First look at the world’s first 80,000sqft amazement park opening in the UK dubbed a ‘dystopian Disney’
LONDON is getting its very first ‘amazement’ park – and it’s set to be Europe’s largest immersive art experience.
Visitors to its other UK venue have dubbed it ‘dystopian Disney‘.
Wake The Tiger has announced it will open at London‘s Westfield on October 15.
The new indoor attraction will spread over two floors across 80,000sqft.
The experience is called Absurd City and will transport visitors to different districts which will be a “surreal, parallel world of imagination, transformation, and otherworldly art”.
Through the experience, visitors will discover secret passageways and see the new installations all in a makeshift cityscape.
In a previous statement, Luke Mitchell, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Wake The Tiger, said: “This is a culmination of over 20 years of creative world-building, from the ground-breaking Boomtown Fair Festival to a new genre of immersive visitor attractions in Amazement Parks®.
“The space in Westfield London has totally blown our mind. It’s as if it was created for us and we can’t wait to transform it into an alternate dimension.”
Tickets have been released today and can be bought from £27.
On its website, the experience has also teased that ‘After Hours’ adult-only sessions will be held which will be on Thursday and Friday evenings.
It’s not the only one in the UK – the very first Wake The Tiger opened in 2022.
It calls itself the world’s first ‘amazement park’ and previous guests have raved about the attraction, with some comparing it to Disney.
One person who said he used to work at Disney said: “The Imagineers who create the rides would be in awe of this also.”
Another said: “Felt like a dystopian Disney land.”
In the Bristol venue, visitors can explore the world of Meridia which has 27 unique art installations including strobe lighting, hidden portals and doorways, and rooms with moving parts.
Tickets at the Bristol venue start from £16.50 for adults and £13.50 for children.
Kids under five go free.