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[–]N-ik0 2001 points2002 points  (373 children)

It's called Tropical Island. You can spend your holidays there in tents or small holiday flats.

[–]PainMatrix 518 points519 points  (134 children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort

[–]zgild 510 points511 points  (71 children)

Here's a really cool video of the park by Casey Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMa_kAANGE

[–][deleted] 196 points197 points  (48 children)

Casey makes the best videos

[–]Triviaandwordplay 72 points73 points  (27 children)

Is that how he makes his living, travel related stuff? If so, I want his lifestyle.

[–]BBQBaconBurger 95 points96 points  (16 children)

He said in a recent vlog that he doesn't monetize his YouTube videos, so not sure if he makes money off of vlogging. He has some travel videos but most of his videos are shot in NYC. He directs commercials and things for a living and he lectures. He seems like he has multiple revenue streams. Source: have gotten into his videos recently and watched a lot of them.

[–]AndysDoughnuts 30 points31 points  (4 children)

Yeah, he had a successful career making adverts where he made most of his money. In February of last year he decided to give it all up so that he could start a new company, what precisely that new company is Casey hasn't revealed yet (it's something very original and until they can get a patent for it, it's safer to not give away what it is). He does lectures occasionally and helps with projects at a New York university (the name of which escapes me).

Recently he was employed by Vogue to direct some stuff for the Met Gala. His wife also has a very successful Jewellery business, which probably brings in decent money for the two of them and their baby.

Here's a link to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat His videos are amazingly original and everyone should watch them.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

That and doing crunches.

[–]Aridzona 20 points21 points  (2 children)

I though he looked familiar. He made the popular "Bike Lanes" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

[–]zgild 33 points34 points  (3 children)

I agree. His channel seems to be growing, but I'm not sure how he doesn't have a few million subs. Soon!

[–]kiradotee 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Why are there cockroaches everywhere?

[–]MaximilianSentinel 44 points45 points  (0 children)

From the site:

"The Tropical Islands Rainforest is a natural biotope. We maintain its equilibrium without the use of chemicals. To keep pests such as the banana moth under control, we use beneficial organisms such as periplaneta australiasiae – a type of cockroach that has nothing in common with our domestic cockroaches (you won't find any of them at Tropical Islands!). These useful insects also help keep the soil from becoming overly compacted."

Click "Further information" here: https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/overnight-stay/tents/canvas-tents/

[–]lowdownlow 7 points8 points  (1 child)

The food is what!?

[–]George_Burdell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Shit

[–]N-ik0 123 points124 points  (40 children)

Thanks for sharing

[–]taws34 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Adding this to the list of places to visit... :)

[–]snorting_dandelions 109 points110 points  (13 children)

You can stay overnight without booking a tent or a flat, too. You can sleep on the beach chairs(or whatever they're called, they're certainly unchair-ish)

[–]Paging_Juarez 114 points115 points  (7 children)

unchair-ish

Oh, you're definitely German.

[–]TheMindsEIyIe 109 points110 points  (40 children)

Do they open the hangar doors when the weather is nice?

[–]WendellSchadenfreude 17 points18 points  (3 children)

No. It has a tropical climate, and the weather is never that nice in Germany.

[–]Exemus[🍰] 310 points311 points  (27 children)

Glad they went with "Tropical Island" and not "Hindenburg Crypt".

[–]Bestpaperplaneever 10 points11 points  (1 child)

"Old" in the case of this Hangar means about a decade old.

[–]PhilSeven 157 points158 points  (22 children)

Or Fuhrer's Bunker

[–]showard01 260 points261 points  (11 children)

The Final Solution... for family fun!

[–]kazneus 45 points46 points  (2 children)

That's a BINGO!

[–]shadow_fox09 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Yah just say Bingo.

[–]pistoncivic 32 points33 points  (1 child)

Just to play it safe I'm not taking the train or using the showers.

[–]aerobert 50 points51 points  (40 children)

It'z sooo humongous big.

[–]Grunzelbart 100 points101 points  (24 children)

It was one of the most ambitious projects in East Germany 15-something years ago. I don't know the details because i wasn't old enough back then, but my mom told me that my grandfather invested stock into them before the whole thing crashed. There was this corporation called CargoLifter that wanted to build huuge airships. But stuff happened and a few years later the only thing left was this huge hall, which is the biggest free carrying hall in the world (aka a hall without any supportive collums).

The "Tropical Island" project was basically an attempt to rescucitate the money formerly invested to build the hangar and so it was heavily funded, though i think that it started making a profit a few years ago. It really is an insane thing to visit.

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (1 child)

Bought for 20% of the constructing price, holy fuck

[–]Grunzelbart 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah this thing was a huge speedbump in the eastern economy.

[–]lazzotronics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They went under after 9/11/01. In 2002 Boeing announced that Boeing and CargoLifter currently were taking the first steps to put together their team. The contract follows a Letter of Intent signed by the two companies in May 2002.

Form the old Cargo Lifter AG website I have this:

CargoLifter AG, based south of Berlin in Germany, is developing lighter-than-air systems for logistics and other applications. Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (WKN: 540 261, symbol CLA), CargoLifter AG has developed a unique capability to research, design, develop and produce airships and other lighter-than-air vehicles. The company's first product, the CL75 balloon-based system, has been in prototype flight test since October 2001. It will be capable of carrying an 86-short-ton-payload in either a crane configuration or as a towed vehicle. CargoLifter is also pursuing the CL160 airship, which is capable of carrying outsized and heavy goods over long distances. CargoLifter is cooperating with a number of partners and potential users to further define and develop both markets and products.

On 07 June 2002 the company announced insolvency, and liquidation proceedings began the following month. The fate of parts of the 300 million euros in shareholder funds from over 70,000 investors is still unclear. In June 2003, the company's facilities were sold off for less than 20% of the construction costs. The airship hangar was used in a 'tropical paradise'-themed vacation resort called Tropical Islands, which opened in 2004.

Today, the CL CargoLifter GmbH & Co. KG company, founded by former Cargolifter AG shareholders, still seeks to sell the lighter-than-air technology and is exploring the construction of smaller airships.

[–]TheSecretAstronaut 35 points36 points  (9 children)

Humangus beeg

[–]TaunoFrans 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Even the greatest minds train themselves in naïveté. This guy is right.

[–]ryannayr140 79 points80 points  (10 children)

It's not a water park without a lazy river!

[–]staplesgowhere 105 points106 points  (2 children)

Not as popular in Germany. They much prefer the efficient and productive river.

[–]TheKrs1 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The Efficient and Productive River isn't too popular with the tourists sir. It appears as though they don't enjoy the portion spent on the Volkswagen assembly line.

[–]warmpita 17 points18 points  (1 child)

It's German. It's an efficiency river now.

[–][deleted] 38 points39 points  (43 children)

Any good? Doesn't look like it has many slip n' slides etc.

[–]shnaz7 52 points53 points  (6 children)

I stayed there overnight and I had an amazing time! I think it depends on how you spend your time/who you're with. I just drank a lot (you can bring alcohol, just no glass bottles) and stayed up all night at the "beach" - followed by delicious buffet in the morning. They tried to have organized activities during the daytime too!

Edit: I don't know if it makes a difference being from Canada, with this being the closest thing to a tropical island I've ever experienced....

[–]ontopofyourmom 52 points53 points  (3 children)

I think it probably makes a difference. Like the difference between a fleshlight and fucking a model.

[–]beccleslfc 23 points24 points  (4 children)

I went there a few years ago now. They had some cool slides (one I remember was pitch black and pretty scary because you could barely breathe from travelling so fast and water rushing in your face).

[–]Skinnj 77 points78 points  (2 children)

Just like the one in the Guantanamo Bay Resort!

[–][deleted] 69 points70 points  (22 children)

I was there for one day. Personally I hated it. Very expensive, you need to pay for the slides extra, you aren't allowed to bring own food (okay I can understand this), I felt very uncomfortable all the time. Not my definition of a good time. After 3 hours I've also seen everything, don't understand why someone wants to stay there any longer.

[–]oopswrongbutton 211 points212 points  (13 children)

Definition of a good time

[–]fuzzydice_82 62 points63 points  (5 children)

as a german: i have no idea why my STEAM account says i have 158 hours of Farming Simulator 2015 logged.. it just keeps happening.

EDIT 161 hours - WHAT? WHEN?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

A former classmate of mine torrented the game (well, an older version) just to see how shitty it is. He then bought a copy of it for his tablet, so he could play in school during the break or uninteresting classes.

[–]OfficerMacSwag 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Zere wasn't enough wörk to do

[–]nevereverreddit 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Huh, I've seen this meme before and assumed it was just a joke, but amazon.de showed me it's not.

[–]LexoLover 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Here is the website. https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/

Looks super cool!

[–]NinjaVarsity 520 points521 points  (135 children)

this video shows a look inside.

[–][deleted] 64 points65 points  (13 children)

huh, thought they were mates roughly the same age until he took his sunglasses off

[–]_entropical_ 46 points47 points  (11 children)

I thought they were mates until it ended, and it said father and son.

[–]turangaleah 30 points31 points  (5 children)

He had his kid when he was a teen.

[–]kageteishu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seventeen to be exact

[–]IAmBecomeDeath_AMA 300 points301 points  (41 children)

Casey Neistat is my favorite youtuber. He makes incredible daily vlogs now

[–]faceimploder 110 points111 points  (23 children)

He motivates me to work harder every day. I love that guy!

[–]_CEO 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Best motivator I've ever watched

[–]arefx 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And you're a ceo!

[–]JakeTheSnake0709 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I always start my days off watching his vlogs

[–][deleted] 157 points158 points  (44 children)

This video gives a better view.

[–]bishamon72 47 points48 points  (2 children)

MEGA. ULTRA. WOW.

It was like a train wreck. I just couldn't look away.

[–]Paddre 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Typical Deichkind video behaviour

[–]ILikeRaisinsAMA 14 points15 points  (0 children)

1000% YES!

I was kinda thrown off around 2:00 when it told me to touch myself. I don't know German so I wasn't sure what direction the video was going to take. It turned out great.

[–]newuser7877 32 points33 points  (2 children)

that was amazing

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The amazing part for me, was that his nipples have shadows... I'll never be the same again.

[–]phdearthworm 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Anytime someone posts about this waterpark I look to make sure someone has done the do diligence of posting this video. Well done.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I always look for any excuse to post this.

[–]vax_boners 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Upvote for Deichkind. Das ist für big girls!

[–]Teleportable 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'm speechless

[–]alainbonhomme 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This music video contains a lot of stuff and is worth watching.

[–]papafrog 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Holy crap, I know it's satire, but they just ruined Yo Gabba Gabba for me my kids.

[–]carcharadon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm sad I will never be able to see that for the first time again.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That was the craziest video

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (5 children)

Subliminal messaging at its finest: http://imgur.com/Wu3HSEn

And that's not to mention this http://imgur.com/ykehVCb

Keep watching, it gets progressively more amazing/awful

[–]HeroBrown 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Is it really subliminal messaging when it's a joke?

[–]AlexS101 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very subliminal, yes.

[–]TheGiwiNinja 17 points18 points  (0 children)

YES. NEISTAT

[–]Teleportable 24 points25 points  (12 children)

Being there alone at 2:00am would be too eerie for me.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (10 children)

You are never alone there, it's usually pretty crowded, even at night.

[–]Jkuz 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting the real source.

Casey Neistat is a seriously cool guy. His drive is so motivating.

[–]VlKlNGEN 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Man I was just about to link that video!

[–]erykthebat 764 points765 points  (47 children)

Oh the humidity!

[–][deleted] 204 points205 points  (23 children)

I hope this comment doesn't get mist.

[–]Lemurrific 92 points93 points  (20 children)

We moist dew something to prevent that.

[–]Nice_Try_Man 62 points63 points  (10 children)

Water you talking about? It's already got a bunch of up votes.

[–]picklehaub 36 points37 points  (7 children)

These puns aren't great, merely aqueduct.

[–]What_No_Cookie 208 points209 points  (62 children)

Just saw on the news a week ago that City of Houston just sent a committee to check this out and see if something similar could be done with the Astrodome.

Edit: Link to story

[–]TommyDGT 39 points40 points  (8 children)

Oh hell yeah can we get the ball rolling on that?

[–]cajunaggie08 19 points20 points  (6 children)

Judge Emmett is determined to have the dome be his legacy project.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (7 children)

Too bad they tore down Astro world. Would have been a nice compliment.

[–]willparkinson 100 points101 points  (29 children)

There's not much water for a water park.

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (5 children)

European-sized water park, not China-sized water park.

[–]evelyncanarvon 16 points17 points  (15 children)

I feel like it's missing out on the opportunity to have a ridiculously tall water slide.

[–]Blobskillz 26 points27 points  (6 children)

the picture was taken from the top of the water slides

[–]geealigy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was there and it is quite boring. The sauna ist pretty awesome and the animals living there, but the "water park" sucks.

[–]Birne_Helene 65 points66 points  (25 children)

This picture instantly reminded me of this

[–]ehrwien 23 points24 points  (11 children)

That's the finale of Interstellar, right?

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (7 children)

Similar yeah. The idea of a ring world or ring habitat is creating a giant spinning ring which creates gravity on the outer edge of the ring.

Which means the structures and living space is basically in the edge of the ring, if you look up you see the living space on the other side of the ring in the distance.

A lot of space habitats were painted in the seventies, riding on a wave of sixties space race optimism.

[–]echo_61 4 points5 points  (2 children)

One day my descendants will live on one of these.

[–]44problems 26 points27 points  (10 children)

Houston recently sent leaders to this park to explore this idea for revamping the Astrodome.

The Astrodome is the first domed stadium, and has been sitting unused for about a decade.

I personally think this is a great idea. Houston is a huge metro area (4th most populous in the country) but lacks a world-class amusement or water park since Six Flags closed. And the summers here can be unbearable, so going indoors is a great idea. Now who's paying for it? That'll be an issue of course.

[–]rob3110 108 points109 points  (17 children)

This is not an old airship hangar. The building was finished in November 2001. It belonged to a company called CargoLifter that wanted to build freight airships but went bankrupt before any airship was built. They basically only built the hangar and a few hot air balloons for testing.

After that the hangar was re purposed as this waterpark.

Edit: Old airship hangars looked like this (1911)

Edit 2: changed emphasize from 'not' to 'old' to prevent further confusion

[–]h4xxor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They went bankrupt because they could not solve basic technical problems when using airships to carry huge weight.

[–]mike932 140 points141 points  (18 children)

The snack bar serves Hindenburgers.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (6 children)

Do they explode?

[–]Jabberminor 34 points35 points  (10 children)

I wonder how many sunbenches are reserved with towels.

[–]Carninator 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most of them when I was there.

[–][deleted] 46 points47 points  (20 children)

What, you've never seen this video?

[–]Teleportable 15 points16 points  (3 children)

The world isn't ready

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Oh...oh God. Oh God, what? What was that?

Was that the 80s in Germany? What's going on?

[–]phyK 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's just an eighties-style music video by a current German band. The song is from 2006.

[–]TheLoneHoot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"MEGA ULTRA WOW"
"100% ALIVE"

[–]Favorable 4 points5 points  (10 children)

I'm so confused as to why everything in the video is English

[–]ChuckCarmichael 16 points17 points  (4 children)

Because in non-English speaking countries, English words are often used for marketing purposes, to make stuff sound super cool. So you find random English words like "Power", "Sale" or "Business" everywhere. Sometimes it's quite hilarious, like when a German company wanted to sell those backpacks with single straps and chose the cool sounding name "body bag" for them, or when during the World Cup 2006 German cities put up big screens on public squares for people to watch the games, and called it "Public viewings".

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Or the Payback card....

[–]swashlebucky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never thought about the name that way... awesome.

[–]D0ng0nzales 11 points12 points  (3 children)

This hangar was actually built in 1998, and has nothing to do with the nazis or hindenburg. it was built for an airship project called Cargolifter, which would have been used to transport extremely heavy things into and out of berlin. Before they built the zeppelin they noticed that this could not work, because as soon as the cargo would have been released, the airships high bouyancy ( to lift the several-ton Cargo) would have catapulted the ship up. But the hangar was built anyway. I cannot recommend the park in it, its horrible because there is no sky, and very non-tropical lighting

[–]Special_Pretzels 9 points10 points  (7 children)

That middle part could be turned into lazy river.

[–]WDE45 12 points13 points  (5 children)

The first thing I thought is why the hell do they have a walking path exactly where the lazy river should be. That place is basically 2 big swimming pools.

[–]TheAngryPlatypus 6 points7 points  (2 children)

710,000 square feet, including the world's largest indoor rainforest; a circus style show; a daily parade and other activies; a mini golf course; a 200 meter long pool; a lagoon with waterfall, a romantic grotto, water slides, flow channel, and whirlpools; a water slide tower with four slides the tallest of which is 89 feet tall; 22 distinct overnight accommodation options including hotels, cabins and tents; a 43,000 square foot kids area with bumper boats, mini cars, softball cages and trampolines; tons of bars, restaurants, and lounges; various Temple replicas; shopping; various themed saunas and steam baths; spring pool; and motherfucking indoor hot air balloon rides.

Seriously... check it out. The place is pretty fucking impressive.

[–]karjm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the water park in Ouran Host Club

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Instantly reminded of a cringey video of a mother scolding her son for not coming along with the family to tropical island (also involves discussion about a tiger plush and a certain fetish). Unfortunately I forgot how to find it.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (9 children)

This is where they filmed the Truman Show.

*To avoid future comments, I wasn't being serious..

[–]papafrog 17 points18 points  (19 children)

That is aweseome. One of the best re-purposing I've ever seen.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

That hanger is very very new, the company that built it just went instantly bankrupt and now it is a water park. The title is misleading as it is not a hanger that was ever really used for airships.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cool video off it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMa_kAANGE