Tuesday, 19 August 2014

My visit to Miniatur Wundertland In Hamburg, Germany

Miniatur Wunderland is astounding. Measuring over 1300 square meters with moving trains (the largest miniature train track in the world, actually), moving cars and trucks, over 215000 individually sculpted figurines, and many functions which range from a crowd doing "the wave" to a working roller coaster, Miniatur Wunderland takes your breath away in a way that only LEGOLAND can (when it's one of the better LEGOLAND's).

Anyway, I know if you're anything like me you're aching to see that miniature working roller coaster, so I'll give you the video right now so we can get that out of the way:


Crazily amazing, right? I mean, I know the mechanics are probably fairly simple, but for some reason a miniature roller coaster really blows me away.

Then there's stuff like this, a functioning depiction of people doing "the wave" at what appears to be a rock concert or something:

Phenomenal. 

And then you come across simple things like this, a train crossing a bridge, that really are beauty in motion:



And here's one of two trains:


Some nice pics:









An astounding place to visit!

Friday, 1 August 2014

Comic books are mind-blowingly amazing

I love comic books, specifically trade paperbacks. I love action in comic books most of all, artwork is almost equally important to me, and story matters to me too, but not quite so much as the action and artwork.

I mean, stuff like this is just breathtaking:





I really cannot emphasize enough how awesome all of those are... just.... just wow.

I think my favourite character of all time is Red Hulk. He's like the hulk, expect an intelligent strategist who's fully aware of what he's doing while in Hulk mode (which is actually all the time, but you get my point). And red somehow looks even better on a Hulk than green does, especially with that haircut of his.

I would say my all-time favourite arc is the New 52 Batman vol 1 & 2. So awesome, with an amazing climax.

I think my second favourite arc would be Captain America: The Winter Soldier, however I can't be sure of that, because I was just getting into comics then and wasn't really paying that much attention, and i think I may have delayed finishing it for a while, but I think I still remember being really impressed.

I love comic books almost as much as I love Star Wars (and I love Star Wars a LOT).