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A NEW “winter wonderland” Lapland-style theme park is called a “joke” and “a scam”.

Many people have demanded a refund of the £25 they paid to enter the Lapland New Forest, at Matchams Leisure Park on the Hampshire-Dorset border.

Anorak has visited the venue. It’s dire, depressing and the food tastes like Rudolph’s already passed it. The best bit is that quote from “organiser” Henry Mears, who blames the poor reaction on troublemakers. Says he:

“Like all people they like to get into queues and just generate a bit of aggravation.”

Yeah. Queues are what make theme parks great. Without queues it’s not a theme park.

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

So - fingers crossed - it still has a chance…

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Posted: 1st, December 2008 | In: Backlash, Strange But True Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink

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Grande Finale says:
December 6th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

So has SANTA got the sack

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

Grande Finale says:
December 6th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

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

peggy says:
December 5th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

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

Crow says:
December 5th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

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

peggy says:
December 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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

peggy says:
December 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

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

Grande Finale says:
December 4th, 2008 at 3:11 am

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

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 ….

June says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm

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

Anorak says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Peggy - like it. Sap-land

peggy says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm

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’ ?

peggy says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

… 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?