It was a bit wet today and the forecast wasn’t too good but we decided to go to Movie World any way since this would give us more more options for the next two days. Immediately you walked into Movie World you are impressed by the cleanliness and the openness of the park.
We went straight to Looney Toons Village and found several rides that appealed to Liam. The thing that made them different and better was that they were all designed to be driven, or ridden, by a small child on their own. Liam started off on the Tiahana Taxi, then the Tweety Bird cage ride and the Yosemite Sam train ride.
We all then went on the Looney Tunes River Ride, which was a nice little trip down under to find Bugs Bunny. Very reminiscent of the theme rides at Disney World. Liam liked it but was put off a bit by the noise. Liam and Bruce then took the Wild West Falls ride which actually scared Liam. I realised by now that the rides didn’t scare Liam, it was all the noise and darkness. The big drop didn’t worry him at all.
Rosie and Liam went on the Rocket ride next, again a great hit. It was continually drizzling by now so we sought out an inside amusement which came in the form of the 3D show. Rosie and I enjoyed this but again Liam didn’t keep his glasses on, the idea must have disorientated him.
We visited the parade next which was quite good but again not of any great interest to Liam. He wasn’t interested in any of the characters, not even Bugs Bunny who he would watch on Video for hours.
Back to Toon Village for another round of rides on the taxi, bumper cars and then came the surprise of the day. We decided to let Liam try the roller coaster. Bruce went with him, very much against his will, and Liam absolutely loved it. Bruce came off feely squeezy and happy to have survived. Liam came off and immediately dragged his mum onto the ride for another trip.
We visited a few other activities but kept being dragged back to the roller coaster, which Liam eventually went on about 5 times.
We enjoyed our day and have decided to return tomorrow or Saturday. Bruce would like to see some of the shows, while Liam would love to do all the rides again.
The next day, we woke up to bright sun shine and decided to take advantage of it by returning to Movie World. There were two shows that we hadn’t seen yesterday, so we started the day by going to the Looney Tunes Musical Revue.
Liam really enjoyed it, as did Rosie and I. Strangely one of the dancers was a girl that we saw at a revue show at the Valley Cafe a few months ago.
After this we went back to Toon Village and Liam went on all the rides that he enjoyed yesterday. He started on the roller coaster again and then back to the Taxis. Since the weather was so nice, it was much more crowded today so Liam had to learn the art of queuing. He was quiet good, compared to how he was at Sea World only 6 days ago.
Back to the bumper cars, which became his second favorite ride. At one stage, Liam and a group of boys spent 20 minutes doing the circuit from the entrance, into the cars, and then a quick run around to the entrance again. He was doing quite well until the last time when he started his run before the exit gate opened and he crashed into the barier, head first.
We managed to see the Batman Show, which was good and we also fitted in the Stunt Show, which was excellent. Then back to Toon Village for another round of Liam’s favorite rides. By the end of the day he had been on the roller coaster 8 times (6 with Mum and 2 with Dad) and the bumper cars at least 8 times. Along with the Rocket ride he had a full day.
To complete the day we went back to the hotel for a spa and are now settling in for dinner before going out to the street markets that are being set up along the Surfer’s Paradise beach side walks.
