Topic: The Amazing Race 16 Sightings/Info: Tweets Go here please!

[ltvols]

Stephanie Tang - the girl that captured the photo of the ice cream truck - tweeted that the pic was taken about 12:00 noon but that she didn't see any participants.  Also confirmed it was TAR USA

@Deewhitd hey there. unfortunately i didnt see any1 arriving yet. it was around 12noon and the place is near a very popular temple of s'pore
@MelissaPenglis hey there its at SINGAPORE. at Bugis. Near a very popular temple. didnt get to see any participants yet. USA version.

[puddin]

And a tweet to go along with it:

BethRuh: Sighted: People walking outside on TOP of the Singapore Flyer. Helicopter filming...I'll give you one guess.... about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck

to follow up:

While I would consider riding the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest Ferris Wheel, to be one of the must-dos in Singapore, the night we went it was amazingly uncrowded -- in fact, we came very close to getting a tube of our own. My friends and I got there around 6:30, an arrival perfectly timed for sunset, which happens quickly this close to the equator. We navigated the maze of shops and ramps to the entrance and we hopped onto the slow-moving wheel without it even stopping. Soon we were out of the housing and getting great views of Singapore and beyond. Het, we could even see Malaysia and Indonesia -- a tri-nation view! We got great looks at the skyline and harbor as the sun dropped behind the tall buildings. We got a great perspective on the ongoing construction of the world's largest casino complex and on Singapore's floating soccer field. Additionally, we could see an unending line of ships at anchor, waiting for their turn to enter busy Singapore Harbor. All in all, the ride took just a hair over 30 minutes and regaled us the entire time, all for about $20.
If we had wanted to splurge, for $199 we could have gotten a tube that came with a full-service dinner on nice linens and fine china, with champagne. In fact, n the tube behind us, we could see two young girls were being filmed doing just that. Since we envisioned that the dinner would be an occassion for romance and dinner, and the girls were rather shoddily-dressed, we were trying to come up with scenarios for what was going on. Was it a reality TV show? It turns out we were close -- a Hong Kong Travel show was filming its Singapore adventure

[puddin]

By  the way thanks ltvols, heyhay28, jmb510, ob-la-di-ob-la-da, Sailing, ams06 and everyone else thats keeping their eyes peeled for sightings and spoilers, good job!

[Jobby]

ok. i take back my words about no tar fans in singapore. it turned out to be the most spoiled leg yet! lol.

[Macaroons]

More info on the Jeff/Jordan photo from BBO (at Jokersupdates):

"I think it was taken around a week or so ago. Not positive. Also she said they were being filmed, so not sure if they were eliminated or not. It was taken in Puerta Vallarta."

About a week ago puts it at about December 9.

[puddin]

Could be filmed for the ES, they do shoot outings. Thanks Macaroons.

[Macaroons]

Could be filmed for the ES, they do shoot outings. Thanks Macaroons.

I agree. As well, the clothing is a big indicator because they're not wearing matching colors and Jeff is in jeans. It's not the typical "Race" clothing.

[ams06]

Bummer about J/J.

Found this blurb on a blog. Not sure if it helps. Maybe it will help put the timeline together.

Lunch at Subway! And guess what? We saw teams of Amazing race running around Sentosa. That was so cool! Watch out for the next season... Sentosa might be the pit stop for a leg of the race!

http://nicholaswashere.blogspot.com/2009/12/sentosa-ftw.html

[puddin]

^^^^^
Was just reading that in the other thread, is it something else in Sentosa or us? maybe he will post his other pictures soon? 

And a tweet to go along with it:

BethRuh: Sighted: People walking outside on TOP of the Singapore Flyer. Helicopter filming...I'll give you one guess.... about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck

to follow up:

While I would consider riding the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest Ferris Wheel, to be one of the must-dos in Singapore, the night we went it was amazingly uncrowded -- in fact, we came very close to getting a tube of our own. My friends and I got there around 6:30, an arrival perfectly timed for sunset, which happens quickly this close to the equator. We navigated the maze of shops and ramps to the entrance and we hopped onto the slow-moving wheel without it even stopping. Soon we were out of the housing and getting great views of Singapore and beyond. Het, we could even see Malaysia and Indonesia -- a tri-nation view! We got great looks at the skyline and harbor as the sun dropped behind the tall buildings. We got a great perspective on the ongoing construction of the world's largest casino complex and on Singapore's floating soccer field. Additionally, we could see an unending line of ships at anchor, waiting for their turn to enter busy Singapore Harbor. All in all, the ride took just a hair over 30 minutes and regaled us the entire time, all for about $20.
If we had wanted to splurge, for $199 we could have gotten a tube that came with a full-service dinner on nice linens and fine china, with champagne. In fact, n the tube behind us, we could see two young girls were being filmed doing just that. Since we envisioned that the dinner would be an occassion for romance and dinner, and the girls were rather shoddily-dressed, we were trying to come up with scenarios for what was going on. Was it a reality TV show? It turns out we were close -- a Hong Kong Travel show was filming its Singapore adventure

[ltvols]

according to many websites, sentosa is only about a 30 minute drive from the changi airport in singapore.   Perhaps their visit to sentosa was part of the leg or the decoys were there since we have noonish sightings of them on the singapore flyer....

this should be in speculations....sorry!

[ob-la-di-ob-la-da]

to follow up:
While I would consider riding the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest Ferris Wheel, to be one of the must-dos in Singapore, the night we went it was amazingly uncrowded -- in fact, we came very close to getting a tube of our own. My friends and I got there around 6:30, an arrival perfectly timed for sunset, which happens quickly this close to the equator. We navigated the maze of shops and ramps to the entrance and we hopped onto the slow-moving wheel without it even stopping. Soon we were out of the housing and getting great views of Singapore and beyond. Het, we could even see Malaysia and Indonesia -- a tri-nation view! We got great looks at the skyline and harbor as the sun dropped behind the tall buildings. We got a great perspective on the ongoing construction of the world's largest casino complex and on Singapore's floating soccer field. Additionally, we could see an unending line of ships at anchor, waiting for their turn to enter busy Singapore Harbor. All in all, the ride took just a hair over 30 minutes and regaled us the entire time, all for about $20.
If we had wanted to splurge, for $199 we could have gotten a tube that came with a full-service dinner on nice linens and fine china, with champagne. In fact, n the tube behind us, we could see two young girls were being filmed doing just that. Since we envisioned that the dinner would be an occassion for romance and dinner, and the girls were rather shoddily-dressed, we were trying to come up with scenarios for what was going on. Was it a reality TV show? It turns out we were close -- a Hong Kong Travel show was filming its Singapore adventure

So  I was looking at our original list of cast members, and we don't have a team of two young girls...

Teams:
eff & Jordan: Former Big Brother contestants; wearing light blue
Brent/Caitlin: Brent in gray, has long hair; Caitlin in black, blonde hair
Mike & Louie: Louie has man fu beard, wearing camo shorts and black shirts
Cowboys (Tim Abbott?/Bobby Boyd?): Wearing button down shirts (blue and gray), cowboy hats
Frat Boys: Identical twins (?), wearing gold with blue athletic shorts (UCSB?), one with black jacket
Grandmother & Granddaughter: Granddaughter has short brown hair and is wearing green
Middle-Aged Man/Woman: Husband/wife, late 30s, wearing purple
Man/Woman: Possibly father/daughter, older man wearing black shirt and cap, thin woman in blue
African-American Husband/Wife: Husband in dark red, wife in shirt with family photo
African-American Moms: Wearing hot pink
Lesbian Couple: Wearing shades of gray and camo/black pants, short blonde and dark hair
Asian Couple: Wearing red, late 20s/early 30s

Only possible "young" F/F matches who are would be the "lesbian" couple or the AA moms, and from Chateau d If's photos, I wouldn't categorize either team as being particularly young (although youth is in the eye of the beholder...)  So maybe it really was a Hong Kong travel show...?

[ltvols]

i thought we had a spoiler that mentioned the singapore flyer being shut down for a few hour in the afternoon (12:00) b/c of filming for TAR.   of course, at the time - she thought it was TAR Asia and we all know now it isn't!

[Chateau d If]

to follow up:
While I would consider riding the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest Ferris Wheel, to be one of the must-dos in Singapore, the night we went it was amazingly uncrowded -- in fact, we came very close to getting a tube of our own. My friends and I got there around 6:30, an arrival perfectly timed for sunset, which happens quickly this close to the equator. We navigated the maze of shops and ramps to the entrance and we hopped onto the slow-moving wheel without it even stopping. Soon we were out of the housing and getting great views of Singapore and beyond. Het, we could even see Malaysia and Indonesia -- a tri-nation view! We got great looks at the skyline and harbor as the sun dropped behind the tall buildings. We got a great perspective on the ongoing construction of the world's largest casino complex and on Singapore's floating soccer field. Additionally, we could see an unending line of ships at anchor, waiting for their turn to enter busy Singapore Harbor. All in all, the ride took just a hair over 30 minutes and regaled us the entire time, all for about $20.
If we had wanted to splurge, for $199 we could have gotten a tube that came with a full-service dinner on nice linens and fine china, with champagne. In fact, n the tube behind us, we could see two young girls were being filmed doing just that. Since we envisioned that the dinner would be an occassion for romance and dinner, and the girls were rather shoddily-dressed, we were trying to come up with scenarios for what was going on. Was it a reality TV show? It turns out we were close -- a Hong Kong Travel show was filming its Singapore adventure

So  I was looking at our original list of cast members, and we don't have a team of two young girls...

Teams:
eff & Jordan: Former Big Brother contestants; wearing light blue
Brent/Caitlin: Brent in gray, has long hair; Caitlin in black, blonde hair
Mike & Louie: Louie has man fu beard, wearing camo shorts and black shirts
Cowboys (Tim Abbott?/Bobby Boyd?): Wearing button down shirts (blue and gray), cowboy hats
Frat Boys: Identical twins (?), wearing gold with blue athletic shorts (UCSB?), one with black jacket
Grandmother & Granddaughter: Granddaughter has short brown hair and is wearing green
Middle-Aged Man/Woman: Husband/wife, late 30s, wearing purple
Man/Woman: Possibly father/daughter, older man wearing black shirt and cap, thin woman in blue
African-American Husband/Wife: Husband in dark red, wife in shirt with family photo
African-American Moms: Wearing hot pink
Lesbian Couple: Wearing shades of gray and camo/black pants, short blonde and dark hair
Asian Couple: Wearing red, late 20s/early 30s

Only possible "young" F/F matches who are would be the "lesbian" couple or the AA moms, and from Chateau d If's photos, I wouldn't categorize either team as being particularly young (although youth is in the eye of the beholder...)  So maybe it really was a Hong Kong travel show...?

The women with short hair looked like they could be as young as 25.  One said "Dude! you know I can't tell you that!"   

[Kiwi Jay]

The one with white hair didn't look 25 to me! more like 40s

[georgiapeach]

And you were there kiwi?? Chateau was!

And for those asking TARA 4 is DEF NOT filming!

Great work everyone

And all the bloggers/tweeters/ posters have been contacted, so PLEASE do not deluge them with questions, okay?? Thanks!

[autowil]

Haha..Now the only lead we have is hope the guy who saw them in Sentosa... Hope he can take soem pic..

[Jobby]

What about the Singapore Flyer being closed for a few hours? When i arrived at 5.30pm, it was open for operation and i definitely did not see ANY helicopters flying around at that time for filming because i looked at every capsule and was certain that no filming was being done at that point of time.

Something i left out mentioning.

At the Courtyard at Raffles, i spotted a camerawoman from Mediacorp (Broadcaster of Channel 5, which airs the amazing race and planned the TAR 3 Singapore leg) and she was waiting for a cab outside Raffles Hotel. Do we have any wind that teams were actually somewhere nearby?

Also, i'll try and find out if Mediacorp was involved in the planning of the leg for this time again. Someone who knows can help please?

[theschnauzers]

Joab, my sense is that in the past, TPTB have tended to go back to people or firms they've used before to get production assistance. So IMHO, Mediacorp might well have been used.

[woden]

And a tweet to go along with it:

BethRuh: Sighted: People walking outside on TOP of the Singapore Flyer. Helicopter filming...I'll give you one guess.... about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck

to follow up:

While I would consider riding the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest Ferris Wheel, to be one of the must-dos in Singapore, the night we went it was amazingly uncrowded -- in fact, we came very close to getting a tube of our own. My friends and I got there around 6:30, an arrival perfectly timed for sunset, which happens quickly this close to the equator. We navigated the maze of shops and ramps to the entrance and we hopped onto the slow-moving wheel without it even stopping. Soon we were out of the housing and getting great views of Singapore and beyond. Het, we could even see Malaysia and Indonesia -- a tri-nation view! We got great looks at the skyline and harbor as the sun dropped behind the tall buildings. We got a great perspective on the ongoing construction of the world's largest casino complex and on Singapore's floating soccer field. Additionally, we could see an unending line of ships at anchor, waiting for their turn to enter busy Singapore Harbor. All in all, the ride took just a hair over 30 minutes and regaled us the entire time, all for about $20.
If we had wanted to splurge, for $199 we could have gotten a tube that came with a full-service dinner on nice linens and fine china, with champagne. In fact, n the tube behind us, we could see two young girls were being filmed doing just that. Since we envisioned that the dinner would be an occassion for romance and dinner, and the girls were rather shoddily-dressed, we were trying to come up with scenarios for what was going on. Was it a reality TV show? It turns out we were close -- a Hong Kong Travel show was filming its Singapore adventure

A follow up on his blog:

Well, the first team I saw were two big guys wearing blue and the second team were a couple. The male is blonde-haired and the female is a brunette.

[ams06]

Update on the blog..and they posted pictures. 

http://myirandom.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/amazing-race-tar-16/

[ltvols]

The red team is the Asian couple - at least that is what is listed in the contestant thread

[ams06]

It looks like the blue team might be the cowboys?

[georgiapeach]

Okay, incoming:

From one of the Sentosa posters:

I did not realise that they were filming the amazing race until the 2nd sighting, therfore no pictures were taken.

I was at the singapore flyer at about 11am, 16 dec 2009, when i saw the 1st group, male/female team(young couple, long hair girl dressed in blue).
As the flyer was closed for shooting until 12.30pm, my family and i proceeded to sentosa's underwater world, where we spotted the 2nd group, male/male group (middle aged man, dressed in blue too.) wondering around Rasa Sentosa Hotel car park at abt 1pm, same day.

M!!!

[georgiapeach]

Update on the blog..and they posted pictures. 

http://myirandom.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/amazing-race-tar-16/

Just coming to say that Yirene kindly updated the blog so we could see the pics! She saw them about 130, 

Basically, there were 2 persons walking up the marina barrage steps towards the green pasture at level 2 and they were carrying huge blue haversacks.

Will bring the pics over in a few minutes.

[puddin]

Update on the blog..and they posted pictures. 

http://myirandom.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/amazing-race-tar-16/

  Awesome!!!

this nice lady call Peach .........