I forgot that this park was even opening, much less actually opened. I remember being curious as to what it was when marketed as a Fox park, but it does truly look fantastic, at least visually. I see your point about lacking thrill rides, but it otherwise seems like a pretty well balanced experience. I clicked on this because I'm always interested in learning about something new, but now knowing that it's essentially a licensed, unofficial Disney park, that makes it all the more interesting too.
This could be a very long comments. Thanks for coming to malaysia, and fascinate to discover more on this underrated theme park. As a local malaysian here, i guess genting skyworlds is one and only the best, impressive, heavily immersive theme park other than legoland malaysia, here. We used to have that immersive high theme animation park studios in perak, sadly it shut down after 2 years operating, IPs dreamworks etc have to be remove. To be honest, lots of locals here dont appreciate this park. Why? Because demolished of the old outdoor theme park. Many locals here was very have that kind nostalgic feelings of those old rusty ride etc. The only downside of this park was no big thrill rides operating right now (big thrill coasters) malaysian love coasters. Dark rides is less popular/ nobody even care, here in malaysia. That's why mostly people go to other park like sunway lagooon. I am super disappointed on how dynamic attractions ( very well known company for disney rides & universal ) cant even deliver the sfx coaster and dual powered coaster ( both major big outdoor coaster). Sure is not genting faults but its dynamic problems. I wish they will quickly fix this issue asap. Skyworlds team did a very good job on the all rides details and easter eggs ; on some of the rides and IPs with local twist. PS/ : manny character in ice age show is not an animatronic but a puppet!!!!
As a Malaysian Theme Park Enthusiast, thank you for visiting our country! In terms of affordability of a one day ticket for Malaysians, it's not really cheap (RM150 per ticket), but reasonable for a world class theme park. Probably a currency difference lol (Although I do admit is cheaper than a RM200 ticket in Legoland Malaysia) Other than the major holidays, not many people in Malaysia tend to go on big vacations on a normal weekend. So you will typically find less people wandering around the park at this time. Also, Genting is the only place in Malaysia where they could legally operate a casino, so it attracted a much more older audience, most even staying the night. That could be a factor on why the entire hotel is almost booked but hardly anyone visited the park. Although I do love Genting Skyworlds, I still have huge nostalgia for the old park. It's my childhood~
The theme-ing and ride options are quite extensive; many looked very interesting in their set-up.. far beyond what I've personally seen in the states and the UK. Malaysian food was already a reason to go, but I now have an other park to add to my list of Asian theme parks!
Thanks for the review. As a malaysian, I havent been and havent thought to visit. I am more aware of all the trouble with Fox and Disney than anything else. So always wondered if it would just be a 'half-complete' park. (I remember the old park that this replaced fondly though. While a bit dated for the modern era, it was a pretty big part of the childhoods of many malaysians of my generation).
Kinda wish Disney would take advantage of their Fox IPs and copy the rides from Genting and improving on them for their own parks. They can’t just rely on Avatar, you know.
They should, but they won’t. Disney was the one to kill Blue Sky for no f(&*king reason. They should have either sold them if they felt they had too many animation studios, or specialized them like making Blue Sky the Disney Plus studio (instead of devaluing Pixar). But no. They shut down the studio.
To create land for the IPs for Disney parks called Disney’s 20th-century land for the Hollywood Studios replacement for the animation courtyard with Walt Disney presents has to be relocated to Hollywood Boulevard where the restaurants once stood with a new layout and Disney Adventure World to where Galaxy's Edge was once planned in the original concept before it was canceled and reworked with a replica of Disneyland’s version of Runaway Railway and Tokyo Disney’s newest theme park Tokyo Disney Sky for the resort and China parks and California Adventure as 20th-century land on Disney Avenue and the land will be sponsored by Hasbro only for the USA and France after its rival Mattel was once the sponsor
Kind of random but, when you said you’ll never know where you’ll end up in the video, it gave me nostalgia for a old toys r us commercial for a game called Super C from when I was a kid.
it is not fair to compare prices to Disneyland USA. even in american standards disney is considered to be quite expensive. We need to calculate how much average Malaysian costs are such as foods outside of the park...On the other hand I enjoyed the review and would definitely visit IF the coasters open. hopefully they can finish construction and start testing soon
Looking at maps of KL in Google. How is it that Malaysia has pretty impressively themed parks like Skyworlds and Nickelodeon Lost Lagoon and even Kidzania while all the West US has is Disney and Universal. We need to up our theming game!
Nickelodeon lost lagoon in sunway lagoon theme park already no more. They already turn the nicklodeon area into generic theme. I think they already stop licensing with the IP.
I have just come across this video and feel like I should post about our day there which to be honest was the worst day we had ever had at a theme park. Unfortunately we had to visit on a public holiday (xmas day) but after countless hours of research i felt in a good place. The fact that in the first 40 minutes we had already done both Ice Age attractions I was pretty happy with. After that it all went very wrong. We were in the park from 10 till 5 and managed 3 rides, as I mentioned two of which were in the first 40 minutes. For some reason the Epic ride, Night at the museum and the drop tower were all closed which on a busy day was pretty awful, but Independence Day didn't open till mid afternoon. We queued 30 minutes for Samba gliders for it to break down, we actually queued 3 times for Samba Gliders during the day and it broke down 3 times. We also had the park wide fire alarm and it closed down every indoor attraction for 2 hours in the afternoon, every outdoor attraction had a crazy queue and it was raining. We hung around and eventually got on Independence day after the rides had reopened and then walked over to Planet of the Apes but it had a two hour queue and quite frankly we had had enough as it was 4.45 and the park closed in 15 minutes. The park seemed to have almost more staff than guests, they were walking round during the fire alarm hours with survey ipads asking people for their thoughts, I may have been a bit hard on them but the fact that it was 3.30 in the afternoon and I had been wondering around since 10.40 in the morning no able to do anything had wound me up. I also kept having to pay for lockers and then not be able to ride which was frustrating. None of the guests looked miserable though which made me wonder if this was normal or something. I think if you want to do this park you have to try and make sure its midweek and not on a public holiday, focus on getting the rides you want as early as possible. Hope this helps some people.
I remember coming to genting as a kid back in the early 90s when the attractions were kinda mediocre compared to whats in this video. The main selling point for genting back then was the cold misty atmosphere. I remembered as a kid coming to genting was akin to stepping into Silent Hill. Morning to evenings, the weather would always be cool and misty. Seems like thats a thing of the past now.
I was hoping the park would have more, I could maybe justify making a detour to see the park if I ever did a two week trip to Singapore but with how far it is it doesn't seem worth it. Quite unfortunate.
[correction. wrong name of hotel was used for comparision: First World Hotel (7351 rooms) is the largest] sadly the hotel is no where near the largest in the world. Genting Skyworlds Hotel has 456 rooms. Harras Cherokee Casino Resort has 1,800. Resorts World Las Vegas has 3,506. the Palms Casino Resort has 766 which all of them beat the size of that hotel.
Hey Joseph, Genting Highlands has a number of hotels connected to the resort. One of which is the First World Hotel with 7351 rooms, it's insanely huge! - Luke
@@ReviewTyme I stand corrected. I went to the genting skyworlds website and I couldn't find the names of all of the hotels in the complex and the one I found looked like it was the largest out of the group I found. thank you. the website is not that easy to navigate.
I largely agree wth your review, have visited twice firstly back in 2022 and also just before your visit in October 2023. Certainly feel it really only needs a major coaster/thrill ride to be a full well rounded park. It's well worth a visit and hope to see the park develop further but the lack of visitation are a slight cause for concern.
Not argue about licensing, disney bought 20th century fox, they didnt want the theme park n IPs to be in gambling industry ( genting resort is casino etc ) they want a family friendly images so some of the IPs cant be use avp, soa , too scary and dark for kids.
I think that the 2 roller coasters according to rcdb will open in 2024 and I hope it will be that year where they will open Also imagine a Halloween event in this park
Both major coasters will be not open so sooner. The bancrupcy of dynamic attractions is one of the major issue. I wish they can do halloween event but its a fam friendly theme park, they need to get approval by disney
tbh ive lost any hope that those two coasters will ever open speaking of genting rollercoasters that will never open I heard on twitter that the former president of Genting's theme park division cancelled the huge powered coaster in the indoor theme park. that coaster has been SBNO for many years and still hasn't opened
Hey both, I loveeee your videos and podcasts! Was wondering if you've ever been over to the UK to experience our parks? If not, will you be tempted over by Hyperia? 😊
this park was planned to be made in miami next to the miami zoo. named after 20th century fox. but they chose Malaysia instead of south florida?!?!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
i question the needs to put every chinese word for all the names. if want to go international, just english is fine. scared chinese doesnt understand english? well, how about others? pfffttttt
I forgot that this park was even opening, much less actually opened. I remember being curious as to what it was when marketed as a Fox park, but it does truly look fantastic, at least visually. I see your point about lacking thrill rides, but it otherwise seems like a pretty well balanced experience.
I clicked on this because I'm always interested in learning about something new, but now knowing that it's essentially a licensed, unofficial Disney park, that makes it all the more interesting too.
As a Malaysian, thank you for making this vid! Truly appreciated ❤ 🇲🇾
This could be a very long comments.
Thanks for coming to malaysia, and fascinate to discover more on this underrated theme park. As a local malaysian here, i guess genting skyworlds is one and only the best, impressive, heavily immersive theme park other than legoland malaysia, here. We used to have that immersive high theme animation park studios in perak, sadly it shut down after 2 years operating, IPs dreamworks etc have to be remove. To be honest, lots of locals here dont appreciate this park. Why? Because demolished of the old outdoor theme park. Many locals here was very have that kind nostalgic feelings of those old rusty ride etc. The only downside of this park was no big thrill rides operating right now (big thrill coasters) malaysian love coasters. Dark rides is less popular/ nobody even care, here in malaysia. That's why mostly people go to other park like sunway lagooon. I am super disappointed on how dynamic attractions ( very well known company for disney rides & universal ) cant even deliver the sfx coaster and dual powered coaster ( both major big outdoor coaster). Sure is not genting faults but its dynamic problems. I wish they will quickly fix this issue asap. Skyworlds team did a very good job on the all rides details and easter eggs ; on some of the rides and IPs with local twist. PS/ : manny character in ice age show is not an animatronic but a puppet!!!!
As a Malaysian Theme Park Enthusiast, thank you for visiting our country!
In terms of affordability of a one day ticket for Malaysians, it's not really cheap (RM150 per ticket), but reasonable for a world class theme park. Probably a currency difference lol (Although I do admit is cheaper than a RM200 ticket in Legoland Malaysia)
Other than the major holidays, not many people in Malaysia tend to go on big vacations on a normal weekend. So you will typically find less people wandering around the park at this time.
Also, Genting is the only place in Malaysia where they could legally operate a casino, so it attracted a much more older audience, most even staying the night. That could be a factor on why the entire hotel is almost booked but hardly anyone visited the park.
Although I do love Genting Skyworlds, I still have huge nostalgia for the old park. It's my childhood~
As a Singaporean I prefer Genting Skyworld to USS because of the weather 😂
They're the same company managing USS anyways.
Your day just lightens when ReviewTyme post😊
Loooove your videos please never stop. Weirdly I went over this park in the gondolas when it was being built but would love to go back
Super freaking awesome review review. I really enjoyed it! This park looks like a lot of fun to visit despite some of its flaws.
The theme-ing and ride options are quite extensive; many looked very interesting in their set-up.. far beyond what I've personally seen in the states and the UK. Malaysian food was already a reason to go, but I now have an other park to add to my list of Asian theme parks!
Thanks for the review. As a malaysian, I havent been and havent thought to visit.
I am more aware of all the trouble with Fox and Disney than anything else. So always wondered if it would just be a 'half-complete' park.
(I remember the old park that this replaced fondly though. While a bit dated for the modern era, it was a pretty big part of the childhoods of many malaysians of my generation).
Kinda wish Disney would take advantage of their Fox IPs and copy the rides from Genting and improving on them for their own parks. They can’t just rely on Avatar, you know.
Family guy dark ride
They should, but they won’t.
Disney was the one to kill Blue Sky for no f(&*king reason.
They should have either sold them if they felt they had too many animation studios, or specialized them like making Blue Sky the Disney Plus studio (instead of devaluing Pixar). But no. They shut down the studio.
To create land for the IPs for Disney parks called Disney’s 20th-century land for the Hollywood Studios replacement for the animation courtyard with Walt Disney presents has to be relocated to Hollywood Boulevard where the restaurants once stood with a new layout and Disney Adventure World to where Galaxy's Edge was once planned in the original concept before it was canceled and reworked with a replica of Disneyland’s version of Runaway Railway and Tokyo Disney’s newest theme park Tokyo Disney Sky for the resort and China parks and California Adventure as 20th-century land on Disney Avenue and the land will be sponsored by Hasbro only for the USA and France after its rival Mattel was once the sponsor
@@alexv1024 I perfer they build a separate park for Fox in the resorts
@@Ihartwalrusguy Nah it will be land, not a separate park
I've been to both disneysea in japan and genting skyworld. Honestly, the thrill rides are much better in genting, with lesser queues.
as a Malaysian, thanks for this video makes me wanna visit this place now haha
Reminds me of the Bug's Land sign formerly at DCA - 14:08
Kind of random but, when you said you’ll never know where you’ll end up in the video, it gave me nostalgia for a old toys r us commercial for a game called Super C from when I was a kid.
it is not fair to compare prices to Disneyland USA. even in american standards disney is considered to be quite expensive. We need to calculate how much average Malaysian costs are such as foods outside of the park...On the other hand I enjoyed the review and would definitely visit IF the coasters open. hopefully they can finish construction and start testing soon
Looking at maps of KL in Google. How is it that Malaysia has pretty impressively themed parks like Skyworlds and Nickelodeon Lost Lagoon and even Kidzania while all the West US has is Disney and Universal. We need to up our theming game!
Nickelodeon lost lagoon in sunway lagoon theme park already no more. They already turn the nicklodeon area into generic theme. I think they already stop licensing with the IP.
I have just come across this video and feel like I should post about our day there which to be honest was the worst day we had ever had at a theme park.
Unfortunately we had to visit on a public holiday (xmas day) but after countless hours of research i felt in a good place. The fact that in the first 40 minutes we had already done both Ice Age attractions I was pretty happy with. After that it all went very wrong. We were in the park from 10 till 5 and managed 3 rides, as I mentioned two of which were in the first 40 minutes. For some reason the Epic ride, Night at the museum and the drop tower were all closed which on a busy day was pretty awful, but Independence Day didn't open till mid afternoon. We queued 30 minutes for Samba gliders for it to break down, we actually queued 3 times for Samba Gliders during the day and it broke down 3 times. We also had the park wide fire alarm and it closed down every indoor attraction for 2 hours in the afternoon, every outdoor attraction had a crazy queue and it was raining. We hung around and eventually got on Independence day after the rides had reopened and then walked over to Planet of the Apes but it had a two hour queue and quite frankly we had had enough as it was 4.45 and the park closed in 15 minutes.
The park seemed to have almost more staff than guests, they were walking round during the fire alarm hours with survey ipads asking people for their thoughts, I may have been a bit hard on them but the fact that it was 3.30 in the afternoon and I had been wondering around since 10.40 in the morning no able to do anything had wound me up. I also kept having to pay for lockers and then not be able to ride which was frustrating. None of the guests looked miserable though which made me wonder if this was normal or something. I think if you want to do this park you have to try and make sure its midweek and not on a public holiday, focus on getting the rides you want as early as possible. Hope this helps some people.
I would like to expierence this theme park. Just wish they would've added more things to do in the Robots section of the park.
Would you ever consider doing a video on Magicland in Rome, Italy?
The reason why most theme parks in Malaysia have a low customer show up is because it’s all just expensive for a normal Malaysian.
You should also review Dufan. It might not be the best, but it will still be the best in every Indonesian's hearts.
9:11 Is this mammoth resembling the Festival Of The Lion King Elephant Puppetronic?
🤓☝️The mammoth is called Manny
@@Ladraoeminglescommiopia Oh
It's funny that the first thing you think off when saying "Darkride with black curtains and screens" is Disney.
I remember coming to genting as a kid back in the early 90s when the attractions were kinda mediocre compared to whats in this video. The main selling point for genting back then was the cold misty atmosphere. I remembered as a kid coming to genting was akin to stepping into Silent Hill. Morning to evenings, the weather would always be cool and misty. Seems like thats a thing of the past now.
Thanks for the information!
I was hoping the park would have more, I could maybe justify making a detour to see the park if I ever did a two week trip to Singapore but with how far it is it doesn't seem worth it. Quite unfortunate.
Oh look its mr geopolitics expert 🤡
@@youarebeingtrolled6954 i thought Disney stopped paying for these spam accounts
if you got motion sickness, it's not really the theme park for you. because of the limited space, most of the thrill depending on spinning/rotation
[correction. wrong name of hotel was used for comparision: First World Hotel (7351 rooms) is the largest] sadly the hotel is no where near the largest in the world. Genting Skyworlds Hotel has 456 rooms. Harras Cherokee Casino Resort has 1,800. Resorts World Las Vegas has 3,506. the Palms Casino Resort has 766 which all of them beat the size of that hotel.
Hey Joseph, Genting Highlands has a number of hotels connected to the resort. One of which is the First World Hotel with 7351 rooms, it's insanely huge! - Luke
@@ReviewTyme I stand corrected. I went to the genting skyworlds website and I couldn't find the names of all of the hotels in the complex and the one I found looked like it was the largest out of the group I found. thank you. the website is not that easy to navigate.
Review Ancol next please, and other theme parks on Indonesia.
Apparently it was better before they lost some of the licenses. I have a feeling it's going to close soon
they’re allowed to use the characters and franchises, they just can’t use the name “20th century” in the park
@@iamsomeone8175not all. But some. Avp and SOA cant use.
you pronounced Genting correctly, unlike our dear neighbour who always pronouce it as 'gent' ing.... thank you for that.
Genting should consider using sony's IP to put in their theme park. So many varieties to choose from...
The death ride . Drop from 1 million feet from outer space ..price 500 millions
Great and honest review.
Too many baby rides!
I largely agree wth your review, have visited twice firstly back in 2022 and also just before your visit in October 2023.
Certainly feel it really only needs a major coaster/thrill ride to be a full well rounded park. It's well worth a visit and hope to see the park develop further but the lack of visitation are a slight cause for concern.
1:24 why he beatin' it off tho' 😅
It supposed to be a fox theme park but they argue over the license so now become genting sky world
Not argue about licensing, disney bought 20th century fox, they didnt want the theme park n IPs to be in gambling industry ( genting resort is casino etc ) they want a family friendly images so some of the IPs cant be use avp, soa , too scary and dark for kids.
I think that the 2 roller coasters according to rcdb will open in 2024 and I hope it will be that year where they will open Also imagine a Halloween event in this park
Both major coasters will be not open so sooner. The bancrupcy of dynamic attractions is one of the major issue. I wish they can do halloween event but its a fam friendly theme park, they need to get approval by disney
RCDB it's not true actually and also they renamed "unknown" to "Andromeda Base" coaster? What a joke😂
tbh ive lost any hope that those two coasters will ever open
speaking of genting rollercoasters that will never open I heard on twitter that the former president of Genting's theme park division cancelled the huge powered coaster in the indoor theme park. that coaster has been SBNO for many years and still hasn't opened
Hey both, I loveeee your videos and podcasts! Was wondering if you've ever been over to the UK to experience our parks? If not, will you be tempted over by Hyperia? 😊
Well I’ve got my next trip lined up then…
Deadpool has very vocal opinions about 20th Century Fox and Disney buying it over, too bad Disney won't consider taking over this theme park.
I think traditional theme park ride is actually better .. I don't feel like a lot of excitement for these new theme parks
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Welcomed
Yes😊
So this what became of the abandoned 20th Century Fox theme Park idea.
Makes me mad that they canceled the Simpsons Area
this park was planned to be made in miami next to the miami zoo. named after 20th century fox. but they chose Malaysia instead of south florida?!?!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
In many ways it seems to surpass Disney or Universal.
Nahh
i question the needs to put every chinese word for all the names. if want to go international, just english is fine. scared chinese doesnt understand english? well, how about others? pfffttttt
🥰🥰🥰🥰
I miss 20th century fox
Yeah but Tokyo Disney looks much better. 😅
Guessing this park is funded by gambling??
Too many baby rides.
2 big attractions will open a few years and another one which is dark ride coaster in rio area still unknown those ride status because of Disney
Not Worth, Don't go