They put eleven years, 150,000 hours of work and five million euros into the project – and then the technology failed during the opening. Seconds before, Albert and Charlène from Monaco and their children had started the first Formula 1 race on the streets of miniature Monaco, faithfully modeled on the principality’s world-famous motorsport race. The tiny racing cars stop. The royal couple looks unsettled. Is this part of the strictly planned process? No, Gerrit Braun, the founder of Miniatur-Wonderland, hastens to say: Actually, everyone knows that you should never do a software update the day before important presentations. Because of this, he didn’t sleep for three nights. The prince grinned. As if they had suspected it, the timetable handed out at the entrance read: “17.42-17.50 BUFFER in case something goes wrong during the race.”
Princely PR with Albert and Charlène: Monaco as a miniature wonderland – Panorama
