I love the miniature wonderland ! I have seen here in Germany sony TV documentations about it and I live here in Hannover less than 180 km away.
I also plan to go there.It is made up from two twin brothers with there own money and not by public money or support .When they startet , they hoped to have anytimes 100 000 - 500 000 visitors a year . after a few years they have had more than 1000 000 visitors and now up to 2000 000 visitors a year with more than 2 hours waiting lines . Now they have more than 60 empoyees and another 60 volunteers . They were honoured (the twins) by the city of Hamburg for the best buisinessman / selfmademan of the year !
Visitors come from troughout Germany to the far north port city,many from the south like Bavaria , and many from neighboring countries like NL;BELGIUM;
AUSTRIA and Switzerland ,where many detail fanatics live and they love this scale model . It is hosted in Hamburgs historic Speicherstadt (Warehouse city)just next to the super modern and huge Hafencity (Harbour city U/C).