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KidZania makes London debut with its £30m ‘global flagship’ location


Edutainment provider KidZania has launched what its president has called the flagship location for the world inside London’s Westfield Shopping Centre. Targeted at children aged


4-14, the £30m (US$47.2m, €42.1m) KidZania London is offering a one-of-a-kind experience to the UK, with a pint-sized city for children in the ultimate role-play activity. Designed to educate and empower, KidZania offers sessions across more than 60 different professions, crafted to ensure teaching of essential life skills including financial literacy and teamwork. “I’m very happy that Kidzania has been


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embraced by different cultures all over the world,” said KidZania founder and global president Xavier López Ancona, speaking to AM2. “We started in Mexico 16 years ago. Seven years later we opened our second


facility in Monterrey and the same year we started the franchise scheme in Japan. Today it’s all over the world. We want London to be our global flagship.”


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Hunger Games travelling exhibition makes debut in New York before tour


Lionsgate’s travelling Hunger Games exhibition has hit the road, making its long-awaited debut at its first stop in New York City for a six-month run before going on tour across the US. Having kicked off on 1 July


at Discovery Times Square, the 12,000sq ft (1,114sq m) exhibition includes the movie franchise’s costumes, props, photography, interactive experiences, set recreations and a Hunger Games retail store. The Thinkwell Group


are behind the exhibition, and have produced the experience in partnership with Imagine Exhibitions, while immersive environ-


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ments featured have been created using AV services from Electrosonic and fabrication from MC2. The second stop for The Hunger Games: The Exhibition has been set


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for February 2016 in San Francisco, California, where the exhibition will be held inside the Innovation Hangar at the Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Hall.


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