NEWS: $90 million Kidzania park to open in Sentosa in 2015!

[jedimaster1227]

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/city-run-kids-open-2015-20130124

 

A new theme park on Sentosa where children can role play in different jobs in their own miniature city will open in 2015.

 

Called Kidzania, the $90 million park will allow children aged four to 14 to "work" in a local bank, transport company or hospital. They will be able to pretend to be police officers, doctors, journalists and postmen among other professions.

 

The idea behind the theme park is to inculcate children with values such as hard work and punctuality through play. Doing their jobs well will earn them "money" which they can then use in the "city" to for example buy food.

 

The park will also be have a Singaporean flavour to it with the theme park management KidZanie Singapore working with local companies. KidZanie Singapore is a collaboration between Mexican company KidZania and Malaysia's Themed Attractions and Resorts.

An artist's impression of Kidzania at Sentosa. The $90 million park will allow children aged four to 14 to "work" in a local bank, transport company or hospital.

Edited January 26, 2013 by jedimaster1227

[Inukaza]

We have one of these in the Tampa area, or at least it's called JA BizTown here. It's def not on the largeness scale as they plan on doing it in Sentosa. My mom takes her third grade students to it all the time, and most of my silblings have been to it as well. Same concept. They all seemed to like it and it was very educational. I think this is a cool idea to expand it to other places.

[SharkTums]

^That's interesting to hear there's a sort of dumbed down version here in Florida. I know they tried KidZania here in the states and it just didn't work. Probably because we're too dumb to realize it's important to give our children educated play sessions. The KizZania in Dubai is awesome and I can't wait to check this one out!