Every Christmas seems to bring with it a
story of rogue operators setting up festive theme parks and ripping off customers
with flea-bitten huskies and grotty grottos. There was one in yesterday’s Metro, with visitors complaining about
the skinniness of the Santas. One of the customers lambasted the operators for running ‘a Mickey Mouse operation’.
Erm … isn’t
Disney supposed to provide the benchmark by which all other theme parks are judged? There’s also something postmodern about this statement. Jean Baudrillard
famously suggested that ‘Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the
“real” country, all of “real” America, which is Disneyland’. I can’t work out yet with whether the customer is
proving him right or wrong.
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