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 Post subject: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:43 pm  (#1) 
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACkmg3Y64_s?rel=0

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:47 pm  (#2) 
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Definitely a WOW! Incredible comes to mind as well.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:49 pm  (#3) 
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That is pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing it Molly. ;)
I love that airport! :ninja

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:07 pm  (#4) 
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Wow's and understatement Molly; thought I would make it playable here. :)


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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:32 pm  (#5) 
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Thanks Lyle, I wrote down how you said to make that work and I still can't get it to go.

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:24 pm  (#6) 
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If I am ever anywhere near Hamburg, I will certainly want to go see this!


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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:20 pm  (#7) 
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Amazing! No words to express the awesomeness of that!

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:32 am  (#8) 
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Incredible!!!

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:34 am  (#9) 
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Amazing, love how it all syncs together.


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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:20 am  (#10) 
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Molly,
Thanks for posting that. What an incredible sight that must be. And the amount of work it took to create (they stated it was over 500,000 hours). I forwarded the link to everyone I know.


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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:50 am  (#11) 
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Glad you enjoyed it, I know I was wowed when I saw it.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:40 pm  (#12) 
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Incredible stuff!


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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:00 pm  (#13) 
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I was there two years back. :) It's very impressive, the three-floor Mont Blanc setup is cool (you literally can watch the whole thing from three different floors, with trains coming in from different rooms/areas). The impressive thing is also how they have made cars move without visible rails (magnets under the road I guess) as well as how everything has lights and there is night and day shifting in the different halls.

The fire-fighting they talk about is also very cool. The scenario starts with smoke coming out of a building downtown (with yellow light flashing in the windows). Then police cars turn up to set up road blocks (halting the traffic) so that a whole host of fire trucks with blaring sirens can get there from across a bridge nearby.

The fact that almost all figures you see seem custom-made is also remarkable - there is a stage with several hundred in the audience, and if you start looking you can see they are all doing something, being dressed differently etc.

The airport was not finished yet when I was there, but the Scandinavian vista was quite recongizeable, especially since they showed the Kiruna Iron mine which I've visited once. :)

A massive piece of work, definitely worth visiting if you pass through Hamburg.
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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:07 pm  (#14) 
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WOW, Griatch,
Very impressive. I do think it would be a real treat to see it and worth the money. You are lucky to have seen it first hand.
Thanks for explaining it further.

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 Post subject: Re: This is a WOW!
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:17 pm  (#15) 
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It's called envy Molly and I am too. Cool, though, that you saw this Griatch. I always wanted to go to Germany, especially Bavaria to see King Ludwig's castles. Anyway, maybe one day I'll be able to do some travel. Part German (among many included in my ethnic makeup) so hopefully I'll fit right in. :)

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