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Chessie begins to kid spot

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I was browsing the Chessington wesbite and came across a new thing they are trying this year (unless it has been around for some time and I've never noticed). It is called KidSpotter.

It's essentially a tag you attach to your kid and if you lose them one text message later and Chessie have tracked down the whereabouts of the child.

I think it's quite a clever idea but it also seems a tad Big Brother etc. I'm sure this will make some protective parents happy.

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They've had this at Legoland for years. It uses the same technology as YourDay :)
 
It's a good idea, as little ones can wonder around without parents noticing. As Ollie said, he'll never be lost again :D
 
To be honest, This can be a good idea for any child in a themepark, as it happens almost daily everywhere.. So atleast with the tags parents do not have to worry as much.
 
OH FOR **** SAKE!
I gave them a similar idea 3 years ago and they laughed it off saying it would be too expensive, and now they go and do it!

I'm not bitter...... honest.
 
If it uses the YourDay technology could they incorporate it to kid spot and do the YourDay videos at Chessie aswell?
 
YouDay are an independent company, so it's doubtful. There are also other concerns regarding privacy and all kinds. It's very complicated to be honest :lol:

Probably not is the answer :)
 
I'm not a parent (that I know about) so I say that any parent that loses their ****ing kids at a theme park should be slapped on spot.

I know kids run off - I used to do it all the time when I went shopping with mum - but mum would always "find" me whenever I started looking a bit distressed.

I just hope that the person operating the service has had a full police CRB check [/Daily Mail]

Still, peace of mind for parents that can't parent properly.
 
Nemesis Inferno said:
This has been around since end of 07 apparently...

I don't think it's been heavily advertised or used though...
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Nah, it hasn't.
All they did was write a tag and put it on the childs wrist, it wasn't a chip.
 
So the kidspotter thing HAS been in use before, just not like this... :roll:

And Ian, I am guessing the CBR form will have already been filled out, since evne I had to do one this year...
 
^No, this system is new to Chessington.

It used to be the case of Security finding the kid then all they'd do is look at the tag and ring the parents phone number on it. At least with this new way, you are tracked like a Your-Day tag.
 
My antiestablishmentary views dislike this a lot. I don't want to start a political argument, but i don't see anything wrong with the wrist band or the stickers you can write a phone number on at Legoland. They work and they don't add too much to Britians 1984/CCTV culture. :?
 
It's like a little cell phone which goes round the childs neck and it will say the exact location when they are lost such as " Market square, under the stage".

It costs 3 pounds but has to be returned at the end of the day!
 
From Legoland three years ago? Surely being part of the Merlin group they don't need to now?
 
Well I gave them the idea when I started 3 years ago (still Tussauds), so credit should come my way in some form. I was way ahead of them, just goes to show why the bosses didn't like me, I were better than them as I was the only one to have GOOD ideas.
 
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