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In Australia, I would expect any "Miniature wonderland" to be aimed at a kiddie demographic, although, it was touted as "The largest model railway in the world," which I would expect might pull a lot of old men
However, given the number of children heading into the place, it was a sort of surprise to find:
* Someone puking outside a trainstation
* A red light district, including sailors chatting up whores in a brothel
* Several instances of people fucking in the wilderness
* A porn film set
* Someone masturbating in a toilet cubicle
* Someone puking in a portaloo at an outdoor rock concert
However, the only srug use that I saw any evidence of was drunkenness. Not that we really exhausted the place. It was amazingly extensive (500,000 person-hours so far), and detailed. I don't get why modellers use 1:87 scale, tho. More info, but probably not so much juice, at www.miniatur-wunderland.com
Anyway, the point of this post was to say "they do things differently here". I will hopefully follow up this post with a visual representation of this. To follow on cuddlefairy's comments to Asmodel, compare the interlinking of routes in Munich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VerkehrsnetzMuenchen2008.png
And Hamburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bahnlinien_im_HVV.png
With the victorian radial system
Also, unsurprisingly, different cities are very very different places. In Munich, the S-bahn (suburban) is swish, modern and quiet, and the U-bahn (underground) is clunky, grotty, noisy, antiquated. In Hamburg the opposite applies, except that the Underground is above ground half the time (??), and not half as nice as the nicer of the Munich trains.
However, given the number of children heading into the place, it was a sort of surprise to find:
* Someone puking outside a trainstation
* A red light district, including sailors chatting up whores in a brothel
* Several instances of people fucking in the wilderness
* A porn film set
* Someone masturbating in a toilet cubicle
* Someone puking in a portaloo at an outdoor rock concert
However, the only srug use that I saw any evidence of was drunkenness. Not that we really exhausted the place. It was amazingly extensive (500,000 person-hours so far), and detailed. I don't get why modellers use 1:87 scale, tho. More info, but probably not so much juice, at www.miniatur-wunderland.com
Anyway, the point of this post was to say "they do things differently here". I will hopefully follow up this post with a visual representation of this. To follow on cuddlefairy's comments to Asmodel, compare the interlinking of routes in Munich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VerkehrsnetzMuenchen2008.png
And Hamburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bahnlinien_im_HVV.png
With the victorian radial system
Also, unsurprisingly, different cities are very very different places. In Munich, the S-bahn (suburban) is swish, modern and quiet, and the U-bahn (underground) is clunky, grotty, noisy, antiquated. In Hamburg the opposite applies, except that the Underground is above ground half the time (??), and not half as nice as the nicer of the Munich trains.