Little Wonders Educational Facility

"Emancipated Children... Emancipated Ideas!"

- Little Wonders Poster Front

The Little Wonders Educational Facilities are a series of buildings whose serve as the main facilities for Little Sister creation and training. Once Fontaine Futuristics was taken over by Andrew Ryan and its headquarters shut down, Ryan also took ownership of Little Wonders and the production of the young ADAM factories.

History
After setting up the Little Sister's Orphanages, Frank Fontaine would have his scientists take the parentless children to the Little Wonders Educational Facility. The friendly-looking foundation lulled the girls into a false sense of security. Once inside, the children were surgically implanted with the Sea Slug so that they would be able to produce vast amounts of ADAM.

When Andrew Ryan took down Frank Fontaine, he nationalized the mobster's business assets and took control of the facility. Though he originally shutdown the orphanages, he saw the necessity of the ADAM-production process and eventually chose to flaunt the girls as a marketing device. He rebranded the Little Wonders Educational Facilities as a sort of finishing school for young girls. The ruse worked and new subjects arrived for the conversion process. The candidates were still implanted with the Sea Slugs, but a slight alteration was made to the process. The children were first subjected to a battery of reeducation and mental conditioning practices to prime them to be effective Gatherers.

BioShock


Jack must journey to a Little Wonders Education Facility in Point Prometheus in order to locate the pheromones he needs to convince the girls he is one of their Protectors. The two story facility is located just off the Main Hall. The upper level entrance is under the watchful eye of a Security Camera that will spot Jack the moment the doors open. The entrance on the lower floor is even less advisable. The set of doors leading from the Decontamination Chamber have broken, leaving Jack pinned down by the pair of Machine Gun Turrets set up in the Security Monitoring Room.

Lower Hallway
Because of the serious nature of the conversion process, security was tight in Little Wonders. In addition to the turrets, the Security Monitoring Room also has several rounds of Electric Buck, a Shotgun, and a Bot Shutdown Panel. Even after the fall of Rapture, the facility is still tightly guarded. A Thuggish Splicer patrols the lower floor while a Wintry Houdini Splicer walks the upper catwalks.

Many of the educational posters in this area are simply painted over versions of Fontaine Futuristics posters, a sign of the hasty conversion. Looking closely at the surface of the posters under good lighting will show the raised letters of the words "Fontaine Futuristics." A Health Station and a Circus of Values Vending Machine are on the lower level.

Little Sister Rooms
The central part of the bottom level contains six cells made up to look like little girls' rooms. Each cell has a heavy reinforced door that can only be opened with a mechanized switch, several of which are inoperable. Each door has a small slot at the bottom for sliding food in to the occupant, and each cell is labeled with a number to help the scientists keep track of their subjects.

The inside of each cell is decorated pink and contains a bed and toys to keep the Little Sisters occupied. There are also posters placed to remind the Little Sisters what their job is, showing pictures of "angels" (corpses), the Little Sister Vents, and themselves walking hand in hand with their Big Daddy protectors. Many of the rooms also feature drawings left by the little girls revealing the sad lives the children lived. These sketches subjects include dead dogs, doodles of "Mr. Bubbles," and two tombstones labeled "Mommy" and "Daddy," with teddy bears placed underneath. One room even contains the body of an unfortunate Splicer with numerous ADAM extraction needles sticking out of him, suggesting that this Splicer was killed by the Little Sisters carrying out their job too well.

In room number five, a wintry Houdini Splicer examines a pheromone sample by a teddy bear. Another one can be found on the tabel in room number seven.

Conditioning Room
The seventh room on the bottom level served as a conditioning chamber. In addition to the education posters, there is a Skinner Box-style machine. This was geared to decrease the little girl's longing for their mothers and recondition them to feel trust toward their Big Daddy protectors. This simple machine featured two video screens, one showing the silhouette of a woman, and the other showing the silhouette of a Big Daddy. Pressing the button under the woman gives a mild electric shock, while pressing the button under the Big Daddy causes a bag of chips to fall from the dispenser.

Observation Deck
On the second level above the cells is a walkway with desks and filing cabinets used by the caretakers and scientists researching the Little Sisters. The scientists could look down over the open top of every cell room to monitor each Little Sister 24/7.

A pheremone sample can be found on one of the desks near the stairs. Further along is Brigid Tenenbaum's Audio Diary Why Just Girls?. A Leadhead Splicer is playing dead near by. A fourth sample is on the dsek on the opposite side of the floor.

Autopsy
A final room, farthest from the entrance, was the facility where the little girls were operated on to implant the sea slugs in their bellies and turn them into Little Sisters. Yi Suchong was the primary surgeon in these procedures. This room also contains a storage area with many Little Sister dresses laying in a pile. Here Jack sees the ghost of a Little Sister who begs "Papa Suchong" not to put her on the operating table.

The room contains a Gene Bank and is monitored by another Security Camera. The last of the pheromone samples is located in the back by a container of Safecracker 2. Picking up the Gene Tonic will trigger multiple Splicers to run into the room.

Burial at Sea - Episode 1


In the BioShock Infinite downloadable content, set in pre-fall Rapture, a Little Wonders Facility is seen on Market Street. Booker DeWitt can approach the entrance of the facility, but will be denied access by a man guarding the doors. In front of the building, a group of soon-to-be Little Sisters can be seen being trained by a female handler. The girls appear in their iconic pinafore dresses, and are shown wearing face paint in order to hide their identities from their parents, and appear to be in a sort of trance (likely due to Suchong's mental conditioning). Above the school of Little Sisters, scientists can be seen observing the young girls from the second level window.

Music can be heard playing near the facility, titled "Little Sisters' Song", sung by a chorus of young girls and a woman who is referred to as "Mama Tenenbaum" (though it is not Brigid Tenenbaum herself) propagandizing the need for little girls to be independent and self-reliant, following Andrew Ryan's idealisms, and to ease the mind of citizens that little girls being taken from their families were really just another example of living the Objectivist's Dream. In the song, Andrew Ryan is referred endearingly as "Papa Ryan".

Behind the Scenes

 * Patti Page's "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" song can be heard playing in the Point Prometheus facility.