Each year there is guaranteed to be a 'winter wonderland' event with Santa, the Elves and everything else Christmas, only for it to go the way of the Fyre Festi

Each year there is guaranteed to be a 'winter wonderland' event with Santa, the Elves and everything else Christmas, only for it to go the way of the Fyre Festival and become newsworthy. Typical headlines will involve the elves sat around smoking with no snow anywhere on site and the general appearance of the 'wonderland' being more like a refugee camp. Some recent years, found with zero Google-fu: 2013: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10518992/Winter-Wonderland-in-Milton-Keynes-cancelled-after-complaints-over-ice-rink-with-no-ice.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10518992/Winter-Wonde... 'Poundland Santa' - funny!!! 2014: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11248745/Laurence-Llewelyn-Bowens-winter-wonderland-told-to-shut.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11248745/Laure... 'a visit to Father Christmas will never be the same again...' 2008: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090931/Furious-parents-attack-Santa-elves-tempers-fray-Winter-blunderland-theme-park.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090931/Furious-pare... 'Challenging: The 'Nativity scene' could only be reached across a muddy field' 2016: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bad-santa-gets-sack-smoking-9304456 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bad-santa-gets-sack-smo... 'One mum who visited the Christmas gala event in Cumbria, which cost £25 for a family of four, said her kids had more fun walking home' Clearly this is a list that gets added to every year and I am wondering whether this would make an interesting day out, to go to a real life version of Banksy's take on a theme park. The failed festival is in the same league however I think there is added reason for failure. Back in the day of illegal raves there was no option of failure because people would bring their own entertainment (yes, probably drugs) and be prepared for no facilities except for a sound system or two. Events were participatory, people got on with it and didn't wait around expecting to be entertained.