Marina Mickey???
Today, I was flipping through the Straits Times (Yes, I do read the newspapers!) when a photo of the world-famous MM (Mickey Mouse, not Minister Mentor.) greeted me. No shocker there, I mean its probably a new disney event or something. To my absolute surpise, the article was about a POSSIBLE DISNEYLAND IN SINGAPORE. Before you go 'Hey you're a teen! Shouldn't you be jumping for joy? Next time you can just take the MRT and poof! You're in disneyland!', hear me out. I, as a trained student who is taught to be partial and fair and think from both points of views, feel that building Disneyland in Singapore may not be such a good idea.Good Points:
-I get to buy disney princess stuff without paying an air ticket to fly to Japan!
-Attract more tourists (most probably from Malaysia)=Earn more money=Happy country
And you know the rest, more jobs, more production stuff, etc etc.
Bad Points:
I'm going to elaborate more on bad points.
Firstly Singapore market is relatively small. Our land is relatively small. And our population is relatively small. So I see no sense if we build a Disneyland, isn't it going to be relatively small? Hey, whats the point of a small disneyland?
Attracting tourists. True, malaysians will definitely fly/drive/swim over. But how about other countries? The best prize would be winning the Chinese from China, but won't they all go to Hong Kong? Japanese will definitely stay in Japan. So whose going to come to Singapore?
And we all know about Hong Kong disneyland. Its nice they have a disneyland in SEA, but don't you think its...well...small? Compare it to DisneySea, wow disneySea is the best! Can we really compete with that?
Singapore is already working on casinos and the IRs, do we really need a Disneyland? Well, maybe, since gambling caters to parents, and big-eared mouses to little children, but can we handle it?? I already worry for casinos, no one knows for sure how good it'll turn out. Now add in Disneyland, all at one go. I suggest take it slow, one at a time. If you do everything now whats left for the future? DisneySpace? Nah do not think so.
Locals may not even welcome the idea of a theme park. Don't they know Singaporeans are workaholics? Even students, school for 6 days a week, will they have time to drop by Disneyland? It may even have a bad effect on the students, some may play truant in exchange for a whole-day pass to disneyland. Its the cybercafes issue all over again.
If they really insist of building a theme park, how about something else? Like Universal Studios?? You know something special. Like one-of-a-kind. This will bound to be more attractive, less competition! Just look at legoland, I think its doing well. DisneySea, doing even better! Of course, Disneyland is doing well too, but if you want to go there you've got so many countries to choose from! Competition Competition!
I think I am talking too much, since nothing is confirmed. Lets see how everything goes, and how wisely Singapore will choose when it comes to having a 'Marina Mickey'.
posted by eileen @ 6:27 AM
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