Model Airport Hamburg

[Pinback]

Anyone been there? I can't get enough of the airport vehicles whizzing around!

 

 

Edited December 11, 2017 by Pinback
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[Gorby]

WOW! I want one for Christmas.

(Not sure if if been that good though).

[Drift]

That is beyond brilliant.

[feoffee2]

I went the other year. Really good 

[Skodadriver]

I visited it a few years ago.  As a spectacle it is well worth seeing and the technology is amazing but the accuracy of the airliner models isn't always up to scratch. There obviously have to be compromises to make the stuff work, we all understand that.  However there is something not right when I have to look at a model a couple of time before I can identify it as a Boeing 737!

 

Miniatur Wunderland is predominantly railway oriented but there are some interesting sidelines.  As well as the airport I remember being greatly taken with the working ferry port which has ships actually sailing in and out. Another highlight for me, outwith the main display, was a series of dioramas representing the same street in Berlin from the 1930s until reunification. I think there were seven dioramas in all tracing the history of this ordinary street through its destruction in WW2, the building of the Wall, the fall of the Wall and post-unification reconstruction.

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Saw this on a Documentary here about 4-5 years ago. Its always great to see it again. 

 

UPDATE : SWMBO just had her mind blown 🤯

Edited December 15, 2017 by Corsairfoxfouruncle

[Mr T]

This is one place I want to visit. My wife wants to do a European tour and so we might fit it in at sometime. 

[DAG058]

I've been, it's truely amazing! Such attention to detail and the vast scale of the whole place is spectacular. It's also pretty amusing that our tuetonic cousins have a scale railway which runs with more precision than our full size one! 

[vandy1]

I was there on Saturday. The airport is excellent. Rugs pushing aircraft out, start up routine, taxi and take off. Just amazing and should be at a cost of £3 million euros! 

 

Cheers

 

Darren 

[Viking]

I went n 2015, and almost had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the airport section. It was astonishing, I've never seen anything like it. The aircraft start up, get pushback, taxy out, and take off. You can ever hear the engines spool up. Others land, taxy in and park at the gate. Even the little vehicles are driving around, their brake lights come on when they slow down & stop! Every 20 minutes, night falls for about 5 minutes! If you ever get the chance, go.

(Tip - if you stay in a hotel, but your tickets there. As an overseas viisitor you can by-pass the queues. Normally I don't feel comfortable doing this, but if like me you are only there 1 day, then you might otherwise fail to get in).

 

Hard to believe these are not of a real airport;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

 

 

 

 

[spfparker]

Miniatur Wunderland is superb.  http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com

 

Hamburg's not a bad place to visit either - great shopping and restaurants to keep any others in the party happy...    ;  

[Skodadriver]

53 minutes ago, spfparker said:

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Hamburg's not a bad place to visit either - great shopping and restaurants to keep any others in the party happy...    ;  

 

.... not to mention some interesting nightlife!

 

Seriously though, Hamburg is probably my favourite German city and well worth a visit in its own right.  For anyone who wants to venture out of the centre, a trip to Blankenese five stops from Altona on the S1 railway line is easy and enjoyable.  It's an attractive (and very hilly) old riverside village largely undamaged in WW2 and many of the buildings are recognisable from the famous film of the Bismarck leaving the Elbe.