Ipoh’s Movie Animation Park Studios (MAPS) is Malaysia’s first animation theme park and was opened to the public in 2017.

Photo: Malay Mail

MAPS instantly became an attraction as it featured a number of international characters from DreamWorks such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, The Croods, Megamind, The Smurfs and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

However, the RM520 million theme park will be closed from today onwards because the number of visitors have drastically decreased over the years.

Thomas Town & Hello Kitty officially closed down end of last year. Now MAPS Perak is also closing down soon.

Thankfully we managed to visit these places. At least there is some memories to keep.

— SHASHA (@shasha_norazmi) January 29, 2020

MAPS Perak ditutup?

Sayangnya

— Rizam Ismail (@RizamIsmail2) January 28, 2020

Dukacitanya dimaklumkan pada rakyat Malaysia, MAPS Ipoh Perak telah berhenti beroperasi pada harini. Sayonara MAPS...😢 pic.twitter.com/gQG5SAR4T4

— Apeh Kue Lopeh (@afeezvanilla) January 28, 2020

Sayangnya maps ipoh dah tutup :( been here with farah 2years ago. Enjoy ja sebab memasing perangai macam budak budak 😂 pic.twitter.com/q1PnAWnFrt

— anne (@naezatdin) January 28, 2020

According to BERNAMA, a local media outlet reported that Affin Investment had appointed Datuk Duar Tuan Kiat of Messrs Ernst & Young on December 4th as the receiver and manager of property belonging to ATP which is the operator of MAPS.

Let’s just hope it’s only temporary!

By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat