Traffic Lights - Blog Posts
Minnie: 💅
Donald: 🙁
Minnie is posing while waiting at a traffic light.
red light district but it’s only people in traffic light fursuits
hey, humour me for a moment. where are you from and what do you call these
Halt!
L’arte è un simbolo perché l’uomo è un simbolo.
Oscar Wilde
Local Ampelmännchen!
While the East Berlin Ampelmännchen has become a cultural icon, other cities in Germany have been getting their own personalised red and green men for pedestrian traffic lights, from historical figures like Karl Marx in Trier, to mascots.
So on the left, we have Brezelbu, a mascot for Speyer's annual pretzel festival. These lights were implemented in time for the 2023 edition.
On the right, we have Det, one of six little characters introduced in the 1960s on TV channel ZDF to transition in and out of ad breaks. The characters were called the Mainzelmännchen, or the little men from Mainz, so the city has adopted them as mascots of sorts.
