GRAFFITI artist Banksy’s theme park Dismaland has been revealed at a derelict seaside lido in Weston-super-Mare.

The Dismaland show will take over the 2.5-acre Tropicana site, a former lido, for five weeks.

The show, which the Bristol-based artist has described as a “family theme park unsuitable for children" features migrant boats, Jimmy Savile and an anarchist training camp.

Visitors enter the theme park, which features work by dozens of artists hand-picked by Banksy, through a security check made from cardboard by Bill Barminski.

They are greeted with a view of the park and Banksy's fire-ravaged fairytale Cinderella Castle.

There are boats full of asylum seekers which can be driven round a pond, two juggernauts performing ballet and a camp training guests how to break into bus billboards.

Banksy, who was inspired to create the park after peeking through a gap in the fence at the Tropicana site in January, said: "It's not a swipe at Disney. I banned any imagery of Mickey Mouse from the site.

“It's a showcase for the best line-up of artists I could imagine, apart from the two who turned me down.

"I guess you'd say it's a theme park whose big theme is theme parks should have bigger themes."

The elusive artist has banned spray paint, marker pens, knives and "legal representatives of the Walt Disney Corporation" from the site.

Artists range from Jenny Holzer, the first woman to represent the US in the Venice Biennale, to Ed Hall, to a pensioner who has spent 40 years producing trade union banners in his shed.

Artworks from Israel and Palestine also hang side-by-side.

Much of the work requires audience participation, with visitors able to photograph themselves behind a seaside-style piece with cut-out faces, featuring pirates carrying rifles.

Inside Banksy's princess castle lies a dead Cinderella spilling out of her crashed carriage, lit up by a group of photographers flashing their cameras and the light of a motorbike.

A bus-mounted museum examines the role of design in social control, while a portable building in the children's area offers loans against their pocket money.

Julie Burchill has rewritten the Punch and Judy show, while a riot control vehicle commissioned to serve on the streets of Northern Ireland lies submerged in a swimming pool.

Stewards in matching tabards and Disney-style ears are also part of the exhibition.

North Somerset Council leader Nigel Ashton has described the show as very thought provoking.

"It's a fantastic show," he said. "Some of the messages are hard to accept but true nevertheless.

"We're extremely lucky that it's come here and I know there's a connection from the past when Banksy was in this area."

"Only four people in the council were aware of the secret."

Residents had believed the site was being turned into a film shoot in a cover story maintained by the local council.

A sign reading ‘Dismaland’ was erected across the front of the building and stewards wearing pink tabards with ‘Dismal’ on the back began working there.

Dismaland will run twice a day from Saturday until September 27 and involve musical performances from Massive Attack, Pussy Riot and Kate Tempest.