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| | Current Online | Producers eye supercenters, 1996 |
 | | Similar off-screen ventures are "A Day in the Park with Barney," which opened last year at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., and the venerable Sesame Place educational/play theme park, which opened in 1980 in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pa. Even though both places were developed under licenses, producers have a measure of quality control. |
 | | As a theme park it combines water rides and interactive performances with computer games and educational play targeted to kids from 3 to 13 and, of course, their parents. |
 | | Educational attractions include Sesame Neighborhood, with a fruit stand where kids can "shop" for produce and pretend to total their "purchases" on the cash register, and a fire engine house, with firefighters' coats and boots for dressing up. |
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