‘Rip off’ Grinch Christmas ride dubbed ‘new Wonka experience’ as families slam attraction like ‘carting round Primark’

A GRINCH-themed Christmas thrust has been dubbed a "rip off" and the "new Wonka experience" arsenic families slam the attraction.

The minute-long ride, compared to "being carted astir the Primark Grinch section", features astatine Glasgow's Winterfest Christmas market.

One mum, Elizabeth Hunter, 25, shared footage of the thrust online aft spending £10 to spell connected with her son.

She told however "the information barroom flailed wildly" and the way sounded similar "heavy machinery" arsenic it made its mode astir the course.

Elizabeth blasted an inflatable Grinch airy taped to the ceiling, adding that it looked "eerily akin to a 6ft outdoor decoration recovered astatine Home Bargains for £25".

Police were called to a Willy Wonka-inspired event aft children were reduced to tears successful February.

Punters who paid £35 for an “immersive experience” arrived astatine a near-empty warehouse.

And present fuming parents person compared Winterfest's Christmas marketplace to the damned experience.

Katy O'Brien wrote connected TikTok: "The caller wintertime Wonka experience. This thrust should beryllium unopen down. It outgo £10 for maine and my lad to spell on. Disgrace."

Others successful the comments agreed, adding that it looks similar "a 1990s shade bid has been recycled".

Bosses deed backmost astatine the damning comments with a motion taped to the extracurricular of the ride.

It read: "This is NOT a shade bid - this is simply a Christmas airy ride."

It besides featured aggregate warnings that phones should not beryllium utilized portion the thrust is active, Elizabeth claimed.

After conscionable 20 seconds successful the Grinch's caput shaped cart, Elizabeth said they were already connected the "upstairs level".

There, they caught a divided 2nd look implicit the market.

She added: "We saw anyone unlucky capable to beryllium waiting for their crook connected the thrust - earlier whizzing down a ramp and hitting a implicit stop."

Inside the thrust featured "a solitary integrative fig stood successful the corner, draped successful greenish fur and donning a Grinch disguise and Santa suit, arms outstretched successful beforehand of him".

Elizabeth recalled warnings that this thrust is "definitely not a shade train", however, she begged to disagree aft seeing "dark skulls decorating the walls".

At 1 point, Elizabeth thought the thrust had breached down arsenic they stood astatine a basal inactive and the whirring dependable intensified.

However, the thrust turned a country backmost into the daylight, and Elizabeth's cart crashed into an bare 1 successful front.

Then an automated dependable told her to get retired of the ride.

She said: "With that, I near the ride, little than a infinitesimal aft climbing connected committee - £5 poorer and successful flimsy disbelief astatine the audacity.

''It seems the operators of the thrust person taken a leafage retired of the Grinch's publication - and not conscionable erstwhile it comes to their decorations!"

The Sun has approached Winterfest organisers for comment.

It comes aft cops were called to an "embarrassing" location of illuminati Willy Wonka-inspired event successful Glasgow, earlier this year.

Kids were fixed conscionable a few jelly babies before it was each implicit successful minutes.

Cops later attended the Glasgow venue arsenic aggravated parents gathered outside.

One mum posted online: “We arrived yesterday astatine 10:30.

“Waited successful a immense queue for astir 40 minutes and past erstwhile we got wrong determination was much waiting around.

“Underwhelming was an understatement. I paid for Willy Wonka and got Billy Bonkers.

“Embarrassing doesn't adjacent chopped it.”

Organisers House of Illuminati apologised and promised refunds aft saying it had been “let down successful galore areas”.