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Rubbish Christmas-themed park forced to close

ZagrebZagreb
edited December 2008 in Chit chat
Dunno if anyone else here has been following this story over the last few days. It's managed to be both tragic (all these people spending so much money on this crap they'll never get back) and funny (remember Brian Potter's terrible "theme park" in that epsiode of "Phoenix Nights" - it seems to have been like that only real).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7765080.stm

And when the punters got fed up they decided to attack Santa, when he wasn't having a fag outside that is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3543914/Santa-and-three-elves-attacked-at-fake-Lapland.html
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    Haa haa and here is said rubbish themeparks website:
    We have been having severe and very unusual technical problems with our server computer since Monday 1st December ... not with the website itself, but the machine that hosts the website. All effort has/is being made to identify and correct this issue, but it left us completely unable to communicate directly to all our customers and the many interested people who may have wished to view the website and receive clear truthful information.

    This rather 'bizarre' machine fault also suspended all online ticket booking and we can only thank you for your understanding and open-mindedness. This 'silent' situation may have understandably created concern for ticket holders and inadvertantly had the effect of allowing negative publicity to run unchecked for several days!
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  • guesserguesser
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Haa haa and here is said rubbish themeparks website:

    what happened? someone unplugged the mains cable from the lamp post outside?
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited December 2008
    i feel sorry for the kids. some of them anyway.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited December 2008
    I saw some of the pictures on the news - no wonder people were pissed off.

    The winter vista comprised of a badly painted wall at the end of a field. The legion of huskies was one tied up to a kennel. Worst of all was the winterland shopping village. It was a tent with a few boxes of crap in it!

    I'd have felt like kicking the crap out of santa and all his little helpers had I paid good money for that!
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited December 2008
    Highly amusing :)
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    they loved it, the british like nothing more than to complain.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    they loved it, the british like nothing more than to complain.

    Yeah, for many that was probably worth the entrance fee alone. :lol:


    Looked shit though. Like Zargreb said it like was like Brian Potter World from Phoenix nights.

    They even rigged up a fake icerink and said it was broken.
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  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Yeah, for many that was probably worth the entrance fee alone. :lol:


    Looked shit though. Like Zargreb said it like was like Brian Potter World from Phoenix nights.

    They even rigged up a fake icerink and said it was broken.

    all they needed was donkeys with glue on antlers and a peado santa, and it would have been perfect.
  • chop983chop983
    edited December 2008
    If I'd taken my kids there, I'd be knocking Santa out as well
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited December 2008
    Saw the friend-of-the-family on the Beeb website coming out with the usual sob story - "Oh poor Victors been in hospital". Turns out Victor did 4 years for fraud & is an associate of Kenneth Noye.
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  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited December 2008
    Two rays of sunshine in this story:

    1) The management of Alton Towers have put on a free extra day of their Christmas entertainment, especially for anyone who can prove they got ripped-off by this scam (up to 1,500 people).

    2) The scum who organised this scam made the mistake of using a reputable fulfilment company (Swiftsure), who have seized the proceeds, hopefully with the intention of reimbursing them. :)
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  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited December 2008
    I suppose Lapland New Forest could have been worse...

    ...it could have been Lapland Peterlee. :D
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  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited December 2008
    Following the recent trend of crap Christmas parks, fails to open.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2008
    robert@fm wrote: »
    I suppose Lapland New Forest could have been worse...

    ...it could have been Lapland Peterlee. :D

    Peterlee's a dump what do they expect! :rolleyes:

    Funny seeing a bunch of angry Maccums though :lol:

    Wee's trees is these :D
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  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited December 2008
    robert@fm wrote: »
    Two rays of sunshine in this story:

    1) The management of Alton Towers have put on a free extra day of their Christmas entertainment, especially for anyone who can prove they got ripped-off by this scam (up to 1,500 people).

    2) The scum who organised this scam made the mistake of using a reputable fulfilment company (Swiftsure), who have seized the proceeds, hopefully with the intention of reimbursing them. :)


    Also the snowdome at Tamworth gave away 500 tickets to its Christmas Wonderland
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited December 2008
    www.telegraph.co.uk wrote:
    Lapland New Forest, located on the Dorset Hampshire border - which costs ?25 a ticket - promises a magical festive experience - including a winter wonderland full of reindeers and log cabins, a skating rink and a magical tunnel of light.

    Makes it sound like you have to pay to merely cross the Dorset-Hampshire border :lol:
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited December 2008
    I hope the dog was okay.
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