Pick Your Dream
The Great Piggy Bank Adventure” is 3,8000 square foot exhibit that was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering in cooperation with the financial experts at T. Rowe Price. This exhibit offer guests lessons on four key financial themes: setting goals, saving and spending smartly, staying ahead of inflation and diversifying assets. Through a series of interactive games each of these four key themes will be illustrated.
This exhibit is housed at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista Florida. At INNOVENTIONS creativity and imagination abound as guests celebrate, inspiration and the innovations that improve their lives and expand their horizons. Hands-on, interactive exhibits allow children and adults to be immersed into ideas that inform, entertain and inspire.
Exhibit Elements: The exhibit consists of 4 distinct interactive areas each addressing financial planning through savings and investment strategies. The areas include:
“Pick Your Dream” – The identification of a financial goal is an important first step in understanding the importance of saving and investing. Guests will be asked to select a dream – an extreme vacation, ultimate bedroom makeover, retirement or college education. Once they have decided upon a dream they are given their P.I.G (Personal Investment Guide) to help them through the interactive games at the experience and the ups and downs of investing.
“Save It” – Illustrates that saving requires active participation and engagement. Guests will have to work together as a tem to move their savings “buckets” into the correct position to capture the most amount of coins. They need to do this while they try to avoid having too many coins fall into the spending “buckets”. The “dollars” that are captured in this area are the foundation that will be built upon to reach the financial dream that the guests have indentified.
“Inflation Race” – Allows guests to work together to stay ahead of inflation. Guests will set their P.I.G. off in a virtual balloon that is moved up or down with a series of levers. The teams have to work moving the balloon up or down to collect “more coins” and avoid “obstacles” (inflation). Guests have to make decisions together about when and where to move the P.I.G. to maximize their investment.
“Diversify” – Shows the importance of having a diversified portfolio and “not to have all of your eggs in one basket”. Guests will work together to choose various “hiding spots” (investment opportunities), each of these spots will allow the guests to exponentially increase their investments. However if guests choose the wrong spot, their investment is taken away by the P.I.G’s nemesis the wolf.
