The World's Replica Eiffel Towers

Even Iconic French landmarks are bigger in Texas.
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[@JaredLS10]

For those curious, its Gustave Eiffel's birthday today.

[@colinhouston7864]

He would have been 188 years young

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@lolerskates876 - Well I guess his Statue of Liberty 🗽 in New York harbour is pretty famous.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

@@AtheistOrphan His other Statue of Liberty is quite famous too.

[@imcarlosjr4898]

🥳

[@Combatcake]

No it's not

[@Zalor666]

humans of the future will find like 10 Eiffel towers and be like: Hmmm this must have been a place of religious gathering

[@steeljawX]

I'm certain that's what people will think about the Washington Monument if it's still around with some photographs of the mass protests during 60's and 70's. "They gathered to this obelisk and prayed to it with flowers and song."

[@oldenweery7510]

*Jake* LOL! Of course! Isn't that what so many archeologists are saying about so many things right now?! (And wouldn't it be hilarious if it turned out the artists made them just to attract women?) Stay safe.

[@adamloverin231]

I’ve always wanted to be an anthropologist so I can try and figure out what was REALLY going on. “Because gods” seems to be the lazy, default answer to every archeological discovery. You’re telling me all these ancient civilizations all over the world did nothing all day but eat and go to church? Nobody anywhere had the ancient equivalent to bars, night clubs, concert venues, etc.?

[@flexinclouds]

Forreal😄😄

[@MashMonster69]

Or an astronomical observatory to allow us primitives to calculate when to plant our crops.

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

The sudden revealing pan up to the "vibrant red stetson-style cowboy hat" atop the Paris, TX tower just legit made me spit out my coffee. 😂 A vibrant red hats-off to the editor!!

[@Snake-yx1dq]

Built by local welders Union when I was eight. By then we moved.

[@lyleslaton3086]

Hope it didn't come out your nose,very painful.

[@woozleproductions9760]

I'm truly surprised that the Blackpool tower didn't appear.

[@CrashM85]

Ditto

[@robertwilloughby8050]

@@CrashM85 Me also.

[@wesleymcglone6937]

Simon doesn't like the North. Allegedly

[@scottnewton9370]

We still play first to spot the tower as we drive down the M55

[@wesleymcglone6937]

@@scottnewton9370 Do you not point that radio mast out and say there it is to the kids every time or is that just me that does that? The kids normally just roll their eyes at me as I've normally already done it 10 times by then pointing at every electric pilon as soon as we're off the M6.

[@nealramsey4439]

They put 1/3rd or 1/4 size ones at every Kings Island or Kings Dominion amusement parks.

[@mcdappert]

Its at kings island

[@psyclone500tv8]

@@mcdappert And theres also a amusement park called Kings Dominion in Virgina

[@GhostRider-xi3pb]

@@psyclone500tv8 Kings Dominion is located in Doswell Virginia. You can see the tower driving along route 95.

[@jackalovski1]

Can we get a kickstarter going to build a replica Eiffel tower on Antarctica?

[@Peizxcv]

There is already one 2km under the ice. You don't want to find out what it is for

[@jayhom5385]

@@Peizxcv Shhhhh...some lurking Old Ones who were able to hide from the Shoggoth will come around if you say too much.

[@oldenweery7510]

@@jayhom5385 Either that, or Men In Black. Stay safe.

[@toddnolastname4485]

I knew I couldn't be the first person who thought that situation needed to be rectified.

[@tttm99]

Unlike Eiffel and co, I don't think they'd calculate that wind shear load graphically! Where to put it too... Maybe the South Pole wouldn't be a bad spot. Perhaps not Dumont d'Urville station.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

The Eiffel Tower is not just a steel structure, but a work of art. Its steel form is ornate through out. It's quite a sight to behold in person.

[@Darthronnin]

We have on in Cincinnati, At a local amusement park, just glad we went with elevators, where exactly does the Escalator start for the Paris one, Simon? LMAO!!! Word slips happen. Great video as always!

[@gomahklawm4446]

Mason, close to Cincy, but....

[@MushroomHedgehog]

My local amusement park, Kings Island and its sister park, Kings Dominion, both have replicas of the Eiffel Tower, but they are painted with a more green hue similar to what the Statue of Liberty looks like. They’re the centerpieces of the park, much like the castles of various Disney Parks. I’ve never really found why they chose replicas of the tower as symbols of the park, since the parks don’t have much else relating to French heritage that I know of. It might be because the hub area was designed to resemble Paris, but I don’t think that’s the reason.

[@eurodoc6343]

There's also a series of amusement parks in the US that feature Eifel towers as their centerpiece, for some reason.

[@Pissedoffdetective]

You could have at least mentioned The Blackpool Tower Simon. Come on...

[@domino4126]

I was expecting the crucible of cultural which is Blackpool to come up

[@ap9970]

Simon will properly read your comment and say:- A: There is a tower in Blackpool? Did not know that. B: Blackpool? Never heard of it.

[@Pissedoffdetective]

@@ap9970 So true... To Simon, nothing exists in the UK North of Oxford...

[@ap9970]

@@Pissedoffdetective apart from Danny (on the basis he is not chained up in the basement)

[@Pissedoffdetective]

@@ap9970 Danny is from Rotherham, though I'm sure it's been mentioned he lives in Cornwall or Devon now. (When not in Simon's basement banging on the pipes.)

[@wugzig]

My local amusement parks center icon is a 1/3 scale of the tower

[@cl7510]

Kings Island?

[@wugzig]

@@cl7510 yup!

[@misskrissie9893]

There is an amusement park in Virginia called King's Dominion that also has one as one of it's main attractions.

[@jonathanzimmer8143]

Kings Island for life! It's why I even clicked lol.

[@utahcoasterenthusiasts]

@@misskrissie9893 Kings Island and King's Dominion were started by the same people which is why they both have a replica.

[@jimmiwoltz6416]

I've been to the one at King's island in Cincinnati. It's blue for some reason.

[@FallingSloths]

So is their ice cream, so it works

[@RGC-gn2nm]

It is a patina. As the metal ages it changes. I went up as a child in the 1970s.

[@jimmiwoltz6416]

@@RGC-gn2nm cool, it's been over 30 years since I went. Might be time to again after covid.

[@schristy3637]

I went there the year it opened as a kid(man I'm old). I live in Cincy

[@joshuabohn223]

Yes, the only time Paris, TN, my home town, will ever be mentioned on KZbin.

[@csmith2005]

I live in Memphis and we once took a trip to Clarksville, passing Paris on the way. We stopped and took a photo of a stuffed koala "climbing" the fake Eiffel Tower King Kong style. Good times.

[@homelee665]

Too bad he got the capital of Tennessee wrong.

[@A.J.1656]

Remember the time James Bond was chasing Grace Jones on the Eiffel Tower and she BASE-jumped off the side and landed on a boat? That was awesome.

[@annescholey6546]

And Duran Durans quirky video for the theme shot on the tower😊

[@GrinchyDan]

As always simon, loving the content, keep it up :)

[@KriptoSeriak]

Thank you for mentioning the one in Slobozia! It's in the middle of a small forest, near a replica of the Ewing Ranch from Dallas. And it's the closest I've got to Paris I can afford.

[@s.mcdade8233]

I'm proud to say I've only ever seen the real one in person. Caught it on a night of a full moon, it was as beautiful as a metal structure could be!

[@ghaznavid]

Meanwhile in South Africa we have a town called Parys, named after the French capital. No Eifel tower, though.

[@TheNighthawk00]

No tower ... yet

[@mammuchan8923]

Lols I was thinking about Parys too reading through the comments🙃. Closest thing are probably a few Vodacom towers disguised as palm trees 🧐

[@cookingwithchefluc7173]

I also saw an Eiffel tower model in Parys( Paris ) in the Free State- South Africa. It was actually a metal cell phone tower.

[@Gjsolo64]

Finally, something id consider an actual side project

[@LondonViewpoints]

Great informative video, would love to one day visit the more notable ones at least 👍🏻

[@thomasfholland]

Simon, have you ever added up the total subscribers on all of your channels?!

[@NateJ1]

He has all the subscribers. KZbin’s Fact Daddy literally hosts the youtube servers on his BackBlaze

[@CosRacecar]

With all the people subscribed to all 74 of his channels, his gross total subs is probably greater then the population of the earth.

[@thomasfholland]

@@CosRacecar 😂

[@thepaulieG82]

Was hoping for a mention of my home theme park Kings Dominion and our Eiffel Tower replica but left disappointed

[@pedrotrevino7234]

10/10 would watch a long video of Simon listing things he's seen. No embellishments or context, just things Simon has seen.

[@steeljawX]

I've been to Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Skytree. Both are impressive and it's a bit surreal seeing the other from the observation decks of the one you're in. Something about maps and public transit times don't really sink in for me as far as exactly how far it is from point A to point B. So seeing the actual distance between the 2 from that high up is just amazing. But I'd totally agree that Tokyo Tower is Japan's Eiffel Tower as far as the design goes.

[@hacienda2490]

Also the Parisian hotel in Macau, which is literally a copy of the replica in Las Vegas.

[@annakarinaalves]

Dude the Brasília tower wasn't inspired by the Eifell Tower. Where did you searched this? The frenchiest influence in Brasília is Le Corbusier. Nothing to do with Champs Elisee.

[@etonbachs4226]

Where did you researched this?

[@KazModah]

@@etonbachs4226 we live here!

[@ilarious5729]

@@KazModah that doesn't mean shit, many people have misconseptions of their home countries. 🤔

[@annakarinaalves]

@@ilarious5729 I'm a history teacher. He is completely wrong about the tv Tower, he even refer is as a replica! He also says there is a market that emulates parisian shopping experience, theres no such thing. The stores around It are nothing but a little city fair that sells local craftwork. The Lúcio Costa's design for the city, inspired by Le Corbusier doesn't even allow something similiar to a parisian boulevard. And yes, I also live here.

[@hunterparrish277]

Ayy it's awesome to have our boy talk about Paris, Tennessee. I live nearby and actually my girlfriend and I have climbed about halfway up that particular Eiffel Tower. He didn't even mention the very exciting pool next to it.

[@tncorgi92]

Most of these "replicas" don't look much like the Eiffel. P.S. Nashville is Tennessee's capital, not Memphis.

[@michaelcraig8364]

Just an American from Paris, Texas, who has watched your videos for years. That's for the shout-out to my town lmao

[@Snake-yx1dq]

I'm not paying a lick of attention to video. Scrolling comments to see others from Paris. My hometown too.

[@noahbowie5985]

Not one mention of the Blackpool Tower. Shameful

[@imchris1978]

100% agree

[@Aurora_Borealis_UK]

Blackpool tower is different though

[@noahbowie5985]

@@Aurora_Borealis_UK I know. It was a joke

[@egoldstraw6952]

Why did you fall to mention the Blackpool tower??? It's such a great landmark

[@mkeller18]

Bonus fact: Niles, Illinois in the US has a replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Last year it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[@MashMonster69]

I don't reckon we'll lynch you for saying Memphis is the capitol of Tennessee. Edit: aka Hey, Simon, you mispronounced Nashville as "mem-fiss".

[@TheRiverPirate13]

The Eiffel Tower replica in Las Vegas was originally supposed to be an exact scale version of the one in Paris France. It had to be reduced to a 1/2 scale version because the Airport Authority had height restrictions due to the proximity of the international airport. Also there is a smaller version of the Eiffel Tower also at Epcot at Disney World Florida.

[@paulfillingham2958]

Blackpool Tower was probably the first replica open in 1894. It’s an exact half size copy only you can’t see the bottom part as it is surrounded by the Tower building.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@sschmidtevalue]

I've seen the ones in Vegas and Disneyworld. I've been to the tops of the ones in Paris (the real deal) and Prague (glad you mentioned it!)

[@tttm99]

Super stuff. The world's favourite 'temporary' pig and puddled iron tower deserves the flattery of imitators. I know someone who calls every decent radio tower 'the eyeball tower'. And it really is a fitting name. If there isn't one already in his immense catalogue, Simon should consider an Eiffel tower history. It's a fascinating thing.

[@coweatsman]

So we need a replica of the Eiffel Tower in Antarctica. Then the whole set is complete.

[@davidwelsh2692]

Hey Simon, could you do an episode on the unfinished obelisk in Egypt or just on obelisks in general?

[@gregjones9348]

Oh Simon, Nashville is the capital of Tennessee, not Memphis. We expect better. Get your facts right, fact boi!

[@claytonberg721]

#cancelsimon

[@woutvanaelst854]

@@claytonberg721 #cancelsimon

[@haworthlowell805]

I was wondering when it got moved........LOL

[@hullinstruments]

Hello from Chattanooga!

[@jphilb]

Memphis has a pyramid to commemorate our namesake in Egypt.

[@karistasogare]

the chinese one (3:10) is also differentiated by it's missing one of the "observation levels" (the eral one has 4)( with the 3rd often ignored as it is entirely internal about half way up between the 2nd and the top)

[@reecedawson6113]

Can you cover the English Electric lightning as it was the only fully British built mach 2 jet

[@Matt_matt1]

Mach 2

[@yadisfhaddad722]

Tiandu cheng is an amazing place. Incredibly eerie, filled with local and frolic people.

[@Fish_Feet]

Most of these are just radio towers, that just happened to almost look kinda like the Eiffel Tower

[@yashtulsyan5713]

Anyway to tell the YT algo, as much as I enjoy Simon Whistler's videos, I might want to watch something else so that I don't stay awake the entire night...

[@LMB1020]

I’ve been to the little Eiffel Tower twice! Most recently on my honeymoon this past October 🥰 The one in Paris, Texas

[@Snake-yx1dq]

Honeymoon in Paris tx? There's nothing there.

[@LMB1020]

Lol no. We traveled through there and it was a stop for a photo op and to say we went to Paris on our honeymoon.

[@RobeonMew]

A legend Lee

[@Calla-sl8gd]

Thanks for the video. BTW, Memphis isn't the capital of Tennessee; Nashville is the capital.

[@nomdeplume5446]

I caught that too.

[@AmberWool]

I've spent too much time in Memphis as we're a St Jude family to know it's NOT the capital. I've also been to Nashville where we ran out of time to see the capitol.* A week after we were in Nashville a tornado reeked havoc thru the capital.

[@AmberWool]

Memphis also has a pyramid, just like the one in Egypt.

[@flatcapfiddle]

Theres also The Blackpool Tower in North West England. Its sticks up out on the coast and can be seen from miles away across the flat lands of The Fylde. It hosts a ballroom (with a mighty organ) a veiwing galery, a theatre, a shopping centre and even an interactive dungeon expirience.

[@MashMonster69]

Interactive dungeon experience? Ooh, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me...."

[@youjustgotcarled]

Thank you for recognizing memphis as the rightful capital of Tennessee

[@cookingwithchefluc7173]

Simon do a video about the Eiffel tower on Mega Projects please.

[@stevejessemey8428]

There is also a Sapporo Tower. I know because I lived near .

[@perro4996]

I saw a small Eiffeltower in Kyiv. I dont know if it was ment as an hommage, but it looked a bit like the original.

[@silversurfer66_]

you missed out blackpool tower, built around the same time and looks more like the eiffel tower because it was inspired by it, not like the folies u shown

[@tsartomato]

>>replicas >>list of towers 90% of which are absolutely different

[@caljucotcas]

Estonia also has one

[@pollyphemeus]

I've seen the real one, the vegas one, at least a few other ones. We've made Simon too powerful. He cannot be stopped.

[@harshwardhangupta5376]

Please do a video on "Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project" - world's largest lift irrigation project

[@stevenjlovelace]

Bonus Fact: a couple of years ago, the US Postal Service released a stamp with the Statue of Liberty, but someone noticed that it wasn't the real Statue of Liberty in New York, but its Las Vegas replica!

[@APAC2002]

Sudbury has one, that's the Sudbury in Northern Ontario Canada. That tower acts as the radio transmitter for the French radio station in town.

[@theobroma7755]

There is also one in Berlin, the Berlin Radio Tower . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Radio_Tower

[@robertphillips6296]

The State Capital of Tennessee is not Memphis, it is Nashville and it has a replica Parthenon not an Eiffel Tower. Also there is one replica of the Tower on the roof of the France Pavilion in EPCOT at WDW.

[@TheBaldr]

Tokyo Tower is actually a couple meters taller than the Eiffel tower.

[@abhiram0827]

Can you cover Artemis (nasa's)? It is a big project. Like so that Simon can see this

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

I went to King's Island near Cincinnati OH back in 1991. They had a 3:1 350-foot ripoff of the tower. Dunno if it's still there, haven't been back there since.

[@noodengr3three825]

It is still there dominating the parks skyline

[@datprawn4850]

You've forgotten the Blackpool Tower which was built only five years after in 1894. Not a true Eiffel Tower replica since it's base stands within a building that houses a circus, a ballroom and many entertainments. Plus it stands only half the size of the Eiffel Tower.

[@TyChee]

There is also a very large copy at Kings Dominion Theme Park near Richmond, VA USA.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I’ve watched the sunset from on top of the real one, and also visited the one in Disney world Florida. (I’ve also been to the Blackpool tower).

[@bamafan-in-OZ]

From memory there was a competing tower that started construction in the UK but only got as far as the foundations and bottom of the legs. I think it was meant to be as big if not bigger than the Eiffel tower

[@arturodelgado3433]

There is also one in Guatemala City, south of downtown, towards the airport.

[@camilohiche4475]

The Redneck Eiffel Tower takes the cake. By a country mile.

[@jchrvat]

You forgot the one in Guatemala City: Torre del Reformador (Tower of the Reformer), built in 1935 in Guatemala's capital city.

[@Lanabelle1069]

Do a video about Project Iceworm

[@04m11]

We have a small replica here in Fayetteville NC

[@matthewporter4774]

Nice Eiffel Tower you got there... would be a shame if someone REPLICATED IT!

[@boglenight1551]

Half of these are just steel towers and not Eiffel Tower replicas. The one in Sydney definitely isn’t a replica, looks nothing like it and wasn’t built to look like it.

[@Notthecobracommander]

You forgot about the one in Gwinnett ga. 😁 It's a suburb of metro Atlanta.

[@noodengr3three825]

If memory serves correctly the replica in the Czech Republic is the same ht as the one in Paris if you account where it sits on a hill top and measure from sea level

[@johnhobson9165]

When he mentioned the Statue of Liberty, he should have said that the frame of the statue was designed by Eiffel.

[@JackBWatkins]

What about the 12th hole at the Springfield mini-golf?

[@Happymali10]

You can't blame the amusement park tower for letters on it when the original had an illuminated Citroen-Ad for many years.

[@shannonlaurberg6465]

There's a really small one in my hometown at a shopping center.

[@claytonberg721]

The eiffel tower in vegas, they wanted to make it a full size replica but couldn't get the permit as it would have interfered with the operation of the airport.

[@jonesyman2288]

Watched the video hoping he would call out the one where I live in Paris, TN, thanks for being thorough... Except for the fact that Memphis isn’t the capitol of Tennessee, but keep up the great videos on all channels and it’ll easily be forgiven

[@AGhostintheHouse]

EPCOT Center also has an Eiffel Tower.

[@mbryson2899]

I only see Jane Birkin's smile when I see the Eiffel Tower.

[@spacepeanut8993]

Sometimes, I swear Simon is messsing with me.

[@LaserFur]

8:50 Antarctica really should get busy and build one.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

He mentioned World Showcase in Epcot, but didn't mention the miniature Eiffel Tower at the France pavilion in Epcot. It looks bigger due to forced perspective, and there are guests who actually ask how to get to it. At least that's what I've been told... :D

[@MarcT7761]

There's 1 right there in Prague atop the hill opposite the castle

[@markstott6689]

Please can we have a show on the De Havilland Mosquito: Britain's Wooden Wonder?

[@paulbarnett227]

You forgot Blackpool!

[@andrewday3206]

King’s Island had a scale tower at the amusement park

[@grandpalarry7776]

Suggestion for a Sideproject - The United States National World War I monument and museum in Kansas City, MO.

[@majorhayze]

Not sure if this was on the list of 50, but the Melbourne Arts Centre seems to have taken inspiration from it as well. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Centre_Melbourne

[@rodneyowen1850]

I've always liked the one-third scale replica at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. I toured it just after it opened in 1972.

[@gomahklawm4446]

Finally someone that says Mason instead of Cincy, their a bit apart, enough to matter.

[@jonas1015119]

when you thought the chinese one was tacky, and then along comes texas