Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10033050.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: T. Rowe Price to Collaborate with Walt Disney World(R) Co. to Promote Financial Empowermen</b></a> <p>T. Rowe Price, the global investment management organization, today announced that it has signed a sponsorship agreement to create an innovative financial education and entertainment experience at Epcot(R). Designed in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering, The Great Piggy Bank Adventure(SM) is scheduled to open this spring at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot(R) at the Walt Disney World(R) Resort in Florida. This interactive exhibit will bring basic saving and investing concepts to life in a fun and captivating way. The experience will entertain and empower families, while encouraging them to engage in regular dialogue about the importance of saving and how to manage money responsibly.</p>
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Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm sure they will execute it as well as they can, but in all honesty, that sounds awful. Really, how does this sound like it could even be remotely entertaining? I'm glad Imagineering is taking a real challange, instead of just another character attraction, but this might just be a little too much.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I'm thinking something along the lines of Kitchen Kabaret. Disney managed to make that fun, so I think they could pull this off too. At least I hope.
Originally Posted By leobloom The Piggy Bank show? Teaching guests to save money?? At WDW??? Irony of ironies. Disney and savings don't really go together, unless it's in the context of spending college savings to afford a Disney vacation. If they really want you to save money, they should have put the show OUTSIDE the park's gates. By the time you're in Innoventions you've pretty much committed to a reckless spending plan.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> The experience will entertain and empower families, while encouraging them to engage in regular dialogue about the importance of saving and how to manage money responsibly. << I think financial investors need to learn how to manage money responsibly before they lecture us folks on how to do it.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<The Piggy Bank show? Teaching guests to save money?? At WDW???>> LOL! The same thought crossed my mind!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Hmmm...after thinking about this attraction a little more, the character tie-in opportunity came clearly to my head. Heck, the songs are already written. All they have to do now is plop them into place with just the right ammount of CGI pixie dust, and their show will be complete. Throw in a meet and greet at the end, and it will be perfection. >>They must feel the thrill of totting up a balanced book A thousand ciphers neatly in a row When gazing at a graph that shows the profits up Their little cup of joy should overflow! It's time they learned to walk in your footstep To tread your straight and narrow path with pride Tomorrow, just as you suggest pressed and dressed Jane and Michael will be at your side.<< >>If you invest your tuppence Wisely in the bank Safe and sound Soon that tuppence, Safely invested in the bank, Will compound And you'll achieve that sense of conquest As your affluence expands In the hands of the directors Who invest as propriety demands You see, Michael, you'll be part of Railways through Africa Dams across the Nile Fleets of ocean greyhounds Majestic, self-amortizing canals Plantations of ripening tea All from tuppence, prudently Fruitfully, frugally invested In the, to be specific, In the Dawes, Tomes Mousely, Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank! Now, Michael, When you deposit tuppence in a bank account Soon you'll see That it blooms into credit of a generous amount Semiannually And you'll achieve that sense of stature As your influence expands To the high financial strata That established credit now commands You can purchase first and second trust deeds Think of the foreclosures! Bonds! Chattels! Dividends! Shares! Bankruptcies! Debtor sales! Opportunities! All manner of private enterprise! Shipyards! The mercantile! Collieries! Tanneries! Incorporations! Amalgamations! Banks! You see, Michael Tuppence, patiently, cautiously trustingly invested In the, to be specific, In the Dawes, Tomes Mousely, Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!<< Now, what ever you do, please don't feed the birds.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I think financial investors need to learn how to manage money responsibly before they lecture us folks on how to do it.>> couldn't have said it better ... ~Pierce is smarter than he looks according to the Mrs.~
