Gold Coast Day 1 - with the Movie World Stars

I'm not an actor I'm not a star

I don't even have my own car..

But I'm hoping so much you'll stay

That you will love me anyway...

                                             - Michael Learns To Rock

The city buses plying to Warner Brothers' Movie World, which is quite at the end of town, make their last trip before midday. This was a surprise to us, Gold Coast being a tourist city. We were about to make a return to The Meriton, disappointed, but to save the day, I insisted we pay A$ 50 to the cab and we finally made it. The cabby bantered along about how he dreamed of coming to Australia, and he now even owns a farm house though a bit far from the main city. He seemed so happy living his dream it looked like, while we gave him chunks of info about life in our Singapore. 

                   Okay, we finally were greeted by gigantic rides at the entrance, Arkham Asylum, Superman Ride which turns you upside down, so we enjoyed them from far, amused ourselves with riders' screaming thrilled. What we enjoyed was the Scooby Do ride, but not the long queue due to School holidays. The wait was not too bad though, because you can click photos around some scary characters, like fiery eyed ghouls, watch a Scooby Do movie and just look around the various statues meant to scare, like knights in metallic body-suits who open their mouths suddenly. Then there was the roller coaster for kids, but Tweety was disappointed because she could not ride the bigger rides. You can have fun at the 3D ride Justice League, watch fast cars at Hollywood Stunt Driver show. The 4D movie Rio was colourful but the only 4D effects I remember are the bursts of wind in your nape and the chairs shaking.

     Eating options too are not plenty, especially when you are vegetarian. We had the regular fare of burgers and fries. They made us vegetarian patty for the burger, really appreciate that. Then we had the parade of the movie characters. Tweety enjoyed meeting her namesake, the teen was enthralled by Batman. That was about it, because they start to shut down by 5 pm. Even the sun refused to work after 5....