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http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
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Very impressive! (except all the inhabitants seem to be on valium but I suppose that's too much to ask!)
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That's what she said, supposedly; I think she was lying.
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With the time, effort, imagination, and money that was spent on this 'mini' world --all without the trash and pollution, hunger, war, ecological destruction...homelessness, unemployment, poverty, the elderly unable to survive on ss --let alone pay for their medications--or for that matter anyone being able to afford their 'medicine', hospitalization, doctor visits and procedures, dental, eye, etc., I just can't help but to feel this is another Marie Antoinette mentality moment...
This is like a rich uncle buying an expensive toy for his son who plays with his starving nephew.
Of course, I realize this is just another amusement for the rich; a gimmick, like everything else to take their money while they pretend for a while to be in fairy land.
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" But I want an Oompa-Loompa NOW....!"
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it's not conducive to a creative atmosphere!
I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
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Forgive me Excaelis, but what is a Oomp-Loompa?:)
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w-0-w!
Ako ay ako, ikaw ay ikaw.
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Thank you almost a free bird: It must be an imaginary toy person... like a Barbie doll. I'm curious what book they came from.
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As Marissa pointed out, a Wunderworld with no Wunderproblems. There is something monstrously sterile about it.
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Well they have fires......
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Arson maybe? Let's see. One of the Wunderkind gains consciousness, realizes the artificiality of Wunderland, and in an act of heroic self-sacrifice immolates his world before it metastasizes. P.S. You'd never know I had a model railroad train.
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Marissa - Now I see what an oaf I am. I didn't realize immediately upon stumbling upon the Miniatur site that a measly hangarful of toys on the other side of the world negatively affects the States' ability to take care of their citizens. Then the Disneylands - with numerous locations and larger-size miniatures - must have a more devastating effect.
Brain-washing starts in the cradle. - Arthur Koestler
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To George V:
"Marissa - Now I see what an oaf I am. I didn't realize immediately upon stumbling upon the Miniatur site that a measly hangarful of toys on the other side of the world negatively affects the States' ability to take care of their citizens. Then the Disneylands - with numerous locations and larger-size miniatures - must have a more devastating effect."
Yes, the Disneyland is along the same idea.
My point that I was trying to make, is that if the government can --and has the means-- to create these miniature worlds, yet, cannot address some of the ills of their society that I mention, because it doesn't have the money or means to do so...yet can build a 'miniature' toy world, the cost of which was not 'measly', seems unconscionable to me.
It isn't that I think that nothing should ever be created for pleasure or beauty... It is just the mentality of: Oh! never mind that my country is starving, lets take even more--or all-- the county's money and build an extravagantly lavish palace for the King so he can entertain better and in the opulent style that he wishes ...like the palace of Versailles for example. This is an exaggeration, but it illustrates my point.
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