@@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. 😅
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
@@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
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.”
Fun fact about Kidzania, the Nintendo area is just playing switch games. That's what being a game developer is like right? it's definitely not crying yourself to sleep under your desk on a Saturday because you need to get the game out on time.
And certainly not experiencing terrible agony when you realise the kickstarter overperformed and the donors are expecting big things in short time and you haven't sorted out any of the rewards.
@OddyOddity-ob2uv I think that just means the dev made unachivable goals, or like you're hollow knight in which case it'll take years to complete, silksong is a kickstarter reward
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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 😂
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 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
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 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.
I remember in 5th grade I was randomly selected as the mayor for JA. Didn’t have to campaign or anything. I think our teacher just picked me to make me feel better since I was so quiet and didn’t have any friends. The day we went everyone HATED me because I didn’t actually have to do anything at all and spent most of my time eating cookies from the bakery. Those cookies were all anybody wanted and people had to do menial tasks for so long just to get one without breaking the bank. My logic was “loans are fake, cookies are real.” Looking back on it, I wasn’t a good mayor, but I was probably the most realistic mayor JA could have had.
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.
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
Hardcore wannado city kid here, visted 3 times. This brought me to tears. I called my father and we talked for 10 minutes about this pure nostalgiafest. Edit: I was always a Firefighter since my dad was one in the early 90's
It's crazy coming across this video. When I was a kid, my family took a trip to Mexico City to visit La Ciudad De Los Niños because my dad's colleague was an investor who wanted to try bringing the concept to California. It didn't end up happening, but that trip is a core childhood memory.
@@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.
"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.
@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.
oh my god. I was a biztown mayor. I was a little goody two shoes so I don’t remember any game breaking exploits but it was insanely special for me, a very bullied kid, to be mayor of my whole class of around 75. Good stuff. I learned a lot of good skills from the program like how to write a check that I still use today as an adult. This just full took me back and I’m very excited to see the train wrecks some of these resulted in
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.
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...
My brother and I ended up in jail when we visited La Ciudad de los Niños. I can't quite remember what we did, I believe we had a car accident or something like that, but jail was fun 😂. They took a picture of us while in "jail" and we were smiling like a pair of fools, loving the experience, lol.
@@RipOffProductionsLLC going to jail at La Ciudad de los Niños wasn't necessarily a punishment type of situation, you could end up in "jail" by accidentally doing things that would put you in jail in real life, such as having a car accident. My brother and I were put in jail when we visited the park but we weren't misbehaving, nor were we banned from the venue.
We didnt have kid cities here. But the childish chaos in this video reminded me to a incident in my youth. Our school had this really big playground in the sand and one day we decided to build a bunker in it. Which turned out great and soon other kids joined in the fun. As the bunker grew we needed to be more organized. So a nation was born. A nationfounded around liberty and shovels. Where children could become diggers, planners, guards and decorator. At the end of the break we hid the shovels and if you did a good job last break, we rewarded you a shovel to dig as you desired. At the cost of those slacking off. Unfortunatly, shovels, the oil of our economy became a limited resource and quickly conflict arose between the varous groups digging their own bunkers. Forcing nations to invade other nations. Taking their shovels and annexing their sand bunkers into their own. Some nations were wiped out with their citizens either forced to assimilate. Or be send to those concentration camps we just learned about in history. Where they were forced to spend their entire break in a pitch dark hole dug underneat some wood planks. At this point, the local superpower, the teachers decided to intervene and deployed a weapon of mass destruction, a bulldozer to level everything while we were forced to appologize to another classroom for what essentially boiled down to war crimes. And thus came an end of my carreer as a corrupt warprofeteering politican at the age of 9.
In 5th grade some of our classmates told us about their older siblings’ experience in the military and decided to arrange military training in recess when the kids became interested. It started with most of our class participating in grueling tasks while being yelled at by their officer in charge, but eventually they expanded their operation when kids from other grades wanted to join in. The more experienced kids would be the leaders of the new platoons, rising the ranks to a more comfortable position. It became such a huge deal that the ones not joining the 'military' became ostracized from the rest of their classmates and friends. In the end the teachers had to intervene after the parents raised concerns about their children possibly facing bullying. Man, kids really are something.
@@Maria.Mirabella if they hadnt stopped them, would the school have eventually entered a "civl war" to overthrow the "dictatorship government" (the teachers)?
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.
The main thing this impresses on me is that if you give a child adult responsibilities, they will very quickly adopt adult solutions to meet those responsibilities. For better or for worse.
Seeing that pothole in the small road way followed by "the child sized collapsing infrastructure," had me dieing of laughter. Talking about living in an adult world, that is the most real thing in life.
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.
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😂
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.
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.
I'm honestly surprised at the lack of chaos. I was taken to a go kart track as a kid to learn traffic laws and prepare me for driving a car, and all I did all day is ram my kart into my friends' kart. Possibly related: none of us have a driver's license.
all I really remember about my biztown experience was that I REALLY REALLY DESPERATELY wanted to be mayor. I put so much thought into a campaign slogan, how I would market myself as what biztown needed, how I needed to put together a speech that balanced business with emotion; how I planned to *win the hearts* of my potential voter base. I labored over my speech for days, crying at the kitchen table because I would much rather be drawing my warrior cats ocs than writing an optional essay. but eventually, I was ready. I gave my speech with as much emotion as I could muster, keeping all of my dad's public speaking lessons in mind. in a way, it felt like he was there with me, guiding my mouth to say the right things at the right moments to capture the audience. I walked back to my seat afterwards, feeling like I had conquered the biggest challenge I'd ever had to face in my fifth grade life. fantasies swirled in my head of how I would foster a legacy during my term as biztown's greatest mayor. I was SURE I would win. I lost to a girl who promised everyone she'd do the chicken dance if they voted for her
I feel you!! Although it's a little different for me. I ended up winning the mayoral election for BizTown, and I was so happy. I was going to be the mayor of at least 4 classes! But of COURSE something had to go wrong. The entire year I hadn't gotten sick. I felt it the week before the trip to BizTown, and I even remember saying to my teacher: "I'm gonna get sick next week aren't I." Lo and behold, the week of BizTown, I come down with the flu and can't even attend the school days prior to the trip. I tried going in the day before, but all my friends said I looked pale as a ghost, and I sure felt it. Ended up spending what would've been an amazing day, on the couch playing clash of clans and throwing up. All my friends returned and told me about how much fun they had. I still resent that week for having such a once-in-a-lifetime experience taken from me just because of some dumb flu 😭
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.
whenever I went to Kidzania (I think I went 3x), I would separate from my sibling, basically just grabbed a random kid, introduced myself, and then asked them to go around "town" and do work with me. We would become friends for a day and then never see each other again. It was insanely audacious, but then I remember that in grades 6-8 I also shared my Impossible Quiz parodies and fanfiction to my entire class before I was shamed out of it by bullies. Hah! Amazing documentary, by the way. This is the first Defunctland video I watched and I know why this channel is so loved now.
"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 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
@@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
All of your videos contain humor but this one had me absolutely rolling. The subtle jokes throughout that weren’t even jokes half the time just you stating reality in a humorous way were killing me.
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.
As someone who visited Wannado City frequently, this video brings back SO many memories that I had long forgotten about. I still have photos from inside Wannado City with me and my neighbors at the time. I remember so vividly having so much fun! To this day, I still talk to my close friends about Wannado City, and many of them have fond memories as well. Thank you for bringing my childhood back so I can relive the memories.
As someone that went to exchange city as a kid, I am so sorry you had to miss out, that shit was sick. I got fired from my job and then was arrested and put in jail for begging people for money to pay off my loans
That IS sick. But who were they to snuff out your flourishing? They should have let u keep going! Maybe you could have gotten into running a protection racket, securities fraud ... I mean, don't the detectives need something to do?
My teachers had to assign a student to every role, even the ones nobody wanted. Teachers didn't like me, so I didn't get any of the top three jobs I requested. Instead, I got stuck with one of the jobs nobody wanted to do. I had to stand in one spot and write down slips of paper for the radio station or a related field. One of my tasks was to write down radio 'shout outs' that kids could purchase, but nobody wanted to waste their money on that, so nobody bought any. Plus, the other kids didn't like me, which didn't make it any easier. In hindsight, it was a pretty good preparation for the real world.
I went there in the year 2000, it was awesome and since it was a school day it was mostly empty. One thing to note is that, back then, when you "entered" you actually had to sit in the plane and play a 3D flight simulator where you flew the plane and landed it in the city, afterwards you came down and actually entered the city.
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
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)
@@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😭😭
"This job [defense attorney] is so easy! All you have to do is ask 'can you prove it?'" Was the standout line for me. I paused it for a second just to marvel at how he solved the game of modern law in half an hour.
I remember Exchange City. I had to take a job at a store that made toy reindeers that were essentially just a styrofoam ball on the end of a wooden dowel. There were like 6 of us working the shop and for some reason we had such high demand that we couldn't make these things fast enough. Then I got off work and immediatly got arrested because I accidentally stepped on a carpet square that we were supposed to pretend was a 'flower bed.' Then the cop also accidentally stepped on the flowers as he walked over to cuff me, so we agreed not to tell on each other and went our separate ways. 10/10 would blackmail the Exchange City Police again
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.
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”.
I remember going with my brother to kidzania. We thought all activities costed money like Domino's pizza, and we ran out of money, not knowing where to get more money, we hung out in the Cheeto's sewers and were basically homeless
I remember when I went (around 2013-14?) my cousin managed to get a driver's license there and we ended up passing a really realistic looking car crash and there were even kids doing a news report on it.
I really love the extra personal touch this video has to it, the personal interest from the documentarist, and the humour spiced between it. I mean no offense in saying this, but it's something I hardly saw in previous videos, and that's probably why it kicks that bit harder seeing little personal anecdotes pop in throughout this
Even if it was 15-45 minutes then switch to a different job through the day, I’d be thrilled. My ADHD brain struggles with focusing on the same task for too long. It’s even harder in loud, chaotic environments.
@@Annie_Annie__ No one is really stopping you from asking like 5 different employers to work for an hour a day. You just would have to be really good and also be able to convince all those employers that you'd be amazing at that job in the short time you're there everyday.
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
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
Quotes of children innocently realizing stark and harsh realities about being an adult but not really understanding what they’ve stumbled upon yet is some of my favorite content out there. This is the best episode of this show ever.
Its a good episode but my favorite episode from kevin is absolutely the history of the fastpass. It's easily my favorite video essay on the whole site.
I agree about the fastpass episode. It's so well written, playing out so well narratively. That essay was a better story than many recent movies I've seen
@@Sirliam95 I just gave a recommendation to my brother. The way I describe it is that the Fastpass video is just _"The Fastpass video"_ and it stands alone on its own, it's Defunctland doing a proper serious documentary deserving of industry awards. Same with the Disney Channel Theme video. This one competes with the Coney Island video for the best "fun Defunctland" video, still educational but the meat of it is in all of the amazing quotes coming out of it.
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 would kill for a full-length documentary on the kid city crime sprees. Also, wild how kid cop corruption so closely mirrors real cops. There's some interesting psychology there.
I feel they saw cops doing that and thought that was normal. I mean, I definitely thought that way when I was small until I figured out that was Not Right Actually lol
"I am an objective narrator. I have no pre-existing bias on this subject." Seriously a great cutaway joke and worth the pause to process. Damn that's hilarious.
Accurate, though. Lots of mills employed children for this exact reason. At least the Slater and Wilkinson Mill historical people tend to insist that children that were permanently injured there received a stipend for life, so, there's that, I guess. Also, Snowpiercer.
I love how quick it goes from "Yeah I loved the bank as a kid" to "75% of the funding was gathered via 30+ corporate sponsorships including Walmart" lmfao
I was wondering how they could possibly make pretend-job-land big enough to draw crowds, then he mentioned corporate sponsors and before he could even begin naming them I just went, "oh I see, capitalism for kids."
“The park is now overrun with miniature graffiti, tiny debris, and child-sized collapsing infrastructure” Poetry. Stuff like that and your restraint in not referencing Kirk Milhouse’s race car bed with the guy who bought the airplane are why you’re one of the best writers on this platform.
Not the crossover I expected to see but where else would Geoff have learned the business acumen to launch and run Chez Garbage if not Exchange City. Maybe he even sold keychains with men in them?
@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?
I was supposed to go to a safety town when I was in elementary school like every other grade before me but I did not get to go and I have been salty about it ever since, Kevin. I feel your pain.
@@DiamondKingStudios Some asshole kid def gonna want to crash that for shiggles….Christ imagine kiddie inflation. This whole hypothetical is like Kid Nation waiting to happening
I had never heard of Kid Cities before this video, and the most surprising part of learning about them, is learning that they're still a thing. Was FULLY expecting this video to end with "And that's how all the Kid Cities shut down, and the world realised it was a very silly idea."
The unintentional comedy that comes up in a "giant roleplaying complex for kids to act out real world occupations" is so painfully hilarious no writer could ever come up with any of it.
we called it exchange city and i was a judge in the government. the cops and i quickly realized the only way we could feasibly pay off our loan was to catch and fine as many people with minor infractions as possible. the kid cops didn’t want to do that so we never paid off our loan. we did leverage our positions to get free snacks from other businesses though. life imitates art
I fondly remember field trips to the Museum of Industry at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which had, while not a full "Kid City", a "Kid Factory" - a replica of a seafood canning factory on the Baltimore Inner Harbor post-Industrial Revolution - all the kids would get assigned sample jobs within the factory - I went a few years and I always remember hoping I'd be the lucky kid who'd get to be the boss or one of the managers, but never did - still had fun with the roles I did get though.
my wannado city experience was mostly confusion and being uncertain about what i wanted to do for work. now as an adult, my experience has mostly been confusion and being uncertain about what i want to do for work. INCREDIBLE accuracy!
For me, someone convinced me that the soda bottling job would reward you with a free bottle of soda at the end. This did not happen, and I was sad. I still have my uncashed check from all those years ago
Funny enough, I DID get to go to Exchange City as a kid. While the lead up to the trip wasn't as extensive as you described (Or at least, I don't remember it being weeks, or voting on mayor), it was pretty much exactly as you've mentioned here. I chose to be a radio host, which ended up being a fairly unsupervised role...so I spent the day wandering around between songs! The most memorable part was how heavily advertised the health insurance was. They told us, "If you don't get it, you could be bankrupted!". As our grade depended on the money we had remaining, practically everyone had purchased it. I, however, saw through the facade and chose not to have any insurance. I'm pretty sure I was one of three people that didn't have it, as I was called in for an 'emergency' just as they had warned. I knew I had lost it all, and slowly made my way to the hospital to face my death sentence. The young lady operating the front desk took my name, and rang up my total. I handed my card to her, completely resigned to my fate. She swiped the card. Then she made a face. She swiped it again, and in confusion, handed me my card. Supposedly, one of the random events that happened throughout the day was a 'system failure', which required 'maintenance' (kids) to fix. As it was the end of the day, they weren't able to fix the problem before we packed up and I was the happy beneficiary of insurance fraud. I learned nothing.
Wild! Did you learn to write checks? That was something I VIVIDLY remember from the weeks leading up to visiting. And did you have to interview for your job? I don't think I even got the job I applied to/interviewed for, but I do recall that being the moment I developed a deep and abiding anxiety in regard to job interviews, haha
I also was a radio host during my trip. I had wanted something cooler but turns out I basically was getting paid to do nothing so a win is a win. Funnily enough, I had something similar happen. Managed to dodge a “grass” walking ticket because I hadnt purposefully walked on the grass but jumped one of the corners and fell, (barely) bonking my head a little on the way down. I milked it, bawled my eyes out. Got away scott free. ✨Crime✨ Lesson learned: never let your fear of embarrassment prevent you from avoiding consequences
You totally learned something! That the world is full of risks and sometimes taking a risk pays off but other times it doesn’t. Kinda reminds me of Junior year high school, the computer screwed up and didn’t schedule me for PE for a whole semester. I kept quiet since I hated PE. Near graduation time a year later the counselor noticed the missing grade and asked me about it. I just shrugged and said “everyone has to take PE”. Not a lie but not exactly accurate! Got away with it too.
this video and all these comments made me realize i missed out on what would have been the single most fun i could have ever had as a kid. even right now this concept sounds amazing and i’d give anything to experience this
The way that kids either just embraced the power fantasy or succumbed to the crippling despair of their respective roles makes this whole thing one incredibly intriguing social experiment if anything
YOU HAD TO FILE INSURANCE CLAIMS IN KID CITY like imagine getting angry with the kid on the other side of the phone because you've been transferred around for twenty minutes between classrooms
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
@@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. 😅
@@MrWolfSnackthey know the world is a crazy place, why do they doubt slightly crazy things happened to one of the millions of people on the internet
“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..."
That little boy screaming "girls these key chains have men HANDSOME MEN" as a sales technique made me pause the video to finish laughing
Chinese Gatcha games do the same thing for men. It's an effective sales strategy.
@@nbewarwe also teenage girls as someone who had an ex-friend who was obsessed with that childe guy from genshit impact
My niece can never shut up about him and the emo one xavu or whaever its called@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma
NGL I would have been all over those keychains of MEN when I was 10. That kid knew his market. 😂
timestamp?
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
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...
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"
Fun fact about Kidzania, the Nintendo area is just playing switch games. That's what being a game developer is like right? it's definitely not crying yourself to sleep under your desk on a Saturday because you need to get the game out on time.
And certainly not experiencing terrible agony when you realise the kickstarter overperformed and the donors are expecting big things in short time and you haven't sorted out any of the rewards.
@OddyOddity-ob2uv I think that just means the dev made unachivable goals, or like you're hollow knight in which case it'll take years to complete, silksong is a kickstarter reward
@TheBisDuck . Hollow knight fan here. I got read like a book.
@OddyOddity-ob2uv Nah, I'm a major hollow knight fan so I used it as an example. Skilk Skong 2025!
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 🤣🤣🤣
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 😂
"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!'"
All the quotes from the kids just cracked me up. Especially the "we have pictures of MEN! These men are handsome and they are in our key chains. MEN!"
It worked for Disney channel
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 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
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.
I remember in 5th grade I was randomly selected as the mayor for JA. Didn’t have to campaign or anything. I think our teacher just picked me to make me feel better since I was so quiet and didn’t have any friends. The day we went everyone HATED me because I didn’t actually have to do anything at all and spent most of my time eating cookies from the bakery. Those cookies were all anybody wanted and people had to do menial tasks for so long just to get one without breaking the bank. My logic was “loans are fake, cookies are real.” Looking back on it, I wasn’t a good mayor, but I was probably the most realistic mayor JA could have had.
Fraud, embezzlement, and nepotism.
Damn, you checked all the boxes 😂
"Loans are fake, cookies are real"
That'd be an S Tier yearbook quote 😂
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
"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.
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.
Hardcore wannado city kid here, visted 3 times. This brought me to tears. I called my father and we talked for 10 minutes about this pure nostalgiafest. Edit: I was always a Firefighter since my dad was one in the early 90's
"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.
"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!
"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
That exchange got me good.
Inflation in action!
Looks like she understands capitalism just fine
It's crazy coming across this video. When I was a kid, my family took a trip to Mexico City to visit La Ciudad De Los Niños because my dad's colleague was an investor who wanted to try bringing the concept to California. It didn't end up happening, but that trip is a core childhood memory.
“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”
"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?
“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 🔥 🔥 🔥 🖊️ 🔥
oh my god. I was a biztown mayor. I was a little goody two shoes so I don’t remember any game breaking exploits but it was insanely special for me, a very bullied kid, to be mayor of my whole class of around 75. Good stuff. I learned a lot of good skills from the program like how to write a check that I still use today as an adult. This just full took me back and I’m very excited to see the train wrecks some of these resulted in
So bullied for a reason?
@@R0YALCAESARkids like bullying goody two shoes, it’s a thing
The fact that the 2008 financial crisis indirectly resulted in queues at the kiddie job centre is hilarious to me
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? We may truly never know.
@@AMD_Fan_98 yes to both
@@AMD_Fan_98 art clearly imitated life here… that was the point of this art
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.
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...
My brother and I ended up in jail when we visited La Ciudad de los Niños. I can't quite remember what we did, I believe we had a car accident or something like that, but jail was fun 😂. They took a picture of us while in "jail" and we were smiling like a pair of fools, loving the experience, lol.
@@RipOffProductionsLLC going to jail at La Ciudad de los Niños wasn't necessarily a punishment type of situation, you could end up in "jail" by accidentally doing things that would put you in jail in real life, such as having a car accident. My brother and I were put in jail when we visited the park but we weren't misbehaving, nor were we banned from the venue.
We didnt have kid cities here. But the childish chaos in this video reminded me to a incident in my youth.
Our school had this really big playground in the sand and one day we decided to build a bunker in it. Which turned out great and soon other kids joined in the fun. As the bunker grew we needed to be more organized. So a nation was born.
A nationfounded around liberty and shovels. Where children could become diggers, planners, guards and decorator. At the end of the break we hid the shovels and if you did a good job last break, we rewarded you a shovel to dig as you desired. At the cost of those slacking off.
Unfortunatly, shovels, the oil of our economy became a limited resource and quickly conflict arose between the varous groups digging their own bunkers. Forcing nations to invade other nations. Taking their shovels and annexing their sand bunkers into their own. Some nations were wiped out with their citizens either forced to assimilate. Or be send to those concentration camps we just learned about in history. Where they were forced to spend their entire break in a pitch dark hole dug underneat some wood planks.
At this point, the local superpower, the teachers decided to intervene and deployed a weapon of mass destruction, a bulldozer to level everything while we were forced to appologize to another classroom for what essentially boiled down to war crimes.
And thus came an end of my carreer as a corrupt warprofeteering politican at the age of 9.
I dont know whether i believe this story, but if it is, it sounds amazing lol. I wish i had that
In 5th grade some of our classmates told us about their older siblings’ experience in the military and decided to arrange military training in recess when the kids became interested.
It started with most of our class participating in grueling tasks while being yelled at by their officer in charge, but eventually they expanded their operation when kids from other grades wanted to join in. The more experienced kids would be the leaders of the new platoons, rising the ranks to a more comfortable position. It became such a huge deal that the ones not joining the 'military' became ostracized from the rest of their classmates and friends.
In the end the teachers had to intervene after the parents raised concerns about their children possibly facing bullying.
Man, kids really are something.
@@Maria.Mirabella if they hadnt stopped them, would the school have eventually entered a "civl war" to overthrow the "dictatorship government" (the teachers)?
Excellent reading.
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 UA-cam videos?
@RadenWA honestly he do better than most politicians out there today.
I'd vote Kevin for president.
I would vote for him
"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
The main thing this impresses on me is that if you give a child adult responsibilities, they will very quickly adopt adult solutions to meet those responsibilities. For better or for worse.
The children yearn for the mines
@@DellDuckfan313 They yearn indeed
@@DellDuckfan313 deadass when I was a kid I wanted to be a miner at first because I thought it'd be like minecraft.
@@DellDuckfan313 As long as there is no boringness and not too much effort, even us adults would go for the mines
@@epicgamernik76 I'm not even 30 yet but I hate how old this comment makes me feel.
Seeing that pothole in the small road way followed by "the child sized collapsing infrastructure," had me dieing of laughter. Talking about living in an adult world, that is the most real thing in life.
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😂
"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.
@@PanSpacemanf fat
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.
I'm honestly surprised at the lack of chaos. I was taken to a go kart track as a kid to learn traffic laws and prepare me for driving a car, and all I did all day is ram my kart into my friends' kart.
Possibly related: none of us have a driver's license.
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.
all I really remember about my biztown experience was that I REALLY REALLY DESPERATELY wanted to be mayor. I put so much thought into a campaign slogan, how I would market myself as what biztown needed, how I needed to put together a speech that balanced business with emotion; how I planned to *win the hearts* of my potential voter base. I labored over my speech for days, crying at the kitchen table because I would much rather be drawing my warrior cats ocs than writing an optional essay. but eventually, I was ready.
I gave my speech with as much emotion as I could muster, keeping all of my dad's public speaking lessons in mind. in a way, it felt like he was there with me, guiding my mouth to say the right things at the right moments to capture the audience. I walked back to my seat afterwards, feeling like I had conquered the biggest challenge I'd ever had to face in my fifth grade life. fantasies swirled in my head of how I would foster a legacy during my term as biztown's greatest mayor. I was SURE I would win.
I lost to a girl who promised everyone she'd do the chicken dance if they voted for her
I’m so sorry for you.
Well, was it a good chicken dance?
I feel you!! Although it's a little different for me. I ended up winning the mayoral election for BizTown, and I was so happy. I was going to be the mayor of at least 4 classes! But of COURSE something had to go wrong.
The entire year I hadn't gotten sick. I felt it the week before the trip to BizTown, and I even remember saying to my teacher: "I'm gonna get sick next week aren't I." Lo and behold, the week of BizTown, I come down with the flu and can't even attend the school days prior to the trip. I tried going in the day before, but all my friends said I looked pale as a ghost, and I sure felt it. Ended up spending what would've been an amazing day, on the couch playing clash of clans and throwing up.
All my friends returned and told me about how much fun they had. I still resent that week for having such a once-in-a-lifetime experience taken from me just because of some dumb flu 😭
Sounds like the average American voting system to me
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"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.
whenever I went to Kidzania (I think I went 3x), I would separate from my sibling, basically just grabbed a random kid, introduced myself, and then asked them to go around "town" and do work with me. We would become friends for a day and then never see each other again. It was insanely audacious, but then I remember that in grades 6-8 I also shared my Impossible Quiz parodies and fanfiction to my entire class before I was shamed out of it by bullies. Hah!
Amazing documentary, by the way. This is the first Defunctland video I watched and I know why this channel is so loved now.
"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...
“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?!?!?!?😂
Timestamp 57:45
Today is the day this entered my vocabulary.
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
All of your videos contain humor but this one had me absolutely rolling. The subtle jokes throughout that weren’t even jokes half the time just you stating reality in a humorous way were killing me.
"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
"he responded, incorrectly, baseball player"
fucking hell man lmao
He had it out for these kids 😂😂😂
He was so salty this episode lol
@@saddesklunch2544he’s jealous lol
I get what you mean, but I thought he was saying "this kid is born for sales and nothing else" :D
@@DKarl75
Could sell an Eskimo a snowball.
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
As someone who visited Wannado City frequently, this video brings back SO many memories that I had long forgotten about. I still have photos from inside Wannado City with me and my neighbors at the time. I remember so vividly having so much fun! To this day, I still talk to my close friends about Wannado City, and many of them have fond memories as well. Thank you for bringing my childhood back so I can relive the memories.
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
As someone that went to exchange city as a kid, I am so sorry you had to miss out, that shit was sick. I got fired from my job and then was arrested and put in jail for begging people for money to pay off my loans
That IS sick. But who were they to snuff out your flourishing? They should have let u keep going! Maybe you could have gotten into running a protection racket, securities fraud ... I mean, don't the detectives need something to do?
Accurate simulation of American life.
Can you please explain what happened if you ended the day in debt?
Raising a bunch of Ferengi. 😂
Honestly, though, I admit that this was a good idea overall.
My teachers had to assign a student to every role, even the ones nobody wanted. Teachers didn't like me, so I didn't get any of the top three jobs I requested. Instead, I got stuck with one of the jobs nobody wanted to do. I had to stand in one spot and write down slips of paper for the radio station or a related field. One of my tasks was to write down radio 'shout outs' that kids could purchase, but nobody wanted to waste their money on that, so nobody bought any. Plus, the other kids didn't like me, which didn't make it any easier. In hindsight, it was a pretty good preparation for the real world.
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
I went there in the year 2000, it was awesome and since it was a school day it was mostly empty. One thing to note is that, back then, when you "entered" you actually had to sit in the plane and play a 3D flight simulator where you flew the plane and landed it in the city, afterwards you came down and actually entered the city.
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 quotes from the kids are absolute gold. The kid who is emphasizing that there are handsome men in the keychains made me cry laughing
"This job [defense attorney] is so easy! All you have to do is ask 'can you prove it?'"
Was the standout line for me. I paused it for a second just to marvel at how he solved the game of modern law in half an hour.
I feel that one girl so much
"How much have you made?"
"450"
"And how much have you spent"
[3 second pause] "...550"
Yeah I want an hour of nothing but interviews of the kids
I could listen to an hour of this a day
"There are men and they are in the keychains. Or you could put your boyfriend in there or something"
I remember Exchange City. I had to take a job at a store that made toy reindeers that were essentially just a styrofoam ball on the end of a wooden dowel. There were like 6 of us working the shop and for some reason we had such high demand that we couldn't make these things fast enough. Then I got off work and immediatly got arrested because I accidentally stepped on a carpet square that we were supposed to pretend was a 'flower bed.' Then the cop also accidentally stepped on the flowers as he walked over to cuff me, so we agreed not to tell on each other and went our separate ways.
10/10 would blackmail the Exchange City Police again
The police corruption in Kid Cities is outrageous
Reminds me of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times"
@@SrGanso-tv6mw I appreciate your Chaplin-themed thought process haha
Even the kid cities can't escape corruption
So sad
"I'm not sure that reading, writing, and retail should be the 3 R's."
Lucky for you, that's only 2.
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
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 🤡
I remember going with my brother to kidzania. We thought all activities costed money like Domino's pizza, and we ran out of money, not knowing where to get more money, we hung out in the Cheeto's sewers and were basically homeless
lmfao i’m crying imagining a homeless gang of children in the cheeto’s sewers of kidzania.
Real
Real Futurama vibes to vagrancy being a brand-sponsored activity.
@@benkrepshaw2742did you start a gang of street urchins?
I remember when I went (around 2013-14?) my cousin managed to get a driver's license there and we ended up passing a really realistic looking car crash and there were even kids doing a news report on it.
I really love the extra personal touch this video has to it, the personal interest from the documentarist, and the humour spiced between it.
I mean no offense in saying this, but it's something I hardly saw in previous videos, and that's probably why it kicks that bit harder seeing little personal anecdotes pop in throughout this
"Each job lasted between 15 and 45 minutes", that's my dream 😭
Oh my gosh😂😂😂 that's a big mood!!!
Just become a Mojang developer
@@Antigen__15 minutes per month 😂
Even if it was 15-45 minutes then switch to a different job through the day, I’d be thrilled.
My ADHD brain struggles with focusing on the same task for too long.
It’s even harder in loud, chaotic environments.
@@Annie_Annie__ No one is really stopping you from asking like 5 different employers to work for an hour a day. You just would have to be really good and also be able to convince all those employers that you'd be amazing at that job in the short time you're there everyday.
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.
Quotes of children innocently realizing stark and harsh realities about being an adult but not really understanding what they’ve stumbled upon yet is some of my favorite content out there.
This is the best episode of this show ever.
The most adorable dystopia I've ever seen
Its a good episode but my favorite episode from kevin is absolutely the history of the fastpass. It's easily my favorite video essay on the whole site.
I agree about the fastpass episode. It's so well written, playing out so well narratively. That essay was a better story than many recent movies I've seen
"She'll never become a doctor."
@@Sirliam95 I just gave a recommendation to my brother. The way I describe it is that the Fastpass video is just _"The Fastpass video"_ and it stands alone on its own, it's Defunctland doing a proper serious documentary deserving of industry awards. Same with the Disney Channel Theme video.
This one competes with the Coney Island video for the best "fun Defunctland" video, still educational but the meat of it is in all of the amazing quotes coming out of it.
Currently at Sawgrass. Standing inside what used to be Wannado City. Now about 30 indoor pickleball courts and a rainforest cafe
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
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 would kill for a full-length documentary on the kid city crime sprees. Also, wild how kid cop corruption so closely mirrors real cops. There's some interesting psychology there.
Pretty excellent demonstration of how when you financially incentivise incarceration, miscarriage of justice is an inevitability.
Lil' Jimmy hijacks a kids 2003 Fisher Price and then gets into a nerf gun shootout with a bunch of junior detectives.
It's like the Stanford Prison Experiment, but with little kids
I feel they saw cops doing that and thought that was normal. I mean, I definitely thought that way when I was small until I figured out that was Not Right Actually lol
All that seperates these kids and real cops is about 8 years.
1:02:22 just the casual mention of that and then promptly moving on is tbh the funniest thing that couldve been done
poetic to me that making a model recreation of adult life for children very quickly revealed exactly what was wrong with modern adult life at the time
That was exactly my thoughts. I wonder if there was any academic research on this entire venture; seems like it would’ve been a goldmine for academia
Unfortunately its aged quite well…
"I am an objective narrator. I have no pre-existing bias on this subject." Seriously a great cutaway joke and worth the pause to process. Damn that's hilarious.
I also burst out laughing at that jab to Nestle and the irony of child labor. Damn.
I had cracked up so hard. Definitely funny
That animated chalkboard is the stuff that completes the scene
Yep. Agreed. Pause and thumbs up.
"Just tiny adults who's hands can reach that part of the machine that I can't" is a crazy line
Love this line because i know 100% it was said in a court by a businessman and until the 1930’s everyone just nodded along
Accurate, though. Lots of mills employed children for this exact reason.
At least the Slater and Wilkinson Mill historical people tend to insist that children that were permanently injured there received a stipend for life, so, there's that, I guess.
Also, Snowpiercer.
24:36 the video is an hour long, include some timestamps with your comments!
@@_AvaGlassikr
This is my favourite channel, its weirdly nostalgic for a childhood i didn’t even remotely have.
I love how quick it goes from "Yeah I loved the bank as a kid" to "75% of the funding was gathered via 30+ corporate sponsorships including Walmart" lmfao
I was wondering how they could possibly make pretend-job-land big enough to draw crowds, then he mentioned corporate sponsors and before he could even begin naming them I just went, "oh I see, capitalism for kids."
“The park is now overrun with miniature graffiti, tiny debris, and child-sized collapsing infrastructure”
Poetry. Stuff like that and your restraint in not referencing Kirk Milhouse’s race car bed with the guy who bought the airplane are why you’re one of the best writers on this platform.
Yo Geoff, what's up
MB wants to be Tim Rogers so bad it’s absurd
@@SploinkoCan you blame him though?
Lovely to see you here, maitre d from Chez Garbage!
Not the crossover I expected to see but where else would Geoff have learned the business acumen to launch and run Chez Garbage if not Exchange City. Maybe he even sold keychains with men in them?
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
I was supposed to go to a safety town when I was in elementary school like every other grade before me but I did not get to go and I have been salty about it ever since, Kevin. I feel your pain.
The brands immediately saying the quiet part out loud when discussing why they want to sponsor these cities was hilarious
It is depressingly good that they feel no desire to hide their motives and actions.
>"Do something."
Reply: "I can't afford to."
That resonates a bit too close for comfort.
@CaseyC-bg4bbsome random nobody on UA-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
@@beebfajeejybreak free from the imaginary constraints of “sayings” and start living
They should have added a section of the park where the kids could pretend to be boring businessmen who sue each other back and forth.
That would hit too close to home
La Ciudad and Wannado could have each used these as idea factories on how to sue the other one out of existence.
RIP should any kid decides to be a mini Gordon Gekko or Charles Offdensen
Imagine the section of the park with a stock exchange…
@@DiamondKingStudios Some asshole kid def gonna want to crash that for shiggles….Christ imagine kiddie inflation. This whole hypothetical is like Kid Nation waiting to happening
I had never heard of Kid Cities before this video, and the most surprising part of learning about them, is learning that they're still a thing. Was FULLY expecting this video to end with "And that's how all the Kid Cities shut down, and the world realised it was a very silly idea."
the quotes from the kids are so funny 😭😭
“she’ll never become a doctor” and that one hsn kid were great
The keychain one KILLED ME
@@LunaSerenayt Future QVC on air talent material right there.
@@DuvalSt1We, uh, may need emergency surgery in the studio.
The unintentional comedy that comes up in a "giant roleplaying complex for kids to act out real world occupations" is so painfully hilarious no writer could ever come up with any of it.
I'm gonna start searching for any documentation of stories that happened there because it's so funny
Unintentional Stanford Prison Experiment lol
it's so good -- taking a child's ability for insane make-pretend and try to constrain it to adult logic? the hilarity writes itself
@@MosstradesTHERE ARE. MEN. IN THE KEYCHAINS
@@edu7979 - A wizard selling items haunted by the souls of their previous owners.
the thing to truly take away from this is that the guy who bought the airplane is fucking awesome and I love him
Holy crap “I found cocaine on him” made me almost choke.
You would have been the best mayor Exchange City had ever seen.
So true Tampa Bay Buccaneers!
The Bucs are based.
Is the irony of this comment lost on you cause have you watched or not
Oh is this the real Bucs?!? Insane!
Why is the real bucs here lol
we called it exchange city and i was a judge in the government. the cops and i quickly realized the only way we could feasibly pay off our loan was to catch and fine as many people with minor infractions as possible. the kid cops didn’t want to do that so we never paid off our loan. we did leverage our positions to get free snacks from other businesses though. life imitates art
Except you decided that extorting people was a bad thing, and real cops do that all the time
Those kids had more spine than most police officers across the world.
Lmaooo oh I miss Exchange City
BRO in my exchange city I was walking too fast and got put in jail on 3 separate occasions. 😂
Bro…
I fondly remember field trips to the Museum of Industry at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which had, while not a full "Kid City", a "Kid Factory" - a replica of a seafood canning factory on the Baltimore Inner Harbor post-Industrial Revolution - all the kids would get assigned sample jobs within the factory - I went a few years and I always remember hoping I'd be the lucky kid who'd get to be the boss or one of the managers, but never did - still had fun with the roles I did get though.
my wannado city experience was mostly confusion and being uncertain about what i wanted to do for work. now as an adult, my experience has mostly been confusion and being uncertain about what i want to do for work. INCREDIBLE accuracy!
I really hope more people see this comment because it is 💯
For me, someone convinced me that the soda bottling job would reward you with a free bottle of soda at the end. This did not happen, and I was sad. I still have my uncashed check from all those years ago
Funny enough, I DID get to go to Exchange City as a kid. While the lead up to the trip wasn't as extensive as you described (Or at least, I don't remember it being weeks, or voting on mayor), it was pretty much exactly as you've mentioned here. I chose to be a radio host, which ended up being a fairly unsupervised role...so I spent the day wandering around between songs!
The most memorable part was how heavily advertised the health insurance was. They told us, "If you don't get it, you could be bankrupted!". As our grade depended on the money we had remaining, practically everyone had purchased it. I, however, saw through the facade and chose not to have any insurance. I'm pretty sure I was one of three people that didn't have it, as I was called in for an 'emergency' just as they had warned. I knew I had lost it all, and slowly made my way to the hospital to face my death sentence. The young lady operating the front desk took my name, and rang up my total. I handed my card to her, completely resigned to my fate. She swiped the card. Then she made a face. She swiped it again, and in confusion, handed me my card. Supposedly, one of the random events that happened throughout the day was a 'system failure', which required 'maintenance' (kids) to fix. As it was the end of the day, they weren't able to fix the problem before we packed up and I was the happy beneficiary of insurance fraud. I learned nothing.
King shit. Don't let these insurance industry cronies bring you down.
Wild! Did you learn to write checks? That was something I VIVIDLY remember from the weeks leading up to visiting. And did you have to interview for your job? I don't think I even got the job I applied to/interviewed for, but I do recall that being the moment I developed a deep and abiding anxiety in regard to job interviews, haha
I also was a radio host during my trip. I had wanted something cooler but turns out I basically was getting paid to do nothing so a win is a win. Funnily enough, I had something similar happen. Managed to dodge a “grass” walking ticket because I hadnt purposefully walked on the grass but jumped one of the corners and fell, (barely) bonking my head a little on the way down. I milked it, bawled my eyes out. Got away scott free. ✨Crime✨
Lesson learned: never let your fear of embarrassment prevent you from avoiding consequences
You totally learned something! That the world is full of risks and sometimes taking a risk pays off but other times it doesn’t.
Kinda reminds me of Junior year high school, the computer screwed up and didn’t schedule me for PE for a whole semester. I kept quiet since I hated PE. Near graduation time a year later the counselor noticed the missing grade and asked me about it. I just shrugged and said “everyone has to take PE”. Not a lie but not exactly accurate! Got away with it too.
"Amusement parks, originally designed for local perverts, drunks and picnickers" summarizes so many videos on this channel extremely well
Garfield knows all our sins
@evangold4748 Lmao you beat me to it. 😂
After the dark rides episodes, we ALL know what's up.
We need to make alcoholism great again
this video and all these comments made me realize i missed out on what would have been the single most fun i could have ever had as a kid. even right now this concept sounds amazing and i’d give anything to experience this
"I can't afford to"
Gotta love when park creators go the extra mile and make the experience as realistic as possible. 10/10
This one had a little hit to it 😭
The way that kids either just embraced the power fantasy or succumbed to the crippling despair of their respective roles makes this whole thing one incredibly intriguing social experiment if anything
Ever heard of the Stanford prison experiment? If not, go search it. Nutshell:what you just said, but so extremely violent IT WAS FORCIBLY ENDED EARLY!
39:35 "Malory, you have such a boring life on paper! Do something!" "I can't afford to!"
I FELT that.
Well the place was about life as an adult.
A little too real 😭
Absolute GOLD
shes just like me fr fr😭
facts
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
YOU HAD TO FILE INSURANCE CLAIMS IN KID CITY like imagine getting angry with the kid on the other side of the phone because you've been transferred around for twenty minutes between classrooms