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Banksy’s Dismaland closes its gates

All the timber and fixtures from Dismaland are being sent to the 'jungle' refugee camp near Calais to build shelters

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Timber and fixtures from Banksy’s “Dismaland” theme park in western England will be sent to build shelters at an informal migrant camp in Calais, northern France, according to an announcement on theme park’s website.

The “bemusement park” which is self-characterized as Britain’s “most disappointing visitor attraction” was in fact a sell-out and has attracted more than 150,000 visitors in the five weeks it was staged in Weston-super-Mare, a city close to Banksy’s birth place, Bristol.

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“Coming soon … Dismaland Calais,” the website said, with a picture of Dismaland’s Sleeping Beauty castle amongst the tents of the camp.

“All the timber and fixtures from Dismaland are being sent to the ‘jungle’ refugee camp near Calais to build shelters. No online tickets will be available.”

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Banksy said the show presented at the theme park was quite different and was not a swipe at Disney.

But the castle in ruins, a Cinderella dead in a coach crash with paparazzi taking photos and grumpy employees wearing Mickey mouse ears and going around holding balloons saying “I’m an idiot” all mocked and subverted the world’s best known theme park, which was replicated in Europe as Disneyland Paris.

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The material of the theme park will go to the “jungle” camp, one of a number of camps around the French port, where thousands of refugees are staying hoping to travel to Britain.

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