Minneapolis! (yay)

NolanMo · 22 February 2018 00:33

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[size=14pt]Minneapolis.
(because he has nothing else to do with his life)

Hello everyone! This is the start of my new project Minneapolis a 2:1 scale recreation of the United States city “Minneapolis”, This is actually my third attempt at making Minneapolis on PCB. The first was two updates ago back in 2015 and made one building before the server reset, then once again later in 2015 but it looked nothing like Minneapolis and was to put things nicely, terrible.

But now I finally am starting the project ive been wanting to showcase for literal years now. I don’t know how long the city will take, I don’t plan on doing the entire city because that’s just insane, instead i’m focusing on the downtown portions of Minneapolis.

wtf is Minneapolis?

Minneapolis like I said is a Midwestern city in the United States of America, it is located in Minnesota and is one of two cities at the merging point of three rivers: The St. Croix, Minnesota, and Mississippi rivers. The other city aside from Minneapolis is St. Paul, this city is the states capitol city and is much more historical in real life than Minneapolis because of history and it has been around longer than Minneapolis has, the Headquarters of popular store chain ‘Target’ is located here.

“I’ve never seen Minneapolis before.”

That’s a lie, chances are you have seen Minneapolis before (you just don’t know it) some places you might have recently seen the city was: the 2018 Superbowl which was held at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, The popular TV series from the 70’s “The Marry Tyler Moore Show”, this city was where US Olympian & gold medalist “Lindsey Vonn” trained, is home to the United States largest mall “The Mall Of America” (which technically is apart of Bloomington) but some maps include it in Minneapolis maps.

If you still don’t know what Minneapolis is or what it looks like here are some images:

https://tinyurl.com/y9ztbrl4

The Project

Things That Will Remain True to Minneapolis:

-Roads / street names
-Highways
-Light-rail line(s) / names / stations
-Building Exteriors
-Sidewalks / detail / foliage
-Buildings locations
-Buildings names / purposes
-Stadiums / museums / landmarks

Things that may vary

-Interiors (some will be identical or near so, but others have to be assumed because I don’t have authorization / images of certain buildings interior but most will be the same)

Things that will not be the same / included