Willy's Chocolate Experience - the new Fyre festival?

CaseOfAce

Seeing the news reports of the Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow. Wow. This needs to be a NETFLIX documentary.

Similar events usually the preserve of shysters promising a winter wonderland (a horse with antlers on standing in for a deer etc...), this takes the concept to new depths...

The promised chocolate fountains and "chocolatey delights" were conspicuously absent. Children were instead offered a half-cup of lemonade and a small ration of jelly beans.

Trading standards surely investigating?!

I love how they made up a character called The Unknown completely absent from the Roald Dahl books!

djspecialist

Tangentially related: I hadn't heard about the Fire Festival until it was mentioned in an episode of The Rest Is History, titled The Most Disastrous Party in History.

Spoiler: though Fyre sounded grim AF, it didn't win. Worth a listen!

yocky

At the risk of victim blaming, would you stump up for an event publicised with this?

Sporky

That looks very AI. 

yocky

Well quite. Unless the graphic designer was doing their best to interpret the Glaswegian instructions.

monquixote

Fyre and Woodstock 99 were multi day things where people were trapped in nightmarish conditions.

This was a bunch of parents going to an empty sports hall and yelling at a bloke dressed like an ompa loompa. I don't think it will make a documentary.

tony99

monquixote said:

Fyre and Woodstock 99 were multi day things where people were trapped in nightmarish conditions.

This was a bunch of parents going to an empty sports hall and yelling at a bloke dressed like an ompa loompa. I don't think it will make a documentary.

Well I'd watch it.

bertie

Sporky said:

That looks very AI. 

I read somewhere this week they reckon thats how the guy got the scripts for the actors to use

euan

It’s funny how this has gone from a local story on FB groups last Saturday to being daily national news. 

Basically the guy who organised it is a serial conman. He also had a load of books on Amazon set in Glasgow that were entirely AI generated. 

Brio

I'm up for a "pasadise of sweet teats."

Brio

That poster does look like one by @sporky

VimFuego

tony99 said:

monquixote said:

Fyre and Woodstock 99 were multi day things where people were trapped in nightmarish conditions.

This was a bunch of parents going to an empty sports hall and yelling at a bloke dressed like an ompa loompa. I don't think it will make a documentary.

Well I'd watch it.

sounds like me after I've done shots with the younglings from work!

SteveRobinson

yocky said:

At the risk of victim blaming, would you stump up for an event publicised with this?

I'd go just for the paradise of sweet teats.

TeleMaster

I mean, it's shitty and all but it's nothing compared to the Fyre Festival shambles is it.

roundthebend

Looking at a video on YouTube it looks a bit poor and not good value for money, but they clearly tried to do something decent. The props look good and kids would have loved it if they'd pulled it together properly.

boogieman

roundthebend said:

Looking at a video on YouTube it looks a bit poor and not good value for money, but they clearly tried to do something decent. The props look good and kids would have loved it if they'd pulled it together properly.

The pictures on the bbc news site show a different story, it was always going to be shit without a massive amount more work by the looks of it. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68431728

TeleMaster

To be honest, I'd probably pay £35 to see it at this point. 

Funkfingers

I only know of this fiasco because it was discussed by Mark and Elliot Steel in their WTF Is Going On podcast. The WWE seems like a rival to Banksy's Dismal Land theme park.

Grangousier

monquixote said:

 I don't think it will make a documentary.

It would make quite a good Bill Forsyth film, though. 

Though "Willy's Chocolate Adventure" sounds like a euphemism for anal sex.

nero1701

I heard it was like buying a R8 Les Paul and it turned out it was a Ian Elson..

DuploLicks

I think there is a secret society that put on abysmal shows. One in Bangor, NI…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42385803