Went to USS yesterday with amelia, cheryl and lydia!
Didn't get the student pass and all but instead entered buying the tickets cuz cheryl had 2 complimentary tickets. Never knew that SGreans had 15% discount on tickets upon showing IC as well haha. So it cost us $31.50 each after splitting and all.
My virgin trip to USS: it was not bad at all haha. I'm someone who is really afraid of heights. I also don't really dare to take most roller coasters due to the fact that I have motion sickness, so I'm not really one to go for theme parks. But I went in the end!
The 1st zone we entered when we tapped in with our tickets was: Hollywood!
There wasn't really much at Hollywood except for souvenir shops, stalls and a few restaurants. But I must say the buildings there were really pretty. Pretty impressive to someone like me.
Next was the 2nd zone: Madagascar.
I remember when I was young I loved the movie Madagascar especially the zebra and the penguins. Can't really remember their names now though.
1st ride we sat was the Madagascar Crate Adventure one. Didn't really know what this ride was about - turned out it was river boat ride which featured snippets from the movie. There were life-sized figures of the characters and the effects used were all not bad. The ride wasn't very exciting but it was pretty cool. I guess it was fine for starters.
On board the ride!
With amelia and lydia and some soft toys of the Madagascar characters we found at a stall!
Next we proceeded on to the next zone: Far Far Away.
One of my favourite zones in terms of appearance. I really liked how the entire zone looked so fantasy-like. The castle was really beautiful!!
Took the Enchanted Airways roller coaster first. The queue was around 25 minutes or so. Spent our time talking and camwhoring so it didn't really feel that long.
With cheryl and lydia!
With amelia!
The ride was okay for the 1st roller coaster ride. Didn't really know what to expect at first cuz the fact that it was a roller coaster kind of scared me already. It was still tolerable and fun haha. Had to remove my snapback for all the rides though kinda troublesome.
Group photo with one of the icons at Far Far Away.
Next up was The Lost World!
I quite like dinosaurs and jurassic park so I was quite excited. Didn't really take much photos in this zone though. We first took the Canopy Flyer and the wait was slightly longer as compared to before but still tolerable as we were all excited. Camwhored again while waiting~
Failed attempt at rock-climbing? LOL
Dinosaurs!
Canopy Flyer was fun cuz I was feeling damn hot and once we were on the ride it became super windy. Took off my shoes in case they flew off haha my legs felt really bare up in the air though. Would have liked it if it was slightly longer cuz it was really short haha.
Next stop was Ancient Egypt!
Not the biggest fan of mummies but I honestly thought they were pretty cool after the trip to the ArtScience Museum in May. The Revenge of the Mummy ride kind of proved me wrong cuz I got really creeped out by the mummies LOL. The wait took around half an hour to 40 minutes and the worst part was that we couldn't bring anything in to the ride. Played some old-school games with my girls and we laughed so loud everyone around looked irritated like hell at us. Oops, sorry.
Before this I heard that the mummy ride was really cool one. I didn't really know it was a roller coaster but after I sat for it I almost died. Yes I know it sounds like I'm a coward but yes I am haha. It wasn't much of the mummies but the roller coaster element of it. I got really giddy at the end (I have motion sickness). Worst part was that it was in total darkness and we couldn't see the track at all. Well yes it was fun but would have been better if I didn't get giddy in the end.
Entrance of the mummy ride. Took it at around 7+ when everything else was closed hence the lighting haha.
Sci-fi City was next.
I haven't watched any Transformer movie in my life so I wasn't particular excited to come in haha. I know what they are, but I don't know the content. Really hope to have an avengers theme park someday tho teehee.
Was still giddy after awhile so decided to take a short break. Headed over to stardots to get some ice-cream cuz they sell dippin dots there!!! :D
With our ice-cream! I bought mint chocolate~
:D
Took the 3D Transformers ride after that!
Took this while we just entered the area to queue. The waiting time was half an hour but it felt way longer than that this time round. Didn't really do much while queuing cuz the queue just kept moving and it was kinda like a maze. The red lights kept flashing and it kinda made me even more giddy.
The Transformers 3D ride was kinda fascinating with all the tech and stuff. Like you were a Transformer lol quite cool but it would have been better if I wasn't already giddy. It wasn't much of a roller coaster type but it just kept spinning around and jerking that it gave me a really bad headache after that. Drawbacks of having motion sickness :(
Amelia and lydia decided to take the Battlestar Galatica afterwards while me and cheryl couldn't take the roller coaster so we backed out lol.
Don't really think I'll ever conquer my fear of such rides haha.
So me and cheryl headed over to the last zone: New York!
Took the sesame street spaghetti space chase ride! It was really cute hehe reminded me of how I used to sit in front of the television to catch sesame street every time when I was young!! Went over to the sesame street souvenir shop after that and me and cheryl kinda gayed out with the soft toys and puppets over there.
With the cookie monster!! :D
Cheryl with cookie monster and elmo puppets! :D
LOL
Outside of the souvenir shop! This shot was actually taken for other motives hahahaha!
Managed to take a photo with the big oscar mascot as well! :D
Kinda just roamed around New York with cheryl afterwards and headed back to find amelia and lydia after they took the Battlestar. Hung around New York and we decided to take a few jump shots outside the library building there hehe.
Almost there.
:D
Grew tired of jumping after a while so we just took some random photos around the library! Really pretty building haha!
Moved on and kept roaming around New York. No idea why too haha.
Group photo with the sesame street icons in New York!!
Ended up hanging around some dead-end street at New York too haha. Sat around, took a few photos and amelia and cheryl ended up dancing the house dance there LOL
Amelia, lydia and cheryl!
Yay!!!
Walked further down after that and reached back to Hollywood. Walked back into Madagascar again in search of food this time round cuz it was nearing dinner time.
Chanced upon some beach merry go round ride so me and lydia decided to take it. For the fun of it hahahaha!
I look like a kid hahahaha!
Lydia looking less kiddy than me hahaha.
There wasn't really much food that we wanted around as most of them were mostly over budget or fast food restaurants. Cheryl wanted western so we headed out of USS to Astons!
Chargrill chicken with mac n cheese + potato salad! Kinda regretting getting the potato salad as a side cuz I didn't really like the taste of their sauce.
Headed back into USS afterwards but we all kinda just lost the mood for anything else. Decided to watch the Shrek 4D show since I wanted to watch it from the start cuz I heard it's good! It was okay in the end, it was cool but the prologue was kinda bad for me maybe cuz there were only a few people in the entire hall. That was the last ride/show at USS cuz by the time we were out, everything closed already sigh. Didn't get to take the water ride at lost world :(
Last photo before we left! With amelia and lydia's so-called cute staff hahahaha.
Hung around the area outside USS and vivo for some time then went home after that. That concludes my virgin USS trip! It was awesome with my girls around! :D Might go there again soon, but not so soon cuz I kinda walked the entire place a few times already haha!
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Took me so long to finish this post cuz of the pictures and stuff! Started from awhile before dinner and now it's already 11+! I guess it's time for me to go do something else more productive like my work or watch a movie. Till next time!!!
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