TheThemeParkGuy

Upon entering Sunway Lagoon in Kuala Lumpur, you will probably find it more impressive than expected. Its theme park sits on a hill overlooking a water park containing a giant wave pool.
The highlight of the water park is a very, very long suspension bridge traversing the endless pool – amazing to many and scary for some. The best and most thrilling thing you can probably do in the park is to pay an extra fee at the outer end of the suspension bridge, get...

The newest addition to the Universal Studios theme park family in Singapore is definitely the little brother of the group, but despite its small size it is cleverly arranged with some excellent Universal attraction classics and a couple of novelties.
The park opened in March 2010 with three major rides:
'Revenge of the Mummy' - an Egyptian-themed dark ride/indoor roller coaster very similar to the same-named ride in Universal Studios Florida that is...

Indoor theme park in a major Kuala Lumpur shopping mall containing some ordinary funfair rides and a huge roller coaster that passes through several floors and areas of the mall.
I haven't seen anything like this before: the roller coaster snakes its way through several floors leaving a lasting visual impression! The coaster itself is nothing groundbreaking, but solid fun in a mundane mall...

This mediocre theme/water park features something seriously unique: an adrenaline-inducing and bone-breaking waterslide. I’ve never slid down such a brutal monstrosity of a slide. Three humps await you: you will probably bump your butt on the first one, but on the second you will almost certainly enjoy a short uncontrolled flight before slamming back onto the slide, then splashing with brutal force into the pool. Some of the lighter Thai guys skip like stones over...

Equarius Water Park is a development within Resorts World Sentosa close to Universal Studios Singapore. I love the idea of waterslides meandering through untouched trees in a real jungle. It is set to open in 2010 or 2011. At the time of my last visit no visible construction was taking place yet...

Surprisingly charming little theme park one hour's drive south of Manila featuring a looping roller coaster, a flume ride, a river rapids ride and a 3-D cinema showing (at the time of writing) a 20-minute version of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' starring Brendan Fraser. The Disneyesque entry gate and a Universalesque street scene leave little doubt where inspiration for the park came from, but the overall innocent charm of the place makes this lack of originality...

The second biggest theme park in Bangkok's vicinity, Dream World Bangkok has a unique layout resembling a long and thin rice field (it probably was one before): 1km long and only 100m wide, visiting the park feels like wandering through a hosepipe. Highlights are a flume ride with a merciless splash, a river rapids ride with an in-the-shower feel, a relatively new inverted (hanging) roller coaster, a lovely designed 'Giant House' and a 4D cinema with local Thai soap stars...

As evident from my other reviews I am not such a big fan of the Legoland parks. Lego's success was based on creating a toy which was as versatile and limitless as the imaginations of the children playing with it. The Legoland theme parks, by contrast, show a distinct lack of imagination on the part of their designers. I believe the brand can do more than simply surround mediocre roller coasters and flume rides with oversized lego brick figures. That said, the concept of...