“Fyre fest for kids” Glasgow’s Willy Wonka Experience turns out to be epic fail

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A “Willy Wonka Experience” was misleadingly advertised with AI-generated imagery that did not remotely resemble the actual location, resulting in some very disappointed children, and gifting the internet a Golden Ticket, sparking many memes.

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The woefully disappointing “Willy Wonka Experience” quickly went viral, showing a grim warehouse sparsely decorated with cheap props, inhabited by costumed performers who seem just as baffled as the customers, who reportedly paid £35 per ticket.

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The experience quickly devolved into chaos, with crying children, shouting parents, and a handful of performers who were tasked with entertaining the visitors, encouraged to “improvise” by the organizers of the event. The disappointment must have been immeasurable.

Children were promised a wild ride through Candyland, but were given a handful of jellybeans and a “quarter cup” of lemonade — yes, you read that right.

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“The bit that got me was where I had to say, “There is a man we don’t know his name. We know him as the Unknown. This Unknown is an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls,” Connell said. The Unknown, of course, does not appear in Dahl’s book, or any of the film adaptations. It was depicted by a performer wearing a shiny Halloween mask, who leaps out from behind a mirror, alarming the children.

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