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News: Adult amusement park for kids opening

Posted at 5:46 PM EST (2246 GMT)

Mar. 5th, 2004 -- The $40 million Wannado City, opening in a few months, will be an amusement park for kids. But that's not the half of it. Wannado City will feature numerous "grown-up" activities for children to perform. Children aged 4 to 11 can act as surgeons, police officers, singers, actors, reporters and a variety of other careers.

Their parents will have the choice of sitting out and relaxing or watching their child earn Wannado City's currency - Wongas - by working for wages.

Children will be able to roam around the park free of their parents, by way of an electronic bracelet system. Parents can check on their child's location by swiping a bracelet at one of the amusement park's computer terminals. A map will show up detailing where their little fire-fighter is.

Parents will be encouraged to relax and shop in the nearby mall and let their children have fun.

"We don't want the parents to bother the kids," Wannado City Chief Creative Officer Luis Javier Laresgoiti said.

Wannado City plans on charging admission of $22.95 for children and $19.95 for adults.

For more information, visit Sun-Sentinel.com

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Chip Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 7393 View Park/Ride Count	Awww. It sounds like so much fun! I wonder how well it will do. The article says they have a few more of these types of parks planned, including another one opening later in New Jersey. They sound like they're expecting it to take off. And why wouldn't it? It's a great idea. Ah, to be 11 again.
3/5/2004 5:51 PM
General Public Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 3057 View Park/Ride Count	This sounds like it will only lead to Big Trouble.
3/5/2004 9:54 PM
coasterlove Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6479 View Park/Ride Count	I'm not too sure about this idea. It sounds nice to let your kids roam and have a good time might sound harmless at first, but remember those bracelets can only tell you where your kid is, not what they are doing or worse...what is being done to them. It is sad but we do live in a world that is not always safe and they're are people who will violate those who are innocent. Also they system only technically tracks the bracelet, not the child itself. The bracelet could come of or even be ripped off by a person out to harm that child. The park seems fun and interesting for kids. I'm just not sure it is a good idea to have kids walk around by themselves in a big park. I'll reserve further judgement until I know more about the park.
3/6/2004 1:31 AM
coasterphil Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 9268 View Park/Ride Count	Bad idea. Kids by themselves=environment for sick adults to hang out.
3/6/2004 12:03 PM
Steven Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 7717 View Park/Ride Count	I don't even want to know what it's all about.
3/6/2004 1:09 PM
Dynamite_Phase Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 173 View Park/Ride Count	Gulp I don't think I have to mention the clear insanity of having a park full of kids only, and how dangerous it would be if a "disgruntled" adult "just happened" to stroll into the courtyard. Evn more (or less) importantly, is that I don't think I would trust kids all by themselves. Even though I'm a kid myself, I don't trust other kids. Have you seen some of the trash that exits the school bus every day. What if one of these cretins has parents who decide that dropping him off at an unsupervised park will increase his responsibilty while they get hammered on $2 tequilas? Is it intelligent to trust this kid with ALONE with a bunch of four year olds? Probably not. Isn't there one intelligent man in the planning crew who says, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! HAVE YOU NO SANITY?"
3/7/2004 7:50 PM
bgwfreak Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 11378 View Park/Ride Count	I also think this will be a major problem. I would never just go off an leave my children in the custody of teenagers! lol j/k Oh sure Billy, go run amuck while I shop and get drunk!
3/11/2004 2:10 PM
Magnum Robert Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3196 View Park/Ride Count	Interesting concept. Drop the kids off---let them have their fun---and check on them every now and then to make sure they don't get to close while the adults get drunk and uhhh....you know
4/4/2004 12:42 PM

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