The Wonka Experience Disaster 

It's not funny that people got ripped off, and I feel for the actors who were just trying their best. But the sparseness of the decor and the single jelly bean are absolutely sending me

“You promised me Krabby the clown… But all I saw was… Cheapy the Cheapskate!”

I hope no one is treating the actors poorly. But I must say, “meth lab Oompa Loompa” might be the funniest things I’ve seen/heard all year.

I think it’s important to add there’s a very serious cost of living crisis in the uk right now so a lot of these people probably spent a significant amount of savings for their children to have a nice day out and I think that’s why the police were called and many people were so angry. And it also makes the fact these people scammed the actors (who still haven’t been paid) and the parents so much worse.

Honestly it makes me sad that people looked at the AI images with nonsense spelling and thought "this looks fun let's go as a family". Makes me worry about the future when this is the worst AI is going to look.

"wanted timothee chalamet and got timothee charletan" ok that broke me 🤣 im glad noone is taking it out on the actors i hope they get paid their dues

The public library my mom works at hosted a Candyland event for the children a few years ago and it was not only more interactive than this- with more games and characters, about the same amount of decorations, and way more candy- but it was also FREE. And that's not saying that the library event was high quality, I'm just blown away by charging money for something even lower quality than a free public event. (Edit: I feel so terrible for that actress. She's right, people do need to be more kind. Imagine how you would feel if someone took an unflattering photo of you without your knowledge and it went viral, because that sounds like a nightmare to me. I hope she's doing well, all things considered)

In the Gene Wilder version, each time a child disappeared into the factory they boarded a new vehicle with just enough seats for the remaining contestants.

The actress who had an unflattering picture taken of her while dressed as an Oompa Loompa is actually very pretty out of her costume

I feel so bad for these actors and poor kids. This is such a crock and definitely shows how AI is crap.

I'm just glad no one took their frustration out on the actors. Hopefully they go on to bigger and much better gigs

I'm from the UK. This kind of thing happens on the regular. Christmas, Easter, Halloween. We can do amazing immersive experiences but it's going to cost big time. If it's the equivalent of $40 run away. It's a scam. - The actors tried so hard and as far as I'm aware did not get paid.

If someone made this a comedy satire event for adults (or 13+) to attend and made the tickets like $10, this could have been a big hit 😂

The poor actors 🥲 they probably wanted to do way more for the kiddos but just couldn’t

That’s so sweet of the actors to try anyways

We traveled and went to an official Hello Kitty convention that was touring in California in like, must have been 2012ish? It was iirc $40+ per ticket. It was also in a super tiny warehouse space. Had nothing in it. One mascot costume. And a foldout table with overpriced merch. I couldn’t believe it. I remember emailing the event email for months trying to get a refund, and frankly I don’t even remember if I got it 💀

I think they said it was £45 per ticket, so that’s almost 60 USD. Thats excessive. I’m surprised people paid that in Scotland

This fit is giving dark priest Wednesday Addams vibes, I absolutely love it

Dashcon, Frye Festival, Tanacon, and now this. I’ve probably forgotten something

Hello? 911? I’d like to report ZERO CHOCOLATE 😡 This would have devastated me as a kid!

age of consent is 16 in uk so not illegal, also was not a teacher, was an assistant in after school drama class, it wasnt a secret relationship. yes bit old and can be criticsed a bit but illegal at least in uk no a chance.

The poor cast is trying SO hard 😭 💀

Thank you so much for making this video! I was one of the 3 Willy Wonka actors, Michael Archibald, and I've been talking on the news about this situation quite a lot! So you can see what I've had to say but I hope to release some more things I've known from the day :)

This is like the family-friendly version of Fyre Festival.

I have a two year old So I totally hate that a bunch of kids were disappointed. But hearing parts of the script has made my fucking week😂

The parents and the actors were the real troopers here, trying so hard to hide that it's shit

I'm sorry but the unknown has had me in tears for dayssss 😂😂 I feel bad for everyone getting scammed but it's all so hilarious

So, there's a youth center that puts on summer day camps in my area. I went to a bunch growing up, they had all sorts of different themes (Harry Potter, Narnia, Around the World in 80 Days are some I remember going to but I know they've done Wonka too) and they currently charge just under $200 for the week. This "experience" cost $44 for a single day ticket (probably with a time limit) and this company can't even make as nice of props/sets as a bunch of college students getting some extra credit over the summer?

I'm shocked that this happened somewhere other than America 😂

I just hope the staff know they've, in a way, have brought the world a different kind of joy. A very nihilistic version of joy but dang we'll take it.

The two rules of having a vacuum cleaner, you either have a vacuum cleaner or you don’t. TRUTHS

I hope these actors get this exposition for good. You can see they are people who genuinely love to work with children, even in this fiasco.

(Sorry if my english is bad)It was such a garbage fire, that the smoke traveled across the pond and got to Brazil😂 we're already making memes about it (with respect of course)

I'm from Glasgow where this happened and it is BLOWING my mind that it's become worldwide news 😅

Even Banksy’s dismaland is more of an experience….

The original video of the kid getting ready to run the heck out when The Unknown shows up cemented everything to the guy who came up with this not knowing what the hell he was doing.

Feel bad for the actors. It should’ve been free or a few dollars. So sad

It's so weird seeing my own city in a ReadyToGlare video 🤣🤣🤣

Roald Dahl would be VERY unhappy about this. It sort of makes ME ready to glare.

I was dying laughing at the actors explanation 😂

I work at a public high school and my art students could have done so much better with one afternoon after school and barely any budget 😂😅

i hope the wonka lady gets an awesome acting job out of this bless her

What I don’t get is, why don’t people just not make an event to scam people because you just ruin your name and have to give refunds anyway, and give people a terrible experience. 🤷🏼‍♀️

“What’s that? It’s the UNKNOWN”

I feel really bad for the families involved, but also the actors, who still tried their best to make the disaster at least a more positive experience for the children.

Thank God I'm not the only one who gets bored halfway through my own stories!

this is one of your best looks in a while. you slayed this my girl.

Ready to Glare with a buzzcut?!! ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS OMGGG, how do you pull every single hair style off 😭😭😭

First i thought it was stupid of the actors to not back out when they saw what the warehouse looked like but I understand trying to not let the kids down entirely...

5:18 Walmart still has some whimsy with the rollback smiley face and the greeters, This is cold, stern, and cynical so it is Willy Wonka via Aldi

Holy crap ... the rabbit hole got deeper with that one actor. This is literally a never ending hole we are going down. What??

I'm still shook that the parents first move was to call the police..... THE POLICE?

I love that you decided to cover a topic of wonder and whimsy lmao. This story reminds me of the time I purchased a ticket to a “Pink Floyd laser show” and it was literally a trippy video, on a projector in a casino event space, with 3D glasses. Craziness. I had to buy a shirt to commemorate the experience as it was a solo journey and I had no witnesses to this lmaoooo. It’s giving dashcon with the kiddie pool, if you’re old enough to remember that, you’re cool.

I think if that group (Illuminati) wanted to make budget willy wonka experience they could have done a augmented reality event. I believe the actors did their best. And I feel the guy who was wonka does require some investigation. However his actions outside of character should not directly coratle to the warehouse experience.

I feel SNL will make a skit based on this and it won’t be as Funny as the actual events.

I didn't expect one thing that Glare and I would have in common is the fact that we both got microscopes as children.

I am just a cosplayer and ex theatre student that has built a few sets and I can think of tons of ideas on building easy props for this. If you promise a tunnel you better do a tunnel, do it on a party tent base and the rest fabric, paint and led if you need it to be easily movable, walkways would do so much. I have been trying to think of good ways to do candy forest and keep the candy edible but I haven’t had my eureka yet. A tree with small bags of candy for each kid would definitely be easy though. In my head I see those colored, see through bags you get jewelry in but that would’ve really work unless you have plastic bags inside those for the candy. For health and safety.

Imagine thinking your event was "good enough" and now it is being blasted internationally

The Halloween and Easter events the local churches and schools in my area were a lot more fun and interactive than what they did.

I feel like this would have been perfectly okay if it wasn't advertised as something so much more, overpriced, and misrepresented to both the actors and patrons

My partner saw the advert for it on Facebook and suggested it to me but I said no because I knew the area and the warehouse. I felt it was too far out to get to. Very glad that I chose to watch the new episode of Demon Slayer instead of going to that chaotic event.

“What is that ?! Its the Unknown! “ is stuck in my head for 5 days 😂

I think The Unknown is going to take a life of its own outside of Wonka Land! 😸💀

If i took my kods to do this i would also be mad. Two days wages we would have to spend to get ticketa alone and i know all those parenta were hyping up the fact they were going to the chocolate factory. If anyone is ever in Melbourne Australia, go to the yarra valley chocolate factory, you can watch them make the choclates behind a huge glass window, (free samples, dont know if still a thing as precovid) and cafe, lovely workers.

To put this on a worse perspecitive, many times folks who live on the Scottish Isles will make trips down to either Glasgow or Edinburgh ( the two biggest cities in Scotland) either for the beautiful Christmas Markets or other lovely events either for adults or something for kids to remember for a long time! Planes are expensive to travel from these outer regions so many times it takes a ferry, a bus, then a long train ride to get there! These kids do not get to see the city life except on the internet very often. I feel so so sad if anyone traveled a long distance to see this sham!

Im glad your talking about this because when I first heard this story my first thought was "did someone speak to the actors?" I wanted to hear from them but noone is talking about that.

It looks like the venue was decorated with 1 entry fee. It seems like the actors were the only magical part of the warehouse.

16 is legal in the UK

It's the less dangerous and more family-friendly version of Fyre Festival. I feel like all the families and the actors, who got hired, were all ripped off.

“hey mr scott, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do is make our dreams come true”

I kept thinking Tanacon when I heard of this! Its 45 min from where I live and if I wish I knew how horribly iconic this was and made world news. Obvioulsy the fact this happened like Tanacon I feel they should get a full refund. I just keep thinking of that dude on the segway!

In what circumstance is 2 jelly beans enough for anyone? That’s just enough to get a taste of it and then want more.

When someone tells you that they wrote a script but the script is spawning characters in the walls....

Its important to note that the age of consent in Scotland is 16 , yes theres a power inbalance since he was a teacher and she was a student , and that's enough to make him loose his job, but he wouldn't be classed as a sex offender

I admire the fortitude of the actors to continue working with what they have, even under such bleak circumstances. I would've defo just given up and tried to slip out an exit

3:45 "Oh look, it's a chocolate riverrrrr" "that's where the guy died" Also I feel like I would have nightmares about the Unknown if Willy Wonka told me about him as a kid, like I know he said it was AI generated, but why would you keep a story about an evil man who lives in the walls in the script lol???

Its sad because you can tell the actors are trying their best but really how much better can a group of people make it when all they were given were a handful of cheap props and a warehouse that's too big.

Its pretty bad when the 4 yr old is bummed out more than the older kids...

Also there were two Oompa Loompas and they did an interview on GMB (the British version of GMA)

church carnival fairs are more lit than this 😂

They could have easily used fake grass where the props were but were too cheap for that. Glad to hear they got refunds.

I feel so bad for those kids. Shame on whatever company put this on. I hope they at least got a refund, and we all got a good laugh out of it

“THERE WASN’T EVEN CHOCOLATE” Oh that is an absolute sin. They didn’t even try to do the bare freaking minimum 😤. Willy Wonka would be disappointed, and go on a rant about why he would only ever let Oompa Loompas work for him and run such events with his name.

I’m pretty sure my Halloween decorations are more immersive and actual chocolate is given out! I’ve never charged a dime for it to boot

The "evil" chocolate maker should have been called "Nestlé" instead of "unknown"

This is giving immersive work force experience 😂😂

It's makes Dashcon look OK comparatively...

Much love to the actors...u dont know ur job sucks until u know....

While it's still kinda creepy for an older guy like him to be dating a teenager, I do want to clarify that the age of consent in Scotland is 16. Just want people to know in case they wonder if legal action was taken.

With what they had there, they should have just chosen to throw a rave instead.

Aside from the situation, this hair looks so soo cute on you

Mr Beast needs to come on down and give these kids a real Candy Factory lmao

in the last few years they use very lightly the word" immersive" :D

I have a feeling this will go down as one of the worst events ever and will achieve an almost historical status, the infamous outing people will be bashing in memes for yours to come. Look at this way: you can all share you where a part of this! Those kids will one day be adults and share they went to this, it will be kinda "cool" at some point

Early! 💕 Anyway most depressing Chocolate Factory, But at least the actors did their best.

Oh my gosh! Wonka factory provided by wish lol I’m convinced the folks who put this together don’t even like children 😅😂

Its been a phenomenal time on twitter and i hope all the actors have good hair days and may their pillows be cold.

Welcome to the future of AI

This is so random but we have the same glasses and I found that really amusing and fun :) Nice Glasses! You have great taste!

Was having a rough day ,got recommended this video , am no longer having a rough day