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One Hundred Smiles

Smile on Saturday #OneHundredSmiles

 

What must be Berlin's largest teddy bear. "Fynn" by Steiff is 4 meters (13 feet) tall, and can be found at the atrium of the LP12 Mall of Berlin on Leipziger Platz. I had to stand right in front of Fynn, because the comfy chairs placed right at Fynn's "paws" were all occupied by tired Christmas shoppers. The Mall opened in September 2014 and is Berlin's second biggest shopping mall. This December I visited it for the very first time, together with Sabine.R, on a photowalk. Taken with the Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm ultra wide-angle lens.

 

Steiff is one of Germany's most renowned manufacturers of stuffed toys / plush animals. It was founded in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, who designed and made most of the prototypes of her plush animals herself. Steiff's nephew Richard, who joined the company in 1897, invented the teddy bear in 1902. By 1907 Steiff had already manufactured and sold 974,000 teddy bears, the output continues to increase to this day, and Steiff plushies are sold worldwide. The Steiff company motto is "Only the best is good enough for children."

 

Happy 100th, Smile on Saturday! Keep smiling :-)))

 

Der vermutlich größte Teddybär Berlins. Vier Meter hoch ist "Fynn" und sitzt im Atrium der LP12 Mall of Berlin. Ich habe direkt vor Fynn gestanden (stehen müssen), weil sämtliche Sessel zu seinen "Tatzen" von erholungssuchenden Weihnachtsbummlern belegt waren, und die wollte ich nicht mit auf dem Bild haben. Fynn ist ein echter "Steiff-Knopf-im-Ohr-Bär" ;-)

 

Aufgenommen mit dem Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm Ultraweitwinkel bei einem Fotospaziergang mit Sabine.R, der uns erst in die Mall of Berlin führte, dann auf's Park Inn und anschließend zum Weihnachtsmarkt am Alexanderplatz, zum Dom und als Abschluss zu Spree und Reichstagsgebäude.

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