Many of us know of Great World City, but maybe fewer of us will remember that it was the spot where Great World, the amusement park, once stood. Now, people can step back into the past again and walk into a recreation of Great World, this time in Sengkang.
The remade Great World is part of the publicity efforts for Mediacorp Raintree’s new movie, It’s a Great Great World, which tells the stories of people whose lives were linked to Great World from the 1940s up to the present day. It’s certainly heartening to see how heritage and nostalgia can be tapped on as a rich source of good stories.
Uncle Dicko talks about how the idea of a re-created Great World came about:
For the filming of the movie they had to recreate “Great World” with all infrastructure as we knew from the past. Unk Ringo had a big hand in this as he had all those big items for thrills and rides plus all kinds of “tikam” and Game stalls paraphernalia.
After the movie was completed, he was encouraged to recreate on a smaller scale the “fun” part of Great World in the heartlands.
He chose to set it up at Sengkang as there was a ready-made hardcourt and with good location to attract many visitors.
Uncle Dicko blogs about the remade Great World in two posts. You can read about them here and here.
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Good catch,I will update this post.
Posted on February 13th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
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