Comments on: Trashing Dorset’s Lapland Theme Park

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:59:54 +0000

So has SANTA got the sack

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_216/1197190966X8035L.jpg

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:45:15 +0000

Lapland theme park is closed down

Visitors said the park was nothing like the marketing on its website

A Lapland-style theme park criticised by visitors as “hell” and a “scam” has closed down permanently.

Lapland New Forest opened on Friday on the Hampshire-Dorset border but was criticised by hundreds of visitors.

The firm running the park said it had closed the attraction because of “intentional organised crowd manipulation and event sabotage”.

Trading standards earlier said it was investigating complaints from visitors but did not have the power to shut it.

A big sign put up outside the park on Thursday morning said: “Lapland New Forest closed - for more information contact the website”.

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

By: peggy

peggy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:52:47 +0000

Fffffwwwwooooaaaarrrrhhhh! Vikings? All over 6′5″? With horns on their helmets as if to emphasise the point(?)? Yeah, baby, yeah!

By: Crow

Crow — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:34:44 +0000

Should have invaded it shirtless, pretending to be vikings, perhaps. That would have raised the tone.

By: peggy

peggy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:23 +0000

Mind you, it’s too dark to count any money you may have stuffed under your puffin-feather mattress ..

By: peggy

peggy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:08:58 +0000

… and if that wasn’t enough, your asset’s permanently frozen between the months of October - March !

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:11:56 +0000

peggy Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
You can understand their disappointment though. After all, you get such a lot for £25 in Iceland ….
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Yep 18% interest for about a week until the banks go down

By: peggy

peggy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:18:20 +0000

You can understand their disappointment though. After all, you get such a lot for £25 in Iceland ….

By: June

June — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:40:55 +0000

Been loads of complaints about it…but Dorset is green and lush,dozy twats

By: Anorak

Anorak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:45:14 +0000

Peggy - like it. Sap-land

By: peggy

peggy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:04:54 +0000

A bit of sloppy proof-reading may be all that’s to blame for the confusion and disappointment.. perhaps the adverts should have read ‘Lapland Theme Primark’ ?

By: peggy

peggy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:52:58 +0000

… and crowds of hatchet-faced miseries fighting their way towards a jumble-sale rack of nasties …. (oh no, that IS TKMAX) ..

Honestly though - what on earth did they expect from a ‘Lapland Theme Park’ in Devon? It was never going to be really good, was it?

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:21:18 +0000

Tokens for managing surly girls? That’s called money isn’t it?

By: Anorak

Anorak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:16:42 +0000

It;s got rubber rings you can down downhill on, and a surly girl behind the couter, and tokens for a garden, and a surly girl who manges it…

By: peggy

peggy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:32:42 +0000

Some visitors said that what they experienced was “disorganised chaos” and “hell”.
……

not unlike a trip to TKMAX then.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:47:15 +0000

Yup, know it well!

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:47:32 +0000

Lapland , is that near Bournemouth, coo