Caption Competition
Winning entries in the Caption Competition.
The competition is now closed.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. MorningGlories Tower says hold up, there's bad weather at Legoland.
5. eattherich
It's so authentic. Look, even the departure lounge is packed with thousands of tiny figures asleep on the floor or queuing, bereft of hope.
4. Jovian_Moon
Gulliver wondered just how he was going to continue his travels.
3. Cheesy
Meanwhile at the sleep clinic, new technology gives scientists a glimpse into Michael O'Leary's dreams.
2. redalfa147
The model planes are in Hamburg. Unfortunately, the model baggage is in Mumbai.
1. Fern Coolbra
I'm afraid you're over the three-inch-tall limit, Sir, so there's a £1,000 surcharge...
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Comment number 1.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:It looks impressive now, but it had not been all plane sailing ...
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Comment number 2.
At 5th May 2011, SkarloeyLine wrote:I call this one "Pippa" because it's got such a cute rear end.
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Comment number 3.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:Don't worry, said the Japanese film director, we'll add the Godzilla costume later
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Comment number 4.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:But Hans had only done it for the duty-free
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Comment number 5.
At 5th May 2011, rogueslr wrote:Gulliver's travails.
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Comment number 6.
At 5th May 2011, Ian wrote:Gulliver wondered just how he was going to continue his travels.
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Comment number 7.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:There was even a miniature Tannoy system announcing flight delays because of a strike by Spanish air traffic controllers
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Comment number 8.
At 5th May 2011, SkarloeyLine wrote:The people of Legoland were going to be spending that night in the Underground stations.
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Comment number 9.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:Richard just wished he hadn't left his landing light on when he went to bed
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Comment number 10.
At 5th May 2011, rogueslr wrote:3.5 million Euros plus your booking fee, luggage excess, express check in, that'll be 7.2 million Euros please. Oh, you want to use a credit card....
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Comment number 11.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Richard Branson loved playing in his back garden
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Comment number 12.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Flight of fancy
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Comment number 13.
At 5th May 2011, BaldoBingham wrote:Get me a tissue, we've just had another bird strike.
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Comment number 14.
At 5th May 2011, Catherine O wrote:It was a tense moment for the Lufthansa passengers.
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Comment number 15.
At 5th May 2011, Catherine O wrote:"Show me the brat with the beans and I'll let the rest go."
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Comment number 16.
At 5th May 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Lufthansel und Gretel
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Comment number 17.
At 5th May 2011, SkarloeyLine wrote:Staff and passengers alike complained of Air Traffic Control's "Big Brother" attitude.
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Comment number 18.
At 5th May 2011, BeckySnow wrote:See Mum! See dad! And you said a degree in Media Studies was a waste of time!
(It's ages since that one made the winners' list)
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Comment number 19.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:They've won three Dinky toy cars on one flight?
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Comment number 20.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 21.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:I'm afraid you're over the three-inch-tall limit, Sir, so there's a £1,000 surcharge ...
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Comment number 22.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:Even Heathrow started from humble beginnings
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Comment number 23.
At 5th May 2011, BeckySnow wrote:Is it the bmibaby fleet?
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Comment number 24.
At 5th May 2011, Gurney Nutting wrote:All that attention to detail, and they can't even spell Wonderland!
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Comment number 25.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Ryanair organises special flights for leprechauns
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Comment number 26.
At 5th May 2011, SkarloeyLine wrote:Baggage handling failures, my foot. It's them ruddy Borrowers again.
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Comment number 27.
At 5th May 2011, Raven Clare wrote:Wunderland employee straightens his Thai
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Comment number 28.
At 5th May 2011, BaldoBingham wrote:Meanwhile, Ryanair was being set up in the car park half a mile away from the main airport.
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Comment number 29.
At 5th May 2011, BeckySnow wrote:"Chicken or beef?"
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Comment number 30.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:Rapid growth expansion was found to be a side effect of sniffing exhaust fumes from jetliners
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Comment number 31.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:I think we're gonna need a bigger plane
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Comment number 32.
At 5th May 2011, rogueslr wrote:The only thing they didn't have to miniaturise were the in flight meals.
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Comment number 33.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:This one was just a trick of the tail.
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Comment number 34.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:The exhibition shocked most people with it's popularity as no one thought it would TAKE OFF.
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Comment number 35.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:The world really has got smaller with air travel
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Comment number 36.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:Laker airways re invents itself, Well you have to start somewhere
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Comment number 37.
At 5th May 2011, Candace9839 wrote:No papers this time
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Comment number 38.
At 5th May 2011, littleDickie wrote:Will you be wanting french fries as well..?
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Comment number 39.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:The package holiday hits a new dimension, build your own plane
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Comment number 40.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Lufthansa introduces bluebottle-sized planes for their new Fly-Drive holidays
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Comment number 41.
At 5th May 2011, Candace9839 wrote:And our miniature flight hostesses have fabulous uniforms.
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Comment number 42.
At 5th May 2011, Claire Naylor wrote:The miniature airport felt just like a real one - lots of planes but no-one going anywhere
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Comment number 43.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Virgin on the ridiculous
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Comment number 44.
At 5th May 2011, littleDickie wrote:The copyright says Branson Enterprize...
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Comment number 45.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:Ryanair are offering hang gliders as an alternative
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Comment number 46.
At 5th May 2011, Candace9839 wrote:Your hand luggage is going to have to be even smaller I'm afraid
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Comment number 47.
At 5th May 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Queue the passengers
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Comment number 48.
At 5th May 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:And our on-time departure rate exceeds 99.99% just so you know.
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Comment number 49.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:and Stelios thought he was the "big man" in the airline industry!
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Comment number 50.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:Budget Airlines - The Next Generation!
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Comment number 51.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:Your looking for Hamburg, sorry this is ANTwerp!
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Comment number 52.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:Your looking for Hamburg Airport, sorry this is ANTwerp Airport!
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Comment number 53.
At 5th May 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:Everything was in readiness, but passengers still boycotted the airport due to catastrophic baggage retrieval system issues.
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Comment number 54.
At 5th May 2011, Spraggy wrote:Security Alert!! Security Alert!! There is a tresspasser on the runway, stop all flights!
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Comment number 55.
At 5th May 2011, JimmyG wrote:Gulliver's Travels
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Comment number 56.
At 5th May 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Roger!
Huh?
Request vector, over.
What?
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Comment number 57.
At 5th May 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:The modelling judges still preferred the Airfix aircraft carrrier display, commenting that the airport display 'was good, but just a little plane.....'
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Comment number 58.
At 5th May 2011, JimmyG wrote:Why Heathrow should never be tumble-dired!
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Comment number 59.
At 5th May 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:No smoking, Captain!
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Comment number 60.
At 5th May 2011, JimmyG wrote:Passenger disembarking were furious to find out the walkway lead to nowhere.
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Comment number 61.
At 5th May 2011, JimmyG wrote:This is why you should keep your mobile turned off!
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Comment number 62.
At 5th May 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:This one is two millimeters off the line.
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Comment number 63.
At 5th May 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:"There are six emergency exits on board this plane, two at the front, two in the middle, and two at the rear. In the event of a headlong collision with a mountain, all these exits will be at the rear!"
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Comment number 64.
At 5th May 2011, penny-farthing wrote:Jim was adept at making it look difficult....in truth he was just winging it.
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Comment number 65.
At 5th May 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:Six years, 3.5 million Euro, and I have to super glue my hand to the end of the Airbus just before we open to the public!
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Comment number 66.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Here I am in Hamburg, and all my luggage has been sent to Toyland
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Comment number 67.
At 5th May 2011, Whatever Next wrote:Welcome to Heathrow Airfix.
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Comment number 68.
At 5th May 2011, Whatever Next wrote:You call that a Jumbo Jet?
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Comment number 69.
At 5th May 2011, Whatever Next wrote:Hamburg Airport by Herr Fix
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Comment number 70.
At 5th May 2011, throbgusset wrote:I'm Andy - Fly me
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Comment number 71.
At 5th May 2011, penny-farthing wrote:Tragically,one mis-step from Jim had resulted in thirty-two tiny passenger fatalities before they even boarded the plane.
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Comment number 72.
At 5th May 2011, ladyofastolat wrote:As a result of the recession, airline operators across the world are forced to reduce the scale of their operations.
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Comment number 73.
At 5th May 2011, jozoed wrote:The airports latest budget cuts were causing problems to passengers expecting to fly to Majorca...
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Comment number 74.
At 5th May 2011, throbgusset wrote:On a wing and a prayer mat
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Comment number 75.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:British Airways? Never heard of them ...
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Comment number 76.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:The biggin Hill airshow was to be renamed The Little in airshow
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Comment number 77.
At 5th May 2011, rogueslr wrote:Stelios vowed never to buy off eBay again without checking the full details.
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Comment number 78.
At 5th May 2011, BoredBusinessAnalyst wrote:Wunderland had to conceed that their black boxes would be particularly difficult to find 4000m below the Atlantic Ocean.
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Comment number 79.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Not another strike? I've been watching for hours and not a single flight has taken off.
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Comment number 80.
At 5th May 2011, Raven Clare wrote:Slughaven
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Comment number 81.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:Richard Branson was still complaining about the pricing of tickets for certain airlines, It must have been an Airfix he was on about.
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Comment number 82.
At 5th May 2011, littlemunchkin wrote:The government cuts have been really hard on the air travel industry...
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Comment number 83.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Now that's what I call economy class!
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Comment number 84.
At 5th May 2011, Billynug wrote:You thought the Eyjafjallajokull explosion was bad. Jurgen the cleaner and his crafty fag in the toilet has grounded this lot for 3 months
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Comment number 85.
At 5th May 2011, penny-farthing wrote:This is a photograph of the hijacker taking the plane.........just before he put it into a duffel-bag and left the building by the nearest exit.
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Comment number 86.
At 5th May 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:And each passenger has a luggage allowance of 0.25 ounces
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Comment number 87.
At 5th May 2011, SkarloeyLine wrote:Nick Park directs his new WW2 epic: "Barnes Wallis and Gromit"
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Comment number 88.
At 5th May 2011, Tremorman wrote:One things for certain they aren't gas guzzlers
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Comment number 89.
At 5th May 2011, Raven Clare wrote:It's amazing how different everything looks from up here - those poeple look just like ants down there
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Comment number 90.
At 5th May 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:If I made a joke about this would that be an airline crack?
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Comment number 91.
At 5th May 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:I've been watching - none of those baggage handlers have moved in the last two hours
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Comment number 92.
At 5th May 2011, Billynug wrote:Mayor of Hamberg - " We believe this represents the best of German engineering and a great attribute to Hamberg's tourist attractions. I would like to thank everyone involved for their part in the 6 years of hard work and labour and while costing over £3 million Euros came in £1 million Euro under budget. I hereby declare the airport - OPEN. Any questions? "
Yes I have one - WHY?
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Comment number 93.
At 5th May 2011, Raven Clare wrote:Honey I shrunk the flughaven
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Comment number 94.
At 5th May 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:And we've got some hundreds and thousands for the in-flight catering
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Comment number 95.
At 5th May 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:Why is there a mouse in the plane? Oh, he's Steward Little.
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Comment number 96.
At 5th May 2011, penny-farthing wrote:On the other side of the plate-glass windows,in the departure lounge,mass panic ensued.
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Comment number 97.
At 5th May 2011, grazvalentine wrote:"The people on the ground look just like giants!"
"Those are giants stupid, we haven't taken off yet."
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Comment number 98.
At 5th May 2011, penny-farthing wrote:He was one of the Right brothers.........so-called because it had to be just right.
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Comment number 99.
At 5th May 2011, Woundedpride wrote:"OK, but how much leg room in First Class?"
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Comment number 100.
At 5th May 2011, Reeve Burgess wrote:Richard's OCD was beginning to runway with itself
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