Defunctland: Kid Cities
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this episode, Kevin explores the history of kid cities, a series of fake miniature towns in which children can role-play as adults. Why do these exist, and who is behind them?
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0:00 - Part 1: La Ciudad De Los Niños
13:03 - Part 2: Wannado City
24:02 - Part 3: Similar Projects
35:20 - Part 4: Are You Having Fun?
48:46 - Part 5: Corporate Sponsors
59:34 - Part 6: The Great Recession
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Imagine clocking out of kid world and the ride home just depressed cause you lost it all at the kidsino
99% of gamblers quit before their next big win
That’s just the chuck-e-cheese experience. I spent 5 weeks allowance and all I got was this rubber ball and eraser
@@BlazingAbyss879😭😭😭
THE KIDSINO! I'M DEAD ☠️
Your comment sounds funny. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"And how much money do you make?"
"$450."
"And how much have you spent of it?"
"$550."
Truly a revolutionary learning experience, teaching kids about debt spending
Just like me frfr
she was so real for that lmao
That exchange got me good.
Inflation in action!
The kids immediately realizing that manager is the best role because they do so little in most places is so poetic
God. I'm an editor, a manager, and I'm exhausted. I'm run off my feet from work.
@@vercoda9997 the job exhausted doesn't pay well. ;)
@@vercoda9997 ey at least you run.. pretty sure most regular workers crawl on the floor - with around 1/10th of the money you bring home non the less.
Cry harder.
As a manager, I can confirm I'm pretty lazy myself and the people I manage do the heavy lifting, however not everyone can manage people good, I always put my people first and do everything in my reach to make their work less miserable every day
@@gorgeluis Managers also have to deal with "Let me talk to your manager" cretins...
This video is so nostalgic for me. I used to love getting arrested and then squeezing through the soft rubber prison bars to escape and get arrested again.
Did you ever get charged on timeout row for repeat offenses, and be sent to the Fisher Price My First Electric Chair?
@@BinglesP I think they switched to the Nerf Firing Squad or use of toy syringe "lethal "prune juice injections . . .
I was too fat to fit through the bars ˙◠˙ … one time the adult there felt bad for me cause all my friends escaped without me and she just let me out
@@repairednale sounds like you had contacts on the inside
@@repairednaleyou were in cahoots with the prison guards? Impressive
I was a defense attorney at exchange city. The judge quickly realized her salary was paid by fines and decided to find everyone guilty. My salary as defense counsel was also paid by fines so I just stopped trying.
I’m an attorney now.
Every single commenter with a story about being involved in the kid legal system leads me to believe that the people who designed that aspect of the parks had some, uh, *interesting* thoughts about what they wanted to impart on kids about criminal justice.
@@Zizhou hanlons razor. They probably weren’t trying to impart anything and were just being lazy and implementing things in the easiest way possible. That being said it reflects reality when you see police departments turning into traffic ticketing machines that not only find their own operations, but sometimes the entire operations of small towns as well.
So how accurate is that to real life?
@@Zizhou They reflected their culture's justice system accurately and the children understood it.
Lol, that's scary 😂
I like the realization that this is just your average ROBLOX map with extra steps and an astronomical budget.
Holy shit he’s right ladies and gentleman.
Omg you're absolutely right 💀
BAHAHAHAHA 😂
You say Roblox, but I grew up seeing this sort of thing in LittleBigPlanet 2 haha
Yeah, and that's even worse for me because I don't even like Roblox.
Exchange City was the most memorable part of elementary school. I worked as an account for a customer-facing store. My office was the size of a broom closet and had a crappy desk, a calculator, and a massive log of expenses I had to balance.
I was given so much work that I didn't get to experience anything, spend any money, and missed half of my lunch. The deli ran out of food and closed down before I could get to it.
I spent the rest of the day crying and thinking I was going to starve to death. They didn't even come to tell me it was time to leave - I only figured it out when all the lights turned off, and by then everybody was already in the parking lot.
It was very immersive and really prepared me for adulthood.
Sorry to hear about that traumatic experience.
This tracks with my Exchange City experience.
God I remember Exchange City like a repressed memory. I think I remember my year that someone’s older brother had found out the “hack” of how to make the most (printing a ton of fake money slips and the stuff that said you did a job) and then told my classmate, so by the time it was our grade’s turn we were flooding the market with way too much cash that the older brother had basically handed to our grade. So bad that we basically created mass inflation and sandwiches were our new currency.
So the economic lesson we learned was “nepotism is alive and well” and “When you overprint money, a 10-piece McNugget is the best payment”.
Exchange City was a breakthrough moment for me. They made me an accountant, but didn't tell me how to do the work, so I just walked off the job
we lived in a kid society 🤡
It's so funny how telling this is of how kids truly are much more aware of the world around them than adults ever give them credit for. (generally)
true
I guess in a sense the park was a good educational tool, though I dunno if the park founders or parents would approve of the lessons it taught and the ways it taught them . . . I wonder if professors of education or students in the education fields have researched this park. It sounds like something they'd be pretty interested in.
I disagree. Children are seldom good stewards of their parent's credit card. (joke)
@@aegisScale There were a lot of articles about it. Some referenced in the video very briefly, but I'm sure there's far more in depth ones somewhere online.
consider that those adults were, once, kids and may just be aware of how much kids also misunderstand
My daughter went to a Kidzania. She asked for the job of 'Mob Boss'. So she tried to convince kids to rob stores for her. Which worked.
reminds me of club penguin
Didn’t happen
@@loduca16people are always so quick to dismiss an event strictly because the individual personally believes it’s “too good to be true” - but is it so hard to believe the commenter in this situation?
@@requiemthethethe It's just ignorant zoomer kids. They think everything that happened before them was fake and a lie because social media and tiktok has trained them to think that way.
@@MrWolfSnack could just your typical plastic bag on the sidewalk troll in a desperate attempt to grab likes in a room they failed to read.
Either way youtube comments are youtube comments. No need to take serioisly. 😅
“My little one’s a doctor! Which is yours?” “I think my kid is planting narcotics on a suspect for a harsher conviction”
"My child has been imprisoned for fraud and abducting an infant"
"My kid learned how to print money. I think that's yours leading the sting operation on his den."
Mine plays a dog in a television cartoon......
"My kid is making a documentary about the place."
"My kid apparently lost his wife and is now masquerading as a noir cop..."
Well this was a wild ride. I went from, "Oh, that sounds like something I would have enjoyed as a kid." Shock at the kid surgery, laughing out loud at the kid defense attorney, to total confoundment at the lore of Kidzania.
Probably one of my favorite defunctland documentaries because we get to see more or Kevin’s personality through the voice over not just though the art
And he would have been a GREAT mayor gosh darnit!
@@memicoot fr. Our boy was robbed
We should vote Kevin as ADULT mayor.
"I am an objective narrator.
I have no pre-existing bias on this subject."
The fact that kids figured out how to commit robbery, bad checks, and kidnapping is hilarious.
Kids Kidnapping kids!?!?! Yo.THAT'S F.U.B.A.R.!
I used to break out of those rubber metal bars, it was fun 😂
Me too! I used to rob the spare bank and sometimes and once a kid cop came in to do an unrelated investigation and caught me! He tackled me and took me to jail lol
I’m not surprised kids do this in Roblox games all the time
They grow up so fast
i was not expecting these children to successfully recreate the stanford prison experiment
we need a new stanford prison experiment except this time with rubber bars and a publix.
fun fact! the stanford prison experiment was a scam! the student who was warden basically moulded the guards into being assholes. The doctor was taking the especially cruel "guards" aside and told them they were doing a good job, they were actively encouraging the guards to do the kind of stuff that the "results" of the experiment insisted happened organically.
Im pretty sure they just replicated IRL policing
@@PanSpaceman and also without the coaching by the researchers for the guards to be more cruel
If you've ever heard little kids play especially little girls it's not that shocking tbh. I'm just glad that my two youngest nieces aren't at the wife beaters and orgies stage of playing Barbie😂
my middle school tried to recreate something like this once. you could only pick a job that was listed with your gpa. we had to make a budget where you had to pick how expensive your rent was, how much you’d spend on utilities, how much you’d spend on food, how much your car payment, and how much you’d spend on entertainment. at the end you had to pull a random card which could either be nothing or it would be some sort of emergency that would take a huge chunk of your money away. i’m assuming they were trying to say that higher gpas make more money so kids would try harder. the problem tho was that all the smart kids picked the cool sounding jobs (me included) that had shit pay which meant they all were broke and had to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet while the kids with 2.0 gpas had the best of every category with money left over at the end while only working one job.
I think the adult in the room forgot no kid wants to be a big data analyst or an investment banker.
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 what do you mean that’s every 12 year olds dream job /s
realism tho
Sounds about right. The intelligent people pursue their dreams, not always successfully, while the midwits rise to the top on their laziness and apathy and by just being a warm body who's there.
I did a biztown in Atlanta in 6th grade and it was the best day of middle school by far. The main volunteer running it was a retired Home Depot executive and he was soooo into it. I was the bank (suntrust of course) manager and it was going smoothly until the computer went down when we were backed up and I had a moment of sheer panic and the guy was like "GET PAPER LEDGERS AND START TAKING RECORDS!" Once the computers came back up I had to spend an hour checking to see if anyone tried to overdraft. During lunch someone mentioned that Mayor Sarah didnt actually do anything so the guy suggested we hold a referendum and we voted her out, she heard about that all the way through highschool.
god the idea of kids stressing out "ah fuck i owe randy 5 millions for loan how am i supposed to pay these" sitting at the park just hilarious
I went to finance park as a kid and still have distinct memories of sitting over a table stressing about trying to make a budget with my mediocre paycheck and all my bills
The way they essentially had to pay to work at some of the jobs hit a bit close to home with my first 2 jobs when I lived in a more rural area
hahaha
When I went to finance park I was a marriage counselor with a wife that made only 70% of the small wage, needless to say I wasn’t the richest.
Poor kids got a lesson in finance they never expected . . . I guess it's better they did with fake money than real money, I suppose.
As someone who grew up visiting the original Kid City in Mexico this sure does take me back to the time were I went to court for "messing up some flowers" and I ended up bribing the judge with a nestle chocolate.
is this what living in mexico feels like
This is amazing. If you have more stories I’d love to read them actually!
the judge be like:
"hmmmm, i guess there were no flowers messed after all"
is your icon maki from danganronpa
Amazing 🤣🤣🤣
"Each job lasted between 15 and 45 minutes", that's my dream 😭
Honestly realizing that playplaces for kids is an invention and not just a default actually kinda heals my relationship with humanity
I mean, the kids use nature/the streets for a lot of history (when not working due to poverty)
Whaddya mean? Slides and swings are natural phenomena that first evolved over 100000 years ago alongside horseshoe crabs and megaldons
The mock 'bad luck' card for the terrorist attack is so f-ckking funny. "The American way of life has been threatened once more. Please rebudget." Goddamn.
Same.
😂😂😂😂😂
Every time we walk through airport security, we are reminded the terrorists won.
"The American way of life has been threatened once more. Please rebudget." - President Bush, circa early 2000's
@@the_real_Kurt_Yarish Except he literally said to go shopping.
“I found cocaine on him plus he resisted arrest.” He really is a cop!
No joke that kinda unnerved me
@@Obsidianwitch Right? It's funny because it's a child and you think they'd be innocent, but the reality is that cops are so notoriously corrupt that even kids think they get to do whatever they want.
@@Obsidianwitch Maybe it is something fundamental with putting people with little to no training in positions of power over others that causes this behavior?
Nah who am I kidding, that would be ridiculous.
arent they just little piglets
“FOR THE LAAAND OF THE FREEE, AND THE HOMEEE OF THE BRAAAVE”
I love how you sometimes break character and let your own opinion through. It makes the video a lot more enjoyable
youtube commenter amazed that video essay content creator has a personality
@@PosterityIslesNews not usual
Love your litwick profile pic!
The entire section on Exchange City has a real "Get uncle Kevin drunk and see if we can wind him up" vibe that I'm really digging
So many great lines from these children. “Business is pretty lousy… I’m worried about the bank loan.” “These men are handsome and they’re in our keychains.”
"Men."
“I found cocaine on him”
I particularly love the blunt kid on the news of like “So you don’t die” 😂
‘Or put a picture of your boyfriend in there. Whatever. They’re $1.50’
"we learned to look left and right so we uh don't die"
"all you say is can you prove it" dude that kid is the best fucking lawyer every. That was young Saul Goodman
Seriously!! That made me laugh so hard. Especially because most adults are so condescending to children, but those little bastards are astute as hell as long as they get something out of it. That’s why incentivized discipline is the best way to raise a kid… I’ll bet.
If only Phoenix Wright learned how to lawyer from those kids. Maya would get accused of like half as many murders.
*Slippin Jimmy
saul goodboy
That would have been so much easier than the bribes i would give out.
I've been waiting for a Wannado City vid for the longest time! I was a frequent visitor. I was so sad when it closed down, but nobody around me was surprised. All my friends who went there swore that it was super boring once you finished all the jobs. It's really hard to appeal to both a 5yrold AND a 10yrold with the same attractions. But I just did Archeology over and over and had a blast.
My parents didn't like it very much. My mom hated the adults lounge bc it was boring and served terrible food/drinks. Just a bunch of other parents buried in books and laptops and not talking to each other... but my dad was mostly a fan. He liked that he could pop in for a beer during playtime. He preffered to join me in the city. He was a very interactive parent, which helped me play in Wannado City because on most days there were hardly any other kids around besides field trips. But he couldn't fit into the child-sized attractions, try as he might, and employees kept trying to usher him back to the lounge. Once the price went up we stopped going.
Also the vet area was a disaster. I know they wanted to be realistic but a lot of kids cried endlessly about the sick pets.
I'm so happy that your dad tried to help and be as involved as he could, even if he couldn't fit into the attractions, and even if the employment tried to say no. To me it says he cares
How did the vets work? Hopefully not as graphic as the doctors
I worked there. We were told the kids wouldn’t act as freely or learn as much if the parents were breathing down their necks, so parents were highly encouraged to wait outside the experience. We didn’t think most kids wanted their parents in there anyway. It’s super interesting to read your perspective of what it was like for the kids.
@BrokeTheInterweb I would say this is more of a guideline than an actual rule as it really depends on the kid itself. Some kids are shy around others, some are fine by themselves and some kids may need their parents for certain things. But in a city where the kids are supposed to be in charge I see why the employees were taught this guideline.
Totally feel your pain about missing out on being mayor. When I was younger, I went to summer camp at the Kennedy Space Center. The centerpiece of the complex was a gigantic life-size model of the front of a space-shuttle, and the entire week, all any of us kids could think about was when we'd get to go inside the spaceship.
At the end of the week, we were split into two groups for a mock space-flight. A handful of the kids were randomly chosen to be the crew of the space shuttle, and the rest of us were assigned to mission control, including me. I was SO salty that I wasn't given the chance to go inside the awesome spaceship, and to this day can only imagine what it was like.
On the bright-side, the crew of the simulated space-flight crashed the ship into the side of the complex in a spectacular fiery explosion, so I can at least say I wasn't on board for that.
"Being a lawyer is so easy. All you have to say is "Your honor you weren't even there""
Judge: "Is the defense's fraud for real or just joking"
Lawyer: "Your honor, you wasn't there. My client is a first grader, of course he'd have bad handwriting"
Opposition: "Your honor, I'd like for a change in the defense because there's a conflict of interest"
Judge: "why tho"
Opposition: "The defendant's lawyer is literally his brother"
Judge, turning to the jury: "Chat, what do we think?"
"Objection your honor, that's cap"
"Objection denied"
First question... killer says what?
"Your honor, my client would like to enter a plea of 'Nuh-uh!'"
“I’m not putting anything in the bank. I want to feel it in my pocket” is the most badass thing I’ve ever heard and it was said by a child.
the Eugine Krabs mentality
@therranolleo468 I’m 25 and I’ve been re-watching clips from Spongebob lately. The clip where he hits his toe (claw?) on the rock and starts swearing is so relatable as an adult. I can’t wait to have kids just so I can show them Spongebob.
Poor person mentality😢
@@ohbogey your pockets are as small as your ambition
@@erick74777 🔥 🔥 🔥 🖊️ 🔥
Everything sounded so familiar when you were talking about La Ciudad De Los Niños, thinking that it sounded very familiar to another place I went to as a kid but never could remember the name, then I literally gasped when the title "Wannado City" came up, I immediately recognized the name. I had so much fun there and never forgot the experience. I have to admit, the footage made me cry a little. I know that kid me was devastated when it closed down, but I wasn't surprised, as I had only gone a handful of times before the place finally shut its doors- and the environment was great but a bit bittersweet, there weren't many kids when I was old enough to experience it, but the workers there really tried there hardest to make the experience fun for me even if I was the only person participating in the activity.
Thank you so much for this video, and for making my hazy childhood memory of that place bit sharper, that truly comes from the bottom of my heart.
As a Florida kid who went to Wannado City, I have pretty fond memories of it. I distinctly remember the Newspaper room having cut outs of comic books all over, with the one sticking out to me the most was a few Archie Sonic comics. Excellent video!!
Imagine your Wannado newspaper ghost writer being Ken Penders 💀
"Mallory! You have such a boring life on paper! Do something!" "I can't afford to" damn I felt that.
(39:33) huge mood
@@darkness74185very huge mood
Every adult watching felt that
Delight in the last days
And then Mallory became a pretend drug addict.
1. Get drunk.
2. Pretend to be giants.
Kevin has discovered the two basic human desires.
So that’s why people usually like giantess stuff
Lol
literally this
@@larrymantic2635 Can confirm that that's partially why
What a time that must be
I went to the Mini-Munich Play City, which is every two years for three weeks in summer break. I loved it and it is still up and running. Important fact: Because of the funding by the city of Munich, there is no entrance fee, everyone who wants to go, can go.
Oh my god. I feel you SO much when your specific 5th grade class wasn't able to go on a trip that every other 5th grade class went on. It's like schools decide to do something fun except for the years I happened to be there.
"Wannado city even opened up at night for adult-only events ... so they could get drunk and pretend to be giants"
I died. I am dead. I would do that.
Where did he say that
He said it about KidZania not Wannado
@@iamnotabot815821:25
@@cheseecakepay21:24 you’re wrong
I used to work at my local children's museum. They do those too. Those nights were thee WORST!
I don’t know why this whole concept is so funny to me. Like just some kid sitting around and being like “ah damn Billy over at the bank is really fucking me with these fees” and they’re both like 6 😂
Yeah I wonder if it’s how ridiculous it is. And maybe some aspect of our real world problems.
when you put it that way....
Yes, many of the kids testimonials were hilarious!
My favorite was the kid who was like, “This job [as a lawyer is easy]! All you do is ask them if they can prove it!” lol
I find the idea of a kid being denied a loan by another kid hilarious
@@danielmallory4687 I mean we just do that now as adults who are technically still children mentally, it seems like these days
OBSESSED with the animated sequence in the prolific school poster art style
I was planning to take my girlfriend to the place I grew up. Monterrey, NL. Thinking of things to do I started remembering theme parks and remembered the “kid city”.
I was in private school when I lived there and we took a school field trip to “Mundo de Adeveras” I couldn’t remember the name of it for the past two weeks and out of no where you made an ENTIRE video about it!!! Thank you so much for bringing back this memory!
The "prove it, lol" kid is a natural-born lawyer. I'd hire him.
That one got me laughing good. It's so true.
Children grew up to be Slippin' Jimmy
IN COURT EVIDENCE IS EVERYTHING, WRIGHT
Unpaid Wannado vendors: "We were not paid for our services?"
Wannado lawyer: "Can you prove it?"
@@cinnamonflavord And that child's name was... Jose Baez.
"Nestle, who sponsored La Cuidad De Los Ninos, was a perfect fit for the kid city, because they have a long history of relying on children to make their chocolate."
I was not expecting that level of savagery to just be casually thrown in there.
Meanwhile I was waiting for a roast along those linrs from the moment nestle was mentioned as a sponsor near the beginning lmao
That shot was so hard that Jim Ross should have called it.
Yet no quip could be more savage than Nestle's business practices, genuinely one of the most evil companies out there
…that S-word is a slur; I wouldn’t use it
@@aidanmallon9879 ...not in this context?
The early 2000s elementary school art style for the corporate sponsor segment sent me back, man
The quality of the research behind this video is insane.
I was the Mayor of Enterprise Village. I had to wear a suit & give a speech at the beginning of the day but after that it was just me & my municipal underlings hanging out, ambling around town & spending my undeservedly high salary on McDonalds fries. I learned 2 important lessons that day: the people at the top don't really have to work at all & misappropriating taxpayer money is easy & fun
if my man defunctland was the mayor he would've brought up the local GDP by 200%, he is an uncorruptible individual who cares not about the delicious lure of McDonald's fries only for $1 at any participating location, but for the wellbeing of his constituents
Commit embezzlement for fun and profit
This is how I felt scoring a manager job in the arts & crafts store. I had a great salary, but no time to spend it and all I was allowed to do was sit there and watch the other kids do the fun creative stuff.
I was either a bookkeeper or secretary for the mayor, I don't remember which. I do remember being bored and wishing I was given a different job.
I also was mayor for enterprise village in 5th grade. They wanted me to write and give my own speech at the end of the day, but I think they skipped it because it was getting late, which was lucky for me because I wrote three words on the computer they gave me. But for the entire day, they wanted me to give out shopping bags to everyone in the school that was in 5th grade to give me some this to do, because they didn’t have anything else to do. Once I visited about three people were giving their bags, my kids brain decided that “this is boring, imma chill in my office.” So I did nothing but sit in my office, and when I got paid I bought chicken nuggets and fries, and just sat in the little McDonald’s eating my food. When we left, they had a bunch of burgers and food left over in the front seat, and one of the teachers just gave them out to students. I ate about 2 before I stopped eating. Oh, and I wasn’t elected to be mayor, I kinda went to the teacher that was assigning roles to the government officials, and I said “hey, I’ll just be the mayor!” And the teacher was just like, “okay!” So while everyone worked, I just sat on my ass and ate chicken nuggets.
This video exists because Kevin still hasn’t gotten over never getting to be mayor. It was an hour and thirteen minutes of therapy. We’re here for you, buddy.
"Icetown costs ice clown his town crown."
he deserves a thumbs up for that moment alone
“Spurned by his school from becoming Mayor of a Kid City” is the best Villain Origin Story to ever exist
Much respect to you for being verified without any videos uploaded ✊🏽
Look. We're getting more content from Kevin. He can vent a little, as a treat.
The humor is so low-key that if you were listening without paying attention you wouldn't think this video is the laugh riot that it is. 👏
I went to exchange city as a fifth grade field trip. This was somewhere between 2014-2016, it’s funny seeing the pictures in black and white.
19:45 I thought “maternity ward nurse” was the weirdest choice for an appealing job for kids until I got to “nightclub manager”
Bail bondsman still the weirdest one imho
No, it was great, they made you take care of the babies!!
@@sophiaruizuvalle2523 And you apparently had to fend off roving gangs of baby thieves
@@ngwoowas kidnapper one of the jobs?
@@cr103 probably seen it by now but 42:50
It's okay, Kevin, you're the mayor of Defunctland. We'd all vote for you.
I'm convinced this video was just propaganda against the children who did get to be mayor
What did those kids do for us? Nothing.
But Kevin provided more than an hour of entertainment with this video alone.
Vote for Kevin. Make the right choice.
But what if him getting that position as a mayor inspired him to enter politics in real life instead of making TH-cam videos?
@RadenWA honestly he do better than most politicians out there today.
I'd vote Kevin for president.
I would vote for him
I haven't finished watching everything (just 13 minutes before finishing the whole video) but Kevin being salty about never being elected a mayor at Exchange City is so hilarious I can't stop laughing whenever I remember it.
I just finished the whole video and I laughed way too much at that finishing line.
I remember going to Wannado City growing up, and it really was incredible. I was a crime scene investor, a baker, and an actor. 😂 I recall thinking that there was never enough time to do all the stuff I wanted to do. I had no idea that it was the only one!!
"This job is so easy, all you say is 'Can you prove it?'." - Saul Goodboy
Not our Jimmy!
Slipping Jimmy:Origina
@@bluekewnethat IS our Jimmy !
Don't forget his wife, Kid Wexler!
defense attorneys definitely do be like that
Hearing about the kids performing bank robberies, writing bad checks, kidnapping babies from the hospital and putting kids in jail because it was “fun to break” was unironically one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a long time.
That sounds on brand. Kindergartens go though thousands of dollars of toys as some kids think breaking them is fun
I want to watch a COPS or Wannado PD show
Teach kids how to be adults, kids discover the benefits of crime.
Yeah, seems like the inevitable result of the set up.
And unfortunately you can't exactly simulate jail time within the park, even with a time-out jail, because parents can just bail the lid out and go home, even a ban from the park(temporary or permanent) isn't the same...
People like you keep freely accessible education amazing. You did an amazing job and I can’t imagine how long this took you to study, form a script, edit, direct, make entertaining, or even just come up with with idea. Thanks a lot defunctland. You’ve far beyond earned every dollar you’ve made from this channel. Thank you, again.
I was about to say, this whole thing sounds a lot like the children's museum I went to as a kid, then 25 minutes in, there it is.
"wow let's make a fun place where kids can pretend to have jobs"
*Accidental Stanford Prison Experiment*
And a better version then the real experiment 😳
@@awsomeepicninjaman the real experiment was so flawed
finally a more controversial "ACAB" than Paw Patrol
@PanSpaceman I mean Paw Patrol is a more obvious case than even Blue Bloods
@@bestaround3323 I'm sticking with genre here I'm not a scientist
This is literally the “you can take the children from the mines, but you can’t take the mines from the children”. Unironically this seems bloody epic.
I absolutely would've loved this as a kid
Yeah I was lucky enough to go as a kid, really fun
Japanese KidZania locations are still going so strong that it’s said the amount of research/prep/queuing necessary to get into activities rivals that of Disney😂
kevin's dry humor in chapter 3 will always make me smile
37:28 "We have keychains with pictures of MEN in them. These men are handsome and they're in our keychains. Men." 🤣WHAT A QUOTE
I’m sold! Lol
that's what you get when you let young teens write the marketing speils
Literally sounds like something dontald trump might say
Kid is a natural at Marketing. I wonder what he's doing nowadays.
@@m0n5a80 baseball
The salesman kid from part 4 was born for this holy shit. These keychains have pictures of MEN in them. Handsome MEN.
And they're in our keychains. Men.
RIP shigechi, you would’ve loved enterprise village😔
Or your bf or whatever.
Love that bit at the end where they ask what the kid would be when he grows up, and the narrator days that he incorrectly said baseball player.
The kid could sell the time to a clock.
I grew up going to Wannado city all the time, there are so many photos of me doing different professions. It was such a huge part of my childhood. I still remember the wet, earthy, bromide-y smell of the place. And now sometimes I stand in the massive Forever 21 that lives on the grave of my childhood and feel sad. I was devastated when it closed. I still have the baby dolls my mom bought me when I was in the neonatal nurse career there.
The absolute whiplash in tone at part 3 was hilarious.
42:50 this is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Imagine you’re an adult staff member and you’re helping the kids play nurse. Then another kid runs in and kidnaps the baby dolls 😭😭😭
Okay but the one before it with the "I found cocaine on them" took me out even more lmao
I’m now imagining a long and drawn-out hostage negotiation scenario being acted out entirely by kids and it’s cracking me up
tbh, THAT would make the inevitable low paying job entirely worth it to me. 🤣
@@LittleAlternativeGirl Honestly I am not surprised a South Florida kid would drop that line.
helping kids play nurse? i need to you take a seat over there
Kevin's rage 28:21 at not getting to fulfill his destiny and become god emperor of Exchange City just explain so much about his career path.
Also at 36:30
@@derekw104 ......And again at the end. Definitely no bias here.
@@derekw104 Comes back again at 1:06:28
His sass in that clip 🤣🤣🤣 I laughed so hard when the chalkboard came up! 🤣🤣🤣
Tbh he should have gotten that role but fate is a bitch
OMG I REMEMBER WANNA DO CITY!!! It was SO FUN lol I was a popcorn maker!! I quit and became a construction worker!! They also taught us how to balance a checkbook! Wow what a nostalgia hit!!!
My hometown (Flint, MI) has a cute little children's museum that I spent a lot of time in. One of my most favorite parts was the little grocery store setup, with a register and everything! There was also a little house, and a theater stage. It really was priceless, especially since there wasn't really any other affordable place to go!
"Kid criminals broke into the maternity ward and began kidnapping babies." That...... that''s some proper Space Station 13 action, right there.
"Space Station 13 for kids" is going to be my next start up idea. Thanks
@@Driver-qt9jh Pretty sure the clown is always a kid. Only kids can be so pointlessly destructive.
:pensive: :honkman:
Only a kid would try and surgically replace the limbs of a willing and consenting patient with slices of pepperoni pizza.
I guess I'm not the only one who thought "Space Station 13" when I watched a documentary about spending multiple hours a day working a fake job in a make-believe place with real-fake crime.
"Nestle sponsored an elaborate Wonka factory where children could learn to be Oompa Loompas... this was a perfect fit for the kid's city, as Nestle have a long history of relying on children to make their chocolate" 🔥🔥🔥
I made a rude noise at that line, then had to pause and cackle
💀
I just ate toilet paper in a vid 💪❤🎉🔥🔥🆘
@@KheldarLarsI paused at the Oompa Loompa part, like “Oh good, slave labor…” and thankfully Kevin knew so too.
That took my breath away ha ha...
I love the small bits of humor sprinkled in. Great video. Wish I had these experiences as a kid.
When my class went to Enterprise City in 6th grade, the main law (aside from not stealing) was to not go on the "grass" (astroturf) in the center of the room. Pretty much as soon as they let us loose, one of my classmates promptly started running in circles on the grass shouting "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE!!!!!"
lol! There was another comment that a kid who made a lot of pretend money kept walking on the grass on purpose and would just pay off the kid cops who kept ticketing him.
"oh damn attendance is down and recession is up. quick! get the dinosaurs" very 2008 move
TFW the economy is so bad that the only rose tinted glasses the adults have left to inspire kids with are the eras of fucking dinosaurs. Yeah, that tracks
I even remember there being dinosaurs there (I didn't think of them as more than just props to sit on) and never questioned why the realistic kid city had become jurassic park, without the jur and ic.
"A Florida Today reporter asked Malla what he would be when he grew up, he responded (incorrectly) baseball player."
LMAO
He may be a hustler, but his priorities are straight.
He's a player, all right.
Just the fact that Kevin went for such a sick dunk on a 10-year-old is hysterical lmao
I’m so glad I wasn’t taking a drink of my water during that line because I absolutely would have spat it all over my phone, truly savage
37:38 Not including timestamps for an hour long video smh
unlocking the horrid memories of working in Biztown, Tampa, thanks defunctland!!!
Never judge a book by its cover or a TH-cam video by its thumbnail. I should know by now that Kevin makes EVERY subject fascinating. You’re the best!
“Despite the abject terror that is finding out your kid’s been Spirit-pilled without your consent” is the line that fully killed me
Ok… this video 3:34 so far seems pretty benign…. How… the fuck… do all these random quotes I keep seeing possibly fit into this story?!?!?!?😂
>"Do something."
Reply: "I can't afford to."
That resonates a bit too close for comfort.
You can afford to spend time typing comments on yt...disposable time but not disposable income apparently
@@CaseyC-bg4bbsome random nobody on TH-cam trying to drop some grindset quotes on people is so funny. Such a funny character, dude
@@CaseyC-bg4bb yes, that's the point, got time but no money to do anything worthwhile. Are you thick?
@@CaseyC-bg4bb yeah, we're not machines we can't work 24 hours for all the money in the world lol
you mixed up like three different sayings in that last bit
36:33 “‘Being Mayor of Exchange City was exciting!’ Yeah, I bet it was-“
The way I literally did a spit take at that part holy shit -
I’m having intense flashbacks to visiting Wannado City, Safety Town, AND Commerce Plaza as a kid! I miss when working a job was a fun fantasy and not a tragic reality 🙃
I volunteered at Finance Park through work.
Best interaction with a kid was when I was teaching him about home insurance, and he asked "When people say they're going to burn the house down for the insurance money, is this what they're talking about?"
Made my day, that did.
Man I miss working with kids. No one with a fully developed brain is ever as funny as a kid. One time one of the kids at a summer camp I worked at was sitting next to a male councilor and started stroking his (admittedly thick) arm hair and asked “do you like your fur?” And I couldn’t breathe for about three minutes
At least you taught them something they won't forget!
@@Oli.V That is absolutely hilarious. Something about the lack of social awareness morphing with razor-sharp observational skills. Creating the funniest off-the-cuff comments! Thanks for sharing
It's the best! I taught pre-k and overheard two kids playing house. Kid 1 asks Kid 2 if he wants anything from the kitchen. Kid 2 asks "Do you got any smokes?" (!!) Kid 1 has no idea what that means and responses "No, there's no fires here, just ice cream." XD
Nestle making a commercial agreement with Kid City at the same time they were using actual child slave labour to make candy bars has got to be one of the most horrifying and hilarious things I've ever heard
Your comment makes it sound like they ever stopped using child slave labour.
^(they didn't)
That bit was such a slap to the face lmao. I knew about it already but I thought it'd be a quick "wongas sounds like wonka so-" and then WHAM child labor
@@John_the_Paul Technically they just hire a company to harvest and then don't check in on that company.
@@DIEGhostfish You’re not wrong, there’s a lot of levels in supply chains.
I did this as a 5th grader, I distinctly remember being either an accountant or clerk working a register. I remember being dressed in business attire with a tie, and wanting to leave almost immediately lol. The thing I appreciated about it was from then on, I started paying attention to things that I'd want to do to earn a living. Shows like American Chopper, Monster Garage and Trucks w/Stacey Davids were a huge influence on me as well.
JABiztown mentioned!
I worked as the editor for the newspaper we had there. I remember being frustrated because I had wanted to be the writer and that I didn't get to do much of my own writing other than the little editorial section. At one point I got sent out to take photos or something because I was antsy and wanted something to do only to then get scolded by someone else because that was supposed to be done by the designated photographer.
i have been to kidzania a few times, nothing beats the experience of signing up to be a crime investigator, and standing at the entrance of the crime scene crying because it's dark
Oh god I was the same
Ten year old detective, putting a choco stick in their mouth: "Two years on the force, it never gets easier. You got a light?"
(Their six-year old partner lights an invisible lighter under the choco stick)
I used to cry at the Max Steel adventure one at Kidzania because of that same reason, it was too dark in the sewers 😭💀
hahaha this is hilariously cute
@@kassyyar97I think I did that but I was last and couldn't climb up into it bc I was too short and then by the time I did they all went off and left me😭😭
the kids' reviews are so adorable there's something so silly about a kid stressing out about radio advertising and bank loans 😭
The bank loan part was so dark to me like 🫠
@@lid2966 well y'know what they say, if you don't laugh you'll cry or something like that
I CAN'T AFFORD TO!
omg 666th like!!!
There's nothing funny about the suffering that being 50000 Pesitos in debt can bring you. Shame on you for mocking these poor kidizens
/s
Throughout part 5 all I could hear in my head was the sound of Bill Hicks screaming.
Capped off with the Carlin quote:
"You know what they want? They want obedient workers. -- People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept (it)"
Junior Achievement’s program was fun, it even had me crying when because of a mess up on calculations caused me to cry while eating lunch because I had to use more than half of my lunch time to fix said problems without being paid. Just like real life, with the exception of me being allowed to finish my lunch after being told to go back to work.
As a kid growing up in kansas city, I remember my time in exchange city. I was sick the week before going so I missed the entire "choose your career path" so I was assigned.... AT&T desk salesman... It was rough. My co-workers were not the brightest bunch. Everyone had to buy a landline phone for business in the first minute and then never returned. We all sat for a few hours gluing fabric to hand copied phone books as it was our only product possible. By the second hour we realized we would never break even on our company loans. We continued to slave away. By the end of the day we had abandoned our store to spend the measly salary we received. Fortunately, one of my co workers had taken the entire company savings (which was ment to pay back our entire loan) and had taken it to the stock market. There he invested it in the sports store that was overflowing with customers all day. By the end of the night we had the most money in the city because the most irresponsible student stole the phone company's money and invested it in the equivalent of Nvidia without telling anyone. From that point on I no longer cared about walking on the grass and would pay for all fines from the police that continually followed me around. It was fun having F U money.
This is incredible thank you for sharing
A _lot_ of the jobs there were really rough with a few that were notably more fun, desirable, and better paying. Same with the shops. Since most of the products were assigned in advance, some were fundamentally more popular with little chance to actually compete or feel any sense of influencing your success.
I got stuck being the accountant for the post office. Something so miserable and realistically dull as to mirror reality. Much of it also got to be assigned by your teacher with little regard for what you liked or wanted. Hence why as a kid who hated math I got a job that was all about doing math all day.
They also relied heavily on forcing all of the businesses to buy something from the one otherwise boring shop that provided it whether they wanted it or not (e.g. requiring you to have a sign made by the sign shop), thus teaching children about regulatory capture and government-enforced monopolies.
You may have gone later than I did. I don't recall phones or a stock market in the late '80s when I was there.
The kid who punted the company money to the stock market is such a baller that the pain of slaving away melted when that check hit 🤣🤣
@@Belgand I went in 2013. Yeah I remember the sign shop. Now that I think about it we were a requirement to start a business but other than that people had no point in visiting us. Also every business had tons of accountants because it was one of the most time consuming job writing cheque's to the employees every hour.
@@nastyeggplant Truly, although because nothing of true worth was actually sold in exchange city, it did a good job of teaching you money doesn't buy happiness (or that much lol).
Before seeing the park: "This is the dumbest idea for a park I've ever heard"
After seeing the park: "Omg I wanna go there so bad"
I lived these, I can confirm they're PEAK!
FOR REAL. I’d pay so much money to pretend to work oh my god.
knowing my childhood, if one opened where i lived at some point someone would play robbers and there would be chaos at the bank as the mayor is taken as hostage because she was taking her pet unicorn on a walk.
The Kidzania in Monterrey (idk if the rest do it too) now hold special days where the adult visitors can also partake in the activities (possibly the very same adults who visited Kidzania w their parents or in a school trip) as kids
I loved these so much, even better than a normal theme park honestly
I never believed you'd make a doc better than the queuing one, but here we are.
In my elementary school/ middle school you go to safety town in third grade and when I was in third grade I had a lot of fun except for the fact that the cars they use don’t have a break petal you just have to release your foot of the gas and give yourself enough time to stop which if you are 8 or 9 years old is a hard thing to do because you need to time it. So I have been talking it up to my brother and warning him about the lack of brakes. He gets to go this upcoming school year and I’m so exciting for him.
the way my jaw DROPPED at the "babys first amazon warehouse worker"
RIGHT?? do they get their breaks? babies first union negotiation??
@trashgod7095 Here in Vienna at least the goodness of the wonderful AK (Chamber of Workers and Employes [Baisically a mandatory Trade Union for everyone whose employed]) is drilled into every childs brain through Schooltrips to the AKs Theater beginning in primary school, so thats a thing at least?
That line took me from "this seems like a neat place to bring some kids" to "we need to burn the whole place down right now".
Bezos trying to get them young.
They pee in bottles instead of their diapers. LOL
13:33I love that the moment the story leaves Mexico and Kevin Perjurer stops using the metric system he starts comparing things to football fields
OH GOD I COMPLETELY MISSED THAT 💀💀💀
-Those US size comparisons that aren't familiar/intuitive to some people outside the US
2000s Documentary: "Wow, the [large object] is as tall as THREE Statues of Liberty!"
Kid me, who has never even set foot in the western hemisphere: "Ok, how big is that"
Trivia book: "The Megalodon was as long as a schoolbus!"
(In my country schoolbuses aren't those big yellow vehicles; they're commonly just vans)
@@vitoc8454absolutely same. Our school buses could fit like 10 kids, so even if only have of us went to swimming, at least two had to ride with the teacher lol
But, given how much estimates of the megalodon‘s actual size differ, school buses with their varying lengths around the globe might not even be the worst comparison lol
As a KCMO exchange city truther, the absolute JOY I got from seeing that you talked specially about that location - one of the most stressful exeriences of my childhood, but absolutely worth it!
Im very excited to learn he is from Missouri. Im from Saint Louis and we had a kid city here. It was much smaller than most and was inside a larger children's museum. I wish I could have experience Exchange City as a kid....
“These keychains have MEN in them” is such a good line 😭😭😭
MEN.
They're handsome!
As a man liker, if your keychains don't have any men in them, I'll be spending my money elsewhere
Me making merch for cons
Or you can put a picture of your boyfriend in there I guess…
Holy crap “I found cocaine on him” made me almost choke.
The fact that you write all of these out, and include so many hilarious real details just kills me every time. Five fucking stars out of Five dude!
As someone who grew up visiting this, i never thought i’d see a video like this, thank you