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A S I A ’ S A W E S O M E T H E M E P A R K S
LEGOLAND
MALAYSIA
EVER BUILT
something out of Lego bricks and imagined
how much fun it would be in a bigger size? Then the first
ever Legoland in Asia is just the thing. Opening in Johor
Bahru, Malaysia on September 15, the new Legoland park
presents seven themed zones with over 40 shows, rides and
attractions within its 76 acres of space.
Legoland wouldn’t be complete without a Miniland, a
town full of miniature buildings and streets made out of Lego.
About 50 million Lego bricks and 15,000 models were used
to build Malaysia’s Miniland. While not actually constructed
out of Lego bricks, the rides are Lego-inspired and just as
fun-filled: get on Project X, Legoland’s signature rollercoaster
ride, and you’ll feel like a Lego minifig that your pesky
brother threw across the room.
No rail links reach Legoland Malaysia at the moment, but
the site can be reached by car or bus from Singapore (about
30 minutes’ drive) or Kuala Lumpur (four hours on the bus).
Medini Iskandar, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (tel: +607
597 8888, www.legoland.my)
Cebu Pacific flies to Kuala Lumpur from Manila, and Singapore
from Manila, Clark, Iloilo and Cebu.
www.cebupacificair.com
Universal Studios
Singapore
Singapore’s own Universal Studios
theme park stands in the resort reserve
of Sentosa Island, part of its Resorts
World entertainment and leisure
complex. With a total of 19 attractions
inside seven themed zones, the Studios’
entertainments draw deeply from the
NBC and Universal Studios’ portfolio
of movie and television properties,
from the dueling rollercoasters
of Battlestar Galactica to the
metal-shredding 3D action of
Transformers: The Ride.
Guests are meant to feel like
they’re deep inside their favorite
movies. For example, The Lost
World takes you into the
Jurassic
Park
universe — you can scale
a cliff wall studded with fossils, or
come face to face with a “living” baby
triceratops. The Hollywood Zone is
an unabashed tribute to the golden
age of moviemaking, complete with
Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin
impersonators. On weekends and
holidays, characters from
Jurassic
Park, Shrek, Madagascar
and
The
Mummy
come to life in a music-and-
dance show,
Hollywood Dreams Parade
.
To get to Universal Studios via
MRT, ride the Northeast Line, alight
at HarbourFront Station, then climb
to VivoCity’s third level to take the
Sentosa Express to the resort.
11
Sentosa East Mall, Singapore; tel: +65
6577 8888, www.rwsentosa.com
Cebu Pacific flies to Singapore from
Manila, Clark, Iloilo and Cebu.
www.
cebupacificair.com
Singapore
Clockwise from top left: Battlestar
Galactica will make your head spin;
Bumblebee atop Transformers: The Ride;
giant Anubis at the Ancient Egypt zone