The road to a Rio section fully in line with our dreams and visions is long. And on the way there, we are also intensively working on roads. And paths. And streets. And stairs. And everything else that is needed to make the new section “accessible” for our little Wunderlandians. These great mosaics are for… Continue reading Construction Update #3: All roads lead to Rio
Travelogue #3 – A roadtrip from Salta to Mendoza with Judith
Let’s go to Argentina, but what do I know about the country? A huge country, a lot of meat, now they have winter instead of summer, I heard about mate and tango and the time should be different there. And what else? The departure begins smoothly. My two bags are no problem and I can… Continue reading Travelogue #3 – A roadtrip from Salta to Mendoza with Judith
Construction Update #2: Building houses in Rio de Janeiro
About 500 houses are supposed to be in the Rio section later – so there is a lot of work waiting for the model builders in our Argentinian workshop. In order to finish all houses on time, we have been planning, drawing and working on the facades for several months. Now we take a look… Continue reading Construction Update #2: Building houses in Rio de Janeiro
Travelogue #2 – Iguazú with Freddy, Gerrit, Gerd & Sebastian
Over the past 10 years, drones, high-resolution cameras and billions of mobile phones have documented the remotest and most spectacular parts of the world in brilliant detail. Before you see the Empire State Building in real life, for example, you can marvel at it from thousands of perfectly staged perspectives on YouTube and Co. Expectations… Continue reading Travelogue #2 – Iguazú with Freddy, Gerrit, Gerd & Sebastian
Construction Update #1: Rio’s underconstruction is coming together
The construction of our new section South America at the other side of the world is certainly one of the greatest challenges in Wunderland’s history. That’s why it’s a good thing that there are reliable constants that take some of the fright out of the adventure because we’re on familiar terrain. This means underconstruction is… Continue reading Construction Update #1: Rio’s underconstruction is coming together
Travelogue #1 – Exploring Buenos Aires with Felix
After two movies and eight hours sleep in the airplane Buenos Aires welcomes me with rainy weather and cold 12 degrees. I had imagined South America to be different somehow. Bruno, an old school friend of Ricardo’s, collects me at the airport and we set off for Pilar in his taxi. My task here in… Continue reading Travelogue #1 – Exploring Buenos Aires with Felix
How to Build South America #1
Miniatur Wunderland is building South America in South America! After 18 years of Wunderland, we are now embarking on the biggest and most spectacular adventure in our history to date. For the very first time, we are not building in Wunderland, but thousands of kilometres away in Argentina. We have teamed up with the Martinez… Continue reading How to Build South America #1
The first pictures
Since summer 2017 it has been a done deal: We are building South America! In our workshop near Buenos Aires you can definitely see that. The new construction phase is slowly taking shape. Here you can see some first impressions of what has been done in the last months.
Meeting the Martinez Family for the first time
The memory of the first contact with the Martinez family is still alive after two years. A few Wunderlandians visited New York to see a model railway exhibition. There was only one area that really surprised us: a 100 square meter model of South America with real water, Panama and Ipanema. As we were standing… Continue reading Meeting the Martinez Family for the first time
Welcome …
… Herzlich Willkommen, Bienvenido and Bem Vindo on the latest blog of Miniatur Wunderland! On this page we take you with us on what is probably the greatest adventure in Wunderland history: We are building South America! In South America. With South Americans. In about 190.000 working hours on approximately 200 square meters Rio da… Continue reading Welcome …