YouTuber spent months creating working subway system for his miniature cat world

YouTuber Xing’s World is known for creating highly detailed miniatures meant specifically for animals. He’s made movie theaters, banks, supermarkets, homes, and even a pool table.

However, building a working subway would be his most difficult challenge yet. Figuring out how to make the entire thing move was a massive undertaking, even for someone so familiar with making miniatures.

He did pull it off, though. After months of work, everything was in working order. The train car was able to enter the station with doors that’d open and close on their own. It even has working escalators and a miniature version of Xing himself.

YouTuber builds train station for his massive cat society

Xing Zhilei has built an entire career for himself based on designing small-scale societies made exclusively for animals. It’s almost like giving them a taste of human life, complete with every amenity they could ask for.

Building these spaces is a massive undertaking, especially considering that he often can’t fit in most of the spaces he’s creating. All of these builds have a painstaking level of detail that makes it hard not to double-take when you see a cat taking up an entire train car.

Months of work went into blueprinting the entire structure, creating all the necessary parts, and making the whole thing move. Xing claimed that he was stumped as to how to make a subway work even after building so many miniatures for animals, but he just decided to tackle it and figure out how to solve problems as they came.

Additionally, filming all of these animals is no easy task. Xing claimed in a fan Q&A that they have to film every shot he wants at least 10 times to get something he can work with that shows the pets actually using what he built. In some cases, it can take 40-50 takes for something more complex.

He also bribes all of the animals with snacks to get them where he wants them to go to get the best chance at a good shot. Considering bribery is involved, it’s hard to say whether or not these subway cats actually enjoy their new mode of transport. Nonetheless, the fact that it looks so real is a feat of engineering.