Séamas O'Reilly: I would have paid to bear witness to the disaster that was the Willy Wonka Experience
'Part of me would have given anything to have been in their place.' Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan
There are few genres of news more warming to my blackened heart than the “Crap Wonderland”.
You know the kind of thing; images in local newspapers of people bearing tickets and sad-faces interspersed with abysmal shots of an Easter Egg Hunt that looks like a dystopian holding camp in a Half Life game; a Winter Wonderland attraction featuring a plastic snowman and a single, sad reindeer roped to a port-a-loo; a Disney Experience featuring a hungover lady wearing Elsa from Frozen’s dress over her own clothes, selling non-Disney merch featuring the minions and Paw Patrol.
