When I was 6 yrs old, this book was fucking incredible.

Jonesty · 1 month

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designty · 1 month

I always thought it was funny when i found the little people taking shits in the bathrooms

Melchoir · 1 month

Anyone seeking more info might also check here:

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
When I was 6 yrs old, this book was fucking incredible.	320^coms	926^pts	1^mo	pics
When I was 6 yrs old, this book was fucking incredible.	10^coms	18^pts	10^mos	pics
One of my most favorite books when I was 7	9^coms	12^pts	10^mos	pics
When I was 6 yrs old, this book was fucking incredible.	10^coms	13^pts	12^mos	pics
When I was 6 yrs old, this book was fucking incredible.	469^coms	1130^pts	1^yr	pics
As a six-year-old, this was the best book ever	1091^coms	2542^pts	1^yr	pics

source: karmadecay

Laeryken · 1 month

Seriously? SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP POSTING THIS

NOACeulemans · 1 month

Ain't got nothing on this book. Loved this as a kid.

violentacrez · 1 month

It's been awhile since Jordan117 made this, but I think most of the image links should still work:

Cross-Sections

Rescue Helicopter - Ocean Liner - Space Shuttle - Subway Station - Steam Train - Gatehouse - Spanish Galleon

Exploded Views

Athenian Trireme - Colosseum - Temple of Amun-Ra - Tomb Worker's Village - Acropolis - Roman Forum - Sandstone Quarry - Merchant's House

Inside-out Views

Notre Dame Cathedral - Hagia Sophia - Sydney Opera House - Temple of Amun-Ra - St. Paul's Cathedral - Globe Theater - Empire State Building - Ancient Parthenon

Historical Panoramas

London Bridge, 1559 - Versailles, 1785 - Nonsuch Palace, 1559 - Bruges, 1480 - Empire State Bldg., 2000 - Valley of the Kings, 1425 BC - Euston Station, 1851 - German Castle, 1465

Vehicle and Expedition Cutaways

Magellan's Carrack - Airship Italia - Balloon Gondola - Irish Currach - Viking Ship construction - Chinese Treasure Ship - Caravanserai Inn - Columbus's Caravel

Castle Cutaways

Bodiam Castle, 1392 - Tower of London, 1533 - Krak des Chevalier, 1271 - Castel Sant'Angelo, 1527 - Osaka Castle, 1614 - Caernarfon Castle, 1320 - Chateau of Chambord, 1539

Commissioned work

Royal Opera House - Millennium Dome - Tower Bridge - Tower Bridge construction (animated)

*Other: *Vignettes and Portraits

From elsewhere:

Saturn V - Human Body (Italian) - Chocolatemaking - U-Boat (annotated version)- Man-O-War (2, 3, 4) - Bathroom montage

See also: A downloadable .zip file with dozens of cross-section illustrations

*Incredible Cross-Sections of Star Wars *(gallery)

Examples: Millennium Falcon - Imperial Star Destroyer - Jabba's Sail Barge - Sandcrawler - 40 more

uakari · 1 month

Stephen Biesty and Dorling Kindersley were the highlights of my childhood.

1992: Incredible Cross-Sections (Richard Platt)
1993: Man-of-War (Richard Platt)
1994: Castle (Richard Platt)
1996: Incredible Explosions (Richard Platt)
1998: Incredible Body (Richard Platt)
1999: Absolutely Best Cross-Sections Book Ever (Richard Platt)

atheg · 1 month

My favorites are the medieval castle and the pirate ship that's getting hit with cannonballs. That book is truly phenomenal.

Anonisdalulz · 1 month

I remember this from last week and the week before that and the week before that week.

lolpancakeslol · 1 month

Hey, it's this post again with the exact same title posted by the exact same guy.

casc1701 · 1 month

Every. Single. Month.

Snodgrass82 · 1 month

Hence the title ...

jjjeahh · 1 month

This has been posted 50 000 times on Reddit and probably 1 000 000 more times on 9gag. stop it! >:(

steamboatsilly · 1 month

It still is.

TheBoxTalks · 1 month

That looks awesome. I have a six-year old son who would be all over this book. Thanks for making me aware of it.

sci-mind · 1 month

THere was a similar book by Richard Scarry (I think) that did this with all kinds of vehicles. Just slightly more cartoony, and very accessible to kids.

D4wn0ff473 · 1 month

My favourite part about these books was looking for the person taking a shit in every image. It's like where's waldo, but so much more fun.

piedplatypus · 1 month

I freaking love this book! My favorite's the castle page where it shows how people would shit down the exterior wall...Always wanted to try this.

fortyonejb · 1 month

Hey, that book is fucking incredible.

See you all again in a few months?

henkraks · 1 month

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173840904l/334758.jpg This was one of my absolute favorite books when I was 7

skatar2 · 1 month

As soon as I read you've posted this three times in the past year, I immediately changed my upvote to down. Then down voted all of your comments.

SpecialForcie · 1 month

http://i.imgur.com/E3uqa.jpg

OneofYourFiveaDay · 1 month

I owned something similar to this, but on the Man O' War ships. It was epic.

InsertOffensiveName · 1 month

When I was 2 months ago on reddit, this picture was on the frontpage before.

bibimbab111 · 1 month

downvote b/c the title implies that these books are no longer incredible after age 6...which they absolutely are.

Collaterlie_Sisters · 1 month

Your reposts suck. I'm going to downvote everything I see of you.

bean1s · 1 month

It still is incredible.

pubgrub · 1 month

When I was 6 yrs old, this has been posted on reddit only just over one hundred times

sdrudie · 1 month

I REMEMBER THIS!

floethewarrior · 1 month

I am 18, and this book is still fucking incredible.

bakuretsu · 1 month

Sorry, but none of these books has anything on this one.

Wooly mammoths are the best demonstrative instrument.

Ripudio · 1 month

I'm 26. I'm pretty sure these books are still fucking incredible.

175Genius · 1 month

My middle school had this book in its library. I never returned it.

Jonny_Osbock · 1 month

I am pretty sure there was a german translation...

vlmodcon · 1 month

I'm very happy that I'm made of stuff that never stops thinking things like this book are incredible. They still make me smile, I still try to follow all the diagrams, they still make me happy...and my sons are both in college.

swfreak195 · 1 month

I had the Star Wars Versions of these, they were awesome.

madscienceftw · 1 month

I was interested in things like this at a very young age. In school, I would draw how I imagined cross-sections of various animals. Needless to say, there were many phone calls home.

ireadabookonce · 1 month

Man I ate these books up as a kid!

tamnoswal · 1 month

OP was actually 3 when this book was published. What do you know about the Garfield 3-in-1's at the Book Fair in 1994?

happycrabeatsthefish · 1 month

It still is.

kurwazimnojest · 1 month

The kids in my class are fascinated with it! To be honest, so am I...

Saint_drums_n_stuff · 1 month

I remember that book. I took it out of my local library years ago. Been a while..

KidCosby · 1 month

I used to read this at the school library all the time!

Ace1999 · 1 month

Um...it still IS.

jdmason · 1 month

When I read this yesterday, this book was fucking incredible

DevilsmeadReturned · 1 month

I loved these books they are freaking awesome, so much detail, its amazing

CaptainAdventure · 1 month

Isn't this the book with the tank, where the driver has been gratuitously cut in half, to purposelessly show off his intestines? Or was I imagining that?

jcurley · 1 month

The castle one was the best!

sweetgreggo · 1 month

It didn't stop being awesome just because you grew up.

[deleted] · 1 month

If you love cross sections become an anatomist.

adamnyc · 1 month

When I was a teacher, this book was fucking incredible.

Ozzymandias · 1 month

Remember how in the cross-section of the tank, the tank driver also had a cross-section? lol

zeu5 · 1 month

Well it says "incredible" on the cover, doesn't it?

WhiskeyMeteorite · 1 month

This is my favorite book from childhood.

doctorcameltoe · 1 month

i wish i knew how to read.

drivingtowork · 1 month

This book piqued my curiosity and fueled my imagination like noting else could. I would become endlessly lost in thought dreams in which I would design and engineer my own versions of jet-fighters and submarines. I often knew more about physics and science than my teachers when I was in elementary school. By eleven, I had a cursory understanding of string theory. My class-mates would call me "Tim the Science Guy". All thanks in large part to these great books and their illustrations...........Then in middle school I discovered pot and rock'n roll and wound up an English major.

claptonman · 1 month

Awesome! I still have a huge book with all of them in them. $8 in the clearance bin.

EyhSteve · 1 month

The pirate ship was my favourite

wraithstrike · 1 month

I remember this book! Part of what got me so interesting in the Titanic.

robot-rollcall · 1 month

It's still fucking incredible. Have you ever seen someone actually draw a cross-section of a complex item? They're the most painstakingly rendered, least appreciated technical illustrations ever.

pbrown623 · 1 month

An autistic kid's dream

madhaxor · 1 month

the castle themed one was much better

MeatBody · 1 month

"The way things work" kicks the shit out of that book

batmanfightingashark · 1 month

I just remember the giant room of shit in the castle,that always made me laugh.

rhythm-otter · 1 month

I have the incredible explosions one on my coffee table. It's still amazing, house guests love it!

Isn't she beautiful

robi2000 · 1 month

I show this to my 6 year old and he thinks its gosh darn incredible

All_the_other_kids · 1 month

I still have that book. I liked the tank the best

Meola · 1 month

What about the old war ship one, there was pictures of dudes with there legs getting blown off by cannonballs and stuff, screw weres waldo gimme one of these books any day.

lukaskywalker · 1 month

YESS, i had this exact one, i will try to find it now

starvingchild · 1 month

lol anyone partaking in that internet drama at the top is just embarrassing. It's a website kidz, upvote or downvote and move on.

lufraf · 1 month

I had the star wars edition

whalenz · 1 month

you remember what it's like to be 6 years old? jealous..

Anon9180 · 1 month

This book was amazing! I had one like it as well that was called Disasters, insane.

Nivekj · 1 month

I used to love those books! The castle one and 17th century ship one were my favorites. Then they did the Star Wars one and made all my childhood dreams come true.

BnGamesReviews · 1 month

Where's Waldo was equally compelling.

PhillyT · 1 month

I was that asshole who used to take it out of the school library for months at a time.

Spacedementia87 · 1 month

Did anyone have the DK game for this? "Stowaway"?

I had it and it had a boy that had stowed away on the ship that was crossectioned.

You had to find him and click on him in each section and eventually he ran away into the hold.

You were meant to find him in there and I spent hours looking for him but never did. Anyone have the solution?

ramsay_baggins · 1 month

Loved this book, we still have my copy somewhere. Had an extra special level of awesome for me, as I could see the shipyards where the Titanic was built from my house, and it sailed right past my house when it left for Plymouth. I wish I could have seen it.

nuclearamen · 1 month

Does anyone remember the way this book smelled? I have a dsitinct memory of the smell of the paper. Certain books had that.

mapleclouds090 · 1 month

I still have it !!

Puschkin · 1 month

When I was..wait. I AM 24 and these kind of books/pictures still blow my fuckin mind.

AnchezSanchez · 1 month

Oh my god. One of the best gifts I've ever received. Probably (along with lego) the reason I'm an engineer now.....

Maveee · 1 month

PDF please.

mtheory007 · 1 month

Awesome, regardless of age.

SuperSaiyanVigoda · 1 month

I had this book and it was incredible. However I think it was much more incredible when I was 10-12 and was actually able to read and comprehend all the information. When I was 6 I thought pop-up books were much more incredible.

Olaxan · 1 month

Living in Sweden with a translated version of this book, I didn't know that it existed in other countries, I thought it was a Swedish book. It's great! I salvaged it from a library where it was going to be destroyed.

StinkySteve123 · 1 month

Fuck you, OP. It's still incredible!

x3n0cide · 1 month

There is a guy pooping on every single page of this book.

[deleted] · 1 month

I used to have that book. I remember the dudes pooping off the castle and the tank cross section cutting the guy in half.

Giroux-TangClan · 1 month

This book and Calvin and Hobbes comic collections were the hot commodities in my elementary school library.

wocco · 1 month

I don't give two shits if its a repost, I hadn't seen it, and this still brought me so much joy! Fuck my childhood was awesome.

Buju3000 · 1 month

I got one of those at the scholastic book fair!

00vapour · 1 month

how can stephen betsey's incredible cross sections NOT be incredible?

Jesse36m3 · 1 month

Dude fuck yea!! I loved this shit as a kid, learnimg how stuff works, building things, learning about things other people would have called strange for a 6 year old. Engineering student here, its funny seeing how your interests as a kid still keep you intrigued today.

Lakolguy · 1 month

STAR WARS EDITION!!!!!!

blackknightxiv · 1 month

I'm lucky enough to have an autographed copy of his Cross-Section Castles that my mom got me way back when...

Harrizzle · 1 month

the pooping person! also, no more upvote for the tripleposter =/

user_naem · 1 month

He did one about a navy galleon that had guys having limbs amputated after having them shredded by cannon fire. Awesome

firelock_ny · 1 month

Loved his books.

Di you ever notice that in each and every cross section, whether he's drawing a space station or an 18th century warship, he always draws someone pooping?

figyros · 1 month

My favorite on is the castle one.

dinosaur_jr · 1 month

I'm pretty sure books like these made me interested in becoming an engineer.

Papaganoosh · 1 month

I had the castles one!

They detailed cockfighting in that one. That was weird, but I thought it was like pokemon at the time.

hammedhaaret · 1 month

fuck i loved that book. must have stared through every single inch of that book a thousand times as a kid.

lucasreher · 1 month

OMG I used to have this book as a child :o it was my favorite one

MadCap1987 · 1 month

Dude check out a book called full mon soup, it's about a cross section of a hotel and every time you turn the page it's like the charecters and items progress in time, kind of like watching an animation but it skips like 100 frames.

Every time the soup in the kitchen touches somthing it becomes alive and mutates, so by the end of the book the hotel is a pile of rubble.

You can pick a charecter or a room or an object and follow it through the entire book and every item, every person in the book has it's own journey and is highly entertaining.

If you like cross section books but always felt it could be a little more engaging or interesting i would definately check it out.

http://www.alagram.co.uk/books/full-moon-soup.gif

There was also a sequal to it called full moon afloat which was set on a cruise ship.

chronicpayne · 1 month

OH MY GOD! THERE WAS ONE OF THESE FOR CASTLES !!!!!

Seeing this has brought back a whole chunk of my childhood, OP you rock.

WIA16 · 1 month

still is fucking epic.

RaggedClause · 1 month

I don't give a damn how many times it's been posted, I'm just fucking stoked to find this! I couldn't for the life of me remember what this was called. It is the shit. 19th century battleship and medieval castle, here i come!

laba87 · 1 month

Wow I had that book in Norwegian. Loved it!

danzatrice · 1 month

I loved the cross sections of castles. I drew the cross sections of castles for years, inspired by this book.

chubasco · 1 month

Well they did give you a heads-up right in the title...

VampireWatermelon · 1 month

Three foot long foldout sections? THAT IS MADNESS!

treehead89 · 1 month

in year 2 we used to try and find all the people on the loo in this book. being 6 was great

LeT-rex · 1 month

The HMS Victory cross sections one was way better.

MonarchyBoner · 1 month

Jesus fuck, I though I was the only one!

erik_bro · 1 month

The cross-section of the spanish war galleon was way cooler. I must have looked at it a billion times.

strik3r2k8 · 1 month

Imagine how tedious that was?

IamJacksUserName · 1 month

I always looked for the people pooping O.O

kyle2420 · 1 month

Don't care if repost still brings back childhood.

JediApprentice · 1 month

DUDE I HAD THAT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

luckyjack · 1 month

~~When I was 6 years old~~ this book was fucking incredible.

FTFY

badondesaurus · 1 month

FUCK OFF

[deleted] · 1 month

Omg I haven't seen that book in years, I love it

Kjw291 · 1 month

I had that and the star wars version, seeing the cross-sedtion of the Death Star was fucking crazy

Alvleeskliersap · 1 month

they had that book too at my local library, I loved it! Also because I love ocean liners, so that made the book even more awesome!

ICCULUSC · 1 month

I don't care how often you've reposted this. I still look through the planes book when I shit sometimes. Great books.

thepokeduck · 1 month

This shit has got to stop.

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