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Dresden, hmmm!

Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217
in The Commons

I just stumbled over the brand new Dresden Circle prop in the shop and at the first glance I was happy to find a nice place in my real neighborhood. But than I found out it is a complete bavarian place with Oktoberfest and the bavarian flag etc. However Dresden is the baroque capital city located in Saxony and between the two places we have ca. 500km. So the name is complete misleading, it should be Munich Circle or so. Bavaria with its strange and picturesque culture is not in general Germany, it's just a pretty small and funny part of it and I have to mention it even if I know that for the most people in the world unfortunately Bavaria is the same as Germany - what makes the most of us germans shiver. And I know I whistle in the wind...

What if I would create a nice and for tourists typically New Orleans area with stake buildings and the Louisiana flag and name it Salt Lake City Circle just because it sounds american anyhow in my european ears? It's a matter of general education, I think!

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  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,680

    I'm from NRW, not from Dresden, but I absolutely agree with you. This name is not only misleading, it also feeds the worst prejudices about the educational level of Americans. I also thought the product contained some of Dresden's beautiful baroque buildings, and such Bavarian and Oktoberfest stereotypes are doubly disappointing. That's not to say anything about the quality of the models; I don't know them, but they're certainly well done. But what about the monstrous neo-Renaissance building in the background? Do you have anything like that in Desden? 

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 6,065

    Gahhh you're right, this hurts my eyes,

    (NRW as well, but what Enchanted said is so very true)

  • Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217

    @ Caravelle Naja, ich bin auch nicht aus Dresden sondern aus Berlin, aber das ist ja fast Nachbarschaft ;) Jedenfalls mehr als Bayern. Nix gegen die Bayern, aber diese Verallgemeinerung finde ich immer ärgerlich. Aber vielleicht sollten wir einfach froh sein, nicht alle für "Ostfriesen" gehalten zu werden, du weißt schon... Ich verstehe nicht, wieso ein Creator, wenn er soviel Sorgfalt auf die Erstellung seines Produktes verwendet bei der Namensfindung einfach aufhört! Danke für deine schöne Bestätigung meines Eindruckes! 

  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,680

    Keine Ursache; das hat mich auch spontan geärgert. Aber in dieser Hinsicht habe ich sowieso schon die 'dollsten Dinger' erlebt... surprise

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 6,065

    hey, nix gegen die Ostfriesen büdde ;) bin da großgeworden

  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,680

    laugh Da wir ja schon mal bei Stereotypen sind: Auf jeden Fall scheinen die Ostfriesen Humor zu haben. Ich muss das wissen; als gebürtige Kölnerin verstehe ich ja automatisch etwas von Humor... ;-) Otto stammt von dort, ebenso wie die Marx Brothers. 

  • Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217
    edited February 2019

    Oh nee, nee, nix gegen Ostfriesen! Ich merke schon, ganz dünnes Eis hier ;) und warte auf den ersten Bayern. Von wegen pretty small and strange and picturesque. Also vorauseilend an alle geschätzten Landsleute, jede Region hat ihre liebenswerten Stereotype, aber wir wollen doch nicht alle in einem bayerischen Eintopf landen. Es geht ja nur darum, ein wenig an der weltweiten Annahme zu rütteln, nämlich dass Bayern = Deutschland ist. Howgh!

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,745

    Perhaps someone could make a model of the Frauenkirche by way of apology?

  • Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217

     @ Richard Haha, good idea, I'm quite sure you mean that famous french cathedral?! *rofl*

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,051
    Enchanted April said:

    I just stumbled over the brand new Dresden Circle prop in the shop and at the first glance I was happy to find a nice place in my real neighborhood.

    I can understand the appeal and frustration - there's something about familiar geography that's so nice to put into a scene. My absolute favourite monthly Freebie out of my Renderosity membership is the "Mediaeval Hall" that was instantly recognisable as actually being a Victorian-era reproduction of a mediaeval style, because while not absolutely millimetre perfect , it was visibly based on Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum in London (even if it didn't have a huge skeleton in the middle).

    (Also, I recently got quite angry with a "Do you know these British words/phrases?" quiz that had obviously been written by Americans, because it got several things wrong. Cultural literacy is unfortunately often in short supply).

  • Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217

    @ Matt Hey you lucky one, I can imagine your happiness when you discovered that fact. Now you can hang a huge whale skeleton into and feel like at home and every render you make for family and friends will get a big wow! I'm waiting for a prop that will does the same for me. 

  • marie koutnevermarie koutnever Posts: 46

    This set is unbelivable. It´ s a shame. 

    marie

  • rk66rk66 Posts: 449
    edited February 2019

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/100130_150006_Dresden_Frauenkirche_winter_blue_sky-2.jpg/800px-100130_150006_Dresden_Frauenkirche_winter_blue_sky-2.jpg

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  • marie koutnevermarie koutnever Posts: 46

    beautiful church,  but only in the whole of dresden you will find nowhere such those houses

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,332
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Perhaps someone could make a model of the Frauenkirche by way of apology?

    one at Turbosquid

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,412

    "Dresden Circle" is a quilting pattern. Of course, that is no more related to the new product than the city of Dresden, Germany is.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    It wouldn't be half as bad if there weren't all those "Oktoberfest" signs in the set... After living in northern Germany for the first 40 years of my life I now live in Bavaria - well, Frankonia in fact - and there's none of that Oktoberfest BS to be seen here in Oktober... but of course stereotypes make all germans Bavarians in Lederhosen, who drink lots of Bier on the Oktoberfest that goes on everywhere in Germany...

    Bah..

     

    Oh.. and when I read "Dresden Circle" I at first expected to see some smouldering ruins... *cough*

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