Dismaland, the downtrodden bemusement park, aka “The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction,” is Banksy’s newest ironic comment about how life is. It will be open for five weeks in September. Tickets were released a month ago and sold out in minutes.

The Disneyland parody park includes “happy?” installations like a model village trashed by riots, the Grim Reaper on the dodgems and a store offering “pocket money loans” to children. Its rides and amusements comment on race relations, illegal immigration, tabloid culture and heightened surveillance and security. There’s a Giant Pin Wheel, Jeffrey Archer Memorial Fire Pit and Banksy’s Mediterranean Boat Ride…

…And then there’s this one: Cinderella’s crashed pumpkin carriage, housed inside Cinderella’s decaying castle – with Princess Diana playing Cinderella. She lays dying from a chariot accident as the paparazzi snap away with their cameras.

Tickets were released a month ago and sold out in minutes. Banksy has released Dismaland’s “ad” nonetheless.

Yes, it too is a parody – ridiculing destination vacations and schmaltzy family attraction ads to perky music and a voice-over promoting Dismaland as “a place where all your dreams come true.”

Dismaland is not meant to lose money or fail to attract attention. It will host a series of concerts throughout its run, with Run the Jewels, Massive Attack, Kate Tempest, Peanut Butter Wolf and Pussy Riot.

Banksy told The Guardian, “If you’re the kind of person who feels jaded by the over-corporate blandness that passes for family light entertainment, then this is the bespoke leisure opportunity that will connect with your core brand dynamic. The advantage of putting art in a small seaside town is you’re only competing with donkeys. I think a museum is a bad place to look at art; the worst context for art is other art.”