One word describes The Great Moscow Circus: Breathtaking!
All of us who were there on Sunday night were kept on the edge of our seats throughout the entire 2 hours 20 minutes at The Red and White BIG TOP! It was totally breathtaking and heart-pounding! The stunts and death-defying acts were exceptional! No wonder the over 100 year old tradition Great Moscow Circus were hailed the best of the best circus!
One word describes The Great Moscow Circus: Breathtaking!
All of us who were there on Sunday night were kept on the edge of our seats throughout the entire 2 hours 20 minutes at The Red and White BIG TOP! It was totally breathtaking and heart-pounding! The stunts and death-defying acts were exceptional! No wonder the over 100 year old tradition Great Moscow Circus were hailed the best of the best circus!
As we walked towards the Big Top Tent, we wondered how it would be like to be sitting in a million-dollar tent specially made for Singapore by leading Italian tent manufacturers Anceschi and Canobbio and which took several months to build! It was indeed impressive and it is fully air-conditioned! Everyone can have a good view because no audience would be more than 11 metres away from the action! The Big Top has a traditional European atmosphere to it and why not? It is made by a 5th generation Italian tent maker Paolo Anceschi and hoisted up by a team of 20 people! For a moment, I could picture us going to a circus as a family depicted in children’s story books! Sitting under The Big Top made me a kid again! I am totally in awe of the design of the tent right before the show started.
The show opened with the entertaining act of Trampoline performers who bounced back endless times and effortlessly to the height that they fell in such grace! There was a mix of more than 16 sensational acts that saw talented jugglers, aerial stunts, phenomenal rope-skippers, daredevil motorcyclists, contortionist, marvellous acrobatics, funny ringmaster, among many, many more!
There were so many of our favourites that I could not possibly name it here. But there were two performances that I think each and every member of the audience that night held their breaths while they prayed for the performers’ safety! I was certainly one of them! They were the Wheel of Death which the performers run and jump and skip in the moving and rotating wheels, and Motorbike Sphere of Fear where motorcyclists run their bikes inside the sphere. As dangerous as it looked, the Russian performers were really astounding in giving their best. Sometimes, it might seemed that they were going to fall, but then again, they were so well-trained that I could not differentiate if that was not done on purpose! And the motorcycle act requires such precision of timing, speed, teamwork and coordination, it is hard to imagine human beings are capable of displaying such traits!
In fact, if you were to ask me, I think no one can demonstrate the word T.R.U.S.T as well as all the Russian circus performers that night! They have to have complete trust in one another to not only bring to everyone the best of their performance, but to simply survive all shows! They have my full admiration of their commitment and spirit for the circus entertainment!
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If you have not been to The Great Moscow Circus in Singapore, I think you should! It is the school holidays and it will be a good chance to bring the whole family to watch this world-renowned circus. The show will end on 2 December.
Here are some good to know things about going to the circus:
Good to know!
Transport – You can park your car at the Marina Bay Open Carpark and walk 3 minutes to The Great Moscow Circus. You may also take public transport to the nearest Bayfront MRT.
Admission – Infants and children below 3 can sit on parent’s lap and need no ticket. It is wheelchair friendly too.
Seats –
Booster seats are available for children. Just ask the friendly ushers and they will bring it to you.
Due to the design of the ring seats, all seats are able to get a good view. We were seated at Section C, 2nd last row and it was a terrific view.
Fully Air-conditioned – You may like to bring along a jacket or cardigan. On the evening that we went, it was raining for the whole day and hence it was pretty cold inside the tent.
Food – There are popcorns, mixed nuts, candy floss and drinks for sale just at the entrance to the Big Top. For the kids, there are also illuminated hairbands, wands, spinners for sale.
Toilets – There are mobile toilets outside and there may be a long queue during the 15 min interval. You may like to ensure the kids go before the show.
Duration of the show – around 2 hrs 20 min excluding a 15 min interval.
More Information
When: 25 October – 2 December
Showtimes:
Tuesday to Friday: 4pm, 7:30pm
Saturday: 12pm, 4pm, 7:30pm
Sunday: 11am, 3pm, 6:30pm
Public Holiday: 12pm, 4pm
Where: The Mighty Big Top, Bayfront Avenue, next to Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Ticket price: From $85 (Excludes the booking fee of SGD4 per ticket)
*25% off all A,B,C and D Reserve tickets for all shows, this promo expires midnight Tue 13th Nov!
There are Senior Citizens and Child Priced tickets. If you are Popular or Passion Card members, there are discounts too.
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine. Thanks to Sliding Doors Entertainment and The Great Moscow Circus for the kind media invite. Our family truly had a wonderful and highly entertaining evening!
The run events that can survive for 10 consecutive years must be quite something and deserve a look into why they remain popular! Come January 27, 2018, Safari Zoo Run is going to be held for the 10th year raising awareness for wildlife conservation. Now, for any kind of runs, it is important to know what you are running for. Many can be attracted by the runner’s entitlements, the running route, fringe activities, but do not realise the theme behind the runs. If you would spare a moment to read and understand why a run event is held, perhaps it would make it more meaningful to join in the race.
What is Safari Zoo Run about and what are you running for?
Safari Zoo Run was conceived to commemorate Singapore Zoo’s famous matriarch and one of Singapore’s most loved animal personalities — Ah Meng the Sumatran orangutan, who died of old age in February 2008.
Safari Zoo Run 2018, like all its 9 years of hard work, seeks to raise awareness on wildlife conservation. For adults, we may already know about endangered animals, but may not pay too much attention about it. For kids, how do they have the awareness? What better way to do so than to send the message to both adults and kids in family runs and individual runs? And this is the reason why Safari Zoo Run remains one of our favourite family runs so far! Running for a good cause!
I make it a point to explain to my kids why they participate in a run event, hoping that it will make them run with motivation.
How do you raise awareness by running?
Safari Zoo Run 2018 is proud to feature 4 animal icons namely: Ah Meng the Orangutan, Chawang the Asian Elephant, Canola the Manatee and Sunny the Hornbill. Read this infographics below to choose which one you wish to support! Each animal icon team supports an endangered wildlife species in Singapore. Do your part for wildlife – join a team and run for wildlife today!
1) Running past the animals!
We are going to run past lions, zebras, giraffes, and many more animals! Just like our last Safari Zoo Run, we do not mind getting all distracted saying hi to the animals that we passed by! That is perhaps the reason why family runs are usually not competitive, simply because the kids are running haphazardly!
2) Free entry to the Zoo and River Safari!
Who doesn’t want value for money stuff??? A quick calculation will tell you that the Safari Zoo Run is worth your every cent. Yes, considering a free entry to the Zoo (worth $33) and free entry to the River Safari (worth $30) on event day, PLUS 50% discount to Night Safari (saves you $22.50) and Jurong Bird Park (saves you $14.50), PLUS Race apparels, T-shirt, Finisher’s Medal, well, and not forgetting you are running for wildlife and bonding with your family and friends at the same time, I hope you are already convinced!
Not to mention that we get to visit the Zoo and River Safari all in a day! Our kids never get tired of the Zoo!
3) Running for a good cause
Ok, I shall not repeat this again! Please scroll up to read “What are you running for?” 😛
4) Family Run Category
Safari Zoo Run has 2.5km and 5.5km family run categories! We are going to run the 5.5km family run this time round! Our previous run was a 2.5km which was perfect for our toddler back then, however, now that he is 5yo, surely we can run a longer distance to see more animals along the way! We will be running through the Zoo and Night Safari. We are prepared to run, hop, jump, walk, skip, whatever, to get to our destination! We have never run such a long distance together with the kids. It is gonna be exciting! Crossing my fingers that the youngest will not ask to be carried!
Race Categories and Fees
Race Category
Normal Rates
8 Nov – 7 Jan 18
10KM SAFARI ZOO CHALLENGE
(COMPETITIVE)
– Runs through Singapore Zoo and Night Safari
MEN’S OPEN
$80
WOMEN’S OPEN
$80
5.5KM SAFARI ZOO RUN
(NON-COMPETITIVE)
– Runs through Singapore Zoo and Night Safari
2.5KM SAFARI ZOO DASH
(NON-COMPETITIVE)
– Runs through Singapore Zoo
ADULT
$56
JUNIOR / KIDS**
$50
AGE LIMITS: MEN’S & WOMEN’S OPEN • 16YRS & ABOVE | ADULT • 18YRS & ABOVE | JUNIOR • 13 – 17 YRS OLD
BOYS / GIRLS • 6 – 12 YRS OLD | KIDS • 4 – 12 YRS OLD
*Loyalty rates applies to past participants of Safari Zoo Run in 2017 only.
**Adult supervision by a registered 5.5km Safari Zoo Run (Non-Competitive) or 2.5km Safari Zoo Dash (Non-Competitive) Kid participant is required. Due to safety reasons, one Adult participant can only be paired with a maximum of 2 Kid participants in the same category. So what happens if you have 3 kids or more? You may write in to safarizoo.run@hivelocity.com.sg and the organisers will consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
**Children 3 years & below as of 28 Jan 18 may enter for free (without runner’s entitlements) in the non-competitive categories. An accompanied Adult registration is required.
If you are a WRS Family and Individual Member, you will be entitled to a special 15% off prevailing rates! Please contact membership@wrs.com.sg or call 6269 3411 for the promotion code.
Christmas Promotion!!
Don’t worry if you have not signed up and wish to do so, but miss the early birds discounts!
For the 12th day of Christmas, enjoy 12% off the race fees using promo code 12OFF! Hurry now as it’s the last day for this promo!
Not only that, for anyone who registers from now till 5 Jan 2018 using the promo code 12OFF, will stand a chance to win a pair of slots from the 5.5KM or 2.5KM Category!
We are all excited to get ready for our first long distance family run to kick start a series of run events in 2018! We can’t wait for Safari Zoo Run 2018 to come! Hope to see you there too!
Disclaimer: We were given complimentary entry to Safari Zoo Run 2018. Stay tune to what we will be doing on the run day itself!
This year, A Universal Christmas includes many Christmas highlights, interactive workshops and interesting shows to delight everyone young at heart. You may be wondering if these are all included in the entry ticket. The answer is Yes! The park hours are extended till 9pm daily too! So, it is super worth it to visit Universal Studios Singapore from 1 Dec to 1 Jan because you get to enjoy more than the usual popular and awesome rides and attractions. Best of all, you can soak in the beautiful and everything magic Christmas mood and sights!
3 years back we had an enjoyable time at Universal Studios Singapore for their Christmas Special. We remembered every ride we took and even remembered fondly of eating dinner at Din Tai Fung after that. Fast forward 3 years later, every one of us looked forward to have an equally fun time during this period of the year again! So happy that this time, our youngest was able to join us in most of the rides and not only that, the kids got to take their favourite rides with their cousins again.
This year, A Universal Christmas includes many Christmas highlights, interactive workshops and interesting shows to delight everyone young at heart. You may be wondering if these are all included in the entry ticket. The answer is Yes! The park hours are extended till 9pm daily too! So, it is super worth it to visit Universal Studios Singapore from 1 Dec to 1 Jan because you get to enjoy more than the usual popular and awesome rides and attractions. Best of all, you can soak in the beautiful and everything magic Christmas mood and sights!
A Universal Christmas runs daily and features daytime and nighttime experiences! Here are some of our favourites!
Santa’s Workshop Timing: 12 – 8pm Where: New York Zone
Santa’s Workshop makes anything associated with Christmas. The Santa is recruiting elves for this holiday season. Each child or adult who goes into the workshop will go through 5 tasks in different thematic zones and collect stamps on a personalised certificate bearing their own photo. The interactive zones start with a fun photo-taking station that transforms you to an elf. After that, a door opens up to the rest of the stations like sorting letters in a mailroom, assembling a robot in Toy Factory, helping Mrs Claus to find ingredients to make cookies and finally meeting Santa Claus for a photo opportunity!
We were expecting more detailed interactive activities but they were really simple tasks where the whole group were ushered from room to room for different experiences. Nevertheless, the entire 20 minute or so session brings smiles to everyone even the Grandpa (my Father-in-law) who seemed to enjoy the workshop too!
Oscar’s Grouchmas Timing: 1215pm, 230pm, 430pm, 630pm* (varies with different days) Where: Pantages Hollywood Theater
The show’s title made us laugh. It is not hard to imagine how grouchy Oscar will be. We did not manage to catch this show at all the 4 timings as the park is so big and we needed double the time to move the 6 kids around from one attraction to another. We were simply too far away to be back in time to watch the show. Otherwise, we would love to see how Oscar transforms from a Christmas grouch to the holiday’s number one fan through an unexpected journey — discovering the true meaning of the season and the joys of giving, kindness and love. The kids missed the chance to see Elmo and the Cookie Monster too.
Search For A Christmas Star (at World of Stars) Timing: 730pm, 845pm Where: New York Zone
This is one of the highlights of A Universal Christmas and we made it well in time to secure a good view of the stage. Then we realised that the Airy Fairy was flying in from behind as she swished her magic wand to light up the streets of New York as she set the stage for “Search for a Christmas star”. It was a beautiful and sparkling sight. Remember to get ready your camera to take many insta-worthy pictures.
Search for a Christmas Star is a Star Search Contest where each contestant competes with his best talent. The show wows the audience with toy soldiers in break dancing, ‘Snow’ and ‘Flake’ in lovely singing, other contestants performing familiar Christmas melodies, aerial acrobatics, special effects, fireworks, snowfall, projection mapping of the New York Public Library and many more. We enjoyed the dance moves and singing in this musical that captured our attention from start till end. Not to mention that there is a meaningful moral behind the story of this contest.
There was a surprise appearance of a Gingerbread Boy and Gingerbread Girl in the finale! They must have come out of Mrs Claus Kitchen! Snow started to fall at this moment to everyone’s excitement. We were delighted to queue up just to take a picture with these 2 cuties and the talented cast.
Santa’s Snowy Sleigh Ride and Santa’s Christmas Tree House Timing: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm Where: New York Zone and Hollywood Zone
We were looking forward to seeing Santa parade down the streets on his sleigh. As we missed all the earlier timings, we wanted to catch Santa after the 730pm World of Stars show for the last parade at 8pm. Unfortunately, we missed the parade by a few minutes and could only manage to take a photo instead. If you wish to catch the Santa sleigh ride, please try to go for the earlier timings.
Hello Kitty Store @ Universal Studios Singapore
We could not have come at a better time! The Hello Kitty Store has just opened just a week ago! I am sure Hello Kitty Fans will not hesitate to visit the park for the sake of this all-pretty store!
Oh, before I forget, guests can shop this year’s hottest gifts at any of the park’s retail stores and with every S$100 nett spent (One free postage applicable to a Singapore address only, with every S$100 nett spent),they can have their gifts mailed straight to their loved ones – for free – with the North Pole Postage Service located along Hollywood. This makes it so convenient for Christmas Shopping 🙂
We stayed till 9pm and not before we took the last attraction on our to-visit list which was the Canopy Flyer in the dark! It was certainly a different experience dangling your feet in the night air and taking in the night scene. We were also lucky for that day’s weather was cool and cloudy. There was some slight drizzle but that did not dampen any of our spirits. In fact, the kids wore their ponchos in the drizzle and were happy to get wet in the Water World Show Soak Zone and the Jurassic Park Rapids Ride. So, remember to bring along Ponchos to USS!
We had lots of fun at Universal Studios Singapore just like we did each time we visited the park. It gets better each time when each of the kids grows up and meets the minimum height for the attractions. I think it will become a tradition for us to visit USS during Christmas time simply because we have so many beautiful memories at USS Christmas special that accompanied the kids’ growing up years. The best part is that we will never outgrow USS because the rides are so exciting and they get better as the kids grow up! We will be back again soon!
Disclaimer: We received complimentary tickets from Universal Studios Singapore. We had great fun and hope you will too! For more information, visit www.universalchristmas.sg .
The Hills Are Alive, With The Sound of Music…. what a genius piece of work from Richard Rogers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein (lyrics) which captures the hearts of young and old for decades! In fact, all the songs are amazingly touching! Remember Do-Re-Me, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going On Seventeen, So Long- Farewell? Now, to introduce your kids to Musicals, perhaps SOUND OF MUSIC is a good first step because the songs are catchy, cheerful and the 7 children of the von Trapp family are so endearing!
The Hills Are Alive, With The Sound of Music…. what a genius piece of work from Richard Rogers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein (lyrics) which captures the hearts of young and old for decades! In fact, all the songs are amazingly touching! Remember Do-Re-Mi, Edelweiss,Sixteen Going On Seventeen, So Long- Farewell? Now, to introduce your kids to Musicals, perhaps THE SOUND OF MUSIC is a good first step because the songs are catchy, cheerful and the 7 children of the von Trapp family are so endearing!
We watched the movie some months ago and I must say it helps a lot with the understanding of the musical for the kids. The movie is a much longer version (about 3 hours) compared to the musical which played for 2.5 hours including intermission. Rest assured the kids will not get restless because every scene holds onto the attention of the audience as they anticipate the next familiar song to sing along.
WHAT IS THE STORY ABOUT?
If you do not already know the story of the von Trapp family and Maria, the main character, as the governess, I shall briefly introduce here (extraction from wiki and official press release):
The story is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, a true story with altered details for the musical and movie. Maria takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the 7 children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children as tensions rise before the outbreak of World War II.
With its unforgettable score, THE SOUND OF MUSIC touches the hearts of all ages and contains some of the most memorable songs ever performed on the musical theatre stage including My Favourite Things, Do-Re- Mi, Climb Ev’ry Mountain, Edelweiss, The Lonely Goatherd, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, and of course the glorious title song The Sound of Music.
The original 1959 Broadway production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and was
Rogers and Hammerstein’s biggest success. The 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews as Maria won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and remains one of the most popular movies of all time.
SINGAPORE YOUNG ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
It is interesting to know that 6 out of 7 von Trapp children are young actors and actresses from Singapore, with 3 children to alternate each character. These 18 children come from all corners of Singapore and will perform in rotation throughout the season as the small and cute Gretl, the brothers Friedrich and Kurt, as well as their sisters Marta, Brigitta, and Louisa.
We enjoyed the beautiful stage props which my kids were in awe at the automatic appearance of the tables and chairs which stopped in precise locations. The voices of Maria, the nuns, the children, Captain von Trapp are powerful and an enjoyment to close your eyes for a moment to let the notes sink into your eardrums. While I was watching, I love to pay attention to the standing positions of the actors and actresses. I pointed out to the older kids on the details of the stage performance, including the synchronised steps, looks, speeches with precised timing. It is often with such attention to details that make a performance beautiful and flowing.
We totally love the musical and encourage to let your kids watch the movie before heading to the musical. It is a good start for appreciation of the performing arts for the whole family with such a timeless classic musical.
Sound of Music is currently showing at Mastercards Theatres at Marina Bay Sands till 3 December 2017. It will be a good holiday family activity to look forward to.
More information as follows:
When: 7 November to 3 December
Performance Times: Tues – Fri 730pm; Sat 2pm & 730pm; Sun 1pm & 6pm
Ticket Price: From $65 (Excludes the booking fee of SGD$4 per ticket)
Disclaimer: We were invited to the musical for the purpose of this review. Thank you Base Entertainment Asia and Sliding Doors Entertainment for the kind invitation. It was certainly 2 thumbs-up for this wonderful musical. I am sure the story will leave a good lasting impression on the kids 🙂
Do you know that Legoland Malaysia is celebrating 5th birthday this September? It means that it has been providing lots of fun opportunities for Singaporean families to enjoy a short getaway across the causeway for 5 years already! Time really flies! Each time we visit Legoland, we have a different experience mainly due to the fact that the kids grow up and progress to different kind of activities and also Legoland Malaysia adds new attractions now and then! So here we are again, to celebrate the 5th Brick-Versary and I hope you will enjoy as much as we did!
Do you know that Legoland Malaysia is celebrating 5th birthday this September? It means that it has been providing lots of fun opportunities for Singaporean families to enjoy a short getaway across the causeway for 5 years already! Time really flies! Each time we visit Legoland, we have a different experience mainly due to the fact that the kids grow up and progress to different kind of activities and also Legoland Malaysia adds new attractions now and then! So here we are again, to celebrate the 5th Brick-Versary and I hope you will enjoy as much as we did!
The line up of events of the 5th Brick-Versary starts from 21 Aug to 30 Sep. Here is the show guide:
Once you enter Legoland Malaysia Theme Park Entrance, you will be given a Brick-Versary Goodies Coupon to scratch and win for each admission ticket. You may get to win LEGO sets, annual passes, LEGO Minfigures. If you are really lucky, you may win the top prize which is an all-expense paid trip to Legoland Japan for the family. Do look out for the below activities too!
• Jumbo Minifigure Trade – Go on a Jumbo Minifigure Trading craze with 1,000 kinds of Minifigures and
challenge your kids to see who can collect the most Minifigures from the park’s Trading Hut • Giant LEGO® Birthday Cake – Who can take the best iconic shot of themselves with a Giant LEGO®
Birthday cake made up of 150,000 LEGO® bricks? • Fifth Brick-versary’s Edition DUPLO® Bricks – Are you a true blue LEGO® fan? Find out more about the
activities that lets you win one of the fan favourite limited edition DUPLO® bricks • Brickdance by 12 LEGO® costume characters – Mums, dads, boys and girls, get ready for a dance
showdown. Battle it out with the adorable LEGO® costumers.
This is the first time we tried to cover 2 parks in one day and also the first time we visited the Water Park. We spent a good half of the day at Water Park first and head on over to the Theme Park in the late afternoon. It started off with a cool breezy day and we tried to cover all the Water Park attractions before the heavy dark clouds loomed over us and poured. We managed to cover almost all the attractions before the rain caught us in time for our late lunch.
BUILD-A-RAFT RIVER
The moment we got changed into our swim wear and put our belongings in the locker, which we paid MYR40 for a big locker, we were undecided which ride to hit for a start. In the end, we decided to do a rest and relax activity before getting our adrenaline high with the rides. Build-A-Raft River, here we come!
There were many LEGO structures everywhere in the park as well as lifeguards who kept watch on the park goers.You can build with huge colourful Duplo blocks while floating on the river!
JOKER SOAKER
No kids will miss out this interactive playground with a bucket of 300 gallons of water splashing down on them. There are slides suitable for the little ones and more challenging slides for the older kids and adults. Most little kids can stay here for hours. Our youngest did not want to leave until we encouraged him to join all of us at the rides.
RED RUSH (Minimum height 102cm)
Everything doubles the fun when you play with fun company. We were happy to have the company of the kids’ cousins to join us for the rides. We headed on to RED RUSH, which is suitable for 6 people to sit in a doughnut float. It was the first time my youngest sat on such a ride. We were happy that he had crossed the minimum height to take the ride. He was initially afraid, but seeing that his same age cousin would be accompanying him to take the ride, he put on a brave front so as not to lose out to a girl, LOL! In the end, it was so fun that we took the ride a few more times!
SPLASH N SWIRL (Minimum height 107cm) and Brick Blaster (Minimum height 107cm)
These 2 rides are side by side. Splash and Swirl can allow 1 or 2 people to take the ride. It goes through a swirling and splashing a few rounds depending on how heavy you are before entering an exciting tunnel. I took it with my No.2 and we swirled 3 rounds before I wondered if we were going to swirl there forever and then we were brought into the entrance of the tunnel eventually. It was really fun and No.2 went again on his own.
Brick Blaster could take up to 3 people. It swings and sways in the tunnel. My hub took it with our youngest.
LEGO SLIDE RACERS (Minimum height 107cm)
To me, this must be the most exciting ride! You take a mat and slide into a tunnel which make several turns before exiting into a plunge down the steep slides. Not only that, we were able to race together in 5. The heaviest of all will emerge first. The only hard part is to climb up the many steps to take this ride but it is worth the effort!
Then it started to rain when we climbed up the steps for a 3rd time. The lifeguards and staff blew whistle to signal everyone to take shelter. It was also a cue for us to take a break. While the elder kids were having fun playing on some of the exciting rides, the younger ones were busy building their boats nearby! They could put their boats to the test and challenge each other on whose boat can travel faster.
LEGO WAVE POOL
When the rain got really big, everyone headed to the lunch area at Beach Grill in front of the LEGO Wave Pool. There was a free screening of Ninjago movie at the Wave Pool. All the kids were kept occupied by the movie while the adults ordered lunch. The rain soon stopped and the kids jumped into the Wave Pool.
After lunch, we bathed and wanted to go over to the Legoland Theme Park next door. Unfortunately, it started to really pour heavily and we were stranded at the entrance of Water Park. We bought a Poncho and the kids’ uncle braved the rain in the poncho to bring some umbrellas from our cars parked at Somerset Medini Apartment. That’s when the rain subsided and we made our way to the Theme Park with our umbrellas. I am pretty sure, to the kids, walking in the rain was one of the highlights of our visit that day.
LEGOLAND THEME PARK
We had 2 hours left to play at this Theme Park. So, we chose the most popular attractions. Due to the rain, most of the attractions had no queue and we were able to enjoy multiple rides in such a short time.
But before we started for the rides, we must take this photo for a memory keepsake in this special 5th Brick-Versary celebration!
LEGO NINJAGO THE RIDE
We started with LEGO Ninjago The Ride. This was our first time at this attraction. We were not too sure what we were in for. We just knew all of us could play including the youngest. For those of you who had tried this ride before, it is a battle of who is the best Ninja in throwing out fireballs, lightning strikes, shockwaves and ice. It is kinda interesting as each ride transports maximum of 4 people and we had to use our hands in parallel movements above the sensors in front of us to throw out elements to kill the Great Devourer. There was a score board in front of us. We were able to compare our scores at the end of the ride. Amazingly, all the younger kids could do better than the older kids and adults!
LOST KINGDOM ADVENTURE (Minimum height 80cm, 2yo)
This is a shooting hunt ride and it is suitable for families. Nothing too complicated. Just take out the gun, aim at the green lights and pull the trigger. It looks easy but not so when you need precision to take aim at the targets.
THE DRAGON APPRENTICE (Minimum height 100cm, 4yo) and THE DRAGON (Minimum height 100cm, 6yo)
This was also the first time No. 3 rode on a roller coaster. I was initially worried about whether he could take it. I really need not be. He loved it! This really made it easier for us to bring him to try out more adventurous rides in the future. Now, we just need to wait for him to grow up to meet the ride requirements to get on the challenging ones! I am happy that Legoland is designed with little ones in mind as The Dragon Apprentice is catered for them while The Dragon caters for the older kids and adults.
MINILAND
These Minilands and structures are simply amazingly built to life! Some have interactive buttons to spurt water and make sounds.
We ended our trip with our family photo at the same old spot at the beautiful Castle Stage. Look how we have changed and how the kids have grown up with each photo!
Before we left for dinner with the grandparents, we managed to catch the Awesome Parade for the 5th Brick-Versary celebrations.
We were very lucky that despite the rain, we were able to maximise our visit to the 2 parks. Legoland Malaysia, we will certainly be back! You have already become a memorable and favourite place for our family, especially when we have witnessed how Legoland Malaysia has been a part of our kids’ growing up years!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, LEGOLAND MALAYSIA! May you always be as AWESOME a place for all of us as ever!
More information:
Park Opening Hours –
Water Park – 10am to 6pm daily
Theme Park – 10am to 6pm (Mon – Thurs), 10am to 7pm (Fri – Sun)
Do check here for ride closure and maintenance schedule before you book your tickets over here.
Disclaimer: We were invited to celebrate Legoland 5th Brick-Versary. Thank you Legoland Malaysia and the organisers for the awesome fun we have together.
