If you’re scraping the barrel to find age-appropriate fun for your bored offspring, perhaps you’d consider a trip to Weston-super-Mare’s finest bemusement park.
That’s the message from Bansky’s squeaky clean, nuclear family-style advert for Dismaland, his alternative theme park on the South-West English coast.
But hurry, you’ve only got five weeks to visit the place ‘Where the magic never ends.’
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