through Wonderland. Or you register in as a team and are given tasks that you have to fight your way through as a team.
It is a joy and pain to see you marvel at it. 😋 The bridge is build and currently they work on the atacama desert together with some rainforest in that new building 😍
Best thing is the Pope watches The Life of Brian on TV , hahahaha
Well ... even the pope can enjoy some fiction ...
*Cool video of one of the most beautiful model railway systems in the world.* 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
Many greetings from Hamburg, Germany, Andre 🤠🤓
Yes, a Rammstein concert would be great, with pyro and all. I think one needs at least one week (better two) to see every detail in there. It's fascinating. I wonder if there is a maximum of authorised visitors at the same time so that it doesn't become too crowded, that would be annoying if there were several rows of visitors everywhere who'd stand in the way of each other. This building where the Wunderland is inside is huge, there is room for several coutries more. I just looked up the entrance fees, and I see there are special offers where the hotel stay (+ breakfast) is included, plus VIP (no standing in line to get in) entrance, and a ticket worth € 31 that allows you to take all public transports (bus, tram, train, ferries) in Hamburg for 3 days for € 81 (so € 50 are for hotel stay and entrance fee, which is € 19 alone).
These public transport tickets are great, here were I live, for € 8 something per day, I can travel through the entire Land (Bundesland) for 24 hours (usually, one bus ticket is about € 2,50).
Yes there is, that’s why they have the time slots you need to book in advance. Otherwise you might end up waiting several hours for a free slot.
And that's why it's tricky sometimes to get (good) tickets. I don't know how it works, but apparently it works: You have a START time as a slot. So you can enter at that time period (from-to, be there in that hour!), and stay all the time until closure. I've been there myself, and for some reason, it doesn't get increasingly crowded over the day as you might expect. It's more like a theme park: At some times, there are more people, some times there are less over the course of the day. But - even when there are many people, it's never too crowded. They have a good limit. The busiest is the airport. So you might have to wait 2-3 minutes to get to the front where the planes start and land. But in that time you can enjoy the beauty of the rest of the airport, after all, the planes taxi all the way to the gates and park on the field, and there's always something going on.
Four months ago I was in Wunderland with my daugther and grandson.
It‘s really fantastic. Warm greetings from Germany.
Please tell me they're taking better care of their trains than they were in 2013. When I was there, so many of their trains were squealing so bad from lack of lubrication on the drive gears.
15:24 There is already a lot going on there. They expanded the Miniaturwunderland already to the other side of the canal and installed a bridge for visitors to get to the new sections of South America that were and are built in a cooperation with a model builder family from Argentina. And also Europe is still expanding. Soon they will open Monaco with a true Formula One racing track with little cars and a real race going on.
22:15 Actually they do elaborate testing for their moving parts so they can be sure they are running longer than normally specified. And sometimes they improve those moving parts with new technologies to make them long lasting. I.e. they are replacing all rails with a middle conductor to a DC-system, because the middle conductor gets worn down regularly from all the trains running over it. And perhaps the team is that large because of just the maintenance they have to do every single day to keep things running.
And now come personally and see it... and much more
37:04: His T-Shirt reads: "I'm a craftsman. I can do it!"
I've visited Miniatur Wunderland twice and I've always discovered something new.
Next year I will be in Hamburg again and then I'm looking forward to see the progress and the new sections. As you say, it's hopefully a neverending story and you can revisit this place over and over again. It's great for the whole family, everyone has fun there!
It’s even more impressive in real life! I live near Hamburg and went there several times and it’s always a blast! First time my daughter joined me and as we entered she stands right at the first point where you can see something for over an hour! I had to tell her that there is much more to see. Always love your videos, greeting from Hamburg.
Was there numerous times, something doesn’t work every time. Once we didn’t get the Chocolate and sometimes some of the buttons did not work. But it was always amazing, you have to stay a look and discover. It’s really a wonderland.
So sind wir Deutsche ,wir können nicht anders!
i live in Hamburg where this is located, i visit it at least once a month and if you EVER visit Hamburg GO THERE, its crazy, even now i see details i didnt notice before.
btw in your reaction for the Airport you said you want to take a look inside: there is a "behind the scenes" tour
I think before Rammstein they will build a Metallica concert. The figures are hidden in "Wunderland" since Metallica visited "Wunderland"!😊
Also with the latest controversy around Rammstein, I don’t think they would feature them
it's so lovely and funny to see how happy you are enjoying this. come over and visit your happy place :) many greetings from hamburg.
My son belongs to a model railroad club. I will be showing him this.
Been a while since i've been there but it truly is a one of a kind experience. Gotta visit again soon
I would like to visit my farher’s grave in Belgium. Now I have another place to visit while I am there.
For any tourist who would like to visit this place - get your tickets in advance online. Sometimes there are queues for tickets in front of the building..
I'm speechless!
@1:56!! these are Gaston's hidden gems
probably the most famous model maker from MIWULA,
That's the one with the beard from the scene before
Unfortunately, he is now retired and can no longer hide any of them in the landscape, but hopefully the others will honor his funny figures and continue to do so, especially because many have repeatedly tried to steal the figures as souvenirs
The bridges he built are also works of art! ❤
Thair newest Project is Monaco with the Formula 1! All cars are driving autag in a real race! Absolute amazing! I think, Formula 1 was 10 years under construction
I come here just to smile bc of your reaction as I've been to the Wunderland twice already.
I was there last year, they have a second building now, connected with a bridge. I hope you will have the chance to go there one day. It's impossible to grasp in a video. Work like this is only possible with a huge amount of passion. When you talk to the staff and the "owners" you can clearly see, that they are more like a family that share a strange passion for perfection.
Building that bridge wasn't as simple as it sounds. The Speicherstadt, the old warehouse district, was built on huge logs rammed into the river mud and silt, upon which both the streets and the buildings were created. The canals between the buildings were used to transport wares from the actual port section to the warehouse by barges. These were faster, cheaper, and more versatile. However, the Elbe river is tidally influenced by the 70km distant North Sea. With high tides on the North Sea, the river water rises by well over two meters, and runs off almost completely at low tide.
This means that the constantly changing weight of water on the river mud causes the buildings on opposite sides of the canal to tilt towards and away from each other during high and low tides by over 30 cm (roughly one foot) on the top floors.
But to retain their title of biggest model railway in the world ALL parts of the tracks have to reachable by ANY train set anywhere on the tracks by following the tracks without artificially lifting them onto other tracks. They are only allowed to use switches built into the tracks themselves.
But model railway tracks aren't known to be able to contract and expand four times a day by over a foot when passing over the bridge. I still haven't heard a good explanation how they solved that problem.
Another problem was that the Speicherstadt is part of Germany's UNESCO World heritage sites so their inherent structure can't be significantly changed. The bridge thus had to be approved for very strict adherence to classic building codes that didn't change the character of the two buildings.
So quite a feat for a seemingly fairly simple straight connection between point A and B.😂
Just visited the Wunderland on March, 1st. The bridge and the new building are open for quite some time now and they already added Brasil, Patagonia and much more in the new sector.
What really is so great about this whole thing is that it costs you only 20€ entrance fee and both restaurants in the Wunderland are very well affordable!!
I live in Germany, but it took an American from across the Atlantic to remind me ... 😍Thanks to You I will visit Hamburgs Wunderland and the Tropical Islands near Potsdam/Berlin again soon, haven´t been there for years and there is lots of new stuff to see. Thank You. Love Your reactions!
And now there is South America, Monaco, and Patagonia 🤗
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I enjoyed watching your video. You should definitely get into an airplane and come to see this thing in real. I can promise that you won’t be disappointed. As a car fan you also will find some other interesting places to visit 😎
Hello D, there is a brand new documentary about the Miniaturwunderland from Stern TV. You have to switch the subtitles to English and watch it because of copyright, but it's worth it. Really touching too. The title here on YT:
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg: Die Geschichte von Gerrit und Frederik | stern TV
Since I know Rammstein
everytime when I see the Wunderland my first thoughts are: "please put a Rammstein concert in".
Thank you for sharing my thoughts. 😂
Jaaaaaaaa.....👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Since the recent scandal that probably wouldn't go down well in Germany.
@@DerEchteBoldThere was no scandal. It was character assassination and Till was cleared of any suspicion.
If you want a far newer video on the MiWuLa, check out James Bray's recent video from his visit to Hamburg.
Yepp, he was blown away.
He's an American currently stationed in South Korea but he has a very active German subscriber group. He visited Germany three times in 2023 with his most recent stay in Hamburg.
Btw: there are quite a few much raunchier scenes to be found than those tame ones in the automated warehouse. But if you want to see the raunchiest ones that even the Wunderland creators thought were just a bit over the top, you'd have to book the behind the scenes tour. Where you are literally taken into crawlspaces behind and sometimes even under the scenery and shown the internal workings. It's fun but often a quite tight squeeze.
Guys, mindset, I say! When you think about it, this never ending project is a working paradise, since the employees get so much freedom to research, get things on a higher level of perfection, although failures always happen. Maybe the point is exactly that the founders are _not_ businessmen but enthusiastic technicians. This would not have happened if two guys wanted to earn money. Also, the employees do not seek to get rich but to do what they love to do.
From time to time, we all should reflect on the work we do daily.
Fun fact: to power the cars, they used the battery packs from thrown away elf bares/vapes
I actually visited Miniatur Wunderland and I can highly recommend it. I just miss the most iconic figurine ever: naked elderly man chasing a wild boar which stole his backpack. Maybe they already have it and I just couldn't find it. Who knows...
You now gave them so much free advertising, they should fly you in ;-)
🚂 As for moving parts: Most of the locomotives are tuned, motors and gears replaced, plastic replaced with metal, to accommodate for the continuous operation you would definitely not reach in a home model railroad 😅
Love your every reaction
Love from Land Of Borneo sarawak
I totally agree with the Rammstein concert but imagine how they would manage the fire 😂
same as the burning buildings! lol
Visited for the first time many years ago, before it blew up on youtube :) its one of those things you should go visit and have a day for it, maybe two :)
Great, but oooold video, considering how much bigger it is nowadays 😅
2:20 in and you're already near the first rant... i love it.
That must be a fun hour from here on. ;)
This is a very interesting video. I was there about 20 years ago. Since then, a lot of new things have emerged.
well, I think you might need to take a trip to germany and visit miniature-wonderland :D greetings from germany :D
Thank you for the XXL-Reaction :)
At 8:04 I was wondering, why you didn't recognize Lucky Luke. After a short google search I recognized that Lucky Luke is a Western Comic Character from the Belgian Artist Morris (Maurice De Bevere). Stereotypical thinking on my side, eh? 😂
I love your reaction to the Wunderland!
Best wishes from Germany.
Peace out!
at 8:12 is from the Movie Once upon a time in the west. Nice
cool... but this an old video... meanwhile they have rent the neighbour-building too, for more space... they have their own hotel around the cornner for the visitors
Tune playing in my head...Coolio. "Been spending most my life looking for daddys paradise. Spend time and improvise, to make it all look real nice" and if that strung a sting in your head...youre old 😂❤
And this Doku is 3 Years old 😉but there is a Cinema Movie in Germany (not verry good promoted) runing at the moment just so you know. not sure if they translate it into english to.
In the beginning: the 2 brothers went t to their bank: we need 2 million to start a new project: a model railway! Answer of the banker: for private use or for a new business? That's how it started!
Meanwhile, they have +400 employees. Some Sheiks from an Arabian country offered them 100 Million euros to build something similar in their country - keep the rest ...
super
maybe you can ask for "Engel". there is maybe a winner song in monaco ;)
the guy with the moustache - Gaston - retired in 2021 and made a documentary with Gerrit about his time and work at the wonderland. Two little examples for you: he wanted some fishing nets in Italy, but every stuff he tried to be a net had too big holes, so all the fish slipped through. He then went to a famous sex shop in Hamburg, took the little fish with him and "tried out" some lingerie till he found some with the right size of net-holes.
And the second example: the Brückenpisser - 2 men peeing from an bridge into the river underneath :D
With the men looking like Frederik and Gerrit Braun.
48:07 that guy was known for ranting about things that got on his nerves with a thick Bavarian accent, which I think made him popular with the fans of MiWuLa. He retired last year.
I got to go there in 2013. It's absolutely incredible to see in person. It's VERY crowded there though. I don't know if I went during peak hours, but it was absolutely packed on a weekday when I was there. You really have to push and shove if you want to see anything, but it's more than worth the hassle to see in person.
One last note, as a model railroader, Miniature Wunderland needs to take better care of their trains. When I was there a lot of the locomotives and rolling stock were squeaking really bad. They don't lubricate or clean their trains enough.
And YES, they need to put a RAMMSTEIN stage at that music festival! :D
I heard in an interview that they have limited the number of visitors since the beginning of Corona and not lifted it to the max since then. They said it is still quite crowded with about 80% of the maximum possible visitors. It's for the benefit of those who actually get a ticket. It also shows nicely that they aren't doing it to maximize their profit but the experience.
@1:51 What??? You never wondered why the vegetables at your supermarket were always squishy?
They have buildt the bridge since, but on the other side they buildt South America. They worked with similarly crazy Model builders from Brazil and had everything buildt over there and shipped over in Containers, because they were convinced that only people from the country could build everything most realistically. And Frederik‘s brother Gerrit is currently finalizing his masterpiece: the Formula 1 racing track of Monaco. They invented the whole system on their own with the whole racetrack being made of printed circuit boards so that the can steer the cars like on a display. It‘s insane! Watch this latest update: ruclips.net/video/WE-0AmcYph8/видео.htmlsi=-o-gXS_QDHZCP5xU I am not sure, if it has English subtitles, but maybe the pictures speak for themselves!
I'm curious about the newest area Monaco
you have to react to monaco, Brazil and so on...the newest parts
Had you already had the chance to watch the latest Gerrits Tagebuch episode? The F1 is almost all done and there are some really impressive F1 racing scenes.
54:35: I don't know if it's here, but at one antique model, they divided it in half: The left part, all the people are ancients romans, and on the right tourists with cameras. A split between anitique and modernity.
That's "Pompeji"
Thats realy wonderfull . I will live in this World no moore politic or war only trains and cars 😊
Its german: Do whatever you want, make it perfect, consult you co-workers and together make it better. If you finished, let the world marvel how perfect it is and giggle at the vain attempt to copy it.
6:10 Looks like a Swiss bunker door.
7:33 Some years ago a Group of Sheiks from Dubai gave them an offer: 100million$ to build a similar Model Train in Dubai. Thats a lot more you need to build such a Thing. And all three of the Bosses (yes, there are three Braun Brothers) said ...
NO!
If any Village in any Corner of the World has its own Wonderland it wont be the same anymore and much more important: It isnt unique anymore
Yes, there r three Braun-Brothers, but only the Twins and an old schoolfriend of them are the owner of the #MiWuLa!
There will not be a ramstein konzert, but maybe jean michel jarre
You better not start a war with these guys. 😂
Love the video. I recommend watching the serie "Gerrits Tagebuch" (Gerrits diaries) on the official Miniatur Wunderland youtube channel. it has english subs. you will love it.
There are regular updates of the bosses favorit projects shown with from idea to try and error to longrun and final execution. for example #42 the first try of lava for the volcano 9 years ago. #73 shows the installation of the bridge between the houses 3 years ago. currently they show much about monaco and the f1 race there (newest #93). I recommend watching in order old to new videos, its the most fun.
Pretty sure they will not do a Rammstein concert scene due to the huge controversy and the accusation of sexual abuse surrounding singer Till Lindemann.
I never heard an an American saying words like this.
One of the many new sensations is the remodelling of the Hamburg section. The visitor lives in scale 1:1 when he enters the Speicherstadt, the home of Wunderland. In the building he can watch the same building in scale 1:87. Part of the roof is open, so he can watch what the model figurines in scale 1:87 watch: A third Speicherstadt in scale 1:??. The model in the model in reality brings the project to the edge of feasibility. Nice. see more here:
ruclips.net/video/MQcEm39_UQY/видео.html
the official channel with weekly updates is here:
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=miniatur+wunderland+hamburg
Poor you as the Wunderland movie is only showing in German cinemas😢😢😢
Yeah i know it i would visit so often but everytime i was there 4 or six 6 times in Hamburg you must wait over two hours for the entrance and thats too much for me
The vehicles are battery operated and know when they need charging and go to charge
The Monaco Video from Miniatur Wunderland is here: ruclips.net/video/CqT0u6QDJtg/видео.html
Hey guys !!
Here you can see a lot more about the "Miniatur Wunderland""
Sorry it is in german language....
Only thing im scared of closing the project is the cost of cleaning. While manufacturing items stay at a linear cost, the cost of cleaning the place will be exponential...or logarythmic..or whatever math people call it. It will hit a crossroad then cleaning costs more than building. But then again..germany loves culture, and it will be saved and then ruined by the G-man
The problems with doing something like this in the USA would be ...
- the MINDSET: workers change their jobs on a regular basis (as part of the culture of "getting ahead"), but that way you would have to "start at zero expertise" again with a new one
- the RESPECT FOR "stuff": the USA is the place that "invented" modern[1] Graffiti ... and "children touching everything"
It could be INSPIRATION for a bunch of children AND there would probably be enough multi-storey industrial buildings to accommodate it.
[1] modern = spray can tags and graffiti ... "Kilroy was here" slogans have been left in buildings for thousands of years, but they are rare in comparison, because it was rather hard to do with a piece of coal or actually etching it in the stone with a piece of iron.
2:32 This is actually human, because that‘s how you become a human. I can‘t understand, why it‘s such a taboo in the US. Basically everybodys parents did that. It‘s the most natural thing on earth…
I get why Rammstein but i think it's not the Place for it. DJ Bobo is just a 100 times more Familyfriendly. And well known in Germany aswell :)
After the latest scandal Rammstein will nerver be in Wunderland.
@@ChriDDel There was no 'scandal' as it has now turned out. All made up.
DJ bobo and _Helene Fischer have both donated in the past a lot money for Miniatur Wunderland, thats why they got their Concert Models there, as they are sponsors and in the Helene Fischer section people could donate money to get their own little figurine up there too. its not just about family friendlyness.
no Rammstein.... most people in Germany don't like them. It nothing for the main people... but they should make a Love Parade in a Miniature Berlin that would be cool!
Chinaonly has a short maglev track, I would not call that a train. French have the largest and fasteat train network in the world I believe
1:50 Outside the box? It seems that he is inside the box. Just saying.
Formel 1 and Monaco: ruclips.net/video/WE-0AmcYph8/видео.html
No Rammstein Concert! The Rammstein typical pyro show will engulf half of Hamburg
If you want to see everything, i think the video was a week long.😂😂
Only the old building of Minutar Wunderland is shown in the video. This has been extended in the neighboring building. The buildings were connected by a bridge.
In the new building is Rio de Janeiro with Carnival.
ruclips.net/video/EGpBr2PSqMg/видео.html
This ist a very old Movie !