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Encyclopedia > Wannado City

Wannado City is an indoor role-playing amusement center in the Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. It is property of Grupo CIE. A second location in Bergen County, New Jersey at the future Meadowlands Xanadu, is scheduled to open by 2007. Billed as "where kids can do what they wannado," it is a child-sized representation of a metropolis where children aged 2-14 participate in different careers and other lifelike activities. In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sawgrass Mills is a shopping mall operated by the Mills Corporation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Fort Lauderdale, known as the Venice of America, is a city located in Broward County, Florida. ... Grupo CIE (Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento. ... Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. ... The Meadowlands Xanadu (also known as the Xanadu Project) will be a retail and entertainment complex in the New Jersey Meadowlands. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 A metropolis (in Greek μήτηρ, mētēr = mother and πόλις, pólis = city/town) is a big city[1], in most cases with over half million inhabitants in the city proper, and with a population of at least one million living in...


Careers in which the "kidizens" can participate include firefighter, police officer, lawyer, TV reporter, and actor. They can use issued money, "Wongas", to set up bank accounts.

Contents

"Careers"

  • TV Director
  • Dance Club DJ
  • Police Officer
  • Rock Climber
  • Model
  • Theater Actor
  • Fashion Photographer
  • Bailiff
  • Master of Ceremonies
  • Theater Director
  • Prop Master
  • Landscaper
  • Archaeologist
  • Decorator
  • Jeweler
  • Wardrobe
  • Paramedic
  • Supermarket Employee
  • Fashion Show Director
  • Pathologist
  • Fashion Stylist
  • Bank Customer
  • Cashier Lighting
  • Technician
  • Animal Tamer
  • House Painter
  • O.R. Nurse
  • Pizza Maker
  • Boom Operator
  • Firefighter
  • Film Director
  • E.R. Doctor
  • Film Actor
  • Radio Station Editor
  • Sculptor
  • Camera Operator
  • Manicurist
  • Anestheologist
  • Dentist
  • Electrician
  • Pediatric Nurse
  • Chef
  • Newspaper Photographer
  • Paleontologist
  • Defence Attorney
  • Hairdresser
  • Fine Arts Painter
  • Witness
  • Detective
  • Prosecutor
  • Airline Pilot
  • Wonka Candy Factory
  • Motorola M-Ventor

Money System

The system is that by participating in the different activities, you can collect "money" which you can use to make cookies, make bracelets, and go to the Art Academy. For each activity, you can get paid around 20 Wongas. You are also given 150 Wongas to begin with. There are also ATMs where you can withdraw your money or you can make a deposit at one of two banks, so you don't have to carry all your money around. An NCR Personas 85-Series interior, multi-function ATM in the USA Smaller indoor ATMs dispense money inside convenience stores and other busy areas, such as this off-premise Wincor Nixdorf mono-function ATM in Sweden. ...


Security

When you pay, the children and parents are given RFID security bracelets. Throughout the park there are "stands" where you scan your bracelet and it shows you all of your parties locations on a map.


Wonga Uses

You receive Wongas from many of the careers around the city. Your Wongas can be used on many activities, such as making cookies, rock climbing, making a bracelet and much more!


External links

  • About.com description
  • Official homepage

  Results from FactBites:
 
Ask the Travel Specialist - yikeskids.com (1693 words)
Wannado City (www.wannadocity.com) is a trend-setting children's entertainment concept designed to inspire kids to live out their dreams in an entertaining and educational manner.
Wannado City has already begun working with schools, educational groups and other organizations to develop age-appropriate curriculum that meets state educational standards.
Wannado City has been launched by Wannado Entertainment, an entertainment company whose vision is to empower kids through the creation of reality-based, interactive properties that entertain and educate.
reveries - cool news of the day (429 words)
Kiddie City is much smaller than Wannado, but over five years' time, it managed to attract a total of "57 marketers, including General Motors, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft and Unilever, to pay a total of $3 million a year." Kiddie City generated some $12 million in revenues in 2003.
Wannado, which is three times the size of Kiddie City, features 60 venues and offers "250 grown-up jobs." So, for example, kids get to use flight simulators to get a sense of what it's like to be in the cockpit of a DC-9.
Wannado City is set up as a division of Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE, for short), www.cie-mexico.com.mx, and the plan calls for revenues of $30 million, in ticket sales and sponsorships, by next August.
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