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Images below are from
the BETA Test version of the MWOT™
that operated from
2013 until 2015 and was created with the talents of our team of creative
volunteers from around the world.
The test displays were designed by Founder and President of the Now
Cloased Non Profit Mini World Frank Ruby.
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MESSAGES
2022
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A Message From The Founder and President
Over the last couple of
years I have not been able to attend the local NMRA meeting and the
Easley Train Show to keep you all informed about MWOT™
due to previous business and family
commitments.
The
Miniature World of Trains™
continues to move forward but has slowed down
due to the world wide situations
that MWOT™
has no control over.
With the war in Ukraine raging on as of this update with no end in
site, the continued rise a prices for everything across the board
and the lingering effects of Covid and supply chain issue still effecting some areas of the
country and the world, CEO Kelly Orr and I have decided to push back
the opening date for the first display to 2023.
This means we will not start hard display construction until the end
of the second quarter of 2023 even with the predicated recession.
However, this does not mean that we can't start on small projects
like building some of the hundreds of structures needed for the
displays and creating the thousands of trees.
Since this is the start of
the
Miniature World of Trains™
for profit version we still need to complete the PHASE I funding
of $800K to $1.5M+ for phase I of the HO Display and the Christmas
Model Train Display™. Already over $130,000 has been received for work already
completed for the project! But more is still needed.
We will start building models structures and the like for the main
Miniature World of Trains™
HO Display in January 2023 for the main city scene
including the main station and platforms, the huge ore dock and many
skyscrapers and small buildings as well as as soon as possible
creation
of the thousands of trees needed for the displays.
Here is how you can help us!
Frank Ruby
Founder and
President
Lilliput LLC™ dba Miniature World Of Trains™
12/15/22 |
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2021
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A Message From The Founder and President
The world is all around us. We are surrounded by
it everyday.
The colors of the world live in the diversity of
its life within the seas, rivers, lakes, mountains and man made
structures . The cities with their skyscrapers, homes and
industries. Within the cities are the bright lights of the city
centers and stadiums filled with the energy of its people!. It is
the feeling of a great world we live in. Our world is immense and
diverse. The USA is a vast country filled with natural and man made
wonders in which not everyone can visit and enjoy during their
lifetime.
In early 2010 I had the vision of creating a miniature version of
our world. I wanted everyone to be able to see America in its glory
in a morning, afternoon or evening visit. "See America in a day"
TM! I wanted everyone to be
able to visit. Bring the world to everyone from every walk of life.
The vision was to build a place where people could experience "Our
World In Miniature"™
from representation of the eastern USA
to the western USA using state of models
and animation. These incredible destinations will be created by our
team of modeling masters from around the USA and the world. They
will be building both recognizable and new representations of the
world we live in!
This is the Miniature World of Trains™!
The Miniature World of Trains ™
will be a place unlike anything
in the United States.
To start in 2022 / 2023 we are creating the USA's east coast,
starting with a representation of the southeastern USA and moving north
to a representation of central Pennsylvania then to the western
mountains and a very large cityscape. The main display in an
8,000sf room will take a lot of work to create the realistic
looking world in
miniature and will be done on a scale never before scene in America.
It will feature our geography and diversity.
Our talented team of artists, engineers, designers
and modelers are combining the craft of model railroading & model
building with 21st technology. Our city scenes will feature detailed
model trains and moving vehicles, structures with hundreds of
thousands of LED lighting affects and will include up to 10 foot tall sky scrapers
in the big city scene in Phase VI.
Every miniature building, train, vehicle, tree, person and animation
will bring you the world as we know it as you have never seen it
before.
In miniature.
Our goal is to build the next big attraction in
the USA™.
Something both magical and educational.
It will be successful as others that have inspired me have.
For example the proof of concept is the number one tourist
attraction is the Miniatur-Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany with 1.2
million visitors per year! There are many others around Europe that
have hundreds of thousands of visitors each year but there is
nothing even approaching the quality of Hamburg. It is massive in
its scope.
The Miniature World of Trains
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will be funded by individuals as members of the newly formed LLC.
We will tell the story about this great place to thousands and
thousands if not millions of people each year.
Now let us share this experience with the world and capture the
wonder that is our world.
Frank Ruby
Founder and
President
Lilliput LLC™ dba Miniature World Of Trains™
11/01/21 |
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