The world’s longest model railway is being built in Hamburg, Germany by twin brothers Gerrit and Frederick Braun who started work on it in 2000 and expect to have it finished by 2014.
It has 6 miles of track which they plan to increase to 12 miles by the time it is finished. There are 700 trains with 10,000 carriages, 2800 buildings and 160,000 figures. It runs around spectacular model scenery of United States, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia with more countries to be added. The scenery took 500,ooo hours to make. The layout is so large that it requires 160 staff to show visitors around.
Looking around here would be enthralling for both big boys and little boys.
The first Barbie doll, named Barbie Ponytail, appeared on 9th March 1959. She was first shown by makers Mattel at the New York toy fair. Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and she comes from Wisconsin. Hundreds of millions of Barbies have been sold all around the world over the fifty years. The very latest Barbie to be released is Totally Styling Tattoos Barbie that comes with 40 tattoo stickers. Here is the first Barbie doll in case you wondered what she looked like. Not bad looking for a fifty year old.