Aug 14 2008That's Freaking Huge!: Scale Model Shanghai

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OMFG! i would pay some good money to be able to Godzilla the shit out of that model city!!

I think I can see some 8 year old prostitutes

Amazing!
Imma be there some time in oktober later this year!

IMMA DO THE THINGS THAT I WANNA DO!
I AINT GOT A THING TO PROVE TO YOU!!!

Meh... I've seen bigger...

I got to see this two years ago. It is STUNNING in person.

The only drawback is that you can't play with it (and dinosaurs).

Is that light-coloured building in the last picture's right foreground supposed to be leaning like that? Maybe a stupid question, but that other, tall building's got a *hole* in it.

F*** man. The god damn Shanghaiese (Shanghaiers?) have this, pretty much, reburbishing their entire city and making tons of new building. The Bullshit is that here in New York City theres been a hole in downtown for some 7 YEARS!! and they haven't built shit be it a memorial or a building.

spoiler warning - bad pun coming: they must have had to work like chinese sweatshop slaves to do that!

it would be much more geekologie-ish if it were made out of lego!!

oh btw last message,
to the title: that's what she said! (or in the case of thesuperficial writter, that's the last thing she'd say)

pretty dull. All mega-cities look the same now. They should have taken example on Europe where every big or little towns have their own personnality and history.

Just a note: all the white buildings in the model are ones that are under construction or will be (which you'll notice, is a majority of the city).

So... it's kind of a big fantasy model, at this point.

Hof, I think you hit the nail on the head. I somehow doubt that personality is at all the focus of communist China....

#2: yeah ;)

Apparently i'm huge in China as well.

@7, thats the shanghai world financial centre, the hole is now going to be square as the round hole looked too much like the japanese flag [rolls eyes]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/world/main951754.shtml

Coruscant.

#13- Shanghai has the most cranes in use in the world. They put up buildings at lightning speed compared to cities in the U.S. and Europe. So I don't think that makes it a 'fantasy novel'. At the rate they're going it will probably get done. I took over one hundred pictures while I was there. It's really neat, and you can find your house/hotel and see if it will still be there in 2020 or if it's slated to get knocked down.

that scale model is friggin' awesome. l've seen it and it's pretty detailed.

beijing city hall has a quite big scale model too. l saw the CCTV building (with the M shape) there as it would look like when is finished.

I've seen that river and it sure ain't blue. More like a lovely shade of mud and pollution...

I like how optimistic they are, no chance the water will be that blue once the city is built up that big.

great...
let's just cover the whole world in buildings.
screw the animals.
and plus the pollution a city this size would cause in that river...
bring on the mutants!

i hate most people.
i'll just start being friends with robots controlled by brain cells.

Actually they're planning to build a man-made island that's devoted to wildlife & environmental protection. Not much in the grand scheme of things, but it's better than nothing. They have a pretty big exhibit dedicated to explaining it/pimping it.

Shanghai is ok. If you get the chance though, definitely go to Hong Kong instead. I'm living in China now, and Shanghai has lovely white skies. Seriously, no blue to be found except in the very early mornings on the rare clear day. And even then, only if you look directly up.

octogooch, you would be my hero if you Godzilla-ed it

Large cities are actually the most eco friendly way to manage billions of people.

where's the grass?

and the bridges?

i believe that 1:2 scale is incorrect, it might be 1/2"=1' scale. i can guarantee that half of shanghai would not fit in this building, which is all a 1:2 scale would be.

Looking at the first and last pic, there's no way that first time pilots could nail the twin towers in New York: Conslusion is that 9/11 was a government inside job...Building 7 wasn't even hit by a plane!

It just screams "Jackie Chan fight scene location" to me

Hey, Great pictures, i cant wait to see this shanghai stuff

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is it bad that i want to go step on it going rawr rawr

cool lol very nice