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Innoventions

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Category: Amusement Parks
Location: Epcot

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Fodor's Review:

Duration: Up to you.

Crowds: Largest around the popular computer displays.

Strategy: Go before 10 AM or after 2 PM.

Audience: All ages, but primarily for the grade-school set. A few games are designed with preschoolers in mind.

Rating: ***

Innoventions is a two-building, 100,000-square-foot, walk-through attraction that you can visit at your own pace. Hands-on interactive exhibits entertain kids and adults as they investigate the innovations now improving the world around us. Innoventions East is filled with activities meant to inspire and entertain. At Waste Management's "Don't Waste It!" exhibit, you become an environmental steward working to dispose a year's worth of trash while creating energy to power a city. At the Test the Limits Lab, you can be product testers for Underwriters Laboratories trying to break TV screens, slam doors, crush helmets, and put other home products through their paces. StormStruck, presented by FLASH, serves up severe weather in a 3-D theater with tips on how to protect your home and family from future storms. And for the first time, Innoventions features a ride by Raytheon for the engineer in all of us. Using math and science challenges, you can create a thrill ride, then you and one other person can board a robotic simulator and try it out.

At Innoventions West, you can test drive the Segway Human Transporter at Segway Central. The transporter is so popular that it's used by some Disney personnel to wheel across the park and has been incorporated into Epcot and Fort Wilderness guided tours. Liberty Mutual's "Where's the Fire?" interactive experience is a terrific way to review fire safety and prevention. Families can enjoy the game house, where they team up with other guests to find and extinguish as many fire hazards as possible. At the Velcro Companies Slapstick Studios, you can join a high-energy game show to solve "sticky" problems using Velcro-branded products. At ThinkPlace, IBM puts you in a game where you can create an avatar of yourself who's able to jump, run, and dance through a video game starring (you guessed it) you! You can even watch your cash reserves grow as T. Rowe Price shows you how to save and invest for your future dreams at the Great Piggy Bank Adventure.

If you can't resist an interactive escapade, sign up here for the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure. You'll receive your own "Kimmunicator"—a hand-held wireless controller connecting you with several Kim Possible characters who provide clues to stop comical villains from taking over the world with their mad inventions. At your own pace, you can scour the World Showcase for clues and solve challenges encountered during the experience. Whew! Once your heroic deed is done, you may need to grab a frozen treat and kick back on a park bench to recover.

If you're a collector of the myriad Disney pins that are sold in nearly all the theme-park shops, the Pin Station at Innoventions Plaza has quite a collection.

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