One thing about the founders of Material World: we work hard, and we make sure we play hard too. So when Sentosa gave us the opportunity to experience their latest adventure, Vanessa and I jumped at it.
Sentosa 4D AdventureLand has launched a new four-dimensional (4D) experience – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Featuring snippets of the 2012 Hollywood movie of the same name, it stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sir Michael Caine, Luis Guzman, Josh Hutcherson and Vanessa Hudgens.
A clever mix of cast, if you ask me – it’d appeal to some WWE fanboys, The Hunger Games fangirls, Christopher Nolan fans, and boys who aren’t of legal age to watch Spring Breakers.
Did we enjoy it? You bet! The 4D elements were well-executed, with plenty of shocks – one, in particular, made Vanessa and me jump out of our seats! The water spray, however, could be stronger. It felt a tad anticlimactic when the gigantic splash in the movie translated to a few drops of water trickling down our legs.
The interactive facility also houses two other attractions: Extreme Log Ride and Desperados. I’ve experienced the former a couple of times before, while it would be Vanessa’s first time trying out both. Extreme Log Ride, a 4-D motion-simulated ride in which you follow the harrowing journey of a log as it gets transported in a cart through a very noisy cave and plunges over waterfalls, is our favourite of the three. Essentially a virtual rollercoaster ride, it elicited squeals and screams from the audience – though I was, for the most part, highly amused at Vanessa’s non-stop exclamations of shock and despair throughout the ride.
Unless you’ve been dying to fulfil your cowboy fantasies of chasing and shooting villains while riding a horse, I reckon Desperados would be best enjoyed by the kids. The first 4-D interactive shoot-out game in Singapore, you get to mount a motion-based saddle seat – which may startle when it first moves – and fire using a motion-sensor pistol. After 15 seconds, Vanessa and I weren’t sure exactly whom we were supposed to shoot, and our fingers felt a little numb from the aimless shooting.
All in all, I had fun. Each of the three attractions at the Sentosa 4D AdventureLand is definitely worth experiencing once. But for the short duration of each ride, the admission cost of $38.90/adult (unlimited entries on day of visit) is a little steep – considering you probably wouldn’t go on the same ride twice.
Sentosa 4D Adventureland is situated near the Singapore Cable Car Station at Imbiah Lookout, Sentosa. The one-day Adventure Pass (for all three 4D experiences; unlimited entries on day of visit) costs $38.90/adult and $26.90/child (3 to 12 years old; free entry for children below 3). Sentosa Island admission and transport charges apply.
The author was invited to the unveiling of Sentosa 4D AdventureLand. All opinions are her own.
About The Author: A founder of Material World, Tan Lili has previously worked in magazines The Singapore Women’s Weekly and Cosmopolitan Singapore, as well as herworld.com (now herworldplus.com, the online counterpart of Her World). She is now a freelance writer who works on this website full-time. Lili hopes to travel the world, work with wild animals, and discover more awesome Twilight fan-fiction.
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