KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Asia's first
Legoland theme park, dedicated to the popular toy bricks, will open in Malaysia
in September, several months ahead of schedule, the company said on Wednesday.
Siegfried Boerst, general manager of
Legoland Malaysia, said more than 35,000 annual passes had already been sold
for the park featuring more than 40 roller coasters, race cars and other
attractions in southern Johor state.
Of those, more than one third had
been sold in neighbouring Singapore.
About one million people are
expected to visit the 76-acre (31-hectare) park in the first year.
The park is already 75 percent
complete with most of the rides and infrastructure in place. Contractors will
begin next month to install the Lego models made out of more than 50 million
bricks, Boerst said.
When completed, Legoland Malaysia
will be the sixth of its kind in the world featuring the Danish toy bricks
after those in Denmark, Britain, California, Florida and Germany.
A Legoland Hotel, also Asia's first
and the world's fourth, is to open next to the Malaysia park in 2014.
Groundwork began last month.
Legoland will be one of the main
attractions of Iskandar Malaysia -- a dedicated economic development zone that
plans to attract more theme parks.
The park borders Singapore, which
opened Southeast Asia's first Universal Studios entertainment complex in 2010.
But
developers say the new park would complement Universal Studios Singapore rather
than compete with it for customers.
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