better_by_design Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Great TR, thanks for posting! I love the 'epic' themeing that USS gets... Mummy/Egypt especially are just on such a bigger scale outside the ride that the US parks aren't even in the same league! I also fully appreciate the fact that the developers have opted 100% for RIDES in their park over film based attractions - with the exception of Shrek, there are literally no movies in the whole park! And I think we can all forgive them a single 4D movie, right? My only nitpick about the whole thing is that the actual on-ride theme elements for Madagascar and Rapids Adventure seemed a bit light. In Madagascar, HUGE show building, great ride system, massive, long ride... but very little animatronics, mainly static cartoon figures. With River Adventure, honestly not that many dinos, compared to the US and Japanese versions... which is sad because I liked the unique take on the ride system, and again the EPIC ride length! But overall, a great park, basically a "pocket battleship" in terms of attractions packed into a small space, and lots of good unique stuff... Sesame Street Spaghetti Space Chase is one of the better attempts to do an original family dark ride (felt very Muppet like) and of course BSG! Thanks again for the TR, and good show Universal Singapore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chargersmichael Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Great TR, thanks for posting! I love the 'epic' themeing that USS gets... Mummy/Egypt especially are just on such a bigger scale outside the ride that the US parks aren't even in the same league! I also fully appreciate the fact that the developers have opted 100% for RIDES in their park over film based attractions - with the exception of Shrek, there are literally no movies in the whole park! And I think we can all forgive them a single 4D movie, right? My only nitpick about the whole thing is that the actual on-ride theme elements for Madagascar and Rapids Adventure seemed a bit light. In Madagascar, HUGE show building, great ride system, massive, long ride... but very little animatronics, mainly static cartoon figures. With River Adventure, honestly not that many dinos, compared to the US and Japanese versions... which is sad because I liked the unique take on the ride system, and again the EPIC ride length! But overall, a great park, basically a "pocket battleship" in terms of attractions packed into a small space, and lots of good unique stuff... Sesame Street Spaghetti Space Chase is one of the better attempts to do an original family dark ride (felt very Muppet like) and of course BSG! Thanks again for the TR, and good show Universal Singapore! Don't forget about Transformers...even though it doesn't have 3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBpony414 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Broken record here - I'm impressed with how much detail is in USS! Doubt I'll ever get there so am thankful for your very thorough TR. Sesame Street's Spaghetti Space Chase looked interesting so I watched it on youtube and again, I'm impressed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 So, sorry about the delay but I am back for day 2 of my mini Malaysia trip! Today, I headed out early and headed over to the Singapore Flyer to locate the WTS travel office and book a seat on a coach to Legoland Malaysia! Where should I visit today? This is where I headed to from the hotel this morning On the coach heading to Malaysia! During the trip we had to go through all the hassle of all the Singapore and Malaysia customs etc. In total the trip to Legoland incl customs at both borders took around 2 hours Yay! The Legoland hotel! I don;t think this really needs a caption does it? I love the Hollywood style sign on the hill Miniland is all asian based... obviously This is a model of Kuala Lumpur airport. It's huge! Including the little trains that ferry you between the airport buildings The Singapore area I recognise this from my visit in 2012 I'm sure I recognise this too. I wish they had included the roller coaster to get down from the wall too! I love the little Pandas! Heading to Lego Kingdoms Think I have seen this model at all of the Legoland parks I have visited I'll be back for this one shortly. First coaster of the three at Legoland was Dragon's Apprentice. It's a Zierer ride. The Dragon here is a much bigger version of Zierer's Force coasters. It also includes the normal dark ride section before the ride part, It did seem much longer than the other Dragon Coasters and the dark ride section had a cool little fake launch part before the lift. This also happened to be my 600th! Owl you'll all doing? Has to be one of my favourite Lego models at a Legoland park. The final coaster at the park is Project X. It's the standard wild mouse that (I think) all but Windsor has. The queue did take a while unfortunately but eventually I got my ride. I should have waited a couple of hours as when I returned, the ride was walk on. I rode several times and the ride op then decided to just keep sending me around without unlocking my restraint so I got more rides even if I didn't want them! It's a fun ride anyway! Love the views of the waterpark that you get during riding Wheeeee! I've seen these at all the Legoland parks and am still yet to ride one! Next up was Technic Twister. As always themed really nicely and I thought the actual ride was more forceful than Accelerator at Universal Heading to Lego City I think the master builder who built the video camera had a bad day This is the new Lego Friends Live theatre They have the Fire Academy here too! and the Flying school Onto the Land of Adventure This is very similar to the others It's a Sally shooting dark ride They seem to really like Ribena at this park so why not build a Ribena Berry out of Lego? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 Love all the models scattered around the parks The 4D cinema was cycling their films between the four shown here. I saw Spellbreaker and have seen the Chima one last year in Billund Next up was a ride on "The Tower" Excellent views of the park and the surrounding area of Malaysia Buildings like this were dotted around the park where you could pop in and build a model and test it on a race track or earthquake shake plate. Hmmmm, shall we come back to this later on? Decisions, decisions, decisions.... Time for pizza! The park also has their own version of the Lego Star Wars experience. I know hardly anything about Star Wars but that doesn't detract from be awestruck as how incredible the models in there actually area. It's all terribly impressive actually I know those two characters though! On the way out I got attacked by Lego Darth Vader! I took a quick detour to have a look at the Legoland Hotel Love the custom carpets! The amount of minifigures behind the reception desk is incredible! Great fun play area in reception for kiddies Heading back to Singapore through the borders once again. Return journey took around 2.5 hours due to long queues at the Singapore border. Later that evening I took a wander around the opposite side of the marina from where I had been a few nights ago. Love the views of the city This is the Marina Bay Sands hotel Oooh! This looks familiar from earlier. This is the Merlion and back to my hotel! Thanks for joining me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azza29 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Thanks for the update, Neil. Legoland Malaysia is definitely one of the trickier parks to get to, how long did you end up spending there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 The bus arrived at the park around 10am and I was scheduled to return on the earliest bus back to Singapore which was at 16:15 and I'm glad I did that. It gave me plenty of time to do the park. Especially if you have visited other Legoland parks you will have no problems whatsoever completing the whole park in a couple of hours. I did visit on a Tuesday though so queues were hardly a problem. No idea what it's like during a weekend. I also highly recommend booking at least 2 days in advance with WTS Travel. I forgot and tried to book the night before when I got back from Universal and it wouldn't let me. As my hotel was only a very short walk from the Singapore Flyer, I headed down to the WTS office super early on the morning in the hopes they would allow me to book on the day. I think they only allowed me as I was travelling alone on this occasion. phew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Did they relax the rules at USS? When I went a few years ago everything went into a locker before riding mummy or the Battlestar rides and they had wavy metal detectors at Battlestar so I missed out on a lot of things I wanted to snap in the line. Judging by your pictures I might need to make a trip back to finally get my cylon picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Did they relax the rules at USS? When I went a few years ago everything went into a fluffy, fluffy bunny filled with medicine and goo before riding mummy or the Battlestar rides and they had wavy metal detectors at Battlestar so I missed out on a lot of things I wanted to snap in the line. Judging by your pictures I might need to make a trip back to finally get my cylon picture. Nope, no relaxing those rules. Lockers were mandatory for BSG and Mummy. I was allowed to wear glasses on Mummy but not BSG. Wavy metal detectors were in use at BSG for both sides. I got the photos of the stations first thing in the day but didn't use the real queueline for that! That's why I couldn't grab anymore photos later in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Did they relax the rules at USS? When I went a few years ago everything went into a fluffy, fluffy bunny filled with medicine and goo before riding mummy or the Battlestar rides and they had wavy metal detectors at Battlestar so I missed out on a lot of things I wanted to snap in the line. Judging by your pictures I might need to make a trip back to finally get my cylon picture. Nope, no relaxing those rules. fluffy, fluffy bunnies filled with medicine and goo were mandatory for BSG and Mummy. I was allowed to wear glasses on Mummy but not BSG. Wavy metal detectors were in use at BSG for both sides. I got the photos of the stations first thing in the day but didn't use the real queueline for that! That's why I couldn't grab anymore photos later in the day. I envy you then. I asked the staff where the cylon I'd seen outside the entrance in old pictures was, and they told me it had gone into the queue line. Since the ride was walk-on, I asked if it was possible to go through the single-rider take a picture and come back but they, understandably, were uneasy and said no. I still want to go back to the park but I still have gravity max and a good B&M Flyer to find in China to splash out on going to before I re-visit. That and being a 2 hour plane ride from Tokyo Disney (and with a wife who really likes Hong Kong Disney) means our vacation days get eaten up by other places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 The cylon isn't actually in the queue line but is opposite the loading bays after the queue line. Feel free to use my photo if needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 The cylon isn't actually in the queue line but is opposite the loading bays after the queue line. Feel free to use my photo if needed! It's okay, one of my friend's found some "cylon sunglasses" so I had borrowed them to take a picture with it. That's probably what stopped them letting me in for my picture, no crazies allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkFunk Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 The bus arrived at the park around 10am and I was scheduled to return on the earliest bus back to Singapore which was at 16:15 and I'm glad I did that. It gave me plenty of time to do the park. Especially if you have visited other Legoland parks you will have no problems whatsoever completing the whole park in a couple of hours. I did visit on a Tuesday though so queues were hardly a problem. No idea what it's like during a weekend. I also highly recommend booking at least 2 days in advance with WTS Travel. I forgot and tried to book the night before when I got back from Universal and it wouldn't let me. As my hotel was only a very short walk from the Singapore Flyer, I headed down to the WTS office super early on the morning in the hopes they would allow me to book on the day. I think they only allowed me as I was travelling alone on this occasion. phew! My wife and I had been discussing Legoland as option as part of our time in Singapore, and honestly the 4.5 hours you spent in transit/immigration/customs loudly told us that we should pursue something else given the limited number of other attractions of appeal in Johor Bahru. Thanks a bunch; there's not a ton out there from coaster enthusiasts about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rctneil Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 The bus arrived at the park around 10am and I was scheduled to return on the earliest bus back to Singapore which was at 16:15 and I'm glad I did that. It gave me plenty of time to do the park. Especially if you have visited other Legoland parks you will have no problems whatsoever completing the whole park in a couple of hours. I did visit on a Tuesday though so queues were hardly a problem. No idea what it's like during a weekend. I also highly recommend booking at least 2 days in advance with WTS Travel. I forgot and tried to book the night before when I got back from Universal and it wouldn't let me. As my hotel was only a very short walk from the Singapore Flyer, I headed down to the WTS office super early on the morning in the hopes they would allow me to book on the day. I think they only allowed me as I was travelling alone on this occasion. phew! My wife and I had been discussing Legoland as option as part of our time in Singapore, and honestly the 4.5 hours you spent in transit/immigration/customs loudly told us that we should pursue something else given the limited number of other attractions of appeal in Johor Bahru. Thanks a bunch; there's not a ton out there from coaster enthusiasts about it. I have to say that the whole process through WTS Travel was very efficient and they handle everything including the purchase of your Legoland entry ticket so you waste no time once at the park. It's just the immigration and customs that slow it down. Mainly because they had no more than 2 lanes open each and the Singapore and Malaysia immigration are in two separate buildings either side of the river so it's off bus, through immigration, on bus, drive, off bus, through immigration, on bus and drive. Then rinse and repeat on the return leg. Bit of a pain. There is so much to see in Singapore anyway to keep people entertained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfoot12 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Nice pictures and reports! Quick question-- so the Cylon portion of BSG is basically a Vekoma SLC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCTom Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I'll be in Malaysia and Singapore next February so this report is great. Really confirms that Universal Studios has a lot that is different from the North America parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisco Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Love this report. Someday I hope to get over to this area of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucasgagnone Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Hii rctneil, I hope you enjoyed your Malaysia Trip. All the pictures are really beautiful and described the beauty of Singapur. Thanks for sharing your amazing experiences with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now