Apparently, it is quite incredible, and may even be stirring enough to make a Geordie shed a tear...

My old man knows (biblical sense) the sister of the set designer's husband (hm, I think that's right), and as a result he got to see it before it went off to America, and he won't shut up about it now - which is praise indeed. Allegedly, you stop noticing the people operating the mechanical horses very early on & just see, well, horses.