I must admit I get a bit of a laugh each year at the "Winter Blunderland" events which are advertised as snow-covered mountaintops and warm cabins with reindeer, and instead you end up £300 lighter standing in a car park in Grimsby with a few bits of fake snow fluff, an £8 hot chocolate and spending 3 hours in a massive queue for a single portaloo.
My town woodland has tried "light trails" before, but having parted with £150, families demanded refunds as all they got was, well, the same muddy park trail and a few lights. This stuff just never seems to end well - it's never going to look like the expensive stock photography!
The Marble Arch - designs showed lush green fields and trees, reality; scaffolding with plastic grass on. Angry customers, refunds.
So, seemingly licenced by WB, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Forest. £39 for adults and £29 for children, rising to £59 per person if you want to throw in a hot chocolate and a beanie, which must be knitted from actual unicorn hair. £116 a family.
"A nighttime woodland trail experience filled with magical creatures and wizarding wonders from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. Explore after dark the sounds, lights, and special effects that bring the magic of the Wizarding World to life..."
Although: "this nighttime trail experience has been created by award-winning theatrical designers and experiential creators."
To be fair, I've attended outdoor theatre which has been VERY good indeed, however usually due to human actors setting the atmosphere. Not animatronic hippogriffs.
Multiple references on the site to buying "magical inspired" food and drink.
What do you think? Possibly magical experience akin to the Studio tour, or possibly a newspaper sad-face waiting-to-happen of a child stood beside a rain-soaked owl teddy cable-tied to a branch?