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LEGOLAND® Malaysia plan to open in 2012.
Blocks In Place For LEGOLAND at Iskandar.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 3, 2009 — Construction of Asia’s first LEGOLAND theme park — a
US$200 million (RM675 million) project featuring 40 different rides and
attractions — began yesterday at Iskandar Malaysia in Johor.
The 26 aceres (hectares) LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort, which will open its doors in
2012, is the centrepiece of the Medini North, a lifestyle development that will
feature a retail mall, themed and business hotels, and office and residential
spaces.
Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, Iskandar Investment Bhd (IIB) President
and Chief Executive Arlida Ariff was hopeful that the building of this “great
entertainment development” could pave the way for Iskandar Malaysia to work with
more global partners and transform it into a “thriving new metropolis in Asia”.
A year on since the deal was first inked to build LEGOLAND Malaysia, LEGOLAND
Development general manager John Ussher said that the construction phase was now
in full swing to bring the rollercoasters, shows and more than 15,000 LEGO
models scattered around the theme park to life.
LEGOLAND Malaysia, which is about a 15-minute drive from the Malaysian
immigration checkpoint at the Second Link which leads to Tuas, will have a
“Miniland” featuring miniature LEGO replicas of famous buildings and structures
across Asia, including the Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest twin buildings in
the world.
LEGOLAND Malaysia is managed by Merlin Entertainments, which operates well-known
attractions such as the London Eye observation wheel in England and Madame
Tussauds museums.
Last month, Johor Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman insisted that Johor is not
competing with Singapore in attracting tourists to the LEGOLAND Park and the
soon-to-be-built Family Indoor Theme Park in Puteri Harbour.
While Singapore gears up to open the Universal Studios theme park at the Resorts
World integrated resort next year, Abdul Ghani said that it would cater more for
young adults, while Johor’s two parks were targeted at children below the age of
12.
LEGOLAND Malaysia joins its sister parks in Denmark, the United States, Germany
and the United Kingdom. Those four parks collectively draw some six million
visitors a year. There are also plans to open a LEGOLAND in Dubai by 2015. —
Business Times Singapore
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/45313-blocks-in-place-for-legoland-at-iskandar
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The other known parks:
LEGOLAND Billund open in 1968
LEGOLAND Windsor open in 1996
LEGOLAND California open in 1999
LEGOLAND Deutschland open in 2002
LEGOLAND Dubailand*
* Was plan to open in 2011, now 2015)
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