Talk:Miniatur Wunderland

Removal of image

I feel the "view below the alps" image needs to be removed. WP:IMAGE, articles aren't supposed to be galleries, and while the rest of the images show the subject in question, this doesn't really do anything to further the reader's understanding or knowledge about the subject. It would be like the article on Shea Stadium having a picture of the garbage can outside. Currently their are far more images than text anyway so it should be considered trimming and this is one that should definitely go first.--221.143.25.19 (talk) 07:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

On the contrary, anonymous user. The "View below the Alps" picture shows how this attraction has been created. It's more valid than having several - admittedly interesting - pictures of landscape. A garbage can outside a stadium is a poor comparison, as it's not an integral part of the structure.

Also, there's the question of copyrights - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Madame_Tussauds - another closeup picture of the model was already deleted. Almost Anonymous (talk) 14:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

"But does it run Linux?!"

It would be interesting to have some information about the computer system employed to manage the vast array of trains and signals and such. In fact, given the significance of a certain American model railway to computing history, I think a lot of people would like to know how it all works behind the scenes. No doubt there are some very well-informed techie types familiar with Miniatur Wunderland who could provide this information. Beorhtwulf (talk) 17:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

"Should we add information about the Scandanavian Section?"

I'm a big fan of the Miniatur wunderland and feel that as part of the summary it might be worth mentioning the amount of water (30K)and the tide simulation system employed. It is pretty special. Would this go well as a seperate section? Could unbalance the article or summary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ATTHED (talk • contribs) 22:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Is it the largest?

I can't find a conclusive source that says whether Miniatur Wunderland is the largest, or whether Northlandz (http://northlandz.com/stats.html) is actually larger. They both claim to be the world's largest, but the objective measures seem to point to Northlandz, since it has over 50,000 feet of track, as compared to MW's approximately 40,000. Can anyone find any good secondary sources that settle the issue? For the time being I've altered the article to say that it's one of the largest in the world. Jeferman (talk) 20:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Northlandz writes on their webpage: "The average family will spend over 2 hours". I went to Miniatur Wunderland for 5 hours and I didn't see everything because there were so much details. Just another nice record;-) John Eff (talk) 10:23, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

MiWuLa is by far the largest, and has been for a while. According to http://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Northlandz, Northlandz layout area is 800m², MiWuLa in 2013 1,300m²; Northlandz 100 trains, MiWuLa 930 trains; Northlandz Building 5,000m² (including doll museum and more), MiWuLa 6,400m² (model railway exclusively); and so on (data from resp. websites). Track length might just be a bit more at Northlandz (15km, as opposed to 13km at MiWuLa), but MiWuLa scenery is not home to trains only, but also has cars, real water ships, and planes moving around, plus lots of large buildings and special features. When Italy section is finished (opening announced for spring 2016), it will add another 2.2km of track length, and more sections are coming. Even Loxx in Berlin, with 900m² said to be the world's third largest model railway (https://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Loxx), is larger today than Northlandz. 87.145.226.197 (talk) 00:45, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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