SharkTums Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Mmmm Din Tai Fung!!! And you saved the best ride for last ! Treasure Hunters 4 Lyfe!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Universal Singapore is a park I really want to visit some day--it just looks great. Â Regarding the Sesame Street characters, I think the Children Television Workshop owns them, while Jim Henson retained ownership of Kermit, who was the original Muppet before Henson started working for CTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Universal Japan shows the Sesame Street 4D movie in the same theater as Shrek. Rights are generally sold on a country to country (or region) basis. That's how Universal Japan also ended up with Snoopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kailisun98 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 You guys were lucky to catch the Battlestar Gallactica credits. I was there last year in November and both operated only on and off so I missed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisco Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Visiting that park is definitely on my list of things to do. just a long way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansley Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Din Tae Fung is awesome! One opened in Bangkok a couple of years ago. It is awesome. The NY times has rated it as one of the top ten restaurants in the entire world, no joke! We though Universal Singapore was a great park... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afiqnadzir Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 where legoland malaysia updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Finally, after weeks of actually sort of doing my normal daily job, I'm shoving it aside to post this overdue visit to Legoland Malaysia! Dan C., who we met on the TPR China trip, was instrumental in helping us plan some logistics. Thanks, Dan! Â Crazily, we've been to Mexico and England since this trip, but I hate that I never finished the report. So here goes, our trip to Legoland Malaysia! Enjoy. First we took a cab to the Singapore Flyer. What's that? It's one of those ginormous Ferris Wheels! We'll hit it in the next report. We had ordered our tickets online in advance, and it was pretty easy to find the bus. It's a trip and a half getting from Singapore to Johor Bahru over the Malaysia border. They don't want you skipping over the border to buy cheap Malaysian gas, apparently. I guess Singapore wants their gas taxes? But the biggest pain is that you have to get off the bus twice...first to go through immigration as you depart from Singapore, then to go through immigration as you enter Malaysia. And then you have to repeat the process on the return trip! At last! No, first a quick stop to drop some people off at Hello Kitty Town. Then a long walk from the bus stop... Yay! It's clean and bright and spanking new! And one of the first things you see are prayer rooms! For my upcoming report on theme park garbage cans. Water park under construction, which made sense. It was hot! Legoland Hotel also under construction. Mack Wild Maus similar to California and Florida. In case you forget where you are. Fountains. As you can see, the place was generally empty. It was a Thursday. It's a fairly big park, pleasant and clean. Here's the medieval dragon section. Theming! Dragon's Apprentice! The Dragon! Lots of nice castle theming. Here's Apprentice. And The Dragon. Theming! Observation tower. Cleverly named! Parking lot, hotel, etc. Shoot-the-chutes. We could also see ground being prepared for waterpark but didn't see any slide parts. Miniland. There we go. Castle, Dragon, and water park area. 4D Adventure we decided not to wait for. All bright and new before the Malaysian sun bleaches them out. Big covered kiddie area. Baby Care Another set of prayer rooms. Very fun musical fountain. I know it looks empty, but the attractions were just spaced out. The Shoot-the-chutes was great. Loved the theming. Skeletons on the rocks! The Sally shooter. They have the driving school, flying school, fire school, etc. These are fun. Better view of Rescue Academy. Nice train ride. Time to eat...as usual, Legoland food is a slight step above typical park food. We're on to Miniland, and as is usual, many models represent the local region. I think this is in Thailand. Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Singapore Flyer Petronas Towers Shopping! We got some good swag. Thanks for visiting Legoland Malaysia with us! It's hard to do the park justice. It's big and spread out. Anyway, more to come!!! Sentosa! And the sketchiest park in Malaysia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatle11 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Thanks for sharing! I thought crossing the Canada/US border was annoying enough. Both Universal and Legoland look really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XII Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Nice Photo TR Martin. All these parks in Malaysia and Singapore look really cool. I'm definitely hoping to make it out to this part of the world some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted April 11, 2013 Author Share Posted April 11, 2013 Thanks Kevin! I hope to one day enjoy an empty day like this at the new waterpark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Legoland always does a first-class job. The Angkor Wat model looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidcoaster 2 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Great report! I am thinking about doing the same thing (Same bus and all) when I visit Singapore. How much time do you guys spend at the park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted April 15, 2013 Author Share Posted April 15, 2013 ^^^ Good question. We spent 3-4 hours there, and we also spent some time in a small *mall that adjoins Legoland. But we then took a taxi to Danga World (sketchiest side trip ever!) to grab that credit. That took about 90 minutes because they weren't open when we got there. But we did get back and even managed to get an earlier bus back to Singapore than we'd previously arranged, which was good because I don't think Legoland allows re-entry, if I recall correctly. You should check this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrlittle Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Man Legoland Malaysia is full of great theming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoCo Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Very cool report! The Lego skeletons on the rocks are the best. And their Dragon coaster looks like a pretty respectable ride; nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisco Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Nice report Martin. The parks look nice and I'm puzzled as to why there is not enough interest to go here on a TPR trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markysharky17 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Looks just like the one in Florida! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 ^^We'll just have to do a really small trip there soon! We loved Singapore and they already have more credits!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azza29 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 ^I'm in. Flights are super cheap from Melbourne at the moment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Really cool report. I liked how the big lego displays were of 'local' things. The Angkor Wat one was pretty amazing looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afiqnadzir Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 nice updates! thanks....hope you have a nice day in my country! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) I hope that all of you are having great and awesome coaster-riding weekends. For those of you like me, who are not having amazing coaster weekends, well, this is for you. I've been having a lazy last 48 hours and finally dragged myself out of the apartment to go visit some family. Â Anyway, I just get worse and worse as a contributor here, so here I am, mid-Summer, finishing up a report that I started in January! This is for those of you traveling and coastering vicariously this weekend. Â In January, Cheryl and I visited Malaysia and then Singapore. After visiting Universal Singapore, we zipped back over the Malaysia border for Legoland Malaysia. Â After Legoland Malaysia, we grabbed a cab and visited the "The Sketchiest Park in Malaysia", Danga World! There was another credit in Malaysia near to Legoland at a park called Danga World. Thanks to CoasterFEV, we knew we could get a cab and shoot over there. Directly across from Legoland is a mall-ish thing with a few restaurants and shops. At the other end of the breezeway, you can find a taxi. The taxi dropped us off, and we were faced with a lot of "nobody's here". Nobody's here at one of the several ticket booths. Nobody's here at the tea cups. You get the idea. Whatever website we had found had said that opening was at 11:00, and this was now after 13:00. Eventually we started seeing a few people around, starting to get some things ready, so we walked around the area a little bit. We found a "resort" area that has seen better days. Nothing was open. Ironically, the signs from the road would lead you to believe that there's a lot going on over here, but "theme park" is a stretch. I guess this development was someone's dream at some point and some money got thrown into it. This was at an abandoned-looking amphitheater. But clearly many parts of the park had been allowed to decay. No clear demarcation between show area and backstage. We hid from the brutal sun, watching the credit, until finally... ...they're opening up the credit! We were finally able to buy tickets and ride! Yay. We are dirty dirty whores. And Danga World is a hell hole. This will set you back about US$2.50. We then stood near the super-busy road and finally managed to wave down a taxi back to Legoland, where we caught the bus back to Sentosa. This was on the bus: No Smoking, No Drinking, No Octopus?, No Durian Fruit, No Farting, No Bullshit, No Dogs Back in Singapore, we took a spin on the Singapore Flyer. Awesome views. Cheryl on Singapore Flyer We then did some Sentosa exploring, like the famous Merlion. The Images of Singapore Museum gives a great picture of the transition from Singapore of old to modern Singapore. This used to be where you would catch that slow boat to China. Street "luge" was great fun, though we only did one run. We enjoyed the Angry Birds-themed cable car ride, and the cable car museum was actually interesting. Apparently an oil drilling ship passing underneath snapped the cable with its derrick in 1983, causing two cars to plummet (7 fatalities) into the sea and 13 others to remain stranded. It took 3 hours to find the bodies, and 3 1/2 hours in pitch black high winds to rescue the remaining 13 passengers. Hanging in Sentosa. The S.E.A. Experience Aquarium may be the world's largest, and the Open Ocean tank is definitely the largest viewing panel in any aquarium. I'm still looking for a better picture, but that, my coaster friends, is a freaking manta ray! The MegaZipline was also a lot of fun. From the mouth of the Merlion: "Thanks for visiting Singapore (and Malaysia) with us!" Edited July 22, 2013 by milst1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 so here I am, mid-Summer, finishing up a report that I started in January! This is for those of you traveling and coastering vicariously this weekend. Â Yay! Â I definitely want to visit Singapore someday, although I don't think Danga World will be high on my list of must-see attractions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Cheryl's Mr. Met shirt is much more stylish than your dorky Knoebels shirt. Â Did you get a patch at Danga World? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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