DreamWorks Animation at ArtScience Museum

[ Media Invite ]

Melman (Madagascar) and Toothless (How to train your dragon) greeted us at the foyer, not forgetting the cheeky penguins. We were delighted to be surrounded by all our favourite cartoon characters from DreamWorks Animation exhibition (ArtScience Museum).
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If your kids (or even parents) are animation fans, Dreamworks Animation exhibition will showcase how cartoons are produced!
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A different type of gallery, some of the exhibits are popping out and interactive, kids can try painting a happy, sad, or angry Po (Panda)!
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Interactions and kids’ activities, try flipping your own cartoon book. Boon Xin (6) was eagerly hopping from one station to another, exploring all the hands on activities. Boon Wee (12) was reading what went behind some of the animators’ minds when they were drafting the sequence from (example) Po with Shifu fighting over bun, or Shrek saving the Princess.
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Do not miss Dragon Flight
, awesome all-round animation just like Imax. We went soaring over “Land of Berk” on Toothless’ back at least three times! For best effect, lie flat on the bean bags!
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Wow, we could not believe the amount of storyboards used to animate a story! Love how the narrator changed his pitch and tone as he read Shrek’s adventure πŸ™‚
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Watch the story unfold, frame by frame (literally!)
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A made-belief artistic desk too, with spilled coffee and flying drafts, clips etc.
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Love love love all these posters and collages! Some are classic cartoons while others are all-time favourites.
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Artistic drawings, some show us how numerous iterations were updated before the character is molded.
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Miniature models and landscaping too.
Kungfu panda storyboard
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Especially for September school holiday, there are four special popup booths.
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Younger kids would be able to challenge the popup booths and win themselves some souvenir πŸ™‚
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Even I could not resist posing with Po’s bun :p
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Click on this link for Dreamworks Animation exhibition details.
We would recommend Life’s Tiny Miracles‘ blog review too πŸ™‚

Four school holiday pop up booths will end this Sunday, 13Sep.
DreamWorks Animation Exhibition will be entertaining us till end Sep.

~~~ Ticket Pricing ~~~
Adult : S$21
Senior Citizen (65 years & above) : S$17
Child (2-12 years) : S$13
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More photos on our Fanpage album.

Sea Aquarium Sea Monsters

[ Media Invite ]

What is the difference between the cute yellow and white creature, and the one below encased in stone?
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Both are fossils, one living and the other extinct! If Ichthyosaur is still alive today, it would be able to dive 600m effortlessly!
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At the exhibition area of Sea Aquarium’s latest exhibit, Sea Monsters, visitors can travel back 100 millions of years to witness evolution.
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If Boon Yee knew Plesiosaur can swallow its prey in one mouth, he would hesitate to pose so near!
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We can watch a plesioaur swim again with Augment Reality, download app “SPH AR”.
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At one corner, Nanyang Polytechnic wished to remind us to take care of our environment. Reduce, reuse and recycle!
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If you are scared of Jaws (Great White shark), meet its grandpa Megalodon. A whopping 30 times bigger than a Great White!
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Just look at the 19cm tooth!
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Other giants from the placoderm family, I would not jump into a sea with the 11m monster Placoderm Dunkleosteus! It has beak-like mouth (hard and sharp), just image the painful encounter from a parrot beak (then upsize to Placoderm portion!)
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Looks like cockroaches! Only much bigger (multiplies the yuck factor)
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A poster depicting the timeline of Sea monsters. Different eras of sea monsters!
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Not all dinosaurs and sea monsters are extinct. Some descendants are among us today. Alligator Gar can grow up to 2.5m long! Coelacanth was thought extinct 80million years ago but can still be found today.
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The beautiful arowana also has a long history, we spotted a cute hermit crab with a glass roof.
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Mudskippers can be spotted at swarms, and I have not seen a live Horse shoe crab moving around before. Its legs are like little forks.
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If you are a fan of dinosaur (or Jurassic World), Sea Monsters will be “swimming” till 30Sep.
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The friendly class95 DJs. We won a pair of annual tickets in a contest yeah!
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We spend the rest of the hour revisiting the other exhibits at Sea Aquarium.
These are not living fossils, but as mesmerizing πŸ™‚
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Touch pool, long queue to touch the resident star fish.
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Magnifying glass
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Spotted local Icons, Chili Crab, and SG50 πŸ™‚
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Thank you RWS for the informative and Fun invite. Get the latest update from RWS (Resorts World Sentosa) on their Website and Facebook.

Sea Monsters exhibition will end on 30Sep. Click to review our previous Sea Aquarium experience (manta ray feeding).