TINY WONDERS ; BIG IMPACT: Miniatur Wunderland Unveiled | WELT Documentary

Monumental [Music] buildings gigantic Railway  stations and a digital Command Center that controls everything hundreds of  thousands of figures including even the Millennium Falcon from Star  Wars It's just fantasy we're in veland I think being a bit crazy is a major  job requirement for working in land this is just amazing isn't it a creative team  that constantly thinks on a scale of 1 to 87 hundreds of trains hundreds of meters of  track and tinkerers for whom no challenge is too great if you

make a mistake at  the beginning it has an effect on the whole thing right down the  line millimeter perfect Precision under constant observation everything  has to fit exactly even when time is pressing state-of-the-art technology that  amazes thousands of visitors every year and a constant stream of breathtaking ideas the  worst it can do is go wrong here everything is possible today the cleaning team has  to go into the Alps it's a good job there are hidden maintenance  hatches throughout th

e entire complex nevertheless pitra at really  has to stretch out while she's dusting after all even at a scale of 1 to  87 the mountains are still quite High just before 48 the first  visitors have already arrived it's the school holidays peak season  at minatu aaland despite opening times from morning till midnight  the place is always busy all the time Frederick Brown is ever present he and  his brother Garrett founded minat waland in 2001 meanwhile they've had to introduce a  new reservation

system visitors booked their tickets online in advance for a set time  window there's no other way to cope with the masses of people we dreamed of having 100  to 150,000 visitors a year that's about 1,000 visitors a day during the main holiday period  currently they're attracting much higher numbers today alone we'll see around 5,000 people  arriving minia Tu aaland has long been one of the main attractions in Hamburg visitors  don't only come from all over Germany but increasing ly from abroad

as well only about  10% come from Hamburg I think 25 or 30% from 150 kmers around the city after 6 months I got  an email from someone in Tokyo asking if I was the guy with the model Railway he'd like  to come and see it and soon flew in from Tokyo more than a million people come  to see minatu walant every year it's a great attraction for both young and old the gigantic track Network the lovingly crafted Landscapes the elaborate buildings  those coming here are given plenty to see with a glitt

ery snowy landscape since 2007 Switzerland has also  been part of the minatu valland with its imposing mountains an especially popular  feature here is an open air concert by Swiss artist DJ Bobo and in 2011 after  almost 6 years of construction kigan airport was finally opened it's the only  one of its kind in the world more than 40 aircraft move around the airport site  independently with takeoffs and landings every minute the entire facility meanwhile  covers several floors of an historic War

ehouse building in hamburg's shasat District it  consists of nine interconnected country sections night falls every 15 minutes in valland  and then over 330,000 LEDs bring light into the darkness what was initially the  Mad idea of the two brothers fredderick and Garrett Brown has now become one of  the main tourist attractions in Hamburg minia Tu aaland offers its visitors an  infinite number of photo opportunities for the model makers however there's no  time for playing they've got to get to

the construction site minia Tua vunda land is to  continue expanding and is now having a further attraction added Italy at 90 square m it will  be one of the largest sections so far and one of the most elaborate most of room's buildings  are already standing now it's time for the details the builders carefully cut holes  in the floor for The Fountains that will soon be cascading [Music] here to prepare for  this some of the model makers even traveled to Italy and returned with hundreds of photos

  and lots of ideas Gaston bat was in chinu the village of Rio major held a special appeal for  him so he's now immortalized it here on a scale of 1 to 87 we've only made references to the  Village because it looks different in reality it's difficult to include something like that  because I just have a bit of space here and a bit there the important thing for us was the  tunnel that's original and that's original too some of the houses original and some are  made up you can't reproduce it all i

n such detail countless meters of cable later the job's  finally done St Peter's Basilica is approaching completion a masterpiece made of 22,000  individual parts so it's hardly a lightweight nevertheless the modelers  have to operate with extreme care and attention the slightest misjudgment  now could have disastrous consequences com the cables fit perfectly  they're not in the way of the tracks that's great the trains can get by all good design and  construction took almost 2 years now all tha

t's missing are the cable connections underneath the  model down here there are hundreds of cables and wires but even so technician Kenneth mundel knows  his way around this cable jungle perfectly here we have I don't know around 300 street lights in the  Rome section alone but we don't switch them all on individually of course in the real world too each  street is basically wired with three phases and that's how we do it as well and each phase has  a slight Delay from the moment it's switched o

n and that creates quite a colorful picture when  all the lamps light up one after the other but we can bundle these cables together relatively  easily so it looks like less and less we must have about 10 times as many cables lying around  in here than we actually need for the switchable contacts