In Universal Studios Singapore, opened in 2010, the Themed Zone named The Lost World consists mostly of Jurassic Park rides, such as the roller coaster Canopy Flyer and the river rapids Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure.
Ushered into a single line for security checks, one by one we walk the dock and enter the vessel; an underworld wedding themed zone for us to lose ourselves in for the next four and a half hours.
But millions won't be flocking there if the 14 themed zones are a disappointment.
However, spatial planning for the themed zones in Pudong has been limited in its scope to the physical design, land use, and the pattern of transport routes.
The inspiringly bonkers atmosphere is due to the vibrantly themed zones, the wild fancy dress, the eclectic and bizarre array of entertainment, and the explosively diverse lineup.
In China, global aspiration planning has been characterised by the establishment of Pudong New Area of Shanghai in 1990, with a group of foreign direct investment (FDI -oriented themed zones targeting diFDI -oriented of global flows.
Although the design of the Manchester venue will stay true to the four original themed zones of Industrial, Future, Medieval and Aztec, the plan is to make each zone grander and "more immersive": think rope bridges, robots and an outdoor Mars-scape.
Theme parks are by their very nature stage-managed: out-of-work actors smile on cue, lawns are clipped, paths are cleaned, themed zones are laid out by the hand of far-off architects and designers, and the maps made it all look, I realise now, like Milton Keynes on steroids.
Filmed at a huge air hangar in Essex, teams of six would complete a series of mental and physical challenges in different themed zones (Aztec, Industrial, Medieval, Futuristic and, later, Ocean).
The current release offers 5 themed zones, each of which is filled with games designed to entertain and teach at the same time (examples include a Story game, which requires the child to play a memory matching game as they attempt to find all of the parts of their story book).
