Kansai Day 3: USJ

It was a happy day bcos we were going to a happy place - USJ. Hohoho. The kids and I love theme park. Never mind too much about Daddy Lim; he is the map man. Hehe.

Like all the many who had gone before us, the advice was to choose a midweek day - check. Buy the tickets in advance - check. Buy the express ticket if the pocket allows - check too. I was seriously shocked that the express 4 pass (express pass for 4 selected rides) was more expensive that the USJ entrance tickets. Total damage was over S$700+ for our family of 4! That was why the kids had to choose between USJ or DL.

We also obediently followed the advice to go to the park early and braced ourselves for long q, starting at the door. We had an easy bfast and go, go, go!

The kids have a crazy mum, who happily bought onesie for them to wear to USJ. Happily, happily.

While such dressing would probably turn some heads in Sgp, nobody really care in Osaka. This was probably considered as "small case".

No worries, no humans, chinchilla or unicorn was harmed in the process. The onesies were actually super warm and the kids had heatech beneath. Osaka also wasnt as wintery cold as we had expected it to be.

Yes, we took train with the animals.

USJ, USJ, USJ! Along with the crowd.

The simple bfast didnt last long and thd triangle rice comes in handy. Daddy Lim loves these. They are so delicious, so much better than the ones back home. We also managed to "accidentally" forget and bring in a few triangle rice into USJ. Hehe.

There were already huge crowds waiting to enter the park when we arrived at 9am, 30mins before the opening time.

Happily taking pictures while waiting in the Q.

When the door finally opened, the Q was moving so slowly. Quick, quick. Then again, when we finally entered the park, we spent some time trying to orient ourselves and decide on where to go.

We saw some crazy roller coaster rides and naturally followed only to find crazy over an hour wait. Our 1st ride ended up to be some sort of water rapid ride at the Jurassic Park - only 10 mins wait. It didnt matter that we could get wet; the kids were well protected under ponchos.

It was mostly aimless walking around, hoping to stumble across rides that didnt have too long Qs. We found Jaws and it was a short wait without having us to use our express pass.

We used our 1st express pass at the Spiderman 4D show. Breezing pass the 1hr wait line feels super good. The show was like our transformer and it was super good too!

Can you spot the spiderchinchilla? Lol.

The 2nd express pass was for Minon Mayhem. The minion land was such a cheerful land. Pictures time!

Minion Mayhem is another 4D show. Wearing the onesies have its benefits; it was so easy to spot the kids. Lol. They got quite some attention from the park staff too and even the Minion spotted them.

Energy was running low. The kids were bugging for real rides like the roller coasters but it was impossible with the q that was increasing by the min. When we checked before lunch, the qs were like 2 hours' wait then. Lunch sounded better. Wait, let us try drawing some money from the Evil Bank 1st.

Lunch!

After lunch, we caught the Monster Rock and we all agreed that the Singapore one was better. Then the Terminator, which I thought was so old school but Daddy Lim said that the graphic was good. Then the Backdraft, where we utilised the 3rd express pass. By then, the kids' battery was almost flat and very whiny. The q for the roller coaster continued to hover at the 2 hours' mark. What... time for charging. We needed some sugar. The weather was also getting cold and the kids wore their jacket beneath their onesie to keep their perfect look.

We decided to head to Harry Potter. Our express pass was for 5.20pm and we figured that it was about time.

It was very instantgram worthy place and also very crowded. It wasnt time controlled when we entered, which meant that the "crowd" that we saw wasnt exactly "crowded". Scary.

One of my must-dos was to drink the butterbeer.

Butterbeer!

We were trying to 2nd guess the ingredients. It actually tasted like cream soda with a top layer of thick vanilla cream. Lol.

More pictures!

Finally, we went for our Harry Potter - The forbidden journey ride. It was so, so good. It was probably the best ride out of all that we had taken. Then, we headed for a mini roller coaster in Harry Potter land, which is similar to our Dragon ride in USS. It was our 1st roller coaster ride and we waited in line for about 30 mins. By then, the sun had set.

The kids were still hoping to ride their real proper roller coaster ride. We headed back to Jurassic Park and the flying dinosaur was still freaking 120 mins wait. Zzzzz. We ended up catching the rapid ride again bcos there was no wait. Hahaha.

That ended our visit to USJ. The kids were tired and whiny and wanted to stay on to wait for their roller coaster but agreed to leave when I promised to bring them to USS instead. Haha. Did we catch any parade? Not at all. The kids were not at all interested. Zzzz.

Right outside USJ were plenty of resturants. We had MOS burgers for dinner.

Overall, we took 10 rides. Was USJ worth S$700? Probably not; maybe yes we ride all the roller coasters but we didnt have the patience to wait 2 hours in line. Neverthless, it was an once in a lifetime experince. I have been to USJ. Haha.

Mummy Lim