Nitpicking - Blog Posts
MiniWorld Lyon
Looking for a cool place to go with @teamroquette on the hottest day of my trip to Lyon, we opted for... Lyon. But the miniature version, housed in the MiniWorld diorama park!
MiniWorld Lyon was surprisingly impressive at every level. The sets are huge and the details are amazing. We spent hours there and didn't catch everything - there are 4 Wallies (Waldos) in the whole park and I only found two. But to show the level of dedication, see that traffic jam going into Fourvière tunnel on the left? It goes all the way in, as far as the turn...
And it's like this all the way through the park. The main exhibit is divided into four zones (each with a Wally): generic city, mountain, countryside and Lyon.
This exhibit is on a 20-minute day/night cycle, and every hour, Mini Lyon holds a replica of Lyon's Fête des Lumières held in December, which includes light shows projected on buildings, such as those on Place des Terreaux.
The current temporary exhibit is called Japan Mania, with dioramas from Japanese pop culture. A few Japanese elements have been added to the main exhibit too, including something familiar...
Hmm...if this is real, it looks a lot like the old New Orleans class from the Wolf 359 graveyard in TNG, or sort of a halfway point between the N’awlins class and the Lafayette, the 2410 update of the N’awlins from *Star Trek Online*.
It’s a good design for a smaller destroyer/light cruiser type of ship...but it raises the obvious question of why they didn’t just use the N’awlins instead. :/ (If it’s just fanart, I retract all my complaints.)
U.S.S Cerritos by Simon Marino