I'm Completely Obsessed With How Terrible This Willy Wonka "Immersive Chocolate Experience" Is
A Willy Wonka "immersive chocolate experience" is being dragged mercilessly online for being hilariously awful.
It's basically Fyre Festival in the form of one of those traveling van Gogh experiences that are super popular right now.
The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd
— Tr3vor (@tr3vorx) April 28, 2017
The event was in Glasgow on Feb. 24 and cost £35 a ticket.
The event was described as a "[f]ull immersive experience [...] designed for families and children - promising a day of pure imagination and wonder."
The pictures on the website looked highly elaborate but appeared to be AI-generated.
Police were called to an 'immersive' Willy Wonka Experience after families showed up to an 'empty warehouse' The event reportedly charged $40 for entry, advertised with AI art, and said it would be a 'journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every… pic.twitter.com/udz8KeWVxQ
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) February 27, 2024
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Attendees were definitely expecting something quite whimsical, but that's definitely not what they got.
Pics from their website https://t.co/5TpyuBwzUo pic.twitter.com/0JXjQoGDOa
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) February 27, 2024
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This is what people who showed up found:
It looks as if there was a small bounce house.
There were a few candy canes, lollipops, and mushrooms.
There was this teeny-tiny backdrop:
It was iconically terrible.
The Guardian reports that police were even called to the venue after complaints.
The best thing to come out of this debacle? The jokes.
We all know a stoner from high school who is 35 years old and still decorating the house they share with 6 people like this pic.twitter.com/cDX9mwPt9q
— Alex Jewell 🧢 (@bestfoodalex) February 27, 2024
Stuart Sinclair / Via Twitter: @bestfoodalex
"Guys be like ‘I know a place’ and then take you to the off brand Willy Wonka experience," this person said.
Guys be like “I know a place” and then take you to the off brand Willy Wonka experience
— kate (@katebeingsilly) February 27, 2024
"I'd love to meet the person who signed off on this Willy Wonka experience ... [and] said, 'all done, doesn't it look good!?," another person said.
I’d love to meet the person who signed off on this Willy Wonka experience. I’d love to go back in time and meet them at the precise moment they said “all done, doesn’t it look good!?” 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/JjMxORGH2I
— 🅱🅴🅽 - тν ℓєgѕ 📺🪩 (@bejokex) February 27, 2024
Stuart Sinclair / Via Twitter: @bejokex
This is the kind of story the internet thrives on.
they charged $45 for this pic.twitter.com/0Nlk0IMJkj
— Chris Alsikkan (@AlsikkanTV) February 26, 2024
Stuart Sinclair / Via Twitter: @AlsikkanTV
And I need a Hulu/Netflix documentary ASAP.
What If we kissed infront of the Willy wonka experience candy land backdrop that we paid £35 to see 👉🏻👈🏻 pic.twitter.com/f8pzTtwLCt
— AnnaWanyama (@AnnaMaryyyyyy) February 26, 2024
Stuart Sinclair / Via Twitter: @AnnaMaryyyyyy
