Hello Kitty Town - Gift shop

This final post is pure eye candy, I love seeing Sanrio merchandise so thought others might appreciate it too :) The gift shop is located on the bottom level and cleverly positioned so you don't need a Hello Kitty Town ticket to enter :)

Tuxedo Sam!! I love him - all  his merchandise was rad

My Melody - pink explosion

Tuxedo! I wanted one of those plush toys so bad but we only brought carry on luggage :(

Keroppi he was probably my favourite Sanrio character growing up, besides hello kitty

So cute!

One of the twin stars

I love these lucky cat money banks, again, damn you luggage!

Love that school girl notebook too (okay I may of loved the whole shop :P)

The other twin star!

And more plushies!!
That pillow *dies*

On that colourful pastel note it's time to say goodbye to Hello Kitty Town and hello to Legoland!

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Black Wonder - Hello Kitty Town

Black wonder was the last attraction we did after the wishful studios and Hello Kitty's house, it's located down the back and we did have to line up and wait for this one. They list the times it runs outside, I believe every half an hour - so you could just rock up on the dot but unfortunately Ben and I still didn't have a watch, so we just waited like gimps :p

The story behind black wonder is that Hello Kitty and her boyfriend Dear Daniel have been kidnapped and taken to Kuromi's Black Wonder castle. Everyone gets a lantern and you have to follow clues which will lead you to five letters, spelling out a word and setting Hello kitty and Daniel free, if that sounds slightly confusing, it is and even more confusing when you're inside. Ben and I shamefully got one of our letters wrong. At the end you go up to a lady at a counter who basically told us the answer and then you get a print out certificate of how you went (we got a B) :p knowing the five word answer now it was pretty shameful we got it wrong, lol.  I'm sure you guys might even be able to guess :P

Poor Hello Kitty! The tone of this attraction is seriously dark, I enjoyed it but I did wonder if their target audience of five and under would share my enthusiasm 

Science lab - Hello Kitty's bows

Does anyone know the name of these characters? I don't know any cute human sanrio characters like these except the twin stars

Ben with the lantern feeling around for our letter clues in the wine cellar, again, target appropriate?

Those robotos on the right were super cool and you see them when you first go in.  The idea is that you place your lantern in their stomach and then it (very!) quickly goes through your steps and your allocated symbol to look out for! Luckily Ben was paying attention at this point otherwise we wouldn't have got any of our letters :p  I'm not sure if you can do it twice but the park does seem all about do it once and get it right!

The entrance - setting the scene of what to come

Wine barrel tap, at least it's super cute!

Naughty kidnapper Kuromi - this part is the maze (after the robotos) we didn't really understand we were being timed and had to make it through within a time limit, luckily we're pro maze people anyway :p 

Th science lab

The salon, were they had the raddest art and sculptures :)I really loved this room

 Hello Kitty Pentagram

OH No! 

Don't worry we set them free, well I think we did :p I hope our B score was good enough!

I have one last Hello Kitty post and then it's onto legoland and yup we did both in one day :)

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Hello Kitty's House

As promised a tour of Hello kitty's House. It was the first thing we did when we arrived at Hello Kitty Town, unfortunately, as an activity on your stamp card, once it's been stamped you can't go back in :( Ben and I actually noted on there feedback form that you should be allowed to go in as many times as you want, oh and more hello kitty themed food items in the cafe! Anyway enough whinging, on with the tour!

What's in her bathroom? A Hello kitty shaped bath of course!

 She's pretty vain but that's okay!

 The Birthday Boy!

I love all the attention to detail! Hello Kitty's parents as topiary :)

Check out those tiles!

 Pretty much my dream house right there :)

Her wardrobe...eep!

I had a big smile when I was going through the photos Ben took and found this selfie in the bathroom, lol! So good

The one good thing about your one time entrance into the house is that it does cut down on the people inside, we pretty much had the whole house to ourselves.

 I probably should of checked if there was any mail in there!

 Some more cute dresses!

 cuteness overload!

 This is the kitchen, I love her fridge and she clearly loves herself :)

The house was probably my favourite part of Hello Kitty Town and it was kind of sad that we couldn't go and revisit it once we walked through :(

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Hello Kitty Town

I need to start this entry by saying, I have a super sweet boyfriend who agreed to come with me, to Hello Kitty Town on his birthday! Woohoo. I swear, it was the only day that fit into our itinerary...promise! 

So Hello Kitty Town is located in Johor Bahru, which is in Malaysia and took us an hour and a half by bus from Singapore to get there.  We traveled on WTS - though the pick up point (near Singapore flyer - aka a big Ferris wheel) was a little tricky to find. 

I was fairly confident we were heading in the right direction and kept reassuring Ben by pointing out little girls and saying, "she is definitely going to hello kitty town!" Well turns out, Ben and I were the only ones going to Hello kitty town, lol lol! I can laugh now but I'll admit it was slightly awkward when we were the only ones on the bus with raised arms to that question :p

So what is this Hello Kitty Town? It's sold as a Hello Kitty theme park but since I've now been to both the Malaysian and Japanese sites I can say with authority that theme park is quite the stretch of the imagination :p I would describe the parks more as indoor amusement playground, though that's not quite right either. Either way, you can definitely make your way through all the activities within a few hours!

When you arrived you're given a stamp card which means you can only do an activity once. Entry costs 75RM which worked out to be $30 Australian, crazy expensive or well worth it, mmm, might depend on how much you love Hello kitty :p lol

Above is a shot inside the wishful studio section. The wishful studio is divided into four activities, cookie making, nails, jewelry making and dressing up. This was the cookie class

You have to line up for each studio activity but since we got their at 10:30, half an hour after opening, there really wasn't many people about.  The most we had to wait, was for the previous group inside to finish up, never more than a few minutes :)

The entrance! The town is located on a level, in a shopping centre type building. It's actually called Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park and on another level they have the Little Big Club - featuring Bob the Builder, Pingu, Angelina ballerina, Barney and Thomas - yup young age demographic right there :p

My crowning glory, a pic with my girl! In japan I literally went bright red when I had to meet Hello Kitty, not my finest moment.  I feel I've matured since then and this time totally played it cool :p I know it's just some actor in a costume but this really made me whole day. When I saw the pic though I wish I'd copied her leg kick pose! damn! Lol

Ahh Ben thanks for letting me torture you! (I love his Badtz Maru costume!)

My nails! Ben had to help me put on, they were so pretty but gosh there is a reason I never wear nail decals! gone within two days! *cries*

This is the jewelry making though to be honest it's really just "thread a charm onto a bracelet"

Cinnamon Roll!

And this my friends is pretty much it, you can see the stage on the left (we actually didn't stick around for the shows) then further down is the wishful studio part and on the right is hello kitty's house which I'm saving for it's very own special blog entry!

Waffles, unfortunately the only hello kitty themed menu on the item. The cafe is pretty small, you can see it below on the right, there are a few tables and a small menu.  There is another cafe on the ground floor but I had already put Ben through enough to demand we go there as well :P

My completely cookie, they give you strawberry and chocolate (and a paintbrush) I went traditional whilst Ben made sure his cookie tasted the best, aka, completely covering it in chocolate, okay I may too have gone down that route after this picture was taken :p

Even though The park is quite lame, actually lots lame it was a definitely a highlight of my trip, I couldn't stop smiling and dorking out and going crazy. Ben said to me "it's nice to see you this happy" and I'm normally a happy person but Hello Kitty town took my happiness to like 210% lol. I also blame all the pink too, it seriously sent me on a drugged out cute trip!

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