Travel Log: Gold Coast ~ Australia (Day 5)

Previous Day (Springbrook, Natural Arch & Tropical Fruit World)

Destination: Gold Coast, Australia
Duration: 6 Days 5 Nights (Aug 21~Aug 26, 2011)

Day 5: Movie World & Harbour Town

We’d decided to be a typical Malaysian tourist today by visiting Movie World! We bought the 3 Worlds (Movieworld, Seaworld & Wet’n’Wild) tickets online before our trip at myfun.com.au for AUD109.90 per pax. We took a bus to our destination and I must say that public transport in Australia was not cheap. A short distance would easily cost you AUD 9 per pax.

Our Bus to Movie World

We got the show timetable from the booth and started to plan out our day accordingly. There were Daffy and Tweety standing there and we ran to take a photo with them. I think they must be thinking we were nuts because no one but children or parents with children queue for the photo. *blush*

Here We are...

Daffy & Tweety!

We then went into Scooby-Do Spooky Coaster for a ride – mind you, this was a children ride and I was screaming like there was no tomorrow. Guess this showed how “Brave” I was. *facepalm* After that we saw the Bat Mobile, cat woman, Marilyn Monroe and the Scooby-Do Family! One good thing was that it was not weekend thus the place was less crowded – unlike my trip to Universal Studio Singapore last year.

The Scooby Doo Ride...

BatMobile

Scooby Doo Family!

We continued with the exciting stunt driver show and laugh out loud when the cars started to show up. It was Mitsubishi Lancer! Our mind just kept thinking about Proton Inspira and was giggling nonstop. Remember this cartoon? :p



The Cartoon!

The stunt show was funny and corny and we couldn’t help but give in to our inner childishness! But we just couldn’t get over the expectation for the Lancers to say “F*ck You!” spontaneously. Oops.. guess children were all around!

Inspira?

After the show, we got to the show stage to for the “What’s Up Rock?” musical show that featured music and dancing from rock 'n' roll to show time hits. Hmm.. is it just me or the Lola Bunny looked scary? I guess this was heaven for the children though as they sing and dance along.

Scary Lola!

We planned to take the Wild West Falls Adventure Ride at their Wild Wild West section but unfortunately it was under maintenance. What a bummer! We managed to catch the Wild Wild West Show though with the cowboys, sheriff & barmaids. It was great fun and the sun was starting to shine as well. What a nice break from the cold weathers last few days.

Wild Wild West Section..

The Barmaids! Hmm... they look familiar..

Cowboys and stuffs...

After the show, we kind of chilled around, took somemore photos & grabbed a hotdog until the Batman shows up the show stage. There were some fighting between batman and some ninjas and that was when we realized that the ninjas were actually the barmaids in the previous Wild Wild West Show! Hhaaa.. apparently they ‘recycle’ dancers! The show was then followed by the Marilyn Monroe show where she sang and threw seductive grin at guys in the audience. And those ‘recycled’ dancers appeared again!

Kid's Zone!

The Tasmanian Devil!

Harry Potter shop

Hotdog!!! Mustard, bbq sauce & tomato sauce are self-service!

Batman with the dancing girls!

Marilyn with the dancing girls again!

Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D Adventure was another attraction in Movieworld and it was like a typical 4D shows with 3D glasses, motion chair and water sprinkler. Nothing  extraordinary if you ask me. There was this Scooby-Doo show on show stage again and it was great fun, the children there were getting into it and cheered and screamed.

Need to solve a mystery...

There were some discount vouchers in the brochure that they gave us and we used one of them to buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Yummy yummy! Our Movieworld experience ended with the star parade with lots of movie characters – we also saw Justice League.

FAT!!!

Look at their slogan!

Justice League!

By the way, Movieworld did have a lot of thrill rides – we took some photos but we didn’t get on ourselves. Here are the photos!

Thrill Rides!

Another one...

We left the place at around 4.30pm and caught a bus to get to Harbor Town – one of the famed outlet malls in Gold Coast. There were tons of branded shops there but unfortunately, they closed at 7pm! That totally left us too little time for shopping! *cry* We went into Levi’s which had buy 1 free 1 jeans but didn’t manage to get anything. Then we walked into FCUK and finally managed to grab a “no fcukin’ worries” shirt and a skirt. I love the skirt – it was gorgeous! After that we stumbled into Calvin Klein Jeans which had a big “END OF LEASE SALES” plastered on their window. I walked in there and I start to hyperventilate because the jeans were only AUD40 a piece! I ended up ‘donating’ AUD100 for 2 pairs of long jeans and 1 jeans skirt (AUD20 only!). What a bargain! *grin*

What a Great Bargain!

Nice huh?

We took bus again to our hotel and grab a lamb kebab (AUD7.50) and a Subway set (AUD6.99) for dinner. I must say this was the best kebab I’d ever tasted! The way the vegetable, tomato, onion and lamb mixed together with the sauce was amazing! The Subway set consisted of a 6inches sandwich and a bottle of coke. We chose Pizza Sub to try out since we didn’t have this in Malaysian Subway menu. It tasted okay.. still prefer their Italian BMT sandwich. =)

Pizza Sub & Coke Zero...

Lamb Kebab!

Next Day (Seaworld & Airport)