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Asia’s first LEGO model shop for LEGOLAND® Malaysia
May 22, 2009.
SINGAPORE: Iskandar Malaysia will house Asia’s first LEGO Model Shop to design
and make models for the LEGOLAND in Nusajaya.
The model shop will produce 15,000 models that would make up the country’s first
LEGO theme park in Medini Iskandar.
The theme park, the fifth of its kind in the world, is scheduled to completed in
2012.
Iskandar Investment Berhad president and chief executive officer Arlida Ariff
said the construction of the model shop, with a total floor area of 2300 square
metres (25,000 sq ft), would begin in August.
“The first phase of the Model Shop’s construction will be done in October. It is
located at the southern industrial and Logistics Clusters in Nusajaya,” she said
on Wednesday. Arlida also said the Model Shop would begin recruiting apprentices
and the final assessment would be in July.
Six qualified apprentices would be short-listed and sent to California, the
United States, in August for training.
She said the six would assist the LEGO Master Model Builders, who are LEGO
certified professional designers and artists, to train another 40 apprentices
who would join the Model Shop in October.
“Aspiring model makers must possess sound technical knowledge or background in
steel works, design reading and actual brick building experience,” said Arlida.
LEGOLAND Malaysia is expected to create about 1,000 jobs in the park, while up
to 5,000 jobs will be created during its construction, as well as in the related
retail trade, hospitality, services and food and beverage sectors.
The entire project will include a shopping centre, offices, hotels and
residential units costing a total of more than RM3.5 billion to develop.
The country’s LEGOLAND, which will be designed and operated by the Merlin
Entertainments Group Ltd, was announced in December with a planned investment of
RM750 million.
Its location -- 20 minutes from the Second Link -- is expected to draw tourists
from Singapore.
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/2563346/Article/index_html
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