"By all accounts the drone show was a classic of the genre. It made big promises, offering families a night of magic and wonder complete with state of the art production [and] 600 LED drones. Then it charged big money, with some families paying hundreds of pounds to attend. And then, of course, it comprehensively underdelivered. Reports describe the event as not only being too short about just 15 minutes but also, due to the failure of several drones, completely unintelligible."
"Honestly, you'd have thought we'd learn by now. The recent past is littered with festive events gone sour due to a variation of bad planning, technical difficulties or plain old fraudulent behaviour. Here are some of the all-time greats from the past decade and a half. 2008: Lapland New Forest, Ringwood A fake polar bear at Lapland New Forest, which opened in November 2008 at Matchams Leisure Park near Ringwood in Hampshire. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA"
A high-profile Rudolph drone show promised state-of-the-art production and 600 LED drones, charged families high ticket prices, ran about 15 minutes and failed when several drones malfunctioned. Large numbers of drones were missing, leaving huge gaps in formations and rendering images unintelligible, and the promised finale did not occur, leaving a black sky. The recent past contains many similar festive failures caused by bad planning, technical difficulties, or fraudulent behaviour. An early example in 2008 at Lapland New Forest featured long queues, a broken ice rink, plastic polar bears, a reindeer with a broken antler and an inaccessible nativity scene.
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