Showing posts with label Wild Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Friends. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2011

Fake NICI Lion in Singapore Airshow?!

It might be a bit outdated to post about Singapore Airshow now, but there is one thing that catches our eyes in the show. The mascot for this year air show was none other than our beloved NICI Lion from Classic Wild Friends collection..




The organizer even had a quiz to name this mascot with iPad 2 as the prize. However, we noticed that this lion might not be the original NICI lion because of the slight distortion on its face and lower quality plush used. So, what do you think? Is this lion an original NICI plush or just another fake one?? :)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Universal Studio Singapore - A Tiny Piece of Entertainment

The buzz about Universal Studio in Singapore must have gone away a long time ago, but we have just had a chance to visit it.. Located in Sentosa Island, Universal Studio becomes one of the main tourist attractions in Singapore today.

Along with us, Chumba and Bubaka were very exciting about the visit to USS.

The trademark of every Universal Studio:
the rotating Universal ball ^^

Just a few steps away from the entrance, we met Woody Woodpecker's girlfriend and we took a family picture with her.. :D


The USS has a circular layout, you just need to walk around and you will get back to the starting point. So, we began our trip from the Madagascar area..

Bubaka was happy and hoped he could
get up in the tree :D

Another family picture with the Madagascar friends,
but these ones are only statues :(

Chumba and Bubaka
were almost crashed by the bad monkeys

We finished the Madagascar area pretty fast, just after one ride of 'Madagascar: A Crate Adventure', since no other rides were interesting for us. :D And the sun has risen up so much that it was time for lunch. So, we had lunch in 'Goldilocks', a restaurant in Far Far Away area, serving hamburgers and fried chickens..

Chumba and Bubaka were waiting
for the food patiently. They guarded the
seats for us..

And when the food came, they rushed to get everything.. =_=

Lunchtime was over and we continued the fun journey in Far Far Away land..

Chumba was trapped in the Rabbi's hand..
HELP!!!

We watched Shrek 4D, The Donkey Live Show and rode 'Enchanted Airways', a small roller-coaster.. :D It was pretty fun.. Next stop was the Lost World, the area where the dinosaurs live. We were very exciting to try the 'Jurassic Park Rapid Adventure' and we've been in queue for almost an hour. However, to our disappointment, the ride experienced a technical error until the end of the day. :'( We didn't have a chance to try it, but we did get a free pass, which we used to ride 'Canopy Flyer'. It's not very interesting though..

Leaving with great disappointment from the Lost World, we entered the Ancient Egypt..

Bubaka was scared by the giant statue of the Anubis

We didn't take the roller-coaster since we didn't feel like having another ride that day.. So we just looked around and took pictures..

Bubaka and Chumba enjoyed their times in the Ancient Egypt

Chumba, the mightiest Egyptian elephant ^^

After the Ancient Egypt, next came the Sci-Fi City, where the twin coasters were located. Again, one of the coaster was not operating due to some technical errors. Only the 'Human' coaster was operating..

Bubaka took a proof shot
in front of the coaster.. :p

Without much to see in the Sci-Fi City, we walked forward to the New York Area. We entered to Loui's NY Pizza Parlor because the weather was too hot outside. :D We took a break with a plate of Caesar Salad and a giant slice of Pepperoni Pizza.. The food came in meal with large drink and NY Cheesecake.

Nom nom.. The food looks good..

Bubaka opted for the salad

Chumba chose the pizza with the cheesecake..

We finished the day off by watching 'Monster Rock' show, a musical where the casts were all monsters.. :D It was supposed to be a good musical, but we just didn't get the feel of it. Perhaps the act was not good enough or maybe we were too tired already.. Hahaha.. On the way out in 'Hollywood' street, we met Woody Woodpecker and took the last shot with him.. ^^


Overall, the trip wasn't really fun. The park was very small compared to other theme parks we've been to. The rides were very few and we didn't really enjoy them. Also, the shops were not really interesting. Perhaps, only the shops in Madagascar and Far Far Away area attracted us. :) And the biggest disappointment for us at that day was the sudden technical error in Jurassic Park ride. :'( But we do hope to visit USS again sometimes later to try this ride.. :)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

NICI Wildfriends series fans - FOUND!!

Last Tuesday, I received a surprise email from one Wildfriends fans. He has a complete series of dangling old wildfriends (Monkey, Tiger, Giraffe and Lion) plus some additional monkey stuffs, dangling croco and tiger. :D

He also sent some pictures of his collections and with his permission, I would like to show his collection. :)




He got the monkey and tiger in the last picture from a stationary shop in Bugis Junction. :) I'm very glad to know another Wildfriends fans.. :D *since most people love Jolly Mah series ;p*

Friday, October 29, 2010

Monkey Family Reunion

Finally.. I can show you my complete monkey family. :D This photo was taken last week when I went back to Jakarta.
Whole Family (from 15cm - 160cm)

The Big Five (80cm - 160cm)

The photos are taken and edited by my boyfriend. :D

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Keychains, Flask and a Box??

Tadaa.. Without saying too much, let me just show you my latest addition. I've been waiting so long for these to arrive in Singapore..

Long Hair Animals Series

Bobtail Dog

Mammoth
Sadly, CnS Singapore doesn't take in the remaining two: the Afghan and the Llama :( I show you how they look from the tag.
front tag

The leftmost is afghan and rightmost is llama
 And, these are the insects bought from Jakarta a few days ago.. CnS Singapore doesn't take in this series as well.. :(
Funny Insects Series

Butterfly

Bee

Dragonfly
Again, I missed one insect. The spider is not available in Jakarta. :( Show you the tag also :)
front tag

the leftmost is the spider
I also get my first flask from NICI, it's from Jolly Winter collection. Super cute.. but it's kinda weird that CnS takes in so many Jolly Winter accessories but no plushes at all.. :S

Svenja
Sven

I try to stitch the picture around the flask together. Sorry for the smoothless editing.. :p


Finally, the last item for today.. :D The jewelry box from Wild Friends edition. Sadly, it has no monkey on it. :( Nevertheless, still cute.
Front view

Top view
A little video to show you how the leopard inside the box dancing.. :D *wish it was my monkey :p*



The post today seems to be very long.. But hope you can still enjoy.. :D
Have a nice weekend!! :)

Friday, October 22, 2010

My New Bedding And Bags

Today I changed my bed sheet to be all yellow because of one reason.. :D To match it with my new bed cover and pillow case.. ;)


Surely my new bed looks very cosy right?!! ;)

Ooh.. One more thing, yesterday I mentioned the freebies I got when I bought NICI from Jakarta.. Here they are.. Very cute design and very useful.. :D
A tote bag and a mini pouch
The tag shows that these bags belong to Jolly Rosa collection. :D Never saw this in Singapore before, so I guess must be pretty lucky to find these in Jakarta and got them for free (after spending much). :)



From what I saw, NICI Indonesia took in old collections of NICI. They even have the Wild Friends Collection which already vanished from Singapore long time ago. And, they got a 1.6m monkey too. :D
So sad I cannot buy that.. Too big.. Otherwise, my giant monkey would already have a companion. Haha..

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Finally, the Long Awaited Package Arrived

Recently, I was browsing eBay to look for NICI stuffs.. And I found this one particular seller that has many old NICI plushes. So, I decided to buy 5 plushes and shipped them to Singapore. It's not cheap but I guess it's worthy *considering the antique collections*

However, after 1.5 months, the package hasn't arrived. I started to feel uneasy. I thought the package was lost somewhere.. :(

But, today suddenly there was a knock at my door.. THE POSTMAN IS COMING!! Never feel so happy to see postman coming.. =_= hahaha..

So, here it is.. My precious awaited package..

Tadaa.. The box

Looks like being smashed on its way.. =_=

Right view

Left view

Front view
Oh.. One more thing, the seller gives me extra gift.. :D see the dangling tiger near the chicken?? That's my extra gift.. So, now my new tiger has his brother accompanying him.. :D

Friday, October 1, 2010

Package from Netherlands

A package arrive from Netherlands (well, actually from Netherland to VPost Europe then to Singapore.. =p). I bought some NICI stuffs from kleineschatten.nl They have reduction on some old Wild Friends Collections. Not a bad deal.. Hehe.. =D

So, here what I've got..

The box.. =D

 See who are hijacking my laptop.. =D
Emily and Koala Joey (15cm)
And... *Drumroll*
Three Lillebi Beetles, monkey mug and photoholder

Yeay.. Found another two monkey collections.. Happy.. =p
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