Thursday 30 December 2010

Hollywood & New York in Universal

The Hollywood and New York themes actually looks pretty much the same to me. I mean afterall, both the cities are located in the States.


There are no rides to catch here, this place is mainly design to scrap more money out of our pockets with their oh-so-cute merchandise and for us to have a break at the various restaurants, cafes and eateries. I mean you are bound to need to have to eat if you're spending 8 hours in the theme park.

A big part of this area is actually shaded which I think is a very smart move as Southeast Asia can have very unpredictable rain fall all the time.

Some of the buildings you can see in Hollywood (if I'm not mistaken).

Although there are no rides here, there are some shows you can catch by the street. Not sure if it is gonna be the same shows all the time but I managed to catch some B-boys in action and a sort of High-School-Musical-ish singing dancing show.


There is also a Monster Rock-n-roll musical at this theater but I completely miss this. What a bummer.

And of course being in Hollywood, you get to meet "stars" everywhere. We managed to take some photos with these stars ...
Woody Woodpecker

Kungfu Panda

and erhhhh ... Burt Reynold's star on the 'Walk of Fame'.

Some cute signages everywhere in Hollywood


OK, I'm pretty sure this is in New York although I'm not sure which particular building they are featuring. Big Yellow Cab is an icon of NY, yes?


Sculpture of intellectual element (gotta be NY)


How NY buildings would look like ... living in the big apple might not be very tempting afterall.


Just 15 mins before the park close, we managed to catch the 'Lights, Camera, Action!' at the New York park. Gotta say that you shouldn't miss this if possible as you get to see before your very own eyes how film makers (in this case, Steven Spielberg) create special effects. We are standing right in the middle of a major hurricane in NY City. Incredible!


Location : Singapore
Date of trip : Apr 2010

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