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In this episode, Kevin explores the history of kid cities, a series of fake miniature towns in which children can role-play as adults.
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20 thoughts on “Defunctland: Kid Cities”
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When you first mentioned Kid City on Twitter, I thought you meant Safety Town – that’s what I remember going to.
My boys went to WannaDo City on class field trips. They have fond memories of it. My youngest said they figured out how to get more money from the ATMs and had fun at the stores.
OH MY GOD DEFUNCTLAND TALKING ABOUT KIDZANIA MY DREAM JUST CAME TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -im mexican
I did biztown as part of our homeschool co-op. Ah, fun times.
Knowing younger me I probably would’ve started a mob…… probably a good thing it didn’t come to Michigan
I watched a bobicraft video about this.
If you can understand Spanish I recommend watching it
I went to a kid city when i was in third grade for a birthday party, i got to be a cop and the only reason i remember that was i tried arresting an older kid who proceeded to try and choke me to death. Maybe the no adults thing was a bad idea
19:41 The children yearn for the mines!
My parents took me to la ciudad de los niños around 2003, I have great memories from that trip❤
At first i thought "oh wow it's so fucked up that these kids are acting so much like cops" but then it hit me that it's the other way around, it's the cops who act like larping children
I went to Exchange City back around 2003.
I wanted to be the DJ, but some other kid with more CDs got the job. I ended up at the "Multipurpose Store," which printed paychecks for all the other businesses and was as boring as it sounds.
During my free time, I went to the snack place, but I forgot my check book, so I ran to go get it. Since I was running I got a ticket for "speeding" and had to waste like 30 minutes going to the courthouse to pay the fine. Then when I finally got some popcorn from the snack place, it was incredibly salty.
So it was novel, and one could argue that it did give a taste of the drudgery of adult life, but I wouldn't say it was fun.
Dude gansitos rip 🤙
Hell: The Theme Park
I’m from the UK, we had something similar in my town, but for learning French, German or Spanish. It was on a smaller scale, with little shops, cafes and market stalls and they’d just swap the signage and price tags over, depending on what language the class was learning.
29:53. “how much money do you make?”
“$450”
“ And how much have you spent of it?”
“ $550
Welcome to the real world kid !
dude same i was so bitter abt never getting to go to our safety city and my mom is a teacher and the school she works at goes every year 😩
I remember doing the Junior Adventure, as kid in I believe 5th or 6th grade. I honestly don't remember any of it besides being a Bank for Wells Fargo.
You're the kid mayor in all of our hearts, Sir.
Me when seeing the intro: is gonna be kidzania
And hearing that is in Centro Santa Fe: that’s we’re I come to shop
Sounds like a Reverse Disneyland to me. I just hope that SAFETY is maintained.
Playing doctor/nurse is great fun and helps kids get over fear of doctor visits. My Aunt, a nurse, gave us a Miss Curity Doll one Christmas, complete with an old medical bag with REAL (but defanged; needle-free hypodermic), rubber hammer, bandages, a real stethescope (broken and soundless), an arm sling and some "antiseptic" bottles filled with water and food color. The next year we got a plastic "microscope" with hand drawn bacteria taped over plastic slices. 68 years later, I still remember! There were 3 of us girls. 1 became a nurse, another a hospital dietician, and 1 a minister.
but introduce ANYTHING that could actually work would be a nightmare.